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As Trump Targets Twitter's Legal Shield, Experts Have A Warning While President Trump lashes out at Twitter, consensus is growing in Washington to repeal the decades-old law that shields tech platforms from lawsuits. Experts warn about unintended consequences. Read more on NPR

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Trump Vs. Twitter: What Swift Change In This Relationship Means For The Nation President Trump and Twitter have gone to war over some of Trump's provocative tweets. Twitter on Friday has placed a "public interest notice" on Trump's tweet about the violence in Minneapolis. Read more on NPR

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Twitter Hides Trump's Tweet About Minneapolis, Saying It Glorifies Violence The president was responding to violent protests days after the killing of a black man. He said he will send in the National Guard, adding: "When the looting starts, the shooting starts." Read more on NPR

Video Games Don't Have To Be Educational To Spark Learning Our video gaming columnist says she was a reluctant student as a child — but video games, even non-educational ones like the Assassin's Creed series, helped her get interested in learning. Read more on NPR

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Trump Uses Executive Order To Crack Down On Social Media Companies President Trump escalated his fight with Twitter with an attempt to strip long-held legal protections from online platforms. But what real effect will Trump's executive order have? Read more on NPR

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Stung By Twitter, Trump Signs Executive Order To Weaken Social Media Companies President Trump signs an executive order aimed at limiting the broad legal protections enjoyed by social media companies days after Twitter fact-checked two of his tweets. Read more on NPR

New Executive Order To Expose Social Media Companies To More Liability For Content NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Daphne Keller of Stanford's Cyber Policy Center about an executive order that will make social media companies more liable for content posted on their sites. Read more on NPR

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The Latest U.S. Blow To China's Huawei Could Knock Out Its Global 5G Plans The Trump administration issued tough export rules this month, which analysts say could spell a death knell for the company's worldwide mobile network ambitions. Read more on NPR

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Amazon Is Offering To Keep 125,000 Workers It Hired For The Pandemic Amazon has hired 175,000 temporary workers to deal with spike in online shopping during the pandemic. Now it's offering most of them permanent jobs. Read more on NPR

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Newly Launched HBO Max Gives An Access To All Seasons Of 'Friends' The newest major streaming service HBO Max has launched on Wednesday. It is facing a crowded field, but it has Friends, Sesame Street and HBO. Read more on NPR

Trump Accuses Social Media Of Anti-Conservative Bias After Twitter Marks His Tweets President Trump has accused social media platforms of anti-conservative bias and threatened to shut them down after Twitter flagged his tweets about mail-in ballots as misleading. Read more on NPR

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Trump Threatens To Shut Down Social Media After Twitter Adds Warning To His Tweets Tensions between President Trump and Twitter escalate as he tweets a threat to "strongly regulate" or shut down social media platforms, which he accuses of silencing conservative viewpoints. Read more on NPR

News Brief: Minn. Protests, Texas COVID Testing Sites, Trump Tweet Four officers are fired after a Black man dies in Minneapolis police custody. Texas' minority neighborhoods have fewer COVID-19 testing sites. And, Twitter points users to fact checks on Trump tweet. Read more on NPR

Amid Pandemic, Election Officials Remain Vigilant Toward Cybersecurity Election officials have been worried about Russian interference. Officials now are trying to make sure voters will be safe when casting a ballot, but cybersecurity threats haven't gone away. Read more on NPR

Social Media Usage Is At An All-Time High. That Could Mean A Nightmare For Democracy Studies show that social media polarizes its users. The pandemic means more Americans are on it than ever. What does that mean to a nation attempting to govern itself? Read more on NPR

Twitter Flags President Trump's Tweet For The First Time Twitter has put a warning label on a tweet by President Trump for the first time on Tuesday. The company says the tweet contains "potentially misleading information about voting processes." Read more on NPR

Twitter Points Users To Fact Checks Of Trump Tweets For The First Time The link was added to a tweet in which the president claims without evidence that mail-in ballots are fraudulent. A Twitter spokesman said the tweet wasn't deleted because it didn't discourage voting. Read more on NPR

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A Taiwanese Company That Got Caught In The Middle Of Tech War The Trump administration has barred companies from supplying computer chips to Chinese telecom giant Huawei, leaving a Taiwanese company caught in the middle of this war for technological superiority. Read more on NPR

Increased Social Media Usage Creates Perfect Conditions For Spread Of Misinformation Social media usage is at an all-time high in the U.S. and around the globe due to the pandemic. That could become a fertile ground for misinformation during this presidential election cycle. Read more on NPR

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Virginia Web Developer Hosts Weekly Game Shows On Zoom Ed Conley of Alexandria, Virginia, had a eureka moment using zoom to chat with friends: the boxes looked like Hollywood Squares. He's used the platform to host game shows for them during the pandemic. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Expects Half Its Employees To Work Remotely Forever CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he expects 50% of the social network's workforce to be working remotely within the next decade. Read more on NPR

