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• How a ban on political ads is the second best gift Twitter ever gave Trump

  The climate crisis is a heavily partisan issue in US politics. Thought it's not a hard-and-fast rule, most Democrats believe the fossil fuel industry needs to be heavily-checked and nearly all Republicans accept money from oil companies. There are Democrats who take money from big ...

  • Tristan Greene

• AT&T gets a friendly fine from the FTC over 'unlimited' plan throttling

  The FTC today announced it had settled a lawsuit with AT&T over misleading marketing concerning the company's “unlimited” data plans and would issue a $60 million fine. The fine comes five years after the suit was brought forth by FTC chairpersons who, in 2014, determined ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Amazon prepares to strike back after Microsoft wins $10B JEDI contract

  Microsoft's been awarded the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, a $10 billion planned project to create and maintain an AI-powered, cloud-based weapons platform for the Pentagon. The company's stocks hit a record intraday high on the back of ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Instagram refused to run an HIV preventative drug campaign because it contained 'politics'

  Facebook and Instagram refused to run an educational campaign promoting the benefits of PrEP — a HIV preventative drug ...

  • Cara Curtis

• White House cybersecurity chief quits, says leadership is inviting an attack

  White House computer security Chief Dimitrios Vistakis gave the White House one helluva resignation notice earlier this week ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Conservatives put national security at risk to storm impeachment proceedings

  Impeachment proceedings against US President Donald Trump were delayed today when a group of Conservative lawmakers stormed the room in which they're being held. https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1187028992295161858 Their leader, Florida Man Matt Gaetz, claims he organized ...

  • Tristan Greene

• A cacophony of self-pity drowns out r/The_Donald's message as Reddit extends quarantine

  Reddit's taken r/The_Donald's teeth away. The once proud community was, in its heyday, the vanguard for the MAGA movement. Now it's just a sad group of self-declared victims whining about how unfairly they've been treated by social media. Back in June, the subreddit was quarantined ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Ajit Pai wants to abolish federalism so Verizon and AT&T can throttle your data

  When AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, and other telcom giants purchased a net neutrality repeal from FCC shill Ajit Pai, it must have occurred to them that California would be a major problem in their plans to become the ultimate gatekeepers for internet traffic. The US is a nation ...

  • Tristan Greene

• US House rejects Trump's 2024 Moon landing plan

  The House budget committee today told NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine it would not fund the administration's efforts to change ...

  • Tristan Greene

• NASA charged taxpayers $5M for SpaceX safety review after Elon Musk got high

  Remember when Elon Musk got high with Joe Rogan during an interview last year? It seemed like good, legal fun at the time. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• TikTok appears to have walked back its 'shadow ban' on Trump posts

  TikTok users are reporting an unusually high number of posts showing up in their feeds related to Donald Trump. While the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Project Veritas 'exposes' CNN's bias against Trump

  I don't know how to tell you this, but at least some of the people who work at CNN have a personal bias against President ...

  • Tristan Greene