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Inside the race to carve up the free web As public perception of Big Tech shifts, politicians are developing competing models for the future of the internet. Chris McGrath/Getty Images In the early days of social media, digital platforms were touted as a tool for democracy. The post-election protests in Iran in 2009 were dubbed the “Twitter revolution”, while Facebook proved indispensable in 2011 during the Arab Spring. In recent years, however, public perception has shifted. “Our collective understanding of these tools has swung on this pendulum from thinking that s...

A court in the US ordered chip-making giant Intel to pay nearly $2.18 billion to VLSI Technology, an affiliate of SoftBank-owned Fortress Investment Group, for alleged infringement of two patents.Intel vowed to fight the judgement, the Mobile ...

Republicans and Democrats both want to repeal part of a digital content law, but experts say that will be extremely tough Texas Tribune Published:  Tags:  Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Inspired by the example set by former President Donald Trump, who regularly railed against social media companies before they banned him from their platforms, Republicans in Texas have focused their ire on a provision of a 1996 law regulating digital content. Ad Section 230 of the Communications Dec...

<figcaption> Attorney General Ken Paxton is among several Texas Republicans who have criticized major technology and social media companies in how they responded to accounts that sowed misinformation about the 2020 election. <cite>Credit: Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune</cite> </figcaption>

There’s a lot going on in the complaint the conservative microblogging service Parler filed Monday against Amazon Web Services in federal court in Seattle.