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November 26, 2019
A Facebook employee lauded by the Trump campaign in 2016 as an “MVP” is not happy that he helped President Trump’s election strategy.
James Barnes, a former member of Facebook’s political ad sales team, wrote in a Facebook…
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November 26, 2019
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey once said, “Journalists play a critical role in our society: keep the world honest and balanced. They are true servants of the people.”
This seems to only apply to journalists that lean left, however. Journalist…
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November 26, 2019
Project Veritas reported that its account on Twitter Ads was suspended permanently for “inappropriate content.” In a video posted to Twitter, the organization's founder, James O’Keefe, explained how the censorship occurred.…
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December 4, 2019
Big Tech CEOs for Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other companies signed an agreement with a labor union leader stating that they would uphold the standards set by the Paris Agreement.
The United States government, under President Trump, pulled out…
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December 4, 2019
YouTube defines itself as an “open video platform,” where videos that don’t break the rules are free to flourish. But a new blog from the company contradicts its own statement.
“The Fours Rs of Responsibility, Part 2”…
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December 6, 2019
One of the four constitutional scholars who testified at the impeachment hearings on Dec. 3 played an instrumental role in the building of Facebook’s Oversight Board.
Noah Feldman, professor at Harvard Law School and director of the Julis-…
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December 10, 2019
“Journalists play a critical role in our society: keep the world honest and balanced. They are true servants of the people,” said Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a tweet from 2015. But it seems only certain kinds of journalists “play a…
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December 11, 2019
Ex-founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger’s Twitter followers reported that they couldn’t see the tweets he had put out about a social media strike.
“Who wants me to organize mass tryouts of decentralized social media networks?”…
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December 16, 2019
Facebook announced a new policy to label state-funded media on its platform. Qatar-backed outlet Al Jazeera has a problem with that.
In a letter sent by the media outlet’s lawyers to Facebook’s Vice President Jennifer Gillian Newstead…
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December 17, 2019
The 2020 election is going to be fought online and the left has decided to create its own fact-check unit.
The Democratic National Committee started a “counter-disinformation unit” to “serve[] as a knowledge base and intelligence…