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WH spokeswoman Jen Psaki: The border is closed, despite immigration surge

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday that the southern border is closed despite the influx of immigration.

March 28, 2021

Trump touts southern border visit ‘over the next couple of weeks’

Former President Donald Trump said he is considering visiting the southern border to examine the influx of immigration.

March 28, 2021

Elizabeth Warren: Break up Big Tech so that Amazon can’t ‘heckle senators with snotty tweets’

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, told Amazon she wants to break up Big Tech so that the company cannot heckle her on the internet.

March 26, 2021

Big Tech, big players: Companies spent $124 million on lobbying and campaigns in 2020 cycle: Report

Four Big Tech companies -- Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google -- spent $124 million on lobbying and campaign contributions during the 2020 election cycle, supplanting Big Oil and Big Tobacco as dominant lobbying and influence forces in D.C., according to a new report from a liberal consumer rights advocacy group,

March 26, 2021

Parler tells Congress it referred content to FBI more than 50 times before Capitol riot

The social media platform Parler said Thursday it referred violent content on its platform to the FBI more than 50 times before the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

March 25, 2021

McMorris Rodgers links social media to suicide: ‘Your platforms are my biggest fear as a parent’

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington Republican, told Facebook, Google and Twitter's CEOs that their platforms make her fear for children's lives.

March 25, 2021

Zuckerberg tells Congress Trump ‘should be responsible’; don’t blame social media for division

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Congress on Thursday not to blame social media companies for Americans being pitted against one another, saying their complaint is really with former President Trump and should be directed to him personally.

March 25, 2021

Twitter takes some responsibility for Capitol riot; Facebook and Google decline to answer at hearing

The CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter struggled on Thursday to beat back lawmakers' accusations that their platforms harmed children, fomented the riot at the U.S. Capitol and spread manipulative content online.

March 25, 2021

Tech CEOs disagree on censoring online misinformation

Democratic lawmakers want Facebook, Google, and Twitter to censor more content online and are hauling their CEOs before Congress on Thursday to get results.

March 24, 2021

Facebook says it disrupted Chinese hackers targeting Uyghurs

Facebook said Thursday it disrupted Chinese hackers who sought to infiltrate Facebook users' accounts and distribute malware, primarily among Uyghur users.

March 24, 2021

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, opposes changes to legal protections for tech platforms

Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he's worried that changes to legal liability protections for tech platforms would restrict free speech and companies' ability to protect their users.

March 24, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg: Tie legal protections to tech companies’ ability to ‘combat the spread’ of bad info

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants Congress to make legal liability protections for tech platforms conditional upon the platforms' ability to censor unlawful information online.

March 24, 2021

No strategy has emerged in tech critics’ bid to end ‘surveillance advertising’

Americans don't want their every online move spied on, but Washington is having trouble deciding how to prevent tech companies from monitoring and manipulating their users. Liberal and conservative tech critics want to end the "surveillance advertising," but they haven't agreed on how to do it.

March 23, 2021

Smartphone use skyrocketed amid COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed people to spend time on smartphones like never before with social media applications trumping all else, according to a new study from Global Wireless Solutions.

March 23, 2021

Heritage Action for America campaign to help GOP lawmakers try to tighten election laws

Heritage Action for America is building a multimillion-dollar nationwide campaign to assist Republican state legislators and governors trying to tighten election laws.

March 22, 2021

Heritage Foundation leadership resigns: ‘We accomplished everything we set out to do’

Leaders of the Heritage Foundation announced their resignations Monday, allowing the influential conservative think tank to chart a new direction in a post-President Donald Trump Washington.

March 22, 2021

Facebook deleted more than 1.3 billion ‘fake’ accounts in 2020’s final months

Facebook said Monday that it deleted more than 1.3 billion "fake" accounts between October and December 2020 and has a staff of 35,000 employees focused on misinformation on its platforms.

March 22, 2021

Twitter says suspension of Marjorie Taylor Greene was an ‘error’

Twitter said Friday it mistakenly suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, but the Georgia Republican isn't buying it.

March 19, 2021

Facebook insists ‘mind reading’ isn’t part of new wearable tech

Facebook insists that its forthcoming wearable technology that reads electrical signals from your brain will not actually read your mind.

March 19, 2021

Kelly Loeffler to counter Stacey Abrams with Greater Georgia voter-registration group

If conservatives do not find a way to counter liberal activist Stacey Abrams' influence in Georgia, it won't matter whom Republicans put forward -- they will lose again in the 2022 midterm elections, said former Sen. Kelly Loeffler.

March 18, 2021