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House Judiciary Committee Prepares to Recommend Holding Mark Zuckerberg in Contempt – RedState
26Jul By adminNo Comments
Politics

House Judiciary Committee Prepares to Recommend Holding Mark Zuckerberg in Contempt – RedState

Since Republicans reclaimed control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January, the committees have been busy holding hearings on numerous hot-button issues. The House Oversight and Accountability and House Judiciary Committees, in particular, have focused on government overreach and corruption, with the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government drilling down on the alarming efforts of the government to censor U.S. citizens, coordinating with social media and tech companies in an effort to sidestep the First Amendment. As part of their effort to suss out the extent of the government’s overreach, the Weaponization Subcommittee has held several notable hearings, among them the March 9 hearing during which independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shell...
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Jim Jordan Threatens to Drop Legal Hammer on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Over Censorship – RedState
18Jul By adminNo Comments
Politics

Jim Jordan Threatens to Drop Legal Hammer on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Over Censorship – RedState

As we reported earlier, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s new social media platform — Threads — which is supposed to be a direct competitor to Twitter and just started this month, didn’t get off to an auspicious start with claims of censorship coming right away. They were then hit with a legal cease and desist threat from Twitter owner Elon Musk for misappropriation of trade secrets by allegedly using proprietary information from Twitter. Now the House Judiciary Committee is looking into allegations of censorship on Threads and is demanding answers by letter from Zuckerberg in a letter Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent out on Monday. The Committee was already looking into censorship by Meta regarding its other properties, such as Facebook. About a week ago, I wrote about the very troubling news th...
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The EU Urges the US to Join the Fight to Regulate AI
16Jul By adminNo Comments
Technology

The EU Urges the US to Join the Fight to Regulate AI

The world's most valuable and dominant internet companies are based in the US, but the nation’s unproductive lawmakers and business-friendly courts have effectively outsourced the regulation of tech giants to the EU. That has given tremendous power to Didier Reynders, the European commissioner for justice, who is in charge of crafting and enforcing laws that apply across the 27-nation bloc. After nearly four years on the job, he’s tired of hearing big talk from the US with little action.Ahead of his latest round of biannual meetings with US officials, including attorney general Merrick Garland in Washington, DC, tomorrow, Reynders told WIRED why the US needs to finally step up, where a probe into ChatGPT is headed, and why he made contentious comments about one of the world’s most promine...
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Elon Musk’s Boast About Twitter’s ‘All-Time Record’ Falls Flat
12Jul By adminNo Comments
Technology

Elon Musk’s Boast About Twitter’s ‘All-Time Record’ Falls Flat

Elon Musk claimed Twitter could hit an “all-time record” this week but data presented by internet traffic experts suggests otherwise, while Mark Zuckerberg’s new platform is gaining traction.“Cumulative user-seconds per day of phone screentime, as reported by iOS & Android, is hardest to game. I think we may hit an all-time record this week,” Musk wrote Monday in response to a post by Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino saying the platform had its “largest usage day since February” last week.Cumulative user-seconds per day of phone screentime, as reported by iOS & Android, is hardest to game. I think we may hit an all-time record this week.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2023But those claims don’t seem to pass the smell test.Matthew Prince, the CEO and co-founder of Cloudfare, a web perf...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s first tweet in over a decade is playful jab at Elon Musk’s Twitter
10Jul By adminNo Comments
Money

Mark Zuckerberg’s first tweet in over a decade is playful jab at Elon Musk’s Twitter

Mark Zuckerberg's new "Twitter killer" app Threads has officially arrived. And the CEO of its parent company Meta took no time to use it as an opportunity to take a jab at the social media platform owned by his business rival Elon Musk. Zuckerberg hadn't tweeted since January 18, 2012, at which time he asked people to "tell your congressmen you want them to be pro-internet." But on Wednesday, as soon as Threads launched, he posted a popular Spider-Man meme in which two identical Spidermen are pointing at each other. He didn't include a caption – but no words were needed.  pic.twitter.com/MbMxUWiQgp— Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd) July 6, 2023 Zuckerberg and Musk have grown to be social media business rivals, with the two going so far as to agree to fight in a cage match.  The me...
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