Haunted by Russia’s brazen effort to meddle in the last election, US government officials have erected what they believe are formidable barriers to thwart cyberattacks ahead of Tuesday’s presidential vote.
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A scathing report detailing abuses of market power by four top technology companies suggests a tough road ahead of new rules and stricter enforcement for Big Tech should Joe Biden win the White House.
US President Donald Trump told Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Walmart’s Doug McMillon that he still wants the government to receive a payment as part of a deal for the US operations of TikTok.
Twitter said several of its employees were manipulated by hackers into providing credentials for internal systems, and 130 Twitter accounts were targeted including those of Joe Biden, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
Twitter said hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform’s top voices and used them to solicit digital currency.
The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday, leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts, is drawing questions about the platform’s security.
Snap said it would no longer promote US President Donald Trump’s account in Snapchat’s Discover section, saying his incendiary comments last week made the account ineligible.
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has called for the repeal of section 230, part of a US law that protects internet companies from liability for content their users post online.