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These Grieving Parents Want Congress to Protect Children Online
A group is using the Mothers Against Drunk Driving playbook, sharing personal tragedies, to lobby for the Kids Online Safety Act.
By Cecilia Kang
My stories sit at the intersection of technology, policy and politics. These days, that includes the road toward regulation of artificial intelligence, federal action against tech giants for antitrust and consumer abuses, and the tech war between the U.S. and China.
I’ve been writing about technology for about two decades. I coauthored “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle For Domination,” published in 2021, with my colleague, Sheera Frenkel. Before joining The Times, I was the senior technology reporter at The Washington Post. I also covered technology for the San Jose Mercury News. I was part of a team of Times reporters honored with the George Polk and Loeb awards.
As a Times journalist, I share the values and adhere to the standards of integrity outlined in The Times’s Ethical Journalism handbook. I don’t own any individual stocks in any companies. I don’t accept monetary or other gifts from companies or people who might fit into my reporting.
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A group is using the Mothers Against Drunk Driving playbook, sharing personal tragedies, to lobby for the Kids Online Safety Act.
By Cecilia Kang
Dr. Vivek Murthy said he would urge Congress to require a warning that social media use can harm teenagers’ mental health.
By Ellen Barry and Cecilia Kang
California legislators have made the biggest push to pass new laws to rein in the technology. Colorado passed one protecting consumers.
By Cecilia Kang
Their plan is the culmination of a yearlong listening tour on the dangers of the new technology.
By Cecilia Kang and David McCabe
Judge Amit P. Mehta must now decide whether Google violated the law, potentially setting a precedent for a series of tech monopoly cases.
By David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
As the Justice Department’s case against Google nears an end, the federal government has more suits in the pipeline trying to rein in Big Tech.
By Cecilia Kang and David McCabe
They shrugged off concerns about the company’s fate ahead of closing arguments in the Justice Department’s lawsuit this week.
By Nico Grant
Judge Amit P. Mehta tried poking holes in the closing arguments of a landmark monopoly case as he weighs a ruling that could reshape tech.
By David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
Commissioners voted along party lines to revive the rules that declare broadband as a utility-like service that could be regulated like phones and water.
By Cecilia Kang
For years, federal lawmakers have tried to pass legislation to rein in the tech giants. The TikTok law was their first success.
By Cecilia Kang
A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the discussions away from TikTok lobbyists while bulletproofing a bill that could ban the app.
By Sapna Maheshwari, David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn’t have the resources to help fight the new epidemic.
By Cecilia Kang
To make artificial intelligence systems more powerful, tech companies need online data to feed the technology. Here’s what to know.
By Cecilia Kang, Cade Metz and Stuart A. Thompson
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.
By Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson and Nico Grant
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the artificial intelligence race.
By Cecilia Kang
The agency will be the first in the federal government to roll out a comprehensive plan to integrate the technology into a variety of uses, from fighting crime to helping disaster survivors.
By Cecilia Kang
The move by the agency follows a phony call last month that was made to sound like President Biden telling New Hampshire voters to stay home.
By Cecilia Kang
After senators grilled the leaders of Meta, TikTok, X and others, there may be momentum to pass rules to safeguard the internet’s youngest users, some said.
By David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
Senators criticized the chief executives of Meta, TikTok, Snap, X and Discord for not doing enough to prevent child sexual abuse online, amid rising fears over how the platforms affect youths.
By Cecilia Kang and David McCabe
The Meta chief executive addressed families during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child online safety.
By Mike Isaac
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By Cecilia Kang
Lawmakers released internal emails detailing the company’s failed efforts to add staff to focus on the online safety of minors, hours before a hearing on the topic.
By Cecilia Kang and Mike Isaac
The office is reviewing how centuries-old laws should apply to artificial intelligence technology, with both content creators and tech giants arguing their cases.
By Cecilia Kang
There is little agreement among regulators and lawmakers around the world on how artificial intelligence should — or even could — be controlled.
By Cecilia Kang and Adam Satariano
Alarmed by the power of artificial intelligence, Europe, the United States and others are trying to respond — but the technology is evolving more rapidly than their policies.
By Adam Satariano and Cecilia Kang
The tech giant, which is wrapping up its arguments in the federal monopoly trial, has framed itself as a good corporate citizen that has pushed innovation and helped consumers.
By Nico Grant and David McCabe
The criticism has put the popular video app on its heels at a precarious time.
By Cecilia Kang and Sapna Maheshwari
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By Cecilia Kang
The sweeping order is a first step as the Biden administration seeks to put guardrails on a global technology that offers great promise but also carries significant dangers.
By Cecilia Kang and David E. Sanger
In an order to be issued on Monday, the White House will outline requirements that the most advanced A.I. products be tested to assure they cannot be used to produce weapons, among other regulations.
By David E. Sanger and Cecilia Kang