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TikTok Divest-or-Ban Bill Passes in the Senate
The U.S. Senate passed the TikTok bill on Tuesday evening in a vote of 79-18. The bill, which bans TikTok unless Bytedance sells it to a U.S. owner, flew through Congress this week as part of a broader package to provide $US90 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. President Joe Biden said…
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The Rich Old Men Who Want to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
Trump’s Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Shark Tank’s Mr. Wonderful are just two of TikTok’s eager suitors.
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The Usual Suspects of Big Tech Claim AI Will Kill Us All or End World Hunger
Apparently Elon Musk is citing a ‘threat to humanity,’ while Mark Zuckerberg is defending his not-so-open open source AI tools.
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Defusing the Global Climate Emergency Depends on Defusing the Democracy Emergency
A year ago today, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy were fleeing for their lives as a violent mob swarmed the halls of the U.S. Capitol. With their personal safety at risk, the two most powerful Republicans on Capitol Hill at last stood up to Donald Trump. In a heated phone call, McCarthy, the House minority…