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Since 2016, social media companies have faced an endless barrage of bad press and public criticism for failing to anticipate how their platforms could be used for dark purposes at the scale of populations—undermining democracies around the…

Getty Images | Jozef Polc | 500pxreader comments 23 with 23 posters participatingShare this storyTracFone Wireless is facing a potential $6 million fine for allegedly defrauding a government program that provides discount telecom…

Enlarge / California tells T-Mobile and Sprint to halt merger.Getty Images | Stefan Jackowski | EyeEmreader comments 44 with 33 posters participatingShare this storyCalifornia state regulators are trying to hold up the T-Mobile/Sprint…

Enlarge / T-Mobile CEO John Legere waves during an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 30, 2018.Getty Images | Bloombergreader comments 10 with 10 posters participatingShare this storyT-Mobile…

Enlarge / Zoom's San Jose, Calif., headquarters looks like a lovely place to be socially distanced from. reader comments 45 with 36 posters participating, including story authorShare this storyWe have several more weeks, if not several…

reader comments 81 with 60 posters participatingShare this storyBack in the before times, when a larger percentage of the human race roamed the Earth, i.e., several weeks ago, Comcast customers had to deal with something called a "data…

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with…

In December 2019, Extra Crunch spoke to a group of investors leading the charge in health tech to discuss where they saw the most opportunity in the space leading into 2020. At the time, respondents highlighted startups in digital…

Facebook has diverted from its policy of not fact-checking politicians in order to prevent the spread of potentially harmful coronavirus misinformation from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Facebook made the decisive choice to remove a…

reader comments 5 with 5 posters participatingShare this storyThe Guardian says it has evidence that Saudi Arabia is exploiting a decades-old weakness in the global telecoms network to track the kingdom’s citizens as they travel in the…