At today’s House Judiciary hearing addressing “Hate Crimes and the Rise of White Nationalism,” hate appears…
Author: Taylor Hatmaker
Proposed bill would forbid big tech platforms from using dark pattern design
A new piece of bipartisan legislation aims to protect people from one of the sketchiest practices…
Cybercrime groups continue to flourish on Facebook
You might be surprised what you can buy on Facebook, if you know where to look.…
HyperSciences raises an untraditional $9.6M for its hypersonic drilling vision
We profiled HyperSciences in February, when the team had just successfully completed a launch milestone for…
Google’s anti-trans controversy is the latest case of big tech overcorrecting to the right
Google just smoothed over one spat with the LGBT community, but it’s already well into the…
Google pulls controversial anti-*** religious app from the Play Store
The same day the Human Rights Campaign downranked the company in its index of the best…
Facebook’s handling of Alex Jones is a microcosm of its content policy problem
A revealing cluster of emails leaked to Business Insider offers a glimpse at how Facebook decides…
Palantir wins $800 million contract to build the U.S. Army’s next battlefield software system
Palantir just landed a landmark contract with the U.S. Army worth north of $800 million. The…
Facebook is finally banning white supremacy that goes by other names
Facebook is abandoning a longstanding policy of allowing white supremacy to flourish on its platform under…
FAA proposal aims to ‘streamline’ regulations for future space launches
On Tuesday, the FAA and Department of Transportation published a proposal that greases the wheels for…