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Hotjar decided it couldn’t claim to be committed to anti-racism and provide services to the president’s reelection efforts. Will others follow?
The president claimed that tech giants “silence conservative voices,” and threatened to regulate them, despite not being able to.
The Facebook CEO singled out the 2020 Democratic contender, who has called for the breakup of tech giants.
If signed by the governor, the legislation would force tech companies to reclassify independent contractors as employees and provide them with additional benefits.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Attorneys general from 48 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia are investigating whether Google is engaging in monopolistic behavior.
The investigation comes as a growing number of lawmakers have called for stricter regulation or even breaking up of the big tech companies.
San Francisco has "the best technology example in the world and yet the worst homelessness," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in Davos.
Hate speech is everywhere, but there are practical ways to help manage it.
"There is a danger of concentration," said Tim Berners-Lee, a London-born computer scientist who invented the Web in 1989.