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The Biden administration is prepared to shell out up to $12 million to teach "gender diversity" in Iraqi universities, an effort it says will help strengthen democracy in the Middle Eastern nation.

Florida A&M University (FAMU) received $5 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation today

Facebook is pretending it cares how its platform affects the world Siva Vaidhyanathan © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images The world is a lot better off without Donald Trump as president of the United States. And Facebook is a lot more peaceful without Trump’s unhinged calls for vengeance against his political opponents and fabricated tales of voter fraud echoing across the platform. What’s more, the world is a lot better off now that T...

The board deliberated for four months after Facebook itself appealed its own January ban of Trump. Trump had praised and encouraged the invasion of the US Capitol building on 6 January when five people died in the violence, in what was a clear assault not only on the process of legitimately selecting Trump’s successor but on American democracy itself. In doing so, the board not only came to the most obvious short-term decision, it exposed the limits of its utility. Instead of considering more...

Photograph by Evy Mages Donald Trump will continue to be suspended from Facebook and Instagram, said the company’s Oversight Board in a decision Wednesday morning. The independent board—made up of academics, policy experts, journalists, and others—upheld Facebook’s decision to suspend Trump’s accounts following his actions on January 6 with a caveat that the company was wrong to suspend the accounts indefinitely. During the attack at the Capitol in January, Trump released a now-notori...

Biden taps intelligence veteran for new White House cybersecurity role POLITICO 1/6/2021 By Natasha Bertrand © Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for WIRED President-elect Joe Biden plans to tap NSA Cybersecurity Director Anne Neuberger, pictured at a Nov. 8, 2019 event in San Francisco, for a newly created cyber role on his National Security Council. President-elect Joe Biden plans to pluck a career intelligence official from the National Security Agency to serve in a newly crea...