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It’s the most miserable time of the year: tax season. Americans are about to spend millions of hours and billions of dollars filing their federal income taxes‚ and they are pretty sure they know who is responsible for their pain: The misanthropes at the Internal Revenue Service. But we’re here to convince you that the I.R.S. is not the problem. Yes‚ it should be easy to file taxes. And yes‚ it should be free. That’s how it works in the rest of the developed world‚ and it could very...

Former U.S. President Trump is not immune from prosecution in the 2020 federal election case‚ a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals - D.C. Circuit considered Trump’s claim of presidential immunity from prosecution for his actions in office‚ including his alleged role in overturning his 2020 election loss‚ ultimately saying it was "unpersuaded by his argument" and ruled a case against him can proceed.  "We have balanced former President Trump’s...

Former President Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity from prosecution on criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss‚ a federal appeals court unanimously ruled Tuesday. “We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter‚” a three-judge panel wrote in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The ruling is the latest major legal...

Meta announced Tuesday that it plans to start applying labels to Facebook‚ Instagram and Threads posts that contain images the company has identified as generated by AI. Why it matters: Meta-owned platforms host more than 5 billion active accounts — and every one of its apps will be subject to the labeling policy in all supported languages. Meta has been under pressure‚ including from its own Oversight Board‚ to develop stronger AI-generated content policies ahead...

Four years ago‚ when President Biden clinched the Democratic nomination‚ he aggressively courted progressives‚ forming an alliance that helped propel him to the White House and has largely stayed intact. Now‚ deep cracks between him and the left are emerging that threaten his chances of re-election in 2024.

Meta was told to label any media that featured edits of politicians generated by artificial intelligence. The Oversight Board‚ an organization created by Meta to oversee what content the company removes from Facebook and Instagram‚ ruled on Monday that Meta had to leave AI-generated media designed to deceive the public on its platforms but that it had to label them as such. This ruling focused on a video posted to Facebook in May 2023 in which the user edited the...

A video on Facebook manipulated to suggest that President Joe Biden behaves inappropriately toward women can remain on the platform‚ but only because of a problematic loophole in Meta’s “incoherent” policies‚ the company’s Oversight Board said Monday. The loophole threatens elections worldwide and should be closed as soon as possible‚ the quasi-judicial board added. The video in question was posted last spring and showed Biden placing an “I Voted” sticker on his adult granddaughter’s...