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The China problem Trump left for Biden

President Joe Biden speaks about his administration’s response to the coup in Myanmar in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Does anybody remember the “phase one” trade deal the Trump administration struck with China a little over a year ago? It’s still in effect, and it’s not turning out to be a very good deal. Former President Trump and his trade negotiators inked the phase one deal on Jan. 15,… Source link

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America has a hate problem. Facebook and Google are part of it, D.C.’s top attorney says.

This summer, Racine was among 20 state attorneys general who wrote to Facebook urging it to do more to crack down on hate and disinformation amid an advertiser boycott over the same issues. His office also has an ongoing lawsuit against the social network over the Cambridge Analytica data breach and signed on to the antitrust lawsuits filed this month against both Facebook and Google. “They react and change policy when they are under pressure,” Racine said. “Left to their own devices they… Source link

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Google’s YouTube white supremacist and Nazi problem overshadows report

A Google-funded report examines the relationship between white supremacists and the internet, but it makes scant reference — all of it positive — to YouTube, the company’s platform that many experts blame more than any other for driving people to extremism. The report, by Jigsaw, a “tech incubator” that has operated within Google for the last decade, draws from interviews with dozens of former extremists and describes how the internet is a breeding ground for hate groups. Study… Source link

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Google Confirms Serious New Problem For Chrome Users

Chrome is the world’s most popular browser and it continues to get better and better, but today the company has warned users of a serious problem caused by its most recent update.  Google has confirmed a problem in its major new Chrome browser update. SOPA Images LightRocket via Getty Images MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Has 5 Exciting Upgrades For Google Chrome Browser UsersBy Gordon Kelly In a new community post, Google has explained that a major new… Source link

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Chilling video shows Texas city’s dire virus problem

Chilling video has emerged of prisoners removing the bodies of patients who have died from Covid-19 as hospitals in Texas become overwhelmed by the rising fatalities. The footage, shared on Twitter by American epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding, shows inmates wheeling out the bodies into truck containers which are acting a mobile morgues. Dr Feigl-Ding explained the truck containers were “overflow morgues” and there were 10 of them parked in the area after the hospital added six more earlier… Source link

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Google’s business model ‘is the problem,’ David Cicilline says

During Wednesday’s tech antitrust hearing, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) tore into Google CEO Sundar Pichai over the company’s dominance in search and its use of data to monitor would-be competitors. “It is Google’s business model that is the problem,” Cicilline said, alleging a pattern of anti-competitive behavior that allowed Google to grow while smaller businesses were crushed. “Our documents show that Google evolved from a turnstile to the rest of the web to a walled garden… Source link

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