Political Groups Buy the News Sites. Chatbots Give Them the Voters.
Political groups on both sides pay for websites that look like local news, then pay to promote their articles. When…
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Political groups on both sides pay for websites that look like local news, then pay to promote their articles. When…
DraftKings invited ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson to try out for VIP status the day after he lost nearly $1,800 chasing…
President Donald Trump’s company charges mostly high-frequency trading firms up to $100,000 a month to receive his market-moving posts directly…
Tasmania’s Parole Board barred Susan Neill-Fraser from publicly claiming she was wrongly convicted, then supported the restriction with a document…
AdNow tracking code on Eastern European websites sent Romanian browser and click data to Russian-linked servers in Novosibirsk, according to…
DoorDash will pay more than $115 million to over 260,000 New York City delivery workers after the city found that…
Texas has adopted softer terms for companies seeking data-center-scale grid connections: the state removed a proposed $50,000-per-megawatt nonrefundable fee, set…
ZCode, Z.ai’s desktop coding assistant, packaged a developer’s commercial project — its working code and its Git history — into…
New Jersey courts transferred 15 Radaris-linked people-search domains to privacy-removal company Atlas Data Privacy in June and August 2026, after…