The US officially rejoins the Paris climate change agreement

Posted on 19/02/2021 by Engadget

One of the first things President Biden did after his inauguration was to sign an executive order saying the US will rejoin the Paris Agreement. Today, that move is official. United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken posted a tweet saying the U...

Huawei files lawsuit disputing FCC ‘security threat’ designation

Posted on 10/02/2021 by Engadget

According to The Wall Street Journal, Huawei has filed a lawsuit to challenge a decision the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made last year when it designated the company as a national security threat. The legal challenge comes as the Chinese...

Trump negotiations to join Parler reportedly involved an ownership stake

Posted on 05/02/2021 by Engadget

Parler, the “free speech” focused social network that attracted many right wing and extremist voices, remains offline several days after the company’s board canceled its CEO. The site is staying in the news, however, as a BuzzFeed News report cites d...

US arrests far-right Twitter troll for 2016 election interference

Posted on 27/01/2021 by Engadget

In a case that could set a precedent for how the US handles election-related misinformation moving forward, the Justice Department announced the arrest of infamous far-right troll Douglass Mackey on Wednesday. Better known by his online handle of Ric...

Facebook’s Oversight Board will review Trump’s suspension

Posted on 21/01/2021 by Engadget

Facebook’s Oversight Board will decide whether to restore Donald Trump’s access to that platform and Instagram. Both services locked the former president out of his accounts for 24 hours earlier this month over policy violations in the wake of the US...

Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski

Posted on 20/01/2021 by Engadget

Last year Anthony Levandowski pleaded guilty to one count of stealing materials from Google, where he was an engineer for its self-driving car efforts before leaving to found a startup that he sold to Uber. The judge said during his sentencing that h...

Telegram took down ‘hundreds’ of calls for violence from public US channels

Posted on 18/01/2021 by Engadget

With just two days before Wednesday’s presidential inauguration, Telegram said it has spent much of the last two weeks monitoring the situation in the US and subsequently taking enforcement action. In a post to his public channel spotted by The Verge...

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