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August 13, 2021
Snopes co-founder David Mikkelson has been accused of publishing plagiarized articles under a false name.
The notorious fact-checking website holds itself out as an arbiter of truth in an age of “fake news.”
A Buzzfeed News investigation found…
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August 14, 2021
Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies says Google altered its news algorithm to directly target former President Donald Trump.
Vorhies was a senior software engineer at YouTube and Google. He left after discovering the companies censored conservatives…
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August 15, 2021
A purported Taliban spokesman still has an active Twitter account, despite the platform's suspension of former President Donald Trump for “hateful” and “violent” content.
The Taliban is actively moving to retake Afghanistan after U.S.…
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August 16, 2021
YouTube received criticism from a U.S. congresswoman after it reportedly removed a video of a news conference that discussed a legal challenge to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “vaccine passports.”
In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Congresswoman…
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August 17, 2021
The Chinese Communist government has reportedly taken a stake and board seat in ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company.
On April 30, ByteDance sold a one percent stake to WangTouZhongWen Technology, a Beijing company owned by three state entities…
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August 18, 2021
Lead Stories, a liberal fact-checker site, labeled a satire article from The Babylon Bee as “false.”
The fact-check on the Facebook post said the article had “false information” and that “independent fact-checkers say the information has no basis…
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August 18, 2021
Amazon and its third-party sellers have outsold Walmart for the year, according to a report from The New York Times.
The sales make the online retailer the largest retailer outside China. This year also marks the first year that a company outsold…
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August 18, 2021
"Why Trump's banned and the Taliban aren't: they play by the rules." Such was the absurd comment tweeted by Technology Policy Editor of The Washington Post Mark Seibel.
Facebook has issued a blanket ban on the Taliban, but…
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August 19, 2021
The Federal Trade Commission has refiled its lawsuit against Facebook, arguing that the social media giant is a monopoly.
The refiling comes after a federal court judge dismissed the FTC’s complaint in June.
The FTC and attorney generals from 48…
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August 19, 2021
Facebook is taking action after pressure from the White House. The Biden administration blamed the platform for the majority of coronavirus “misinformation.”
The news comes after the White House blamed accounts on the platform for spreading…
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