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September 17, 2019
Tech companies censor users when they break the terms of service. But what happens to tech companies when they break the law?
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Twitter’s new advertising campaign in the city breaks San Francisco’…
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September 18, 2019
In the digital country that Facebook is building, with currency, a population of 2.38 billion, and a corporate oligarchy, a new Oversight Board will act as a sort of Supreme Court.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on September 17 that…
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September 18, 2019
Another academic study has determined that certain common phrases used on Twitter are “aggressive” or “bullying.”
In the research report, “Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media,” the…
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September 19, 2019
Note to lefty special interests: Pick on the Big Tech companies. They’re pushovers.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced at the National Press Club on September 19 that he was making massive changes to Amazon in order to fight climate…
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September 20, 2019
The media is hyping the Global Climate Strike, especially in the United States, where 800 marches were planned. Tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Wikipedia have large bodies of employees who are going on strike.
But are these…
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September 23, 2019
A podcast interview with CNN’s executive Vice President Andrew Morse revealed three crucial facts about CNN’s outlook on the forms of media.
Morse told Variety’s Strictly Business podcast that CNN.com does not rely on…
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September 23, 2019
The general consensus among Americans is that Big Tech companies should be broken up for violating antitrust behavior.
In a poll from YouGov and the thinktank Data for Progress, 60 percent of Republicans agreed that tech companies should be…
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September 23, 2019
ISIS terrorists are posting videos and tweets and mixing propaganda in with tweets about the protests going on in Egypt.
BBC journalist Abdirahim Saeed tweeted that “Isis fan boys/ bots are flooding the main Egypt protest hashtags.…
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September 24, 2019
Twitter has joined Team Greta.
Avi Yemini, an activist who worked with Brexit journalist Tommy Robinson, was suspended from Twitter for “violating rules on platform manipulation and spam.” This retaliation came immediately after…
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September 25, 2019
Facebook may just have admitted the harm that fact-checking does to content.
In a new blog post written by Facebook’s Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg, the social media platform announced that it was not going to fact-check…
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