Technology

Journalist Jon Fasman says local police departments are increasingly using powerful surveillance tools — with little oversight.

Surveillance And Local Police: How Technology Is Evolving Faster Than Regulation

8:30am January 28, 2021

by Dave Davies

Journalist Jon Fasman says local police are frequently able to access very powerful surveillance tools with little oversight. He writes about the threat to privacy in We See It All.

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Once A Financial Drain, The Once-Grounded 737 Max Might Help Boeing Recover

4:18pm January 27, 2021

by David Schaper

Boeing's 2020 earnings report shows financial losses at the company. But it may be turning a corner as various bans on its troubled 737 Max planes are lifted.

With Few Details From Health Officials, Volunteers Create COVID-19 Vaccine Database

4:22pm January 26, 2021

by Lesley McClurg

California has only administered about half of the available COVID-19 shots. With the flailing rollout, volunteer tech workers have stepped in to provide information the state government isn't.

Mike Lindell, the CEO of My Pillow, had been using his Twitter account to spread disinformation about the 2020 election.

National

My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell Permanently Suspended From Twitter

11:21am January 26, 2021

by Brakkton Booker

Lindell, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, had been using his Twitter account to spread disinformation about the 2020 presidential election, including false claims of voter fraud.

Several brands of cereal boxes fill the shelves at a grocery store.

Is Your 401(k) Colluding To Make Cereal More Expensive?

6:31am January 26, 2021

by Greg Rosalsky

A new study investigates whether common ownership of cereal makers by institutional investors is leading them to become a kind of stealth monopoly.

Alternative Social Media Platforms Become Popular Among Some Trump Supporters

4:50pm January 25, 2021

by Shannon Bond

As Facebook and Twitter crack down on extremist groups, some on the right are migrating to alternative social media platforms that promise rules laxer than those of mainstream websites.

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National

Is Deplatforming Enough To Fight Disinformation And Extremism?

4:50pm January 25, 2021

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with crisis informatics expert Kate Starbird about whether deplatforming is enough to stop disinformation and violent extremism online.

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Politics & Government

Facebook Oversight Board Co-Chair On Future Of Trump's Account

4:53pm January 23, 2021

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jamal Greene, co-chair of Facebook's independent oversight board, about what will happen next with President Trump's suspended account.

Facebook's new Oversight Board will review its controversial decision to suspend former President Donald Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.

Politics & Government

Facebook Asks Oversight Board Whether Trump's Account Should Be Restored Now

5:44pm January 21, 2021

by Shannon Bond

The social network referred its decision to revoke the former president's posting privileges to its Oversight Board, an independent panel of experts.

Judge Refuses To Reinstate Parler After Amazon Shut It Down

5:00pm January 21, 2021

by Bobby Allyn

U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein sided with Amazon, which argued that Parler would not remove posts from its site that threatened public safety in the wake of the Capitol riot.