hearings
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This Is How You’re Being Manipulated
At a preliminary U.S. Senate hearing today on the subject of potentially putting legislative limits on the persuasiveness of technology – a diplomatic way of saying the addiction model the internet uses to keep people engaged and clicking – Tristan Harris, the executive director of the Center for Humane Technology, told lawmakers that while rules…
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How To Watch Facebook, Google And Twitter Testify Before US Congress This Week
Three of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies will speak to three different congressional subcommittees on Wednesday and Thursday to finally get to the bottom of, well, a lot of issues. Top priority is to discuss Russia’s use of online ads and social media to influence the 2016 US election. Here’s how you can watch it…