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“The Justice Department announced today that it has updated www.justice.gov/voting, a one-stop resource providing voting and elections information for voters as well as state and local election...

https://www.bespacific.com/doj-launches-updated-voting-rights-and-elections-website/

Slashdot: “It’s the world’s most widely used vulnerability database, reports SC Magazine, offering standards-based data on CVSS severity scores, impacted software and platforms, contributin...

https://www.bespacific.com/nist-blames-growing-backlog-of-vulnerabilities-requiring-analysis-on-lack-of-support/

The Verge: “Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) and House Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Oregon) announced a new, national data privacy bill called The American Privacy Rights Act (...

https://www.bespacific.com/a-us-bill-takes-aim-at-protecting-americans-data-privacy/

A new “YouGov survey finds that most Americans — 54% — believe that Lee Harvey Oswald definitely or probably did not act alone in assassinating John F. Kennedy in 1963. Large shares of Amer...

https://www.bespacific.com/which-conspiracy-theories-do-americans-believe/

“TrueMedia.org, a non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to fighting AI-based disinformation, announces the launch of its deepfake detection technology for reporters, and other key aud...

https://www.bespacific.com/truemedia-org-free-ai-enabled-deepfake-detector/

PCMag: “The US House has reportedly banned staffers from using Microsoft Copilot on any government-owned devices. According to Axios, House Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor sent...

https://www.bespacific.com/us-house-bans-staffers-from-using-microsoft-copilot-at-work/

“The 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals a new paradox at the heart of society. Rapid innovation offers the promise of a new era of prosperity, but instead risks exacerbating trust issues, lea...

https://www.bespacific.com/2024-edelman-trust-barometer/

Axios: “Shards of glass: Inside media’s 12 splintering realities – You can’t understand November’s election — or America itself — without reckoning with how our media attention has ...

https://www.bespacific.com/america-splintering-into-more-than-a-dozen-news-bubbles/

NewsGuard Reality Check: “The debate in Washington about what to do about TikTok is not about hypothetical harms. NewsGuard research over the years has shone a harsh light on TikTok as a misinf...

https://www.bespacific.com/tiktokspreads-misinformation-20-percent-of-the-time-and-is-banned-in-china/

Semafor Media – The Cook Political Report, which has tracked the gritty day-to-day of politics for four decades, will put its entire archive online tomorrow, offering a remarkable and nonpartis...

https://www.bespacific.com/a-new-archive-of-modern-american-political-history/

Misinformation Review – paper by Matthew Mettler & Jeffery J. Mondak: “Statements of fact can be proved or disproved with objective evidence, whereas statements of opinion depend on personal ...

https://www.bespacific.com/fact-opinion-differentiation/

EPIC: “March 7, 2024 the House Energy & Commerce Committee approved H.R. 7520, the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024, sponsored by Representative Frank Pallone, ...

https://www.bespacific.com/house-committee-approves-bill-restricting-sales-of-sensitive-data-to-foreign-adversaries/