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Global glitch: Swaths of internet go down after cloud outage

KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer
Jun 08, 2021 1:00 am - LONDON - Dozens of websites went down briefly around the globe Tuesday, including CNN, The New York Times and Britain's government home page, after an outage at the clou...
Facebook board upholds Trump ban, just not an indefinite one

By MATT O'BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer
May 05, 2021 1:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been corrected to note that the board has not upheld a permanent ban of Trump. Former President Donald Trump won't return to Facebook...
Among others but still feeling alone? A Naperville man has an app for that

By Burt Constable
Apr 29, 2021 5:30 am - Now that we're well into Year Two of the coronavirus pandemic, much of the attention is focused on younger people. The direct observation is that more young adults are b...
Social platforms flex their power, lock down Trump accounts

By DAVID KLEPPER and MATT O'BRIEN Associated Press
Jan 07, 2021 12:00 am - After years of treating President Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric with a light touch, Facebook and Instagram are silencing his social media accounts for the rest of...
Q&A: Will Twitter, Facebook crack down on Trump?

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer
Nov 25, 2020 12:00 am - OAKLAND, Calif. - For the past four years, President Donald Trump has enjoyed the special status of a world leader on Twitter and Facebook, even as he used his perch ato...
Twitter, Facebook CEOs defend election actions, promise more

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer
Nov 17, 2020 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - The CEOs of Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday defended their safeguards against disinformation in the presidential election, and promised Congress they would ...
Justice Department files landmark antitrust case against Google

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and MARCY GORDON Associated Press
Oct 20, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Google for antitrust violations, alleging that it abused its dominance in online search and advertising to stifle com...
Inside the 'Malarkey Factory,' Biden's online war room

Matt Viser The Washington Post
Oct 19, 2020 1:00 am - Joe Biden's campaign has quietly built a multimillion-dollar operation over the past two months that's largely designed to combat misinformation online, aiming to rebut ...
87% of websites are tracking you. This new tool will let you run a creepiness check.

Geoffrey A. Fowler The Washington Post
Oct 03, 2020 6:22 am - How bad has privacy become on the World Wide Web? Really bad, a new audit shows. At least 87% of the world's most-popular web domains engage in some form of digital trac...
Facebook tightens political ad bans as US election nears

Associated Press
Oct 01, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - With just over a month to go before Americans head en masse to the polls in an extraordinarily contentious election, Facebook is expanding restrictions on p...

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