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Alt-Right White Nationalists in U.S. Use YouTube ‘Super Chats’ to Promote Racism and Hate Speech

May 17, 2018 Focus Washington

YouTube and their paid comment system are being used by white nationalists and members of the alt-right as a way around the site’s complex monetization policies. BuzzFeed News reported that white nationalists such as Christopher […]

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Advertisers on Facebook Not Scared Away by Scandals

May 15, 2018 Focus Washington

Advertisers on Facebook have not been deterred by the recent data privacy scandal the social media platform was engulfed in, a major ad company said. According to Publicis Media CEO Steve King, Facebook’s trust among […]

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Net Neutrality Rules Set to End in June

May 10, 2018 Focus Washington

Net neutrality rules in the U.S. are set to end in June, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Thursday. Reuters reports that a notice by the FCC sets the end date around June 10. Net neutrality […]

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Following Facebook Scandal Cambridge Analytica Shuts Down

May 3, 2018 Focus Washington

Political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which was embroiled in a Facebook-related scandal, announced on Wednesday that it would stop the majority of its operations and file for bankruptcy. Its British parent firm SCL Elections Ltd […]

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U.S. Considers Tightening Grip on China’s Ties to Corporate America

April 27, 2018 Focus Washington

The U.S. government may start scrutinizing informal partnerships between American and Chinese companies in the field of artificial intelligence, threatening practices that have long been considered garden variety development work for technology companies, sources familiar with […]

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Academic behind Facebook Scandal Says Data Was Not Used to Help Trump Campaign

April 24, 2018 Focus Washington

Facebook data collected by Cambridge Analytica was most probably not used to help Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign, stated the academic Aleksandr Kogan, who is in the center of the data scandal surrounding the social network, CNBC informed. The researcher at Cambridge […]

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NASA Is Launching New Satellite to Search for Exoplanets

April 16, 2018 Focus Washington

NASA is launching a new satellite that is solely designed to detect planets orbiting distant stars beyond our solar system. The new satellite will be launched from Florida on Monday on a SpaceX rocket. The […]

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Defense Contractors under Constant Cyber Attacks

April 13, 2018 Focus Washington

As nation states and other hacking groups increasingly use malicious software to block information or manipulate data, cybersecurity experts say that defense contractors are facing more aggressive attacks. The experts also added that all the […]

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Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Says Facebook Users’ Data Could Be Stored in Russia

April 9, 2018 Focus Washington

The number of Facebook users affected by the recent data breaching scandal could surpass 87 million and the data could be stored in Russia, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie stated on Sunday, CNBC informed. Wylie […]

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Employees Demand From Google to Stop Developing Military AI Technology

April 4, 2018 Focus Washington

Several thousands of Google employees are demanding that the company pulls off from its work on a Pentagon project that is developing machine learning technology (Artificial Intelligence) that could be used for drone warfare. The […]

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U.S. Company Websites Begin to Block Traffic from Russia

April 4, 2018 Focus Washington

A new report shows that the Russian Federation is the most blocked country by U.S. companies that have implemented country-specific IP block requests. The report by American cybersecurity company Distil Networks, titled “Bad Bot Report 2018: […]

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Russian Hacker Accused of Fraud in U.S. Get His Trial Postponed

April 2, 2018 Focus Washington

The trial of the Russian programmer Pyotr Levashov, accused of computer fraud by American authorities, has been postponed until December, his attorney Igor Litvak said. “The judge postponed the start of the trial due to the […]

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Russian Hacker Extradited to U.S. Pleads Not Guilty

March 31, 2018 Focus Washington

A suspected Russian hacker who was extradited to the United States from the Czech Republic has pleaded not guilty to hacking computers at LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring and other American companies in 2012 by using the credentials […]

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States Receive Government Funding to Upgrade Security on Voting Technology

March 30, 2018 Focus Washington

The U.S. government has allocated $380 million for security upgrades on states’ voting technology. The funding was included in the massive appropriations bill approved by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump last week. The funding is considered to […]

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Testify before Congress about Cambridge Analytica

March 28, 2018 Focus Washington

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress for the first time in response to growing pressure from the public and lawmakers, USA Today reports. Facebook has not yet decided which congressional committees Zuckerberg will […]

