A bipartisan group wants the Senate to vote on the Kids Online Safety Act by the end of the year. But its fate in Congress is unclear.
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Teacher who raised money through Facebook — and got a $16,000 tax bill — is off the hook
Dozens offered to help pay his $16,000 tax bill, but his plan will put the money to better use
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Blumenthal dines with Zuckerberg to discuss Facebook regulations
“It’s no secret that I’ve been a tough critic of Facebook, so I was glad for the opportunity to discuss my concerns directly with Mr. Zuckerberg,” Blumenthal said.
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CT joins multi-state investigation into Google
Attorney General William Tong and his fellow attorneys general say Google threatens competition and hurts consumers and business.
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Opponents parse ‘reduce’ vs. ‘phase out’ in Boughton’s tax ad
A new Facebook ad from Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Boughton says he would “reduce” the state income tax, prompting two opponents Friday to question whether the Danbury mayor had abandoned his pledge to phase out the tax over a decade. The Boughton campaign says nothing has changed.
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Jepsen turns up the heat on Facebook
Upon revelations that Cambridge Analytica had harvested extensive psychographic information from about 50 million Facebook users, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen demanded that Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg answer the questions many Americans were asking: “How and why was their personal data exploited?” He spoke with the Connecticut Mirror about why he launched a multi-state inquiry.
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Blumenthal asks Twitter, Facebook, about fake ads in Russian troll probe
WASHINGTON — Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday asked Twitter and Facebook executives what they knew about specific attempts by Russian trolls to disseminate information through fake ads and stories, and received little response. Facebook says as many as 126 million people may have seen content from accounts tied to Russian sources.
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Tweet, Facebook post generate blowback at GOP
President Trump retweeted a cartoon image of a train running over a CNN reporter to his 35.9 million Twitter followers. Kyle Reyes, owner of a self-described “outrageous” Manchester marketing company, questioned in a Facebook video seen 36,000 times if the white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., actually were actors hired by the political left. Both caused problems for the GOP.
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‘Grand Old Party’ outflanked CT Democrats in web campaigning
Joe Crisco’s name was on a campaign billboard in his hometown of Woodbridge. His lawn signs dotted the seven towns in his state Senate district to the west and north of New Haven. His flyers arrived in the mail, same as every other race the Democrat has run since 1992. You just couldn’t find him on your computer or smartphone.
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In buying stocks, CT lawmakers like blue chips and mutual funds
WASHINGTON — The STOCK Act, a bill signed into law by President Obama in 2012, has opened the door a crack wider on the financial dealings of members of Congress.
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Sure, Tom, I’ll endorse you, but there’s just one thing…
He allowed that his late mother would have been appalled, but John P. McKinney dumped a bucket of ice water over the head of Tom Foley on Wednesday, living the dream of every politician who has ever dutifully attended a unity press conference the morning after losing a primary. Ostensibly, it all was for charity.