The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

And after Hong Kong passed a new national security law giving vast new surveillance powers to the Chinese Communist Party, TikTok led all social networks in pulling the app from Hong Kong. TikTok is registered in the Cayman Islands, for example. But the regulatory pressure is piling up anyway. Nick Statt / The Verge ).

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

Ever since the United States governments unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American 40 acres and a mule after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of redistributing land to redress the nations legacies of slavery. Notably, over half of them center land return. Constitution.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

Social media creator Kat Abughazaleh, 26, is running to represent the 9th District of Illinois in Congress against an incumbent whos held the seat since 1998. She announced the news on TikTok. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling our country piece by piece, and so many Democrats seem content to just sit back and let them.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Barbara Collura, president and CEO of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, said that what the White House put out “looks extremely promising.” Illinois Sen. That’s a conservative group led by Mike Flynn, who briefly served as national security adviser in the Republican president’s first term.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 2, 2025

Judge Susan Crawford preserved liberals’ narrow majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday by defeating conservative Brad Schimel, but in a way the real loser of the election was billionaire Elon Musk. ” Trump endorsed Schimel as the race turned into a proxy fight over national political issues.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

Over the coming days, as the National Guard is now deployed, probably the largest one that I would worry about would be excessive use of police or military force. You can argue that the company is more sensitive to pressure from conservatives in the United States, and a lot of good reporting has borne that out in the past few years.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Reported cases in Illinois: 121,666. Total test results (positive and negative) in Illinois: 934,704. Unsurprisingly, according to a National Research Group survey, liberals were far more likely to support Twitter, with conservatives more likely to oppose the decision. Reported cases in New Jersey: 161,545. Governing. ?

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Reuters reported that one email said Texans “‘are put at risk’ by the company, ‘whose executives clearly display anti-conservative and anti-Republican bias, subtly controlling what Americans see when they search for information about national political issues.’”. Reported cases in Illinois: 96,778. Data from The New York Times.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Here’s Chaim Gartenberg at The Verge : Amazon has requested that Congress pass a law that would make price gouging illegal during times of national crisis, in light of inflated prices on crucial goods like hand sanitizer and N95 masks that have hounded the online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reported cases in Illinois: 83,168.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

As to the merits of the president’s complaint: independent audits have found that social media posts by liberals and conservatives get similar levels of engagement, but conservatives have consistently made claims of discrimination anyway based on anecdotes. Reported cases in Illinois: 114,612. Data from The New York Times.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

Is it national unity? The company gave them a variety of executives to speak with on and off the record, including Joel Kaplan, its vice president of global public policy, who often pops up in stories like this to complain that some action might disproportionately hurt conservatives. Reported cases in Illinois: 114,448.

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