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Facebook's removal of coronavirus misinfo will make its hands-off approach to removing anti-vaccine advocacy harder to defend when we get a coronavirus vaccine (Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed News)

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: Facebook’s removal of coronavirus misinfo will make its hands-off approach to removing anti-vaccine advocacy harder to defend when we get a coronavirus vaccine  —  The social media platform is siding with scientists to stop the spread of harmful misinformation about the pandemic. Facebook's removal of coronavirus misinfo will make its

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Report: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are among American tech companies providing web services to blacklisted Chinese surveillance firms like Dahua, Hikvision (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Report: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are among American tech companies providing web services to blacklisted Chinese surveillance firms like Dahua, Hikvision  —  – Amazon, Microsoft and Google are among a number of American firms that are providing various web services to blacklisted Chinese surveillance firms, a new report claims. Report: Amazon,

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Sources: Trump is considering the establishment of a commission that would examine allegations of anticonservative bias and censorship on social media (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Trump is considering the establishment of a commission that would examine allegations of anticonservative bias and censorship on social media  —  Move is likely to draw pushback from tech companies; ACLU raises free-speech concerns  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is considering establishing … Sources: Trump is considering the establishment of a commission that

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Researchers discuss ShinyHunters, a hacking group that is hawking what it claims is ~200M stolen records on the dark web since May 1 from at least 13 companies (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Researchers discuss ShinyHunters, a hacking group that is hawking what it claims is ~200M stolen records on the dark web since May 1 from at least 13 companies  —  In the first two weeks of May, they’ve hit the dark web, hawking 200 million stolen records from over a dozen

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