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Inside the ‘Election Integrity App’ Built to Purge US Voter Rolls
Ten days before Georgia’s Senate runoff election in 2021, Gamaliel Warren Turner Sr., a 69-year-old veteran, found out that someone…
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China’s Digital Yuan Works Just Like Cash—With Added Surveillance
By the mid-2010s, Chinese people in big cities had generally switched from using cash to using Alipay and WeChat Pay.…
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After Twitter Staff Cuts, Survivors Face ‘Radio Silence’
“Saturday was the cleanup,” he says. Much of the day was spent working on removing departed colleagues’ access and trying…
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Inside Meta’s Oversight Board: 2 Years of Pushing Limits
Ultimately, the issue came up in a March 2022 meeting with Clegg, who seemed taken aback by the board members’…
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The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
Though foreign Disinformation campaigns have targeted the 2022 United States midterm elections to a degree, most of the pressure on…
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How to ‘Quiet Quit’ Elon Musk’s Twitter
And for the love of God, don’t blindly take voting advice from Elon Musk. Take a Walk on the Decentralized…
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Elon Musk Has Put Twitter’s Free Speech in Danger
Before becoming Twitter’s CEO, owner, and “Chief Twit,” Elon Musk had often lobbed criticism at the platform for its approach…
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Clearview Stole My Face and the EU Can’t Do Anything About It
Pimeyes is technically different from Clearview because it does not store faces in a database, but instead searches the internet for…
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Elon Musk Is Overloaded | WIRED
Neuralink, which works on brain implants for controlling a computer, was also founded in 2016. Musk has previously said he…
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Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team
As more and more problems with AI have surfaced, including biases around race, gender, and age, many tech companies have…
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