Trump’s social media supporters moved quickly to defend the former president and themselves after thursday night’s televised hearing of the Jan. 6 committee.
Author: Drew Harwell
Trump’s Truth Social in trouble as financial, technical woes mount
Here’s a truth former president Donald Trump doesn’t want to hear: His social network, Truth Social, has begun to implode.
Trump’s Truth Social’s disastrous launch raises doubts about its long-term viability
“The basic thing they needed to actually get right to get someone in the door, they couldn’t get right,” one researcher said.
ID.me gathers lots of data besides face scans, including locations. Scammers still have found a way around it.
The case of a New Jersey man accused by federal prosecutors of using multiple ID.me accounts to file fraudulent unemployment claims raises questions about the identify verification company.
Private contractor to drop facial recognition requirement for all state and federal agencies after backlash over IRS plan
The private contractor ID.me says it will allow the 73 million people who’ve signed up for its service to access government websites to delete their face scans after March 1.
As the IRS pushes facial recognition, the government’s own ID service rejects the technology
Dave Zvenyach, director of the GSA’s Technology Transformation Services, told The Post that the agency “is committed to not deploying facial recognition … until rigorous review has given us confidence that we can do so equitably.”
IRS wants to scan your face
Millions of Americans will soon have to scan their face to access their Internal Revenue Service tax accounts, one of the government’s biggest expansions yet of facial recognition software into people’s everyday lives.
Since Jan. 6, the pro-Trump Internet has descended into infighting over money and followers
Pro-Trump and QAnon influencers have squabbled bitterly over online audiences in the year since Trump left office. They’re “desperate for money” and there’s only so many “people you can fleece,” says one researcher.
Utility giants agree to no longer share sensitive records ICE used to track the public
The information was passed to Equifax, which sold it to ICE and other police agencies.
Pranksters have already defaced Trump’s new social network
The site, Truth Social, said it reserves the right to ban users and safeguard itself from lawsuits with Section 230 protections — the same measures Trump has complained about during his long and bitter battle with Big Tech.