facebook Google mistakenly started handing out a reporter's cellphone number to people searching for Facebook tech support Cory Doctorow
News YouTube star Austin Jones faces prison after child porn guilty plea, coerced teen girls to perform sexual acts live online Xeni Jardin
politics Google tells U.S. House it spends 'hundreds of millions' on content review each year, found +1M 'terrorist videos' on YouTube in Q1 2019 Xeni Jardin
Business Googlers around the world down tools for "Knit and Sit" protest over retaliation against organizers of last year's googler uprisings Cory Doctorow
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