Top House Energy and Commerce Republicans are grilling TikTok parent company ByteDance today about the social media platform’s privacy and security practices
Although Senate Republicans say they’re still not ready to take up further coronavirus relief legislation, Microsoft President Brad Smith says,, that the virus has “intensified” the digital divide, creating crucial need for broadband internet funding .
that allows users to decide who can reply to their tweets — a tweak that could pose free speech and legal challenges if used by public officials. During the trial phase, a subset of Twitter users will be able to restrict who can reply to their posts. They can choose to allow replies from everyone, only those who follow them or only others mentioned by them.
Eidelman suggested the new reply options could hinder the government’s coronavirus relief efforts if public officials “use this tool to decide who can, or can't, reply to accounts they have opened up for requests for government assistance.”The social network declined to say whether a Wednesday Trump tweet that falsely stated Michigan sent every registered voter in the state absentee ballots — when in fact it sent ballot applications — violated its election integrity policies.
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