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Kitchen company says it will only refund customers owed funds if they promise not to leave a negative review
Companies are finding new ways to defend their businesses from online reviews, in this case, the ways are based on legal clauses written by skilled lawyers.
Google’s “Top Stories” section showed CNN 25% of the time for queries about Dayton and El Paso mass shootings
This follows a Google executive saying that Google shows CNN for 20% of searches for Donald Trump.
Senator Wyden calls for US wireless carriers to stop helping government spy on its own citizens
Section 215 of the Patriot Act is going to expire at the end of this year. Wyden underlined the importance of civic participation, by contacting their senators through mails and calls to ask them not to renew section 215.
Facebook backed down on Houseparty acquisition due to antitrust scrutiny
Facebook had planned to gobble up even more of the social media market.
PwC will have to work to rebuild trust after shock GDPR fine
Ironically, the company had previously been helping many of its clients navigate the GDPR.
After hijacking Ninja’s old channel, Twitch’s algorithm is sometimes using it to recommend porn
“This wouldn’t even have been an issue if they didnt use my channel to promote others in the first place…”, Ninja said.
New WhatsApp-approved tool designed to help “fact-checkers” rate articles in bulk
Efforts to make fact-checking prolific in the run up to the 2020 elections are in full force.
White House proposal to combat online censorship may allow FCC to remove Section 230 protections
Critics are concerned that the proposals may go too far and could be unconstitutional.
MoviePass accused of changing paying users’ passwords to encourage them to use the service less
Users paid a flat free for unlimited movies so the fewer movies each user saw, the better for the company.
GDPR data takeout laws combined with bad data management make identify theft easier than ever, researcher says
Companies are giving data requesters to those other than the indented recipient.
Twitter backs down, restores Mitch McConnell video and campaign account after mass boycott threats
While the decision is a partial victory for the McConnell campaign, Twitter is still soft censoring the tweet that caused McConnell’s campaign account to be locked.
Ted Cruz and others join GOP’s multimillion dollar Twitter ads boycott after McConnell campaign lock-out
Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican party, the Trump Campaign, multiple Republican committees, and others have paused their Twitter ads to protest Twitter’s “disgusting bias.”