Ashley Belanger is a Senior Tech Policy Reporter with a focus on covering the latest developments and controversies in the tech industry. With bylines in publications such as Ars Technica, Tech News Tube, WIRED, and Orlando Weekly, Ashley provides insightful analysis and reporting on topics including privacy, antitrust issues, social media platforms, and emerging technologies.
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Ashley Belanger's coverage focuses on legal issues, cryptocurrency, online platforms, technology, and cybersecurity. She reports extensively on legal policy regulation and government announcements related to content & publishing, big tech, and government & politics.
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FTC has estimated that a large chunk of gift card scams target Google Play users.
By: Ashley Belanger
Tech industry urges more diplomacy as it faces Trump’s proposed sweeping tariffs.
Trump may sway DOJ away from breaking up Google. A few weeks before the US presidential election, Donald Trump suggested that a breakup of
photo of Fate of Google’s search empire could rest in Trump’s hands image A few weeks before the US presidential election, Donald Trump suggested that a breakup of Google's search business may not be an appropriate remedy to destroy the tech giant's search monopoly. "Right now, China is afraid of Google," Trump said at a Chicago event. If that threat were dismantled, Trump suggested,…
The tool will likely be released anyway, testing Meta's litigiousness.
By: Ashley Belanger
photo of Discord terrorist known as “Rabid” gets 30 years for preying on kids image A Michigan man who ran chat rooms and Discord servers targeting children playing online games and coercing them into self-harm, sexually explicit acts, suicide, and other violence was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday. According to the US Department of Justice, Richard Densmore was a member of an online…
By: Ashley Belanger
Instead of celebrating a closing, some US home buyers lost everything.
By: Ashley Belanger
photo of Man gets 10 years for stealing $20M in nest eggs from 400 US home buyers image A Nigerian man living in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to 10 years for his role in a phishing scam that snatched more than $20 million from over 400 would-be home buyers in the US, including some savers who lost their entire nest eggs. Late last week, the US Department of Justice confirmed that…
Trump plans to shake up the SEC by installing pro-crypto leaders.
By: Ashley Belanger
photo of Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history image Former US Air National Guard Jack Teixeira was sentenced to 15 years in prison for leaking confidential military documents on Discord. Teixeira was arrested last year for sharing hundreds of pages of information online, some of which detailed national security secrets tied to US foreign adversaries and allies,…
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