
Media
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 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
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.
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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
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.
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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."
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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 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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
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
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.
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