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How Saudi money returned to Silicon Valley

Vox

Meanwhile, the Biden administration is softening its stance on Saudi Arabia and even partnering with the kingdom on the Middle East broadly as well as energy policy and economic initiatives. So if President Biden can’t quit Saudi Arabia , why would Silicon Valley? It gets even more complicated.

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The viral tweet about Trump refusing to give Biden his @POTUS followers is wrong, even if it is on-brand

Vox

When Joe Biden becomes president on January 20, his administration will gain control of the @POTUS and @WhiteHouse Twitter accounts. The transfer has become an issue between Twitter and the Biden transition team, according to the Wall Street Journal. Biden digital director Rob Flaherty agreed.

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TikTok could avoid a ban with a sale. Finding a buyer won’t be easy.

Vox

The Senate is now considering a bipartisan bill that could force a sale of TikTok , with the House having already passed a similar measure and President Joe Biden throwing his support behind it. If the legislation is signed into law — and if it survives likely legal challenges — the question then becomes: Who would buy TikTok?

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Google says foreign hackers targeted emails of Trump and Biden campaign staffers

The Verge

Foreign hackers targeted the personal email accounts of staffers on the presidential campaigns of Democratic primary candidate Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, Reuters reported. Recently TAG saw China APT group targeting Biden campaign staff & Iran APT targeting Trump campaign staff with phishing.

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Leaving content moderation to volunteers is empowering racists

The Verge

Meanwhile, Joe Biden spent $5 million on Facebook advertising in recent days. Instagram users after posting black squares and tagging 10 friends pic.twitter.com/oVepS6b2wn — Cryptic (@CrypticNoOne) June 2, 2020. Trump spent a record $1.48 million on Google advertising, the most money his campaign has spent in a week to date.

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Trump’s latest attack on Section 230 is really about censoring speech

The Verge

Both President Trump and Joe Biden have called for the end of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act , which protects tech companies in most cases when their users post something illegal on their platforms. “Why Unless Biden wins in a landslide, the experts predict significant unrest. the president wanted to know.

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Instagram disables related hashtags feature after bug that appeared to favor Trump

The Verge

The issue came to light after a Tech Transparency Project (TTP) report , further explored by BuzzFeed News , found that the bug affected Trump-related hashtags but not those related to Joe Biden. A technical error caused tens of thousands of hashtags to not show related tags.

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