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| Aug 6, 2026 | Tennessee Primary: Candidate Vowing Mosque Ban Challenges 86-Year Court Ruling | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Aug 06 2026, 11:25 AM EDT
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| Aug 5, 2026 | Kids Online Safety Act social media safety bill advances in Senate | The Kids Online Safety Act cleared the Senate commerce committee and could head for a full Senate vote.
The measure has bipartisan support, and its supporters say it aims to protect kids online and establish stricter standards for social me... |
| Jul 2, 2026 | A major online safety bill for kids just passed the House. Here’s what experts say parents need to know | On Monday, the House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, a package intended to protect minors from various dangers presented by online platforms such as social media and AI chatbots.
The legislation includes measures reg... |
| Jun 13, 2026 | NO FAKES Act Heads to Senate Vote June 18, Putting $750K Platform Liability on the Line | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Jun 13 2026, 18:42 PM EDT
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| May 14, 2026 | OpenAI’s KOSA Endorsement Is Regulatory Capture With A Smiley Face | Earlier this week, OpenAI became the latest tech company to publicly endorse KOSA, the Kids Online Safety Act. The company, conveniently, tries to frame this as being about its support of child safety. It’s not. It’s about political horse t... |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Senators tell ByteDance to ‘immediately shut down’ Seedance AI video app | Seedance 2.0 has generated controversy for allowing users to create AI videos using real people and licensed characters, raising copyright issues and threats of lawsuits.
Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Peter Welch, D-Vt., told ByteDan... |
| Feb 12, 2026 | Anthropic gives $20 million to group pushing for AI regulations ahead of 2026 elections | CNBC is now accepting nominations for the 2026 Disruptor 50 list. Submit a nomination before February 23.
Anthropic announced a $20 million donation to Public First Action, a group supporting AI guardrails.
Public First Action plans to back... |
| Feb 10, 2026 | Sen. Blackburn Gets Shitty Because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Attended An Awards Show Where ICE Was Criticized | I don’t understand sycophancy. Never have. I don’t know what it gets you in the long run other than a reputation for subservience. That’s worth nearly nothing in the open market. The only people who will hire you are people most people woul... |
| Dec 22, 2025 | Marsha Blackburn Bundles Every Bad Tech Bill Into One, Slaps Trump’s Name On It | Fourteen years ago, right after the FCC issued its order on net neutrality, Marsha Blackburn flipped out and released a video talking (misleadingly!) about how wonderful Facebook and Twitter were and how they would be destroyed if the big e... |
| Jul 23, 2025 | Meta updates safety features for teens. More than 600,000 accounts linked to predatory behavior | Meta introduced new safety features aimed at teen users, including enhanced direct messaging protections.
Meta said it removed more than 600,000 accounts that were linked to predatory behavior on Instagram and Facebook.
135,000 of those acc... |
| Jul 11, 2025 | TikTok loses bid to dismiss lawsuit alleging its ‘addictive design’ exploits kids | A New Hampshire court rejected TikTok’s request to dismiss a case accusing it of using manipulative design features aimed at kids.
The state alleges TikTok is intentionally designed to be addictive and aims to exploit its young user base.
P... |
| Jul 7, 2025 | Trump Signs ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ With Major Tax Breaks For US Chipmakers | US President Donald Trump. Image: The White House
US President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was signed into law on July 4. While it didn’t impose a moratorium on state-level artificial intelligence laws as anticipated, it did include... |
| Jun 25, 2025 | US Senators Push Bill to Open Apple, Google App Stores to Third-Party Payments, Sideloading | By Isaiah Richard
Updated: Jun 25 2025, 23:35 PM EDT
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| May 16, 2025 | The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make The Internet Worse For Everyone | The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is back in the Senate. Sponsors are claiming—again—that the latest version won’t censor online content. It isn’t true. This bill still sets up a censorship regime disguised as a “duty of care,” and it will ... |
| May 14, 2025 | Why The Fuck Are Democrats Helping Build MAGA’s Censorship Machine With KOSA? | The Trump administration is methodically implementing every element of Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 censorship playbook, and Democratic leadership’s response is… to help them? Earlier today, Chuck Schumer and Richard Blumenthal joined... |
| Dec 9, 2024 | New KOSA, Same As Old KOSA, But Now With Elon’s Ignorant Endorsement | The censors are making a big push on the new version of “KOSPA,” which is the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) merged with a problematic privacy bill (hence the “P”). Over the weekend, Senator Marsha Blackburn — who directly admitted the point... |
| Sep 12, 2024 | Taylor Swift's Political Power Play: A Game Changer for Kamala Harris | In the world of politics, endorsements can be the spark that ignites a campaign. Taylor Swift, a titan of pop culture, has stepped into the political arena once again. On September 10, 2024, she broke her silence and threw her weight behind... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris for US president | Taylor Swift, a self-declared "childless cat lady," has endorsed Kamala Harris for president of the United States.
