Ryan Lovelace

Google to pay $391.5M settlement over location tracking, state AGs say

Google has agreed to pay a $391.5 million settlement to 40 states to resolve accusations it tracked people's locations in violation of state laws, including snooping on customers' whereabouts even after they told the tech behemoth to bug off.

November 14, 2022

Sen. Ed Markey warns Elon Musk: ‘Fix your companies. Or Congress will’

Sen. Ed Markey warned Twitter owner Elon Musk to make changes to his social media platform and other businesses unless the billionaire wants to face a government investigation.

November 14, 2022

Tech platforms in trouble: Social media companies downsizing, facing government scrutiny

Major tech companies are in trouble. Prominent social media platforms Twitter and Meta are laying off thousands of workers and changing their businesses while facing new governmental scrutiny.

November 10, 2022

Twitter’s information security chief quits amid Musk changes to verification

Twitter's chief information security officer is leaving the company, as new owner Elon Musk experiments with changes on how the platform signals the authenticity and authority of its users.

November 10, 2022

TikTok’s China-founded parent working to addict American kids, says anti-social media activist

TikTok's parent company seeks to get American kids hooked on an unsafe version of the video-based platform while offering a healthier option inside China, according to anti-social media activist Tristan Harris.

November 9, 2022

Some Mississippi websites overwhelmed on Election Day; state says voting system secure

Mississippi government websites experienced outages amid a flood of malicious traffic on Election Day, but officials said the voting system remained secure despite broader fears of hackers looking to sow doubt or disrupt election processes nationwide.

November 9, 2022

Election website outages don’t affect vote count accuracy, federal cyber agency says

Federal cyber officials are cautioning voters against fears that election website outages will prevent people from voting or having their votes accurately counted.

November 8, 2022

Elon Musk urges independent voters to support Republican takeover of Congress

Twitter owner Elon Musk is urging voters to turn control of Congress over to Republicans, seeking to sway voters ahead of Tuesday's election on the social media platform he recently acquired.

November 7, 2022

Elon Musk spars with Kathy Griffin, defends Twitter censorship plans after bans of impersonators

Twitter owner Elon Musk is defending his preferred censorship model for social media after touting new restrictions on users who fail to disclose they were impersonating other people, signaling more rule changes are coming.

November 7, 2022

Elon Musk says Twitter revenue declining despite no changes to censorship policies

Twitter owner Elon Musk said the social media company's revenue is declining because of skittish advertisers, despite the tech platform making zero changes to its censorship policies.

November 4, 2022

Twitter may soon face national security review from the Biden administration

Twitter may soon undergo the same national security scrutiny from the Biden administration that TikTok began facing from the Trump administration.

November 4, 2022

Twitter cancels developer conference as platform prepares for changes under Musk

Twitter canceled its Chirp developer conference set for next month as new owner Elon Musk prepares to enact changes to the social media platform.

November 3, 2022

Elon Musk considering new video features, as rivals compete for Twitter users

Twitter owner Elon Musk is experimenting with new video products while trying to best competitors that are luring the social media platform's users away before major changes occur.

November 3, 2022

Biden cyber official says ‘elections are not over when the polling places close’

A top Biden administration cyber official is warning that the election will not end when the polling places close on Election Day and that glitches will happen but people should not be concerned.

November 2, 2022

Musk says Twitter won’t let banned users return for ‘at least a few more weeks’

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk said Wednesday that banned users will not return to the social media platform for at least a few more weeks, dashing the hopes of people who thought the change in leadership would yield sudden changes online.

November 2, 2022

Musk defends plan to make Twitter users pay to get blue checks

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk is defending a plan to make people pay to hold a coveted blue badge that verifies a user's authenticity and authority on the social media platform.

November 1, 2022

Biden official disputes role in social media censorship amid court-ordered deposition

A leading Biden administration official said Tuesday that the nation's cyber agency is not responsible for online censorship, despite a federal judge ordering the official to face questions from state attorneys general about her role in policing social media.

November 1, 2022

Musk to overhaul Twitter’s verification process, weighing other changes

Twitter's new leader Elon Musk is planning to overhaul the verification process for assigning a blue badge conveying authority and authenticity on the social media platform, as the tech titan mulls other changes to the company.

October 31, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg to testify in FTC court case against Meta’s virtual reality acquisition

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify in the Federal Trade Commission's case seeking to block the tech titan from acquiring virtual reality company Within Unlimited, escalating the government's feud with Facebook's parent business over control of the metaverse.