Lauren Feiner

Senate committee passes three bills to safeguard elections from AI, months before Election Day

/ The bills would require AI-generated election ads to be labeled and prohibit deepfakes of federal candidates.By Lauren Feiner, a…

5 days ago

Eight TikTok creators file their own suit against the divest-or-ban law

/ The creators say TikTok is unique from other social media apps and creating TikTok videos is “its own form…

6 days ago

RFK Jr. sues Meta for ‘election interference’ after it temporarily removed a campaign video

/ No, it’s not a very good lawsuit. By Lauren Feiner, a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the…

7 days ago

The great conundrum of campaigning on TikTok

Political strategists aren’t throwing away TikTok, even after their election candidates try to force its sale on national security grounds.By…

4 weeks ago

TikTok ‘ban’ passes in the House again, moving to the Senate in foreign aid package

/ Yet another divest-or-ban bill has passed the House, this time as part of a foreign aid package that may…

4 weeks ago

Meta asks court to dismiss FTC’s monopoly claims

/ After ‘extensive discovery,’ Meta’s motion for summary judgment claims the company’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp didn’t harm consumers.…

1 month ago

Algorithms can aid price collusion, even if no humans actually talk to each other, US enforcers say

/ The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission filed a statement of interest in a case alleging Atlantic City…

2 months ago

‘Even stronger’ than imagined: DOJ’s sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise

/ The antitrust suit against Apple is a strong start to an uphill battle to prove the company has an…

2 months ago

New bill would let defendants inspect algorithms used against them in court

/ The Justice in Forensic Algorithms Act would allow defendants to access the source code of software used to analyze…

3 months ago

Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate

/ Leading LGBTQ+ groups dropped their opposition after the bill’s authors made changes.By Lauren Feiner, the senior policy reporter at…

3 months ago