Drew Harwell The Washington Post
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Elon Musk Disables Twitter Spaces Feature After Clash With Suspended Journalists
Elon Musk on Thursday disabled access to Twitter Spaces, the company's live audio service, after he clashed with journalists whose accounts were suspended on the platform with 40,000 listeners present. The company's new owner said that Twitter was fixing an old bug and the live audio service “should be working tomorrow.”
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US Colleges Turning Students' Phones Into Surveillance Devices, Tracking Locations of Hundreds of Thousands
Short-range phone sensors and campuswide Wi-Fi networks are empowering colleges across the United States to track hundreds of thousands of students more precisely than ever before.
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TikTok Chief Said to Schedule Meet With US Lawmakers as China-Origin Investigations Loom
TikTok's leader, Alex Zhu, is set to pay his first known visit to Capitol Hill next week, meeting with lawmakers in an attempt to combat concerns that the company's Chinese origins pose serious privacy, security and censorship risks.
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TikTok Admits Error After Penalising Teen Who Posted Political Videos
TikTok has acknowledged it had erred in penalising a 17-year-old who had posted witty but incisive political videos, promising it would restore her ability to access her account on her personal device.
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TikTok Admits Error For Penalizing Teen Who Posted Videos On China Detention Camps
TikTok on Wednesday acknowledged it had erred in penalizing a 17-year-old who had posted witty but incisive political videos, promising it would restore her ability to access her account on her personal device.
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US Teen's TikTok Video On China Detention Camps Goes Viral. Then This
Feroza Aziz started her TikTok video like a typical makeup tutorial, telling viewers she would show them how to get long eyelashes. Then the 17-year-old stopped abruptly, calling instead on viewers to start researching the harrowing conditions facing Muslims in China's detention camps.
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TikTok Blocks Teen Who Posted About China's Detention Camps
TikTok has said its audience prefers to use the video app for entertainment, not political debates, and that its executives have pushed to preserve the app as a refuge for positivity online.
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Apple, TikTok Draw US Congressional Rebuke for Sitting Out of Hearing on China
Apple and TikTok took a lashing Tuesday for skipping a congressional hearing meant to explore the tech industry and its ties to China, an absence that now threatens to bring sustained political scrutiny of the companies' controversial relationships with Beijing.
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Inside TikTok: A Culture Clash Where US Views About Censorship Often Were Overridden by the Chinese Bosses
The wildly popular short-video app TikTok has become one of the world's fastest-growing social media platforms, known for its quirky memes and viral singalongs.
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TikTok Declines to Testify to US Congress About China
Executives from the Chinese video app TikTok have declined to testify at a congressional hearing set for Tuesday that aims to explore the tech industry and its ties to China.
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Spoof Clip Of Trump Killing Critics Shows How Memes Have Changed Politics
A violent parody aired this weekend at President Donald Trump's Miami-area golf resort - and the video's mass sharing afterward - is yet another example of how Trump and the once-fringe movements of online trolls and meme-makers who support him have reshaped mainstream politics and the media.
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Facebook Policy on Political Speech Lets Politicians Lie in Ads
This means Facebook posts and campaign ads by politicians operate in an alternative system.
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TikTok's Beijing Roots Fuel Censorship Suspicion as It Builds Huge US Audience
TikTok has quickly become one of America's most popular mobile apps.
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An AI First: Voice-Mimicking Software Reportedly Used in a Major Theft
Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive's speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company's insurer said.
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Facebook's Libra Currency Spawns Wave of Fakes, Including on Facebook Itself
A wave of fakes purporting to sell or represent Facebook's not-yet-available Libra currency have swept onto the social-media giant's platforms.
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Elon Musk Disables Twitter Spaces Feature After Clash With Suspended Journalists
Elon Musk on Thursday disabled access to Twitter Spaces, the company's live audio service, after he clashed with journalists whose accounts were suspended on the platform with 40,000 listeners present. The company's new owner said that Twitter was fixing an old bug and the live audio service “should be working tomorrow.”
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US Colleges Turning Students' Phones Into Surveillance Devices, Tracking Locations of Hundreds of Thousands
Short-range phone sensors and campuswide Wi-Fi networks are empowering colleges across the United States to track hundreds of thousands of students more precisely than ever before.
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TikTok Chief Said to Schedule Meet With US Lawmakers as China-Origin Investigations Loom
TikTok's leader, Alex Zhu, is set to pay his first known visit to Capitol Hill next week, meeting with lawmakers in an attempt to combat concerns that the company's Chinese origins pose serious privacy, security and censorship risks.
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TikTok Admits Error After Penalising Teen Who Posted Political Videos
TikTok has acknowledged it had erred in penalising a 17-year-old who had posted witty but incisive political videos, promising it would restore her ability to access her account on her personal device.
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TikTok Admits Error For Penalizing Teen Who Posted Videos On China Detention Camps
TikTok on Wednesday acknowledged it had erred in penalizing a 17-year-old who had posted witty but incisive political videos, promising it would restore her ability to access her account on her personal device.
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US Teen's TikTok Video On China Detention Camps Goes Viral. Then This
Feroza Aziz started her TikTok video like a typical makeup tutorial, telling viewers she would show them how to get long eyelashes. Then the 17-year-old stopped abruptly, calling instead on viewers to start researching the harrowing conditions facing Muslims in China's detention camps.
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TikTok Blocks Teen Who Posted About China's Detention Camps
TikTok has said its audience prefers to use the video app for entertainment, not political debates, and that its executives have pushed to preserve the app as a refuge for positivity online.
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Apple, TikTok Draw US Congressional Rebuke for Sitting Out of Hearing on China
Apple and TikTok took a lashing Tuesday for skipping a congressional hearing meant to explore the tech industry and its ties to China, an absence that now threatens to bring sustained political scrutiny of the companies' controversial relationships with Beijing.
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Inside TikTok: A Culture Clash Where US Views About Censorship Often Were Overridden by the Chinese Bosses
The wildly popular short-video app TikTok has become one of the world's fastest-growing social media platforms, known for its quirky memes and viral singalongs.
-
TikTok Declines to Testify to US Congress About China
Executives from the Chinese video app TikTok have declined to testify at a congressional hearing set for Tuesday that aims to explore the tech industry and its ties to China.
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Spoof Clip Of Trump Killing Critics Shows How Memes Have Changed Politics
A violent parody aired this weekend at President Donald Trump's Miami-area golf resort - and the video's mass sharing afterward - is yet another example of how Trump and the once-fringe movements of online trolls and meme-makers who support him have reshaped mainstream politics and the media.
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Facebook Policy on Political Speech Lets Politicians Lie in Ads
This means Facebook posts and campaign ads by politicians operate in an alternative system.
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TikTok's Beijing Roots Fuel Censorship Suspicion as It Builds Huge US Audience
TikTok has quickly become one of America's most popular mobile apps.
-
An AI First: Voice-Mimicking Software Reportedly Used in a Major Theft
Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive's speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company's insurer said.
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Facebook's Libra Currency Spawns Wave of Fakes, Including on Facebook Itself
A wave of fakes purporting to sell or represent Facebook's not-yet-available Libra currency have swept onto the social-media giant's platforms.
