The Technology 202: Silicon Valley pans White House bias tool as a gimmick
President Trump waves as he boards Air Force One for a trip to New York to attend a fundraiser on Thursday.
The Internet Association, a trade association representing Facebook, Google and other tech companies, also pushed back on President Trump’s repeated accusations that their products are biased against conservatives. The association says the platforms are open and enable the speech of all Americans — including the president himself.
Privacy advocates want answers about how the data is being handled -- and until they get them, they think the White House should stop using the tool. On the Hill yesterday, Democratic lawmakers say the survey raises serious questions about government ethics and abuse of power, “I think it raises questions related to the abuse of power,” Sen. Brian Schatz told reporters on Capitol Hill yesterday. “If it’s not authoritarian, it’s the first or second cousin of authoritarianism.”Not a regular subscriber?Shoppers browse smartphones at a Huawei retail store in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province on Thursday.
“That doesn’t mean every license would be denied, but it would be on a case-by-case basis,” he said. “It also gives the government an intelligence bonanza” in the form of a list of every U.S. supplier to Huawei. “We’re taking down these Pages and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted,” said a post by Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of global cybersecurity policy. “As in other cases involving coordinated inauthentic behavior, the individuals behind this activity coordinated with one another to mislead others about who they were and what they were doing, and that was the basis for our action.
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