In an interview with "Fox and Friends" on Friday morning, billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel responded to Twitter's recent decision to temporarily block Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign account.
Thiel also discussed his recent New York Times op-ed, in which he emphasized his concerns about the search giant Google setting up an AI research lab in China.
Billionaire tech investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel apparently thinks Silicon Valley tech companies have wielded too much, unchecked power.
In an interview with "Fox and Friends" on Friday morning, Thiel responded to Twitter's recent decision to temporarily block Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's re-election campaign account after it posted a video of protest ors threatening the Senator outside of his Kentucky home.
Instead, the company pointed us to tweets from Twitter's official corporate communications account that announced after "multiple appeals from affected users" the video in question would once again be visible, but bearing a "sensitive media interstitial."
As of Friday morning, the tweet containing the controversial video appears on McConnell's campaign account and full access to the account has been reinstated, a Twitter spokesperson said.
After Twitter temporarily locked the campaign account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a string of leading Republican campaign committees announced an ad spending boycott against the social media platform.
McConnell's official campaign account was locked Wednesday after his team posted a video of protesters outside his Louisville, Kentucky, home earlier this week.
Twitter's blanket policy bans videos that include violent threats, even from those who receive such threats.
The video in question, which also aired on Fox News, featured protest chants calling McConnell "murder turtle," and shouts from the crowd inciting violence against him.
Twitter told CNET in a statement that McConnell's campaign account was locked because the video "violated our violent threats policy, specifically threats involving physical safety."
"I have directed the @nrcc to immediately halt all spending with @Twitter until they correct their inexcusable targeting of @Team_Mitch.
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The system uses an encrypted tracking code to allow a voter to verify that his or her vote has been recorded and has not been tampered with, Microsoft said in a blog post.
The announcement came at an annual conference of current and former intelligence, defense and homeland security officials.
Edward Perez, an election security expert with the independent Open Source Election Technology Institute, said Microsoft’s move signals that voting systems, long a technology backwater, are finally receiving attention from the county’s leading technical minds.
Perez said that about 30 percent of America’s registered voters currently live in counties with voting systems that have no auditable paper trail, a situation that he and other election experts say poses an unacceptable risk.
An election security bill that could help counties install more security systems by providing $600 million to the states has passed the House but has been held up in the Senate by Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
About 84 percent of the attacks targeted enterprise customers — generally at organizations — and about 16 percent targeted consumer personal email accounts, the company said.
