Trump administration strips some COVID-19 data from CDC website
Restricting the public’s access to information is always a good sign for a free society, right?! The website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) usually contains a…
Google, Facebook, other big tech companies back lawsuit against I.C.E.
Tech companies including Google, Facebook and others just lent their legal might to a lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On July 9, Harvard and M.I.T. filed a…
The last-minute Facebook political ad ban could end up suppressing votes
Facebook’s latest test balloon has popped. On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Facebook is considering a blackout of political ads in the “days” before the November 2020 election. That alarmed democratic…
Amazon fined $135,000 in sanctions violations for letting blacklisted entities shop
Drug dealers and weapons of mass destruction manufacturers like to shop on Amazon as much as the next guy. But that doesn’t mean they’re allowed to. On Wednesday, the Department…
Bird says it didn’t apply for a PPP loan. The government’s response is…confusing.
A trove of juicy financial data just became public, but it could have some major errors. The Small Business Administration released a massive spreadsheet listing the companies that received a…
ICE to foreign students: If you’re just taking online classes, you can’t stay in the U.S.
The coronavirus pandemic has made education hard enough with the abrupt shift to online learning that schools, teachers, and students have had to suddenly make these past few months. Now,…
Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana law that would’ve drastically restricted abortion
On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down a law that would restrict abortion in Louisiana. The 5-4 decision in June Medical Services v. Russo declared the law, passed in 2014,…
Twitch (temporarily) bans Donald Trump’s channel
Over the past few days, Twitch has banned Dr. Disrespect and other popular streamers amid a social media campaign that outed users for sexual harassment and abuse. On Monday, Twitch…
Jess Phillips MP on remembering Jo Cox and speaking truth to power
This article has been published to coincide with an episode of Mashable’s new podcast, History Becomes Her. Listen here. Jess Phillips is the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley and…
Watch this one video to see just how broken voting in America has become
Voting rights activists worried this would happen. They feared that people would be blocked from voting in Kentucky as the state reduced polling locations due to the coronavirus. Its largest…