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Democrats Propose Law To Make Tech Companies Liable For Content That Causes Physical Or ‘Severe Emotional’ Harm

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House Democrats announced a bill Thursday that would hold online platforms liable for content that harms users. The Justice Against Malicious Algorithms Act, proposed by Democratic leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and set to be introduced Friday, aims to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to strip liability protections from platforms that recommend “personalized” content contributing to “physical or severe emotional injury” of a user. This would allow users to sue platforms for recommending harmful content. To lose liability protections, platforms must also have at least five million monthly visitors, and must either “recklessly” or

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Democrats Are Pushing To Make The Child Tax Credit Permanent, But Just A Minority Of Americans Support It

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Democrats are pushing to permanently expand monthly child tax credits in their spending package, but a new poll shows that just 35% of Americans support extending the payments beyond July 2022. The expanded payments began in July as a part of President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief package signed in March. While the Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday found that 50% of Americans supported the increase in payments, 12 points higher than those who opposed them, 52% of Americans said the payments should not be extended beyond their set expiration. Under the expanded credits plan, families receive $300 monthly for each

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Zuckerberg Responds To Whistleblower, Says Claims ‘Don’t Make Any Sense’

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Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg broke his silence on Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen late Tuesday, rebutting several of her allegations in a Facebook post. “At the most basic level, I think most of us just don’t recognize the false picture of the company that is being painted,” Zuckerberg wrote in a letter to Facebook employees posted to his account. “Many of the claims don’t make any sense.” Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, had leaked internal company documents to The Wall Street Journal published in mid-September that detailed controversial aspects of Facebook’s business practices, including its research into the harms of

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Congress Wants To Know What The Intel Community Is Doing To Make Spying More ‘Inclusive’ And ‘Diverse’

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A top House panel approved the 2022 intelligence community funding package, including a provision requiring officials to brief Congress on their diversity initiatives. The Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) — passed by the House Intelligence Committee in a bipartisan voice vote on Thursday — would require the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to periodically issue reports with “demographic data and information on the status of diversity and inclusion efforts of the intelligence community,” according to the bill’s text. “The bill passed out of the committee today is a strong bipartisan package, and I would like to thank all

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NYC Teachers Make Last-Minute Appeal For Supreme Court To Block Vaccine Mandate

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In a last-ditch effort to delay the Friday deadline for unvaccinated New York City teachers to receive the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, some teachers filed a petition for an emergency injunction, the New York Post reported. Four plaintiffs appealed to Justice Sonia Sotomayor to stop the city from removing unvaccinated teachers from their posts by the deadline, according to the New York Post. “This Court should grant the injunction after nearly two years of lockdowns, to prevent the largest public-school system in the country from further disrupting the education of hundreds of thousands of students who desperately need

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