With the presidential election fast approaching, recent moves by the Trump administration appear designed to undermine the security and integrity of the vote. And that's not even counting the long-standing Postal Service shenanigans. Facebook rolled out a series of measures this week designed to minimize how much it contributes to the problem, including message-forwarding limits that have already helped WhatsApp fight misinformation.
Porn sites haven't gotten much better at taking down nonconsensual deepfake videos; if anything, recent research suggests that the problem has gotten appreciably worse. Apple accidentally gave malware its "notarized" seal of approval, letting it run on macOS despite being one of the most prolific forms of adware on Macs. And a critical flaw in a WordPress plug-in put hundreds of thousands of sites at risk; it's fixed now, but make sure you update to the latest version of File Manager with haste.
Apple and Google have rejiggered their role in contact tracing, taking the burden off of public health authorities to make their own apps. In other Google news, we looked at how the company uses so-called dark patterns in its search results and privacy settings, the last in our month-long series on manipulative UX.
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