Donald Trump’s Latest ‘Relentlessly Stupid’ Ramble Attracts One Hell Of A Fact-Check

Donald Trump’s weird campaign rally tangent about magnets attracted mockery on social media. The Republican 2024 front-runner on Friday complained to a crowd of supporters in Mason City, Iowa, about electric catapults and magnetic elevator systems for U.S. aircraft carriers. The four-times-indicted former president polarized with this line: “All I know about magnets is this, … Read more

Big Tech’s divisive ‘personalization’ attracts fresh call for profiling-based content feeds to be off by default in EU

Another policy tug-of-war could be emerging around Big Tech’s content recommender systems in the European Union where the Commission is facing a call from a number of parliamentarians to rein in profiling-based content feeds — aka “personalization” engines that process user data in order to determine what content to show them. Mainstream platforms’ tracking and … Read more