Tech Policy

The incoming president is expected to hold a hard line on most matters, though he is likely to enlist more support from international allies and maintain more consistent policies than the ones Trump sometimes announced, and rescinded, via tweet.

The president will no longer have special protections afforded to elected officials. But a 2024 run could change that.

The White House continued to push an economic decoupling with China by banning certain U.S. investments in companies linked to Chinese military

The companies initially forecast the bans would last about a week. But now they could continue into December.

It was the top new Apple app download over the weekend.

Two years after the E.U.'s biggest rulings against Google, very little competition has emerged, something U.S. government lawyers are carefully scrutinizing as their own antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant moves through court.

Companies prepared for misinformation during the election. They haven't announced plans for this precarious lame duck period.

Biden's early executive orders will benefit the industry. But there are many unknowns about how he will handle antritrust or social media.

Trump's all-caps attacked the integrity of the vote, alleging "BAD THINGS" had occurred despite having failed to present any evidence of electoral fraud. Within minutes, Twitter appended a label to the president's tweet, claiming it is "disputed," but it did not take any action to prevent tens of thousands of users from re-sharing it widely.

“ALERT: Radical Liberals & Dems are trying to steal this election from Trump!” began the short text, concluding: “We need YOU! Show your support at the corner of 12th St. & Arch St. in Philadelphia.”

His speech highlighted how falsehoods can move from Twitter feeds, to the White House briefing room to televisions all over the world.

The campaign and its aides have tapped a network of new and existing Facebook pages, groups and events — some of which have hundreds of thousands of members — to rally people in public this week around the unfounded belief that Democratic candidate Joe Biden is attempting to "steal" the election

Social networks scramble to address a torrent of false claims from Trump and his allies.

The longer it takes, the more vulnerable companies are to falsehoods

An unidentified robocaller has placed an estimated 10 million calls in the past several weeks warning people to "stay safe and stay home," spooking some Americans who said they saw it as an attempt to scare them away from the polls on Election Day.