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Jesse Hirsh the CBC Toronto’s longstanding and deservedly respected tech columnist, a fixture for many words, interpreting the tech news of the day for the public broadcaster’s nonexpert audience, explaining how tech’s turns and twists are relevant to their lives. This week, Hirsh covered the New York Times’s blockbuster report on Facebook, which revealed…
Yesterday outgoing Head of Communications and Policy Elliot Schrage shared more detail with our employees about the work we did with Definers, a Washington, DC PR firm. Many of you have raised questions about our relationship with the Definers consulting firm. We’ve been looking into this and though it is close to a holiday for…
A 16-year-old South Sudanese girl was sold off for marriage to the highest bidder on Facebook in November, raising concerns that the platform has become a “latter-day slave market.” A businessman from South Sudan outbid four others — which included a senior Sudanese government official — after the girl’s family posted a message on Facebook…
Print this story It was still dark outside when Amanda woke up to the sound of her alarm, got out of bed and decided to kill herself. She wasn’t going to do it then, not at 5:30 in the morning on a Friday. She told herself she would do it sometime after work. Amanda showered….
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced it has settled its first civil penalties against a company solely for registration violations for selling digital tokens in initial coin offerings. The two companies that settled, CarrierEQ, also known as Airfox, and Paragon Coin, conducted ICOs in 2017 after the SEC warned such offerings can be considered securities offerings….
Aziz Ansari is the latest in a string of men re-entering the spotlight after accusations of sexual misconduct forced them to take a breather. And unlike his compatriots, it seems he’s treading lightly. The title of his new tour, “Working Out New Material,” is a hedge — albeit a snarky one, in and of itself. The one thing Ansari does share…
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is set to release a sweeping overhaul of how colleges and universities must handle allegations of sexual assault and harassment, giving new rights to the accused, including the ability to cross-examine their accusers, people familiar with the matter said. The proposal is set for release before Thanksgiving, possibly this week, and…
Just recently we wrote about why blockchain-based DRM was a terrible idea, and it could be summed up by the simple fact that a blockchain solves none of the “problems” of DRM today, and leverages none of the actual benefits of a blockchain. And… now I feel like writing basically the same exact post around…
Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty) Folks, I’ll be honest with you: I’m starting to think that President Donald Trump is not only a viciously corrupt abscess on the underbelly of American politics, but that he’s incredibly stupid to boot. I mean, why else would he essentially admit that the only reason he picked (laughably unqualified) Matt…
Like a racist coyote running repeatedly into a rock wall half-heartedly painted to look like a desert tunnel, Fox News seemingly can’t help but keep accidentally promoting Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and now, her fellow energized, incoming progressive lawmakers such as Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib. During a Tuesday evening segment alarmingly titled “The…