Category: Joe Biden
Daily Crunch: Social media confronts election misinformation
You may have heard that the United States had a presidential election yesterday, with plenty of implications for the tech world, particularly with social media as one of the battlegrounds in the fight over the results. Meanwhile, major tech-relevant ballot measures, like California’s Proposition 22, also passed. I’ll do my…
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Senate Republicans want to subpoena Twitter CEO over blocked Biden story
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote next week on whether to subpoena Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey after the company blocked a New York Post story on Joe Biden. Twitter said the article violated its rules on doxxing and hacked materials, as it contain… Source
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Joe Biden’s campaign app had a bug that made it too easy to access voter info
A bug in Joe Biden’s official campaign app may have exposed the personal information of millions of Americans, according to security researcher the App Analyst. One of the features of the Vote Joe app allows users to sync their phone’s contact list w… Source
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Russia, China and Iran target US elections with cyberattacks
Russia is once again trying to interfere with a US presidential election, according to a new disclosure from Microsoft that also names China and Iran.The attacks have targeted both Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s campaigns, as well as other officials an… Source
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Twitter confirms one elected official had DMs accessed in hack
Twitter has finally confirmed what many have suspected: that the hackers behind the crypto scam that targeted dozens of high-profile accounts did indeed gain access to at least some of their victims’ inboxes. “We believe that for up to 36 of the 130… Source
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Biden slams Facebook for letting Trump spread false claims, issues call for accountability
As Facebook continues to shrink from responsibilities that would see the company moderating political speech, Joe Biden has apparently had enough. The presumptive Democratic nominee launched a campaign of sorts against Facebook leadership Thursday, with an open letter slamming Facebook’s decisions and a catchy hashtag, #movefastfixit—a play on the company’s much-maligned…
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