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March 23, 2022
The Department of Justice requested that Google be sanctioned in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit.
The basis of the suit was surrounded by the argument that Google was a monopoly. Reclaim The Net reported that the DOJ alleged in a pleading that Google…
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March 24, 2022
Twitter censored The Federalist’s reporting and warned that links to the publication’s reporting “may be unsafe.”
According to The Federalist, Twitter displayed the following message to users who attempted to access the publication’s content: “The…
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March 24, 2022
UPDATE: A YouTube spokesperson provided NewsBusters with the following statement after the removal:
“We removed content from the CPAC channel for violating our election integrity policy, which prohibits content that advances false…
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March 25, 2022
Tesla’s Elon Musk tweeted in support of free speech and questioned Twitter’s “adherence” to it.
Musk asked his followers to vote “yes” or “no” in a poll that asked users whether the platform supported free speech. “Free speech is essential to a…
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March 26, 2022
Podcaster Joe Rogan said that “woke” employees of Big Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter are “mentally ill.”
The New York Post reported that Rogan made the comment on his Spotify podcast during an interview with Antonio García Martínez, a…
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March 27, 2022
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he is giving “serious thought” to creating a new social media platform to rival Twitter.
“Would you consider building a new social media platform, @elonmusk?” an account asked on Saturday. “One that would consist an open…
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March 27, 2022
A new law in the European Union would force Apple to allow sideloading and third-party app stores.
According to The Verge, Apple would be prevented from requiring users to download apps in its own app store under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).…
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March 29, 2022
A senior editor at The Federalist was locked out of his Twitter account over the weekend after he called Rachel Levine a man.
According to The Federalist, Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson tweeted that Levine “is in fact a man” and was locked out…
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March 30, 2022
Big Tech faced yet another blow from the Department of Justice.
Originally reported by The Wall Street Journal, the DOJ sent letters to members of the congressional judiciary committees and asked them to support an antitrust bill that prevented Big…
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April 2, 2022
Google threatened to demonetize publishers for “dissent" on Ukraine.
Publishers received a message from Google warning that it would not monetize content that “exploits, dismisses, or condones” the war in Ukraine.
Deadline reported that the…