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How Carl Pope helped drive a $500 million pledge to push the U.S. “Beyond Carbon” (Part 2) – TechCrunch

Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg recently pledged to rapidly spend $500 million in a bid to push the U.S….

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Facebook reportedly gets a $5 billion slap on the wrist from the FTC – TechCrunch

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reportedly agreed to end its latest probe into Facebook‘s privacy problems with a $5…

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FEC says political campaigns can now get discounted cybersecurity help – TechCrunch

In a long awaited decision, the Federal Elections Commission will now allow political campaigns to appoint cybersecurity helpers to protect…

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Why you should naturalize — now, not later – TechCrunch

It’s no secret that America thrives on tech-savvy immigrants who put down permanent roots: Three in five of the country’s…

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Facebook still a great place to amplify pre-election junk news, EU study finds – TechCrunch

A study carried out by academics at Oxford University to investigate how junk news is being shared on social media…

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Mueller report details the evolution of Russia’s troll farm as it began targeting US politics – TechCrunch

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images On Thursday, Attorney General William Barr released the long-anticipated Mueller report. With it comes a useful overview…

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Facebook refuses to disclose “chuck Chequers” Brexit advertiser to UK parliament – TechCrunch

Facebook has refused to provide the British parliament with the names of individuals behind a shadowy network backing an extreme…

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Australia’s government and political parties hit by cyber attack from ‘sophisticated state actor’ – TechCrunch

The Australia government suffered a cyber attack that it suspects is the work of a “sophisticated state actor,” according to…

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Facebook finds and kills another 512 Kremlin-linked fake accounts – TechCrunch

Two years on from the U.S. presidential election, Facebook continues to have a major problem with Russian disinformation being megaphoned…

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Google ‘incognito’ search results still vary from person to person, DDG study finds – TechCrunch

A study of Google search results by anti-tracking rival DuckDuckGo has suggested that escaping the so-called ‘filter bubble’ of personalized…