The Coronavirus Crisis
Verizon’s 5G-powered fever-detecting cameras appear to be sourced from a company under State Department sanctions and probably don’t work.
Protests for Black Lives
Emails show that the LAPD repeatedly asked camera owners for footage during the demonstrations, raising First Amendment concerns.
The boogaloo movement’s most extreme white supremacist element is ratcheting up calls for civil war.
Voices
The temporary deplatforming of Donald Trump is the perfect distillation of Big Tech’s attempt to pantomime principles.
The FBI visit raised alarming questions about why a confidential legislative discussion warranted police scrutiny.
The internal documents suggest that Facebook should stop positioning itself as a champion of small business.
Mai Khoi, the “Lady Gaga of Vietnam,” wants that country’s vigilante force kicked off Facebook. The company told her the group is well within its rules.
A mandatory class on insider terrorist threats lists Manning’s leaks among “examples of attacks” by disloyal Americans.
Zoom cited anti-terrorism laws to shut down an event with Palestinian activist Leila Khaled — and other events criticizing its censorship.
Google Cloud will be used in conjunction with Anduril Industries’ surveillance tech on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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