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Dozens of websites — including large ones like Netflix, Facebook and Amazon — join an online advocacy push Wednesday, urging regulators and lawmakers not to weaken regulations for Internet providers.

Volunteers are using Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp to find out what people need and give them vital information on how to survive.

The social media campaign by Invisible Children has drawn some 60 million viewers, many of them teenagers, to a video about a mass murderer in Africa. It will be closely studied by other nonprofit groups hoping to gain attention for their cause. Lesson one: It took years to lay the groundwork.

Consensus is growing in Washington to repeal the decades-old law that protects tech platforms from lawsuits. Experts fear unintended consequences.

Harvey is now a tropical depression but in Beaumont, high water rescues are still underway and shelters are filled to capacity. Flooded roads have cut people off from other areas.

Before going public, data scientist Christopher Wylie helped the now defunct company figure out how to target people online. In a new memoir, he offers details of the project and the players.

There's a victim-blamey tone in Brittany Kaiser's memoir Targeted, but what it offers over other look-backs is a more in-the-room account of what exactly, she alleges, was in the company's pitch deck.

AI tools have helped the people behind influence operations produce more content, but OpenAI says the operations it disrupted didn't gain traction with real people or reach large audiences.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Meta Oversight Board co-chair Michael McConnell about the announcement this week that it's getting rid of fact checking in the United States.