Ryan Lovelace

Microsoft building deepfake detection tools to thwart disinformation on 2020 election

Microsoft developed new technology to detect "deepfake" disinformation that it will share with political campaigns and journalists focused on how such false images could affect the upcoming election.

September 2, 2020

Big Tech companies will be targeted in Democrats’ antitrust overhaul

House Democrats are preparing their proposals to overhaul antitrust laws so that lawmakers can easily dismantle Big Tech companies, namely Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.

September 1, 2020

Biden adviser says he isn’t visiting Kenosha to avoid upsetting ‘peaceful nature’ of protests

Top Biden campaign adviser Symone Sanders said Tuesday that Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden will not visit Kenosha, Wis., because he does not want to disrupt the "peaceful nature" of the demonstrations there.

September 1, 2020

40% of hotel workers out of a job as hospitality industry prepares for nightmarish holiday season

Forty percent of employees in the hotel business remain out-of-work as the coronavirus pandemic and economic shutdowns have hammered the hospitality industry nationwide, according to a new report from the American Hotel and Lodging Association.

September 1, 2020

New pro-Trump group launches $30 million ad campaign attacking Biden

Republican strategists formed a new pro-Trump super PAC called Preserve America that will unleash a $30 million ad blitz in swing states this week.

August 31, 2020

Uber encourages riders to join D.C. protests

Uber is encouraging users of its ride-sharing services to join in racial justice protests in Washington on Friday.

August 28, 2020

Jeffrey Rosen says media spreads ‘disinformation’ on Trump views on mail-in voting

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on Thursday accused left-leaning news organizations of deliberately spreading "disinformation" about the Trump administration's views of the dangers from mail-in voting and foreign influence in the 2020 elections.

August 27, 2020

Trump administration investing $1 billion to build new AI and quantum information science institutes

The Trump administration said Wednesday it is building 12 new artificial intelligence and quantum information science institutes nationwide to "transform society" with $1 billion in awards over the next five years. The resulting investments will pool private sector resources and academia together in hopes of further innovation in key technological areas.

August 26, 2020

Behdad Esfahbod, Facebook employee, forced to spy by Iran

Behdad Esfahbod, a former Facebook employee who was imprisoned by the Iranian regime, said he was forced to agree to spy on westerners for Iran to secure his release.

August 25, 2020

Liberal groups ask networks to stop ‘misinformation’ from GOP convention with delayed broadcast

Liberal groups are asking television network executives to implement a one-minute delay on their broadcasts of this week's Republican National Convention in the interest of thwarting purported misinformation.

August 24, 2020

TikTok suing to fight Trump administration ban

TikTok said Monday it will sue the Trump administration in federal court to fight President Trump's attempted ban of the Chinese-owned social media app.

August 24, 2020

FBI warns of new cyberattacks and counterintelligence threats facing D.C. think tanks

The FBI is sounding the alarm that Washington, D.C.-area think tanks are new targets of foreign adversaries looking to monitor their work and their interaction with the U.S. government, The Washington Times has learned.

August 21, 2020

Facebook removes 980 Antifa-related groups, implements more aggressive content enforcement

Facebook has declared a digital war against Antifa and others encouraging rioting on its site by removing 980 groups they used to sow chaos and discord.

August 20, 2020

DeRay Mckesson, Black Lives Matter activist, leads push to dismantle police union contracts

A prominent Black Lives Matter activist has started a new effort to battle police unions' political power by targeting union contracts and campaign contributions.

August 19, 2020

Former Democratic state attorneys general mobilize against liberal court-packing push

Former Democratic state attorneys general are pushing back against the liberals' push to expand the Supreme Court and the Democratic Party's commitment to overhaul the federal judiciary in a potential Biden administration next year.

August 19, 2020

Democratic Party platform includes federal judiciary overhaul, court-packing agenda

Liberal activists made an overhaul of the federal judiciary, including court-packing, part of the 2020 platform adopted this week at the Democratic National Convention.

August 18, 2020

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to testify before House oversight committee next week

The battle over mail-in voting will take center stage on Capitol Hill next week when Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies before a House panel.

August 17, 2020

Voter confidence in upcoming election results plummets: Poll

Americans' confidence that their votes will be accurately recorded this November has dropped dramatically in four years' time, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.

August 17, 2020

Cook Political Report downgrades Lindsey Graham’s reelection chances in S.C.

The Cook Political Report said Monday that Sen. Lindsey Graham's reelection bid in South Carolina is facing a more serious threat than previously anticipated.

August 17, 2020

Trump administration places new restrictions on Huawei

The Trump administration said Monday it's tightening restrictions on the Chinese telecom company Huawei, or as President Trump calls it -- "SpyWei."

August 17, 2020