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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (from left), Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have been in the spotlight over the market power that their giant companies have.
(Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images)
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Politics & Policy

How are Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google monopolies? House report counts the ways

The lawmakers say Congress should overhaul the laws that have let the companies grow so powerful.

5 years ago

Twitter said it will make changes to how preview images are cropped amid concerns about possible bias. Some Twitter users posted images the site's algorithm selected white faces over Black ones in preview images. (Richard Drew/AP)
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Community

Twitter announces changes to image cropping amid bias concern

Twitter is making changes to how preview photos are cropped after users raised concerns that the site's algorithm was showing preferences for white faces over Black ones.

5 years ago

Fox News host Tucker Carlson
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Politics & Policy

You literally can’t believe the facts Tucker Carlson tells you. So say Fox’s lawyers.

Carlson has been repeatedly accused of anti-immigrant and racist comments, which has cost his show many of its major advertisers. Yet he endures in his prime-time slot.

5 years ago

(Thibault Camus/AP Photo)
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Politics & Policy

Civil rights groups say if Facebook won’t act on election misinformation, they will

Facebook critics are banding together to monitor misinformation, hate speech and voter suppression on the social network because, they argue, it has fallen short.

5 years ago

Sha Zhu, of Washington, shows the app WeChat on her phone, which she uses to keep in touch with family and friends in the U.S. and China, Tuesday Aug. 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Community

How the ban on WeChat would silence interaction by Philly region’s Chinese community

The U.S. government’s prohibition would affect communications with relatives in China, with neighbors here, and with obtaining services, some say.

5 years ago

Icon for the smartphone app TikTok. (Anjum Naveed/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

US bans WeChat, TikTok citing national security

The order Friday was put into place, according to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, to “combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data."

5 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, (R-Jefferson), walks through the Pennsylvania Capitol. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
Spotlight PA

Top Pa. Republican’s campaign sues journalists over public records costs

Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati's campaign is seeking $6,070 from The Caucus, Caucus Bureau Chief Brad Bumsted, and Spotlight PA reporter Angela Couloumbis.

5 years ago

Kevin Hart
Arts & Entertainment

Kevin Hart to host famed telethon long hosted by Jerry Lewis

Hart called the telethon’s return an “incredible opportunity” to bring back the work of Lewis, who helped make the Muscular Dystrophy Association event a decades-old tradition

5 years ago

The Philadelphia Inquirer headquarters on Market Street in Center City. (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
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Billy Penn

Inquirer journalists of color press for action on diversity and culture in public report card

A new website details institutional inequities and lists demands for change.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the Whirlpool Corporation facility in Clyde, Ohio, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Politics & Policy

Fox, C-SPAN, NBC moderators for upcoming Trump-Biden debates

Trump's team has tried to pressure the commission to move up the debates, citing increased use of early and absentee voting because of the coronavirus.

5 years ago

New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton
Politics & Policy

N.J. Civic Information Consortium could get first cash infusion in Murphy’s revised budget

Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law creating the consortium in 2018, but it still has not received state dollars as promised. That could change now.

5 years ago

Dr. Walter Lomax, a Philadelphia physician, tending to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his hotel room bed in Philadelphia, Feb. 10, 1968. (AP Photo)
Community

WURD celebrates its founder and Black women in politics

Philly’s only Black talk radio station was created to improve the health and wealth of the community. It’s annual Founder’s Day included a panel on women in politics.

5 years ago

Tribune Publishing is closing several of its newsrooms, including the one at New York's Daily News, as the pandemic forces journalists to work remotely. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)
NPR
Community

As journalists work from home, their newsrooms are shutting down

Tribune Publishing, the parent company of local news outlets across the country is closing the physical offices of five newspapers permanently.

5 years ago

A sign on a building marks the offices of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in Pittsburgh. The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh submitted a charge to the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday that publisher and editor-in-chief John Robinson Block
Community

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom votes overwhelmingly to strike

Union members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette voted overwhelmingly to go on strike Monday after years of stalled contract negotiations.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he finishes speaking during an event at the Whirlpool Corporation facility in Clyde, Ohio, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Politics & Policy

Trump bans dealings with Chinese owners of TikTok, WeChat

President Donald Trump has ordered an unspecified ban on “transactions” with the Chinese owners of the consumer apps TikTok and WeChat.

5 years ago

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