Author: Drew Harwell

Washington Post – Politics:

The app’s chief executive helped invest in the Chinese engineers who founded its parent company. Now, he’s a lonely defender of one of Washington’s most pummeled punching bags.

Washington Post – Politics:

The bill marks the federal government’s latest attempt to resolve a standoff with TikTok, the wildly popular short-video app owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.

Washington Post – Politics:

Hundreds of pages of records chronicle the FBI’s years-long attempt to upgrade its facial recognition capabilities to match those deployed in China and Britain.

Washington Post – Politics:

After months of virtual silence, TikTok’s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, is preparing for the fight of his professional life, meeting with members of Congress and state governors as part of an aggressive push to prove the wildly popular Chinese-owned app is not a national security threat.

Washington Post – Politics:

Despite concern China will use TikTok to push Chinese propaganda, TikTok’s recommendation algorithm sent millions of viewers to videos that showed one of China’s most embarassing geopolitical blunders.

Washington Post – Politics:

The Technology and Social Change Project, which has published research into the spread of coronavirus hoaxes and online incitement ahead of Jan. 6 Capitol riot, will be eliminated in 2024.

Washington Post – Politics:

It’s not clear whether the bans are anything more than political grandstanding, given that the number of devices covered in each state is relatively minuscule.

Washington Post – Politics:

Musk has become so popular in QAnon circles that some regard him, not Trump, as the savior-like figure they’ve been waiting for.

Washington Post – Politics:

Trump has told his allies he can’t leave his Twitter clone because he’s propping it up, and he doesn’t want a site so closely associated with his brand to collapse.