The global megastar broke her silence on Tuesday (Sep 10) on the current state of US politics, voicing support for ... |
| Aug 14, 2024 | Meta's Instagram failed to curtail hate speech against women politicians, report says | Previous
A man walks past a logo of mobile application Instagram, during a conference in Mumbai, India, September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attends a campai... |
| Jun 1, 2024 | 1 family hopes new law to protect children online prevents tragedies like theirs | A new law aims to strengthen reporting requirements for technology companies to combat online predators seeking to exploit children. One dad told CBS News that he hopes the law will save children like his son, who died by suicide after beco... |
| May 29, 2024 | TikTok Law Threatening A Ban If The App Isn’t Sold Raises First Amendment Concerns | TikTok, the short-video company with Chinese roots, did the most American thing possible on May 7, 2024: It sued the U.S. government, in the person of Attorney General Merrick Garland, in federal court. The suit claims the federal law that ... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | New Research Reveals 78% of Americans Believe Social Media Companies Hold Too Much Political Power | Inno Flores, Tech Times 30 April 2024, 12:04 am
A recent Pew survey reveals that most Americans believe social media companies wield excessive political influence.
This sentiment has increased by 6% since the previous presidential election ... |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Frustrated Taylor Swift fans battle ticket bots and Ticketmaster | U.S. lawmakers are giving fans a spark of hope they could buy event tickets at more affordable prices. Several senators told CBS News they would support federal legislation that limits the profit sellers can make on the ticket resale market... |
| Jan 30, 2024 | Some IRS employees still access TikTok despite ban on government devices | The TikTok ban on U.S. government devices is proving hard to enforce. A month after the IRS was found to be in non-compliance with the federally mandated ban on the Beijing-based video app, two Republican senators are asking the IRS why it’... |
| Jan 30, 2024 | TikTok Still Accessed by IRS Employees Despite Government Ban | Aldohn Domingo, Tech Times 30 January 2024, 10:01 pm |
| Nov 22, 2023 | Italy Wants To Save Its Children, Too | In Italy, an age-verification coalition against porn is getting traction. On September 4th, the Minister of Family Eugenia Roccella, representing the right-wing majority, initiated consultations for introducing a law to prevent minors from ... |
| Nov 2, 2023 | YouTube’s new teen safeguards limit repeated viewing of some video topics and more | Two years after testifying before the U.S. Senate over child safety concerns, including teens’ exposure to eating disorder content, YouTube today announced additional product safeguards around its content recommendations aimed at teens. Spe... |
| Oct 5, 2023 | The future of health care in the House | You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis. Sign up here to receive this newsletter in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Another committee could join the drug shortage bandwagon
The Senate Finance Committee is testing the waters f... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | US lawmakers ask TikTok about its ByteDance ties after recent exec transfers between the companies | U.S. lawmakers have written a letter to TikTok questioning its independence from its Chinese parent company ByteDance, in the wake of a recent report from The Wall St. Journal that noted that several high-level executives had been transferr... |
| Sep 6, 2023 | Marsha Blackburn Makes It Clear: KOSA Is Designed To Silence Trans People | It still amazes me that KOSA has any Democratic co-sponsors, let alone 21 Democratic co-sponsors in the Senate led by lead Democratic sponsor (and embracer of any bill that will undermine the internet it it lets him ignorantly grandstand ab... |
| Jun 22, 2023 | TikTok’s COO is leaving their role at the company | TikTok’s longstanding COO V Pappas just announced plans to leave their executive role at the company.
Pappas, who previously held positions as the global head of creative insights and audience development at YouTube, has been with TikTok fo... |
| May 2, 2023 | Bipartisan Panic: 26 Senators Support Terrible, Dangerous, Unconstitutional ‘KOSA Act’ | Passing blatantly unconstitutional dangerous laws “to protect the children” based on totally unsubstantiated moral panics appears to be part of a bipartisan mass hysteria these days. The Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, is officially back. ... |
| Mar 10, 2023 | Democrats come around on TikTok ban, reflecting willingness to challenge China | Washington — More Democrats in Congress have been vocally supportive of banning Chinese-backed TikTok in the U.S. in recent months, reflecting what experts say is an increased willingness to challenge Beijing and crack down on the massively... |
| Jan 26, 2023 | Project Texas: The Details of TikTok’s Plan to Remain Operational in the United States | Since 2019, TikTok has been negotiating with the U.S. government to address concerns about potential national security risks posed by the platform. Failure to reach an agreement that satisfies the U.S. government’s concerns could have sever... |
| Dec 26, 2022 | Top talkers: These 20 lawmakers spoke the most on the House and Senate floors during the 117th Congress, including Rep. Buddy Carter and Sen. Marsha Blackburn | Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, speaks on the Senate floor on November 30, 2022. C-SPAN screenshot
Some lawmakers delivered dozens of floor speeches during the 117th Congress, C-SPAN's tracking showed.
