No, Cormac McCarthy Isn’t on Twitter. Don’t Be Fooled by the Check Mark.
An account posing as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Road,” “No Country for Old Men” and “All the Pretty Horses” was mistakenly verified...
The App With the Unprintable Name That Wants to Give Power to Creators
Fed up with the imbalance between online influencers and brands, Lindsey Lee Lugrin and Isha Mehra created a platform to change that.Read More
Jack Dorsey’s Square is spending $29 billion on an Australian buy now, pay later firm — a massive purchase that will help his company...
Zoom Video Communications agreed to pay $85 million in a preliminary lawsuit settlement filed Saturday afternoon. The deal is in response to a class...
Zoom Agrees to Settle Lawsuit Over ‘Zoombombing’
The videoconferencing company said it would pay $85 million to settle the suit, which claimed that it violated users’ privacy, in part by allowing...
To Fight Vaccine Lies, Authorities Recruit an ‘Influencer Army’
The White House has teamed up with TikTok stars, while some states are paying “local micro influencers” for pro-vaccine campaigns.Read More
How Local Media Spreads Misinformation From Vaccine Skeptics
Facebook and other social media have been under scrutiny for vaccine misinformation, but local outlets have also sometimes been active.Read More
‘X’ Marks the Spot: Officials Map a Route Out of the Pandemic
Governments and organizations around the world are using geospatial data and digital mapping tools to guide their vaccination campaigns.Read More
Can Paramount+ Succeed? One Producer Hopes to Make It So.
“He’s our future,” one CBS Studios executive said of Alex Kurtzman, who has a lucrative contract to expand the “Star Trek” universe — and...
Banned Chinese Facial Recognition Technology Was Used to Search for Minneapolis Protesters
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One night in the Twin Cities, shortly after the killing of George Floyd, someone set a fire in a Goodwill. That led to an...