Twitter’s act of adding fact-checking labels to a couple of presidential tweets set off a storm in the social-media world — almost at the same time real-life stormy weather caused officials to scrub the NASA-SpaceX launch to the International Space Station, the first on an United States rocket since 2011. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss it all ahead of America’s rescheduled return to space this weekend. Blast off with PTJ 338!
- Trump signs executive order targeting Twitter after fact-checking row (BBC News)
- Trump’s Order on Social Media Could Harm One Person in Particular: Donald Trump (The New York Times)
- Trump’s Illiberal Internet Fairness Doctrine (National Review)
- What journalists should know about Communications Decency Act Section 230 (Poynter)
- Jack on Twitter
- Defying Trump, Twitter Doubles Down on Labeling Tweets (The New York Times)
- Facebook and Twitter clash over fact-checking as Trump threats intensify (CNN)
- Appeals court ruling suggests little legal traction for Trump’s anti-Twitter campaign (POLITICO)
- Twitter adds native “scheduled tweets” function (Twitter support)
- Twitter, Facebook Win Appeal in Anticonservative-Bias Suit (Bloomberg)
- Arizona sues Google for allegedly violating Android users’ location privacy (The Washington Post)
- Microsoft launches Cortana app for Windows 10 without Amazon’s Alexa (VentureBeat)
- Apple Buys Machine-Learning Startup to Improve Data Used in Siri (Bloomberg)
- Apple acquires the full Fraggle Rock collection in first major licensing play (The Verge)
- How Delivery Drones Are Being Used to Tackle COVID-19 (WeRobotics)
- Drone drops off Isle of Mull coronavirus masks (BBC)
- Visit Isle of Man (Isle of Man Government)
Spaaaaccce!
- Space Out and Explore the Universe Without Leaving Home (The New York Times)
- Launch America Overview (NASA)
- NASA
- SpaceX