WASHINGTON — The tech industry had it easy under President Barack Obama. Regulators brought no major charges, executives rotated in and out of the administration, and efforts to strengthen privacy […]
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Back to news homeBusiness Leaders, Drawn Into Fray by Trump, May Step Back Under Biden
From the moment President Trump took office, big businesses were thrust into the culture wars like never before. In the days after Mr. Trump’s inauguration in 2017, companies protested his […]
Tension, Then Some Tears, as TV News Narrates a Moment for History
The tension mounted for days — and then broke, all at once. CNN went first, calling the presidential election at 11:24 a.m. Eastern. It was followed in quick succession by […]
New York Post Shifts Tone on Trump as a Top Editor Plans His Own Exit
Last month The New York Post called President Trump “an invincible hero, who not only survived every dirty trick the Democrats threw at him, but the Chinese virus as well.” […]
How Twitter Policed Trump During the 2020 US Election
President Trump’s Tweets Since Election Day 25 tweets Labeling increased after Mr. Trump began making claims about voting fraud. 20 Labeled misleading or disputed 15 12:21 p.m. “STOP THE FRAUD!” […]
How Claims of Dead Michigan Voters Spread Faster Than the Facts
The tweets began to arrive Wednesday night, carrying explosive claims that people in Michigan were voting under the names of dead people. Austen Fletcher, a former Ivy League football player […]
‘Stop the Steal’ Facebook Group Is Taken Down
OAKLAND, Calif. — The first post in the new Facebook group that was started on Wednesday was innocuous enough. “Welcome” to Stop the Steal, it said. But an hour later, […]
Facebook, Alarmed by Discord Over Vote Count, Is Said to Be Taking Action
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is planning to enact new measures to make it more difficult for election misinformation to spread virally across its platform, two people with knowledge of the […]
On Election Day, Facebook and Twitter Did Better by Making Their Products Worse
That gust of wind you felt coming from Silicon Valley on Wednesday morning was the social media industry’s tentative sigh of relief. For the last four years, executives at Facebook, […]
Federal Reserve Meets Amid Major Uncertainties
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve is meeting on the heels of an undecided presidential election and just before the October jobs report, which analysts expect to paint a complicated picture […]