Rep. Sheila Jackso... |
| Oct 29, 2022 | Pressure mounts for regulators to investigate TikTok over potential 'Big Brother-type surveillance' after reports of plans to track Americans' locations | Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
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Forbes reported TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, planned to use the app to surveil Americans.
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| Sep 28, 2022 | Water Wars: U.S. Counters Beijing's Reaction to Pelosi Visit With $1.1 Billion Arms Sale to Taiwan | U.S.-China Tensions Continue to Escalate Over Taiwan
Chinese Drones Buzz Taiwan Following Speaker Pelosi’s Visit; Taiwan Responds
Following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) visit to Taiwan on Aug. 2, Beijing reacted by holding milita... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | US senators aim to amend cybersecurity bill to include crypto | As regulators around the world try to provide frameworks for the digital asset industry, two U.S. senators have introduced a bill to help crypto companies report cybersecurity threats.
U.S. senators Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | TikTok will provide select researchers with more transparency about its platform and moderation system | TikTok announced today that it will provide select researchers with more transparency about its platform and moderation system. The company is developing a research API to improve access to public and anonymized data about content and activ... |
| Jul 15, 2022 | TikTok’s chief security officer steps down amid increased scrutiny from US officials | TikTok announced today that its head of global security, Roland Cloutier, is stepping down effective September 2. Cloutier will be replaced by Kim Albarella, who has been appointed the interim head of TikTok’s Global Security Organization. ... |
| Jul 14, 2022 | Senators Ask FTC to Investigate TikTok for Deceptive Conduct Regarding Chinese Access to U.S. User Data | TikTok has come under renewed congressional scrutiny for allegedly deceptive data privacy practices. Despite TikTok’s repeated promises to safeguard U.S. user data from access by its Chinese parent company, a BuzzFeed report broke that TikT... |
| Jul 4, 2022 | TikTok says ‘Project Texas’ will bolster security for U.S. users in wake of China data access concerns | Over the weekend, TikTok wrote to Republican Senators to assure them that it’s working on a program called “Project Texas” to bolster data security for U.S.-based users. This was in response to the Senators’ letter to the company dated June... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | The danger of making the internet safe for kids | Social media is bad for kids. At least it is according to multiple studies, former social media company employees, and the president of the United States. It’s also just one more way that the internet can be a dangerous place for children —... |
| Feb 17, 2022 | Blackburn & Blumenthal Introduce Terrible, Dangerous Bill To Make Sure Children Are Constantly Surveilled Online | Senator Richard Blumenthal is apparently a bottomless well of terrible internet regulation ideas. His latest is yet another "for the children" bill that will put children in serious jeopardy. This time he's teamed up with the... |
| Feb 17, 2022 | Blackburn & Blumenthal Introduce Terrible, Dangerous Bill To Make Sure Children Are Constantly Surveilled Online | Senator Richard Blumenthal is apparently a bottomless well of terrible internet regulation ideas. His latest is yet another “for the children” bill that will put children in serious jeopardy. This time he’s teamed up with the even worse Sen... |
| Feb 16, 2022 | Senators propose the Kids Online Safety Act after five hearings with tech execs | Last year, former Facebook employee Frances Haugen leaked a trove of internal company documents, which illuminated just how harmful apps like Instagram can be for teens. These bombshell revelations sparked five Senate subcommittee hearings ... |
| Sep 30, 2021 | Senators skewer Facebook exec over Instagram’s impact on kids | More On: facebook
Meta investors want Andreessen, Alford off board over Zuckerberg ties Taylor Lorenz slammed as ‘hypocrite’ for ‘doxxing’ ‘Libs of TikTok’ creator ‘After hours’: TikTok allegedly forces employees to work 12 hour days, six d... |
| Sep 30, 2021 | Senators skewer Facebook exec over Instagram’s impact on kids | More On: facebook
Sen. Richard Blumenthal asks Facebook exec to ‘end finsta’ at hearing Facebook doesn’t care about doing the right thing at all Facebook could face hefty fine in Russia over banned content Boston man arrested for racist Fac... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Lawmakers are going after Facebook's development of Instagram for kids, after a report showed it knew the social media app is toxic for teen girls | Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers are calling on Facebook to stop making Instagram for Kids.
