Ryan Lovelace

Tech support: U.S. can’t defeat China — not without tax dollars to close tech gap, warns policy pro

Stanford's Steve Blank is warning lawmakers that the Defense Department is not organized to defeat or deter China and is proposing the Pentagon spend large sums of taxpayer cash on new technology to compete with the communist regime.

April 6, 2023

Rep. Ro Khanna, other lawmakers will press Apple CEO to bring back manufacturing jobs

Rep. Ro Khanna plans to push Apple CEO Tim Cook in a meeting to pull manufacturing jobs to America.

April 5, 2023

Congress digs into Chinese influence over Hollywood

The leaders of the House Select Committee on China will huddle Wednesday with Disney CEO Robert Iger and take a closer look at Hollywood's censoring its films to appease the Chinese Communist Party.

April 4, 2023

Senators renew push to give news publishers more negotiating power against Big Tech

A bipartisan coalition of senators is renewing the battle with Big Tech over legislation that intends to give news publishers more leverage to negotiate with major tech platforms such as Facebook and Google about advertising and distribution of news content.

April 3, 2023

House lawmakers to meet with Apple, Disney CEOs on California trip

House lawmakers are preparing to meet this week with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Disney CEO Robert Iger about countering China's threat to America.

April 2, 2023

Musk overhauling Twitter, making algorithm open to public view

Twitter owner Elon Musk is preparing to make a series of changes to Twitter in the coming days, including making the social media platform's algorithm open source and overhauling the company's verification process.

March 31, 2023

Senators propose antitrust bill aimed at Big Tech: ‘First step towards liberating the internet’

A bipartisan coalition of 11 senators is kickstarting a new push for antitrust legislation aiming at Big Tech companies over concerns that they are amassing monopoly power in the digital advertising market.

March 30, 2023

NSA director tells Congress he’s worried about TikTok: ‘A platform for surveillance’

The leader of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency expressed concerns about TikTok and told lawmakers on Thursday that the U.S. needs a policy to prevent foreign powers from using tech platforms to snoop on Americans.

March 30, 2023

TikTok feud: Josh Hawley says Rand Paul defending China’s right to spy on Americans

Sen. Josh Hawley accused fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul of advocating for China's right to spy on Americans after Mr. Paul torpedoed Mr. Hawley's effort to pass a bill banning TikTok on Wednesday.

March 29, 2023

Sen. Rand Paul says banning TikTok will lose GOP elections for a generation

Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday said banning TikTok will dash his fellow Republicans' chances of winning elections for years as the congressional debate over fresh restrictions on the China-founded app heats up.

March 29, 2023

Federal cyber agency’s leader supports banning TikTok, frets China using it to influence elections

Top Biden administration cyber official Jen Easterly told lawmakers on Tuesday she supports a total ban of TikTok while having concerns that China uses the popular video-based platform to influence elections.

March 28, 2023

Musk says revamped Twitter algorithm will limit recommendations to verified users

Elon Musk is overhauling Twitter's verification process and recommendation algorithm so that paying users will carry blue checkmark badges and have their tweets amplified in the "For You" column.

March 28, 2023

Musk says Twitter’s dollar value plummeted after his takeover

Twitter's valuation has dropped sharply since Elon Musk's takeover last year, the CEO told employees in an email.

March 27, 2023

Democratic divide: How a TikTok crackdown is pitting party members against each other

TikTok has secured the support of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, giving the app an ally in the House to formally oppose a ban on the platform.

March 27, 2023

No joke: Twitter to remove unpaying users’ blue check marks on April Fools’ Day

Twitter intends to start taking away people's blue check marks on April 1 unless they pay up.

March 24, 2023

TikTok admits collecting Americans’ precise GPS data — but says it doesn’t anymore

TikTok acknowledged collecting the precise location information of U.S. users despite previously downplaying concerns about how it tracked people's physical location.

March 23, 2023

‘Vacuum cleaner of personal data’: Researcher rebuts TikTok’s use of team’s work

Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert wants TikTok to stop characterizing his team's research as exonerating the China-founded app from allegations that it snoops on Americans and cooperates with China's communist government.

March 23, 2023

TikTok CEO defense of China-linked app doesn’t persuade lawmakers: ‘Your platform should be banned’

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's defense against allegations that Americans' data is vulnerable to the Chinese Communist Party faced deep bipartisan skepticism at a House hearing Thursday, as fears over the app's security risk mount.

March 23, 2023

TikTok says it never shared U.S. data with China, trying to distance itself from communist regime

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is claiming his China-founded app has not shared Americans' data with the Chinese government as fears mount that the Chinese Communist Party can leverage the platform to influence and track Americans.

March 22, 2023

High-profile users will help lobby for TikTok; CEO aims to ease concerns on Capitol Hill

TikTok is mobilizing a cadre of influencers to descend on Washington and persuade lawmakers not to kill the China-founded app's operation ahead of CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony in the House on Thursday.

March 20, 2023