Neither Flood, Nor Fire, Nor Virus Shakes The Virtual Calm Of 'Minecraft' A non-gamer discovers peace in the pixelated world of Minecraft, where the horizon stretches on forever, and while there may be zombies, spiders and skeletons — there are also ways to fight them. Read more on NPR

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All-Girl Robotics Team In Afghanistan Works On Low-Cost Ventilator ... With Car Parts Automated ventilators are expensive. Hand-operated ventilators require a lot of labor. So these teens are on a quest to create a mechanized bag-valve-mask that'll do the job. Read more on NPR

There's Still Time To Get A (Remote) Summer Internship Some companies are going virtual with their summer internship programs; other firms have simply canceled theirs. Here's our resource guide to finding the internships that are out there. Read more on NPR

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She Gets Calls And Texts Meant For Elon Musk. Some Are Pretty Weird Lyndsay Tucker, who works at a Sephora beauty store in San Jose, Calif., has tech billionaire Elon Musk's old cellphone number. So every day, she fields calls and texts intended for him. Read more on NPR

Researchers: Nearly Half Of Accounts Tweeting About Coronavirus Are Likely Bots Researchers culled through more than 200 million tweets discussing the virus since January and found that about 45% were sent by accounts that behave more like computerized robots than humans. Read more on NPR

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More Lysol, No More Pens In Rooms. Hotels Adapt To Win Back Guests Hotels have been devastated by the pandemic. To survive, they are adapting with extra-deep cleaning and contactless interactions. And it may mean rooms with no notepads and pens — and no minibars. Read more on NPR

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Facebook Launches Virtual Shopping Mall, Saying It Will Help Small Businesses The social network is positioning its new commerce feature as a way to help small businesses that have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more on NPR

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'We Can't Take Your Call': Uber Drivers, Other Gig Workers Struggle For Unemployment Gig workers are now eligible for unemployment benefits, but states have been slow to update their systems to accept claims. That's left many workers waiting weeks for help. Read more on NPR

What Is The Future Of Cities? As COVID-19 makes density a danger, we look at what's in store for cities. Read more on NPR

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Apple Store Shoppers To Have Temperatures Taken, Must Wear Face Coverings About 100 Apple Stores, or about a fifth of the tech giant's worldwide retail locations, are now open, including storefronts in Alabama, Florida, California and Washington state. Read more on NPR

FBI: New iPhone Evidence Shows Pensacola Shooter Had Ties To Al-Qaida Justice Department officials say Apple hampered their investigation by refusing to unlock the gunman's iPhones. The case is part of a longstanding debate over national security interests and privacy. Read more on NPR

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Uber Cuts 3,000 More Jobs As Pandemic Squeezes Ride-Hailing The company is slimming down to focus on rides and food delivery while cutting $1 billion in costs this year. Read more on NPR

Conversation With Co-Chair Of Facebook's Oversight Board NPR's Michel Martin speaks with one of the four co-chairs of Facebook's new Oversight Board, law professor Jamal Greene. Read more on NPR

For Some, Zoom Bar And Bat Mitzvahs Highlight 'Most Meaningful And Memorable Moments' This spring, congregations are reimagining how to celebrate bar and bat mitzvahs in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of these Jewish coming of age ceremonies are going online. Read more on NPR

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Senators, Supreme Court Justices Face Work From Home Hiccups This week we've witnessed consequential moments in our nation's history — hampered by the same online hiccups we all face at work and in school. Read more on NPR

Cities Crack Down On Food Delivery App Fees As Restaurants Struggle To Survive In a bid to help restaurants, cities from Seattle to Washington, D.C., have passed caps restricting how much food apps can charge to deliver meals. App companies claim the move might backfire. Read more on NPR

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A New Study Explores The Spread Of Misinformation About Coronavirus On Facebook NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Neil Johnson, a professor of physics at George Washington University, about his study on the spread of scientific misinformation about the coronavirus and its effects. Read more on NPR

Uber Woos GrubHub, In A Move Lawmaker Calls 'Pandemic Profiteering' The merger talks have yet to reach a deal, but if both sides strike an accord, the combined companies would emerge as the dominant player in food delivery, giving Uber Eats a 55% of the U.S. market. Read more on NPR

Apple, Google Coronavirus Tech Won't Track Your Location. That Worries Some States. Apple and Google are developing smartphone technology to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. But public health authorities in some states are chafing against the tech giants' rules. Read more on NPR

Can't Leave The House? Try Playing Competitive Video Games "There's a joke going around that once the quarantine ends, everyone's going to be like a thousand times better," says one college esports competitor. Read more on NPR

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Apple and Google's Contact Tracing Technology Raises Privacy Concerns Apple and Google want to develop tech to track the spread of COVID-19 while protecting individuals' privacy. But some states say the restrictive settings may make it harder to find virus hotspots. Read more on NPR

Your Boss Is Watching You: Work-From-Home Boom Leads To More Surveillance With more people now working from home, employers are increasingly relying on tracking software to monitor what employees do when they're on the clock. Read more on NPR

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