., asked if the United States would ban , said: I’m not sure, but I know I don’t have it on my phone.
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Journalist, teacher, speaker on tech & politics. Contributing writer , lecturer at . D.C.-based, Jersey-made.
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Nelson tried weaving Biden’s day-1 executive order on equity into the White House’s tech & science portfolio. More here:
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Alondra Nelson, the sociologist who led the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for eight months, told staff this afternoon she's signing off.
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NEW Exclusive: OSTP official Alondra Nelson to step down axios.com/2023/02/03/ost
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Inbox: House Oversight confirms witnesses for hearing with former Twitter execs/staffers next Wednesday
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Audience for this is like 11 people, but interesting choice by McCarthy to be House general counsel — former Ajit Pai right hand at the FCC, Matthew Berry.
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The Chinese-owned company has been taking a beating in the Capitol. So it’s turned to some trusted hands to lead it through the swamp.
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One news nugget in here: last month TikTok quietly brought on Facebook and Amazon vet Jodi Seth to head its global policy and corporate communications.
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Washington has knives out for TikTok. So TikTok is flooding Washington with lobbyists. @NancyScola with new reporting for @theinformation on the battle lines and who is doing the scrapping.
theinformation.com/articles/tikto
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Meta has decided to allow Donald Trump back on Facebook and Instagram, ending his two-year suspension after the Jan 6 riot
(Not shocking after Twitter did the same)
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Ending Suspension of Trump’s Accounts With New Guardrails to Deter Repeat Offenses about.fb.com/news/2023/01/t
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Political fundraising platform ActBlue names its first Black female CEO
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Here's a little scoop: the Department of Transportation hired Lina Khan's former chief of staff as its Chief Competition Officer, with a focus on aviation policy.
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One thing I learned in my first week in Congress is that they sell hot dogs in the Democratic Cloak room off the House floor.
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I really dislike the term "freelancer." It feels like I should be going around, like, wildly jousting.
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One sign Musk's Twitter is doing D.C. differently: as of last month, it's no longer a "corporate partner" of the (left-leaning) tech trade group .
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Blake Hounshell was a hell of a journalist. Deeply saddened to hear of his passing. And to all out there battling depression, know that there is help, you are not alone, and you are loved.
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Sean McElwee formed a lucrative alliance with Sam Bankman-Fried. Then his patron went bust and he suffered his own scandal, leading to his firing from the polling firm he founded. reports
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“The solution is not to say we don’t want technology. We love innovation in this country. We’re forward-looking people. It’s to say, ‘How do we get more people to be the architects?’”
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“I don’t mind that we don’t have a Walter Cronkite telling us what the truth is; I think it’s a good thing that we have a proliferation of voices in this country,” tells .
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I talked to Ro Khanna (), a member of Congress representing much of Silicon Valley, about his protests to Twitter over Hunter Biden’s laptop, FTX, and why he thinks the tech industry is just experiencing a “bump.”
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New from me: Q&A w/ Silicon Valley congressman Ro Khanna () on why he sees Musk as a “brilliant mind,” what we can learn abt Twitter from Jürgen Habermas, & how he still thinks the tech industry holds promise for Appalachia.
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Re: the banning of reporters who have tweeted about Elon Musk’s jet, Twitter's head of trust & safety Ella Irwin tells me: “Without commenting on any specific accounts, I can confirm that we will suspend any accounts that violate our privacy policies and put other users at risk."
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Bipartisan bill to ban TikTok *throughout* U.S. for consumers, not just government devices 👇
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Sen. Rubio, @RepGallagher, and @CongressmanRaja introduced bipartisan and bicameral legislation to ban @tiktok_us.
Read more 
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If you ever worry you're promoting your work too hard, just think of this quote, from the paperback cover of a novel I won't name here.
The words replaced by those ellipses were, shit you not, "about going fishing."
ABOUT. GOING. FISHING.
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Faiz Shakir, campaign manager for Bernie Sanders, argues against putting South Carolina first
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Anyone interested in real reporting on Twitter’s policy decisions and the executives shaping them should revisit this profile of Vijaya Gadde:
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NEW: Washington Post will end print edition of Sunday magazine per memo from brass. Last issue is December 25.
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Interesting wrinkle in the FCC's new round of broadband maps: you can tell the commission where ISPs aren't being truthful about coverage in your area.
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Including on Twitter, on ex-presidents who ran again, 's Capital City column and my Friday Read on Trump and DeSantis.
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POLITICO Weekend. politi.co/3GnMYbv
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Breaking News: The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into the owner of Ticketmaster, whose sale of Taylor Swift tickets descended into chaos this week, focused on whether Live Nation has abused its power over the live music industry.
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This whole…situation is a decent reminder of the appeal of the collective Internet.
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Antitrust advocates met with the White House today pushing for lame-duck big tech legislation —> here are the details
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Make it about tech policy?
Okay, fine: Hakeem Jeffries was one of the CBS lawyers who defended the company after the 2004 Super Bowl’s “wardrobe malfunction” that triggered the FCC to lean on broadcasters to deploy the seven-second delay still widely used today.
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From @nancyscola for @POLITICOMag: Say What You Want. There’s a Reason Washington Isn’t Leaving Twitter. politi.co/3TIVaGc
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Sometimes I think back to all the coffee I consumed while working in a free-snacks newsroom and wonder, how was I even alive?
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I've been in Washington a long time and still learned things from reporting this about how Twitter's gotten baked in to the way the city works, from the Hill to the White House to the Pentagon to K Street.
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As someone who was in California during Prop. 8 in 2008, this is a pretty shocking change in just 14 years.
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