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Governing. ? That people with a lot of power, that people in government positions, get a different kind of voice, a different thing that they can say. Honestly I’m with the teens on this one — that video is a cry for help. Today in news that could change public perception of the big tech companies. Mary Hui / Quartz ).
In this year’s Verge Tech Survey , a national poll found that 72 percent of respondents believe Facebook has too much power, and 56 percent said the government should break up tech companies if they control too much of the economy. Governing. ? And in some crucial areas, public opinion does not appear to be on the company’s side.
How much of the low turnout should be attributed to the teens, and how much should be attributed to other factors — like that pandemic, for example? In the moment, Trump versus the TikTok teens offered a canvas that anyone could project their hopes and LOLs onto. Governing. ? Or was it something else? Sara Fischer / Axios ).
At the root of this concern is that no matter what ByteDance says about TikTok’s independence from Chinese governance, ultimately it must do whatever the country’s brutal, repressive authoritarian regime demands. Governing. ? That makes it hard for high-risk users to feel entirely safe, no matter what the app does. What sort of data?
In November I wrote about how Congress and the Council for Foreign Investment in the United States were putting the squeeze on ByteDance — and about how the company’s past run-ins with the Chinese government had created a credibility gap with US regulators. Two, TikTok keeps finding new users.
Governing. ? Alexandra Alper at Reuters has more: “We are heartened that this deal still requires government approval, and if reports indicating this proposed deal will retain links to ByteDance or other Chinese-controlled entities, we strongly urge the administration to reject such a proposal on national security grounds,” he added. [.].
America’s two hottest teen tech brands, Microsoft and Walmart, are teaming up for a bid. We are confident that a Walmart and Microsoft partnership would meet both the expectations of US TikTok users while satisfying the concerns of US government regulators.”. Governing. ? Election Integrity Partnership).
Governing. ? Joe Biden’s campaign is taking over a popular Instagram account created by a teen supporter. The data could give you insight into what teen hackers could have stolen during the notorious bitcoin scam in July. Moscow Mitch will continue to have to take his lumps. Julia Alexander / The Verge ).
Governing. ? Trump has made it clear he expects the US government to be “well compensated” if a TikTok sale goes through. They served the teen with a search warrant at the home where he lives with his parents. Facebook has about 15,000 third-party moderators, not 30,000. Sorry for the errors.
Governing. ? Google sent 1,755 warnings to users whose accounts were targets of government-backed attackers last month. Here are Katie Roof and Zheping Huang at Bloomberg: The company owes much of its success to TikTok , now the online repository of choice for lip-synching and dance videos by American teens.
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