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The Protests in Minneapolis—Most Interesting Thing in Tech Jun 03, 2020

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The story of Minneapolis, where some citizens are protesting with every form of digital technology out in the open. And others are working to keep their city, and their businesses, safe through the most analog of forms.

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Facebook Employees Speak Up to Zuckerberg—Most Interesting Thing in Tech Jun 02, 2020

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Internal dissent at Facebook! Employees are protesting the company's policies on Trump's posts. But really they're protesting what they think is their company's complicity in the mayhem that America finds itself in right now.

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An Italian doctor sends good news, poorer countries spike with infections, and scientists analyze the enzyme at the center of Covid-19- Tech in Two Jun 02, 2020

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Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less. Get even more news you can use with the Tech in Two newsletter. Sign up here: https://www.wired.com/tt.

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Trump's Twitter Battle Continues—Most Interesting Thing in Tech Jun 01, 2020

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The MiTT: the fight between the president and Twitter has gotten even stranger and even more consequential. And it doesn’t look like it’s heading to a good end.

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The Fate of Section 230—Most Interesting Thing in Tech May 29, 2020

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The president wants to overhaul section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, one of the foundational laws of the modern Internet. Why? Well, it seems just because he is mad at Twitter right now. He probably doesn’t have the legal authority to succeed, but, if he does, he’ll be opening Pandora’s Box.

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A race to understand outdoor transmission, a new set of guidelines for reopening offices, and difficult decisions for IVF patients- Tech in Two May 29, 2020

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Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less. Get even more news you can use with the Tech in Two newsletter. Sign up here: https://www.wired.com/tt

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Twitter Fact-Checks Trump—Most Interesting Thing in Tech May 28, 2020

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Twitter's fact checkers just cracked down on Donald Trump. But they did it for interesting reasons and in an imperfect way. They're going to get a lot of blowback, even if trying to limit false statements about elections is an important thing to do.

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Contact tracing faces security issues, infection rates are rising, and Google is rolling out new features to help- Tech in Two May 28, 2020

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Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less. Get even more news you can use with the Tech in Two newsletter. Sign up here: https://www.wired.com/tt

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Japan ends its state of emergency, New Zealand floats a four-day workweek, and the US approaches 100,000 deaths- Tech in Two May 27, 2020

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Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less. Get even more news you can use with the Tech in Two newsletter. Sign up here: https://www.wired.com/tt

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How Facebook Allowed Mass Partisanship—Most Interesting Thing in Tech May 26, 2020

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New reporting from the WSJ about an internal effort at the company to limit the ways the platform pushes people into filter bubbles and enables partisanship. And, unfortunately, details about how the platform mostly quashed the proposed changes. You can read the story here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-division-top-executives-nixed-solutions-11590507499

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