They're incensed by an investigation that showed Facebook knew Instagram usage is harming teenage girls.
Instagram for Kids has receive... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | Three Republican state senators have asked the US Olympic committee to ban access to China's digital yuan for Beijing 2022 athletes over surveillance concerns | Republican senators Marsha Blackburn, Roger Wicker and Cynthia Lummis wrote to the US Olympic committee with the request.
China's digital yuan is controlled and issued by the government.
The senators cited concern over potential survei... |
| Jul 19, 2021 | US Senators Ask Team USA to Boycott China’s Digital Yuan at 2022 Olympics | Three senators are calling on the U.S. national team to effectively boycott China’s digital currency at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Athletes should be forbidden from “receiving or using digital yuan during the Beijing Olympics,” Re... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | The Trump Impeachment as Precedent for Future Late Impeachments | During former President Trump’s second impeachment episode, precedents—especially the impeachment trials of former Sen. William Blount in 1798 and former Secretary of War William Belknap in 1876—featured prominently in the discussion. The q... |
| Jun 3, 2020 | Many Think Internet Privacy Is Lost, But That's Because You Can't Sue Anyone Who Violates It | Over 90% of Americans feel like they have no control over their online privacy. It is not hard to understand why so many of us feel so powerless when it comes to using the Internet, nor is the solution to such a pervasive feeling all that c... |
| Apr 24, 2020 | Lawsuits Demand Compensation From China for COVID-19; U.K. Reconsiders Huawei’s 5G Role | A Flurry of Lawsuits Demand Compensation From China for COVID-19
In recent weeks, U.S. federal courts have seen a wave of lawsuits seeking compensation from China for losses incurred as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. While experts sa... |
| Feb 12, 2020 | Why Do Josh Hawley's Cures For 'Big Tech' Always Oddly Omit 'Big Telecom'? | Over the last year, giants like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple have all faced growing calls for greater regulatory oversight and antitrust enforcement, something that isn't particularly surprising. After all, experts have noted fo... |
| Feb 12, 2020 | Why Do Josh Hawley's Cures For 'Big Tech' Always Oddly Omit 'Big Telecom'? | Over the last year, giants like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple have all faced growing calls for greater regulatory oversight and antitrust enforcement, something that isn’t particularly surprising. After all, experts have noted for dec... |
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| Why Russian people need tech companies to stay, not withdraw: It’s terrifying ‘how dark that place could become’ | Tech platforms must strike a delicate balance if they continue to operate in Russia amid the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.
Unlike other sectors where suspending operations in Russia could mainly send a message to the regime, cutting tech servic... |
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LA Tech ‘Moves’: Snap Taps Secret Service Director | “Moves,” our roundup of job changes in L.A. tech, is presented by Interchange.LA, dot.LA's recruiting and career platform connecting Southern California's most exciting companies with top tech talent. Create a free Interchange.LA ... |
| Biden rebutter Sen. Britt blasted for recycling 20-year-old sex traffic story to attack border policy | In her rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union, Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama used what appears to be a sex trafficking victim’s experience from the early 2000s to condemn President Joe Biden’s current border policy.
The victim Brit... |
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Health Care Platform Tebra Raises $72M, EVSC Secures $68.8M for EV Chargers | This week in “Raises”: A Corona del Mar-based healthcare startup hit unicorn status, while a local EV charging company raised funding to support expansion into more than 35 new cities across California and Washington.
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| Lawmakers update Kids Online Safety Act to address potential harms, but fail to appease some activists, industry groups | A bipartisan pair of senators reintroduced the Kids Online Safety Act on Tuesday with updates that aimed to address concerns that the bill could inadvertently cause more harm to the young internet users it seeks to protect.
Some activists w... |
| IRS’ free Direct File program expands to 25 states — but still faces Republican scrutiny | Direct File, the IRS’ free tax filing program, has expanded to limited taxpayers in 25 states for 2024 returns.
But the program’s future remains uncertain amid pushback from Republicans who will soon control the White House and Congress.
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SHYFT Beauty Founder Melissa Hibbért on How to Prioritize | On this episode of Behind Her Empire, beauty brand marketing agency SHYFT Beauty Consulting founder Melissa Hibbért discusses how her lifelong love for beauty led her to ditch the corporate world and follow her passion.
Hibbért was born in ... |
