The Biden administration has used antitrust legislation to target the technology giants,even seeking to break up Google. Trump’s nominees to key posts overseeing the tech sector won’t be much friendlier.
The prospect of Musk doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin – or any authoritarian leader – would be malign influence at a whole other level.
Far-right groups like the Proud Boys are revving people up to fight should Trump lose,with some promising “to get you trained and ready for election day”.
As the pace of technological change accelerates,bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell predicts ever more frequent disruption.
In an emotional account from a wheelchair,a victim says she “cannot remain silent any more”. But everything about the video is made up by a troll army called Storm-1516.
The Global Report on the State of the Democracy,which has measured democratic performance in 158 countries since 1975,is out. It has some good news too.
Our home-grown election system is the envy of the Western world. Will it be enough to inoculate us from AI,fake news and other threats to our way of life?
“The Brazilian judiciary may have given an important signal that the world is not obliged to put up with Musk’s far-right ideology just because he is rich,” Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
The Paris prosecutor said on Wednesday evening Pavel Durov was being investigated as part of a probe into the role of his messaging app Telegram in organised crime.
Australia’s top election official says deepfakes and AI-content pose unprecedented challenges to election integrity.
Unless his administration can pivot rapidly,Joe Biden’s legacy risks being marked by well-intentioned failures.