Autumn Johnson
Contributing Writer

Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats.

Autumn Johnson | February 20, 2022

Several prominent state politicians in New York blocked followers on social media.

New York State Sen. Julia Salazar, Councilmen Rafael Salamanca Jr., and Ari Kagan are some of the elected officials who blocked followers, even…

Autumn Johnson | February 20, 2022

A new report suggested that TikTok can bypass privacy protections to share data with ByteDance, its Chinese parent company.

TheWrap exclusively reported that TikTok was not deterred from privacy protections offered by Apple and Google.…

Autumn Johnson | February 19, 2022

AmazonSmile has removed Black Lives Matter from its charity list, according to the New York Post.

The platform’s Smile program donates a percentage of the cost of a user’s purchase to the charity of his or her choice. Popular examples…

Autumn Johnson | February 17, 2022

A small business owner was reportedly been threatened after her name was revealed by hackers in a data leak of donors to the Canadian “Freedom Convoy.”

Over 92,000 donor names were leaked from GiveSendGo following a massive hack. Credit…

Autumn Johnson | February 15, 2022

Twitter has expanded its mode aimed at protecting user “safety.”

The platform introduced “Safety Mode” in September of last year and said its aim was to “limit unwelcome interactions on Twitter.”

The mode was initially only…

Autumn Johnson | February 15, 2022

Maybe there isn’t a misinformation crisis after all. Even lefty journalist Matthew Yglesias, a columnist at Bloomberg, wrote on his “Slow Boring” Substack blog that there is no “misinformation crisis” on the internet.

Yglesias wrote…