Olivia Solon

73 U.S.-based hate groups have had access to at least 54 online funding mechanisms, research shows.

“The Oversight Board has the potential to revolutionize how we think about the relationship between private corporations and our public rights."

Intelligence experts are monitoring the "competition between democratic systems and autocratic systems of government."

The new feature allows users to take a photo that has a digital signature to prove its provenance, including where and when the photo was taken.

Workers at the call center say that six months after they first complained, things have only gotten worse.

Some of Amazon's 500,000 warehouse workers are attempting to fill the information gap by compiling data on outbreaks at facilities across the U.S.

A group of about 25 experts announced Friday that they have formed a group to analyze and critique Facebook's content moderation decisions.

"In the context of schools, fever screening is a particularly bad idea," said Katelyn Gostic, an epidemiologist at the University of Chicago.

According to internal discussions, Facebook removed "strikes" so that conservative pages were not penalized for violations of misinformation policies.

Researchers said the company ignored their work and then stopped them from pursuing topics related to bias altogether.

Thorn, a nonprofit co-founded by actor and investor Ashton Kutcher, has already put its tools in the hands of many tech companies including Imgur and Slack.

The Child Protection System helps police triage child pornography cases. But as the system expands, it's facing growing privacy concerns.

The Association for Computing Machinery said the technology could not reliably be used in a way that wouldn't harm vulnerable populations.

The campaign comes amid growing internal dissent among employees over Facebook's handling of hate speech and political disinformation.

The bill would also make federal funding for state and local law enforcement contingent on the enactment of similar bans.

The careful wording of public pledges leaves plenty of room for oppressive uses of the technology, critics say.

Four cases offer some insight into how federal law enforcement continues to monitor online speech related to social movements.

Apple has been here before, but the circumstances have changed. Government regulators could take action on year-long complaints about how the company runs its app store.

“Facebook doesn’t care. It closes our accounts on the pretext of terrorism. We are against terrorism and violence," one journalist said.

Any future law must be “grounded in the protection of human rights," said Microsoft president Brad Smith.

After years of criticism from privacy activists, the company will stop law enforcement from using its Rekognition tool to give Congress time to develop regulations.

Some of the websites and apps that collect crime tips have crashed or been removed from the web.

“It’s an absolute last resort that is probably the hardest decision farmers will make in their farming careers,” the head of a pork producers association said of euthanizing herds.

A tool, previously unknown to the public, doesn't have to crack the code that people use to unlock their phones. It just has to log the code as the user types it in.

Delays in unemployment benefits also indirectly affect other social services, such as Medicaid, creating what one expert called "a perfect storm."