WASHINGTON: Trump supporters are raging against Amazon’s Alexa, accusing the Jeff Besoz-led company of “election interference,” after its virtual assistant appeared to support Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in the 2024 elections before it was “neutralized.”Users who asked Alexa “why should I vote for Donald Trump?” got a very different answer compared to a similar…
US intelligence officials attributed the hacking of Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign to Iran, describing this intrusion as part of Tehran‘s broader effort to interfere in American politics. This marks the first time the US government has blamed Iran specifically for election-related hacking.The FBI and other federal agencies revealed that besides breaching the Trump campaign, Iran…
WASHINGTON: Two tech giants – Alphabet/Google and X (formerly Twitter) – are at the centre of election interference charges in the US, drawing their leaders Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk into what is already an ugly and rancorous fight between Democrats and Republicans. While Musk has openly thrown his support behind Trump Republicans, the India-born…
