With vaccine misinformation quickly spreading, Twitter will remove false claims that vaccines intentionally cause harm or have adverse effects.
Author: Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY
With few Black and Hispanic executives, Lyft and Uber face long road to hailing a racially diverse workforce
Ride-hailing companies have a long road ahead in creating more racial equity at the top of their organizations, a new USA TODAY analysis shows.
Google ouster of top AI researcher Timnit Gebru draws sharp new scrutiny of how it treats Black employees
The dismissal of top AI researcher vocal about Google’s diversity failures has drawn new attention to treatment of Black employees, especially women.
Should Facebook be broken up? FTC, 46 states sue tech giant for antitrust over Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions
The Federal Trade Commission and 48 state attorneys general filed antitrust lawsuits against Facebook over its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
‘Overrun with misinformation’: Georgia Senate runoff elections are latest battleground for Facebook and Twitter falsehoods
The Senate runoff elections in Georgia have become the latest battleground against misinformation as false and misleading posts swarm Facebook and Twitter.
Facebook ranks deleting anti-Black and ‘most harmful’ hate speech over comments about white people and men
Facebook is more concerned about racist slurs and hate speech against Black people, Muslims and Jews than posts declaring, “White people are stupid” and “Men are pigs.”
Racial inequity persists after George Floyd: Black women and Latina entrepreneurs get less than 1% of venture capital
Black women and Latinas raised more venture capital in 2020 but parity is still a pipedream, the new ProjectDiane report from digitalundivided found.
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Amazon Web Services outage takes down part of internet
Having trouble binge-watching your favorite show or playing your favorite video game? An Amazon Web Services outage in the east may be to blame.
Don’t count on finding toilet paper on your next run to Target or Walmart: COVID-19 panic buying is on a roll again
Paper towels, cleaners and other household staples are in high demand in stores and online again as the coronavirus surges across the country.