World Leaders to Headline 24-Hour Livestream for Gay Pride
World leaders, royals and human rights activists will headline a 24-hour online celebration of gay pride organized after the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation or...
Tag : Computers and the Internet
Twitter Had Been Drawing a Line for Months When Trump Crossed It
OAKLAND, Calif. — Jack Dorsey was up late Thursday at his home in San Francisco talking online with his executives when their conversation was interrupted:...
While Twitter Confronts Trump, Zuckerberg Keeps Facebook Out of It
SAN FRANCISCO — Earlier this week, as Twitter executives waded into a confrontation with President Trump, Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, took a very...
Google Rescinds Offers to Thousands of Contract Workers
OAKLAND, Calif. — Google, facing an advertising slump caused by the pandemic, has rescinded offers to several thousand people who had agreed to work at...
The President Versus the Mods
As a teen in the early 2000s, I spent a lot of time on online message boards. They were funny, chaotic places where my fellow...
Pandemic Forces Car Dealers to Do the Unthinkable: Sell Online
After more than a decade of getting around New York City almost exclusively by subway and bus, Nicole Avallone decided to buy a car in...
Trump’s Order Targeting Social Media Sites, Explained
Much of the president’s order consists of complaints about social media companies and their efforts to flag or remove content deemed inappropriate. Here is an...
U.S. Accuses Russian Military Hackers of Attack on Email Servers
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency publicly accused Russian government hackers of targeting email servers around the world in an unusual announcement on Thursday, showing...
Why President Trump’s Order on Social Media Could Harm Him
WASHINGTON — President Trump, who built his political career on the power of a flame-throwing Twitter account, has now gone to war with Twitter, angered...
Trump Signs Executive Order on Social Media, Claiming to Protect ‘Free Speech’
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to empower federal regulators to crack down on social media companies like Twitter and Facebook and potentially...