Government and Policy
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Facebook censorship bias detailed in internal documents
Facebook’s censorship policies are skewed to protect groups such as white men from hate speech, but not subsets such as black children: report.
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President Trump names GOP lawyer for FCC position
Trump has chosen Republican lawyer Brendan Carr for FCC commissioner. If confirmed by the Senate, Carr would give Republicans a 3-2 commission majority.
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Trump tweets false claim attacking Amazon, Washington Post
In a Wednesday morning tweet, the president lashed out at the Washington Post and Amazon over fake news and taxes.
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Twitter signs on to net neutrality ‘Day of Action’
The effort to preserve net neutrality as the FCC tries to dismantle it got a boost this week from Twitter, Medium and Soundcloud.
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Tim Cook to Donald Trump: Tech workers ‘nervous’ about immigration
During a closed-door meeting in the White House, Apple CEO Tim Cook told President Donald Trump his administration “needs more heart” regarding immigration.
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Look who’s coming (and not coming) to the White House to talk tech with Trump
Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos and other big names from the tech world will huddle today with President Trump for the first meeting of the American Technology Council.
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Bay Area software firm will move work to China because of ‘stupid and self-defeating’ H-1B visa cap
The founder of Agiloft, a software firm operating in the Bay Area for nearly 25 years, says he plans to send jobs to China because of the H-1B visa cap’s effect on Silicon Valley’s talent pool.
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Elon Musk: Tesla started because big car companies ‘killed’ electric car
Musk is again striking back at accusations that Tesla is in business purely for the money or to fleece the government. On Twitter, of course.
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Trump is asked to unblock critics on Twitter, threatened with legal action
The Knight First Amendment Institute says the president’s blocking of his critics on Twitter is unconstitutional.
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director Michelle Lee resigns
Lee was praised by the tech companies, including Facebook and Google, for her efforts to reduce abusive patent lawsuits.
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