President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the US is increasingly confident that the three objects that were downed in recent weeks were Chinese surveillance balloons, and that the US was able to protect sensitive sites against collection. The intelligence community is still assessing what the additional objects shot down were, but they are believed to be much smaller than the initial Chinese balloon. Biden also spoke from an auditorium across an alley from the West Wing in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
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The Dawn Project is using a Super Bowl ad to draw attention to the potential dangers of Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" system. The ad shows a Tesla running over a child-sized dummy and a fake baby in a stroller in a series of tests. The nonprofit group is calling out Tesla for allegedly knowing for more than six months that its software could cause potential dangers to pedestrians and drivers. The ad is part of a trend of more serious Super Bowl ads this year, and it remains to be seen if it will have the desired effect.
Former President Donald Trump's access to his Facebook and Instagram accounts has been restored after a two-year suspension imposed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meta has installed guardrails on Trump's account that could result in it being suspended again if he breaks the company's rules. The decision to restore Trump's access to his accounts has been met with mixed reactions, and it remains to be seen whether he will use his accounts to spread misinformation or to promote his 2024 election bid.
Facebook and Instagram have reinstated former President Donald Trump's accounts after a two-year suspension following the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol. The accounts will be subject to the same rules as any other user, and any content that violates the company's policies will be removed. The decision has been met with mixed reactions, with some praising the decision as a step towards restoring free speech and others criticizing it as a potential source of further violence and division.
At a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, Twitter executives faced questioning over their handling of a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop. It was revealed that Twitter had previously changed its policy to protect former President Donald Trump from consequences for breaking the rules, and had requested the removal of a tweet from model Chrissy Teigen insulting the then-President. The hearing highlighted the complex relationship between social media platforms and the government, and the ongoing debate about content moderation.
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Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines' Twitter account was suspended on Tuesday for violating the company's sensitive media policy, which prohibits graphic violence or adult content in profile images. The photo in question showed Daines and his wife posing while hunting, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has called on Twitter to "immediately reverse this suspension." Daines' account remains suspended while the NRSC continues to call for its reversal.