SpaceX’s Starship was on the launchpad Thursday, apparently ready to fly in the latest iteration of the spacecraft SpaceX hopes will take people to Mars. But it didn’t fly. https://wapo.st/2M4l9LJ
Facebook's independent Oversight Board found fault with Facebook's content moderation decisions in all of the cases it reviewed, suggesting that the Facebook-funded board will be tough on the social network. https://wapo.st/39nbR69
The White House, Federal Communications Commission and Congress face early pressure to bring back open-Internet safeguards scrapped under former president Donald Trump. https://wapo.st/3caE6H8
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo also pledged to help the U.S. economy recover from the pandemic, to expand broadband access to regions with patchy Internet connections, and to promote manufacturing and clean-energy jobs. https://wapo.st/3qWS03C
The first space crew composed entirely of private citizens includes two grandfathers and a father with three young children. All are extremely wealthy. https://wapo.st/3t1CFkq
Forums central to spreading QAnon and supporting former President Trump have become fractured or gone offline entirely since then Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, raising questions about their long-term viability. https://wapo.st/364WDAV
The sizable sums foreshadow the political blitz that Silicon Valley is likely to mount in the face of fresh promises from President Biden and his new Democratic control in Congress that they plan to rein in the tech industry. https://wapo.st/3sPPk9F
With Q having vanished and Trump out of office, far-right extremist groups are targeting disillusioned believers online in hopes of further radicalizing them to a new cause. https://wapo.st/2NppFo9
Facebook said that it will submit its decision to ban Trump for review by an independent oversight board that can oversee its content moderation choices. It will be the most significant such case for the board, which was launched last year. https://wapo.st/361Vjyy
The request is part of a broader inquiry into a site that gained rapid new popularity last year as a freewheeling alternative to Twitter, gaining traction in particular among conservatives. https://wapo.st/3p1QLj8
The lawsuit claims that the company’s practices violate the plaintiffs’ free-speech and privacy rights and “unjustly enrich Tencent at the expense of California WeChat users.” https://wapo.st/3o493yQ
The entrepreneur gave a speech on rural education, his first appearance since his public criticism of China’s financial regulators. https://wapo.st/3sGImnn
During a private briefing Tuesday morning, industry officials said their expectations for successfully completing all the test objectives had been only “50/50.” https://wapo.st/2XY214h
With bipartisan backing to rein in the power of Big Tech, the president-elect could usher in a new era of accountability for Silicon Valley. https://wapo.st/3bR6j5A
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey agreed to ban Donald Trump from Twitter after tearful all-hands meetings, bitter dialogues, and employee pushback, knowing that this would be the biggest decision his company had ever faced. https://wapo.st/35QuZYe
Some people mistaken as Jan. 6 Capitol rioters have faced threats and harassment after internet "sleuths" shared their contact information online. https://wapo.st/2NbchE9
After big tech companies kicked Trump off Twitter and shut down right-wing social network Parler, extremist groups are moving to encrypted chat apps like Telegram. It's making it tougher for police to look for future attacks. https://wapo.st/3oNWfhf
The National Labor Relations Board called an election at an Alabama warehouse where roughly 6,000 employees work for the e-commerce giant, setting the stage for one of the biggest labor battles in the United States in years. https://wapo.st/38N4N2A
You know, sea shanties -- the 18th century songs of sailors laboring on merchant ships. They've taken over TikTok, thanks to Nathan Evanss. https://wapo.st/3oJqNk9
The failed insurrection marked a grim milestone in how the paranoid conspiracy theory QAnon has radicalized Americans, reshaped the Republican Party and gained a forceful grip on right-wing belief. https://wapo.st/3spp1XE
Democratic lawmakers are asking the country’s top telecom carriers to share more information about Americans who are falling behind on their Internet bills, setting the stage for Congress to consider billions of dollars in new broadband stimulus aid as part of the next coronavirus relief package. https://wapo.st/3i4vKBQ
The e-commerce company will block sales in the coming days of products that reference the baseless conspiracy theory whose adherents were among those that stormed the U.S. Capitol. https://wapo.st/3nCZBT9
Twitter shares initially plunged by more than 10 percent Monday morning, leaving the tech giant bracing for fallout in Washington and on Wall Street over its decision to ban President Trump. https://wapo.st/2Xvu9LR
The annual consumer tech conference in Las Vegas was forced online in 2021 — but that hasn’t stopped the flow of new, improved and just weird products https://wapo.st/3bxr1XZ
Twitter’s decision to ban President Trump mere days before the end of his term sparked a wide political backlash among his most fervent allies on Saturday, sending some of his supporters — and the White House itself — scrambling to find another potent tool to communicate online. https://wapo.st/3nzdVvz
Calls for widespread protests on the days leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden have been rampant online for weeks. These demonstrations are scheduled to culminate with what organizers have dubbed a “Million MAGA March” on January 20 itself, as the new president and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are to be sworn in on the same Capitol grounds that rioters overrun on Wednesday. https://wapo.st/3q5Dkis