Techdirt Retrospective: Five and ten Years Ago

from the years-upon-years dept

Five Years Ago

This week in 2020, we looked at election polls as an example of the challenges involved in defining and handling misinformation.We noted how Trumpland seemed to have entirely forgotten about its own manufactured TikTok hysteria, at which point the Commerce Department suddenly remembered it was supposed to ban the app. Following Trump’s election loss, there was pressure on Ajit Pai to call off his dumb attack on social media since he was guaranteed to lose his position,while the Trump campaign got laughed out of court for its ridiculous “evidence” of voter fraud.

Ten Years Ago

This week in 2015, we wrote about why three industries love the TPP: Hollywood, Big Pharma, and Wall Street.