The hearing comes after Chair Maxine Waters and committee Democrats sent a letter to Facebook calling on the company to suspend plans to launch the cryptocurrency, Libra.
After massacres at El Paso and Dayton, NRA urged gun owners to “show that you won’t be intimidated” by calls for reform.
Promoted tweets from a state-run news outlet distort the position of Uyghurs in the western province of Xinjiang.
Google is set to re-staff its Cairo office, which more or less went dormant in 2014, following the military coup that brought Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to power.
Thousands of Facebook workers have viewed the letter on an internal message board.
In partnership with Psiphon, we are launching a custom app for Android and Windows devices that circumvents China’s censorship of The Intercept.
An examination of court filings in all seven leak cases filed under Trump yields a detailed picture of how the government tries to unmask confidential sources.
4.5 million euros have been pumped into the virtual policeman project meant to judge the honesty of travelers. An expert calls the technology “not credible.”
Google promises interested firms access to its own AI training data and sometimes places Google engineers within the companies as a resource.
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