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Meanwhile, Apple fired back at DOJ over accusations it hasn’t done enough to help with the Pensacola shooting investigation. https://t.co/xUlPhyNMzY — PolitiTweet.org

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Next, Amazon says it’ll soon ask for a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft from starting work on the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud contract: https://t.co/CrnVBD0L5i — PolitiTweet.org

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A dizzying amount of tech news overnight. Here’s a sampling. First, security researchers say Russian hackers breached email accounts at Burisma, the gas company at the heart of the impeachment drama: https://t.co/1KriqUj17f — PolitiTweet.org

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Apple to AG Barr on Pensacola: "We reject the characterization that Apple has not provided substantive assistance… Our responses to their many requests since the attack have been timely, thorough and are ongoing.” Apple says DOJ waited a month to tell them there was a 2nd phone. — PolitiTweet.org

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AG Barr continues to hammer at the tech industry on encryption, calling the inability to access protected data “a grave problem.” Barr is increasingly vocal about how he doesn’t just mean “data at rest… but also data in motion, that is, intercepted communications." — PolitiTweet.org

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@cfarivar @nadabakos Don’t forget “Descent I & II” for a dash of Lore and Hugh! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cnnbrk: Cory Booker ends his presidential run after failing to qualify for Iowa debate, marking another exit of a high-profile black ca… — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m getting whiplash. https://t.co/7ljZS3pDff — PolitiTweet.org

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I watched the newest Short Treks last night and wow — if we get an actual moral debate about AI in “Picard,” then I am v. excited — PolitiTweet.org

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Gotta keep an eye on all those dead people, never know what kind of shenanigans they’ll pull — PolitiTweet.org

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@TonyaJoRiley @iblametom Plus it’s not like they’re unwilling to disclose Lifeline investigations on principle https://t.co/IVTYVZHHND — PolitiTweet.org

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The FCC is declining to say whether it’ll investigate @iblametom’s report concerning Chinese malware found in one Lifeline provider’s Android devices. All it’s saying is that the FCC is not the provider of the service and that Lifeline $$ doesn’t pay for handsets. — PolitiTweet.org

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I would totally watch this stream — PolitiTweet.org

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What in the world…? https://t.co/YVSKOpDgOC — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @joshscampbell: BREAKING: The Ukrainian jetliner was shot down by two Russian made surface to air missiles (SA-15), according to a US of… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a really long-winded way to justify giving up yearly challenges https://t.co/tBPesy1mZn — PolitiTweet.org

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@reddit And of course, in true reddit fashion, people are already testing the policy in the comments https://t.co/6cv0inlxDe — PolitiTweet.org

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.@reddit updates its policy to ban misleading impersonation, part of an effort to address “deepfakes or other manipulated content” https://t.co/xsjALwZpEN — PolitiTweet.org

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@vmsalama Welcome! — PolitiTweet.org

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@aliciawallace @rachelmetz Somehow there are still half a dozen VGA cables sitting in my cable basket, juuuuust on the off chance — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kevincollier: My first for the Verge: everybody either dismisses website defacements or takes them way too seriously, but I went for th… — PolitiTweet.org

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Bowser acknowledged generally that the District’s networks have been breached in the past — in publicly reported incidents — but declined to offer any specifics stemming from the recent heightened threat from Iran. — PolitiTweet.org

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DC officials said today there’s no immediate physical or cyber threat from Iran, and there’s been no “spike or anything” in malicious network traffic “in the past few days." Mayor Bowser declined to say if there had been any *successful* cyberattacks in the past week. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattmcfarland: Scooter news — Lime is doing layoffs and pulling out of 12 markets including San Diego and Atlanta https://t.co/1Bj3HtTg… — PolitiTweet.org

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WEBSITE 👏 DEFACEMENTS 👏 AREN’T 👏 CYBER 👏 ATTACKS — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @amyklobuchar: Facebook opposed my bipartisan Honest Ads Act for months, came around only after everything blew up, opposed many privacy… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ewarren: Facebook is paying for its own glowing fake news coverage, so it's not surprising they're standing their ground on letting pol… — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden campaign spokesman Bill Russo on Facebook’s blog post today: “Donald Trump’s campaign can (and will) still lie in political ads. Facebook can (and will) still profit off it. Today’s announcement is more window dressing around their decision to allow paid misinformation.” — PolitiTweet.org

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FEC commissioner rips into Facebook’s approach to political ads and questions whether this will prompt Congress to revisit Section 230 👇 — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump campaign spox @timmurtaugh responds to Facebook’s ads announcement, saying “our ads are always accurate”: https://t.co/lLKUKi5fyX — PolitiTweet.org