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Russia, China Edge U.S. in Hypersonic Missiles

March 27, 2018 Focus Washington

Russia and China are outpacing the United States in the development of super-fast missile technology, Pentagon officials and key lawmakers are warning, The Hill reports. Russia says it successfully tested a so-called hypersonic missile this […]

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Polls: Americans Less Likely to Trust Facebook than Rivals on Personal Data

March 26, 2018 Focus Washington

Opinion polls published on Sunday in the United States and Germany cast doubt over the level of trust people have in Facebook over privacy, as the company ran advertisements in British and U.S. newspapers apologizing […]

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Elon Musk Joins Facebook’s Boycott

March 23, 2018 Focus Washington

Billionaire and innovator Elon Musk on Friday wrote on Twitter that he is going to delete the Facebook page of his company SpaceX as result of the controversy surrounding Facebook on how it handles user […]

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Iranians Cyber-attacked College Professors, Government Agencies and Companies: Justice Department

March 23, 2018 Focus Washington

Nine Iranians were charged Friday by the Justice Department over a wide-ranging scheme to hack and steal electronic data from universities, private corporations and U.S. government entities to benefit the government of Iran, CNBC reported. The […]

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Zuckerberg Says He Is ‘Happy to’ Testify in Congress

March 22, 2018 Focus Washington

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the data debacle surrounding the social networks the past few days and said that he would be willing to testify before Congress if “it’s the right thing to do.” […]

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U.S.-Russian Space Crew on Its Way to International Space Station

March 22, 2018 Focus Washington

A three-man crew consisting of two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are on their way to the International Space Station (ISS), Space.com reported. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on […]

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FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says

March 20, 2018 Focus Washington

Facebook Inc. is under investigation by a U.S. privacy watchdog over the use of personal data of 50 million users by a data analytics firm to help elect President Donald Trump, Bloomberg informed. The U.S. Federal Trade […]

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Transportation Department to Implement Stricter Oversight of Autonomous Vehicles

March 19, 2018 Focus Washington

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has been asked by a coalition of organizations across the country to get more involved in stricter oversight of driverless cars. According to The Hill, in a letter signed by more […]

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Policymakers Raise Questions over Third-Party Use of Facebook User Data

March 19, 2018 Focus Washington

Facebook sparked a debate over how it handles third-party access to the data of its users after it said that the Cambridge Analytica firm, which has ties to the 2016 Trump campaign, improperly kept information […]

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Facebook Suspends Political Data Analytics Firm that Worked on Trump’s Presidential Campaign

March 17, 2018 Focus Washington

Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica, a political data analytics firm that worked on Facebook ads for President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election, saying that it lied about deleting user data sent to it by the […]

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U.S. to Impose More Stern Regulations to Online Political Ads

March 15, 2018 Focus Washington

The United States Federal Election Commission (FEC) moved forward to enact new rules for the internet, meaning political ad buyers on Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and other online platforms could face stricter disclosure requirements, […]

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Trump’s Shifting Stance on Guns Leaves Lawmakers Baffled

March 3, 2018 Focus Washington

President Donald Trump’s decision on Thursday to impose hefty tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum was as much of a surprise for the White House as it was for everyone else, CNBC reported. Trump unilaterally made […]

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Uber Scores Victory With New Brazil Legislation

March 1, 2018 Focus Washington

Brazil’s lower house of Congress voted to approve lighter regulations on car-hailing apps, giving a boosts to Uber Technologies Inc. in one of its largest markets, Bloomberg informed. The deputies upheld late on Wednesday two […]

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Oklahoma School to Use Bulletproof Shelters to Keep Kids Safe

March 1, 2018 Focus Washington

An Oklahoma town reportedly installed bulletproof shelters in its school classrooms to protect students in the event of a mass shooting on campus, Fox News reports. The Healdton school district has installed seven bulletproof storm […]

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Successful Landing of NASA Astronauts After 168 Days Spent in International Space Station

February 28, 2018 Focus Washington

Three astronauts that were part of a five and a half month mission at the International Space Station (ISS) successfully landed their capsule in a snowy Kazakhstan steppe, NASA reported. The Soyuz capsule spacecraft brought back […]

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