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Hearing complaints
This week in Technical Difficulties... I found hope in a hopeless place (a never-ending House E&C hearing with many dodgy tech CEOs) We want to ban…
Mar 29, 2021
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Jesse Lehrich
FLoC-ed up
NOTE: I think we’re just gonna send these on Sundays now – seems more worthwhile than Friday afternoons, and also, I keep failing to get it out on…
Mar 8, 2021
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Jesse Lehrich
Google to AI researchers: Don't be ethical
This week, in a special Sunday evening edition of Technical Difficulties: Google fires its ethical AI lead (again), gets accused of discrimination…
Mar 1, 2021
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Jesse Lehrich
February 2021
Blunder Down Under
This week: Facebook, Google, and the Australian government rumble – and everyone loses except Rupert Murdoch..... Tech CEOs prepare for another grilling…
Feb 20, 2021
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Jesse Lehrich
If you build it, they will clone
This week, a new poll from Accountable Tech shows a majority of people blame social media for radicalization; Facebook announces plans to copy…
Feb 13, 2021
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Jesse Lehrich
A coup, a Q, and a catch-22
This week: A QAnon Congresswoman gets deplatformed, with limited GOP participation. An antitrust superstar is in the mix for an FTC appointment, but her…
Feb 6, 2021
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Jesse Lehrich
January 2021
Cook roasts free apps
This week in industry self-governance: Facebook wants to sue Apple over their unfair practices—on behalf of small businesses of course; Redditors upend…
Jan 30, 2021
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Jesse Lehrich
December 2020
Too Big To Care
This week in a special Saturday edition of Technical Difficulties: Facebook faces the music; Google ham-handedly proves its critics’ point; vaccine…
Dec 12, 2020
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Jesse Lehrich
Stop FCCing around
This week in Technical Difficulties… Senate Republicans are rushing to confirm Trump’s FCC nominee, but not because he wants to be the speech police…
Dec 4, 2020
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Jesse Lehrich
November 2020
When reality melts…
Welcome back to Technical Difficulties – a (sometimes) weekly newsletter in which we attempt to wade through the infocalypse in an enjoyable manner. We…
Nov 20, 2020
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Jesse Lehrich
September 2020
New poll says shut it all down
This week in Technical Difficulties: Accountable Tech releases new polling, Facebook’s Oversight Board gets REAL, crackdowns on election disinformation…
Sep 25, 2020
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Jesse Lehrich
Hot firefighters put out conspiracy theories
As smoke enveloped several western states and thousands of Oregonains were forced to evacuate their homes, social media accounts began spreading false…
Sep 19, 2020
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Jesse Lehrich
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