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Facebook blocks Trump’s accounts indefinitely Vox.com 1/7/2021 Rebecca Heilweil and Shirin Ghaffary © Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images President Donald Trump spoke behind protective glass at the “Stop the Steal” Rally on January 6. Open Sourced logo Social media companies are grappling with the reactions to the insurrection that broke out on Wednesday at the US Capitol. Despite plenty of time and warning, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube still seemed to be scrambling in their response to President Trump’s calls for an uprising in the wake of his election loss. In the a...

Facebook is lifting its political ad ban — in Georgia only Vox.com 12/15/2020 Rebecca Heilweil © Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images All four Georgia Senate candidates are upset they can’t run political ads on Facebook. (Above, a Georgia voter in November.) Open Sourced logo Less than a week after Joe Biden secured a victory in the 2020 presidential election, it looked like Facebook’s post-election plan was backfiring. In November, the company announced it would extend its ban on political ads for at least another month, and possibly longer, in an attempt to...

Justice Department now says its email accounts were “potentially accessed” in Russia hack Vox.com 1/6/2021 Sara Morrison © Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images A joint task force of US security agencies says that Russia is “likely” the actor behind the massive malware attack on federal agencies last year. Open Sourced logo Federal security agencies have finally confirmed that the massive hack of government and private computer systems that was uncovered in mid-December was likely Russian in origin. A statement from a joint task force issued January 5 was one of th...

How influencers are being recruited to promote the Covid-19 vaccine Vox.com 12/14/2020 Rebecca Heilweil © Mark Lennihan / POOL / AFP Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, receives the first Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York. Open Sourced logo On Monday morning, the first person in the United States received a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Now images of Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, are going viral. But over the coming weeks and months,...

Why the US government wants Facebook to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp Vox.com 12/10/2020 Rebecca Heilweil © Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images On Wednesday, 48 attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Facebook, arguing that the company is a monopoly and that it should be forced to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp. Open Sourced logo On Wednesday, the US Federal Trade Commission and 48 US state attorneys general filed major lawsuits against Facebook that argue the social media giant is a monopoly whose anti-competiti...