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February 10, 2020
Twitter bans accounts for transphobia and won’t allow pro-life organizations to run ads on its platform. But a cartoon encouraging terrorism is apparently allowed to spread.
The video, tweeted out by a pro-Palestine account, depicts a…
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February 11, 2020
Amazon has decided to quietly crack down on books it deems offensive. But the company’s enforcement of standards seems lopsided at best.
The New York Times reported that third-party booksellers on Amazon have been forbidden from selling…
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February 12, 2020
A wealthy billionaire tech CEO has endorsed the economically irresponsible concept of a universal basic income. Unfortunately for him, its advocate Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has dropped out of the race.
Twitter head Jack Dorsey…
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February 13, 2020
Major social media platforms are removing Iranian disinformation and coordinated behavior from their platforms. But Republicans don’t think that’s enough.
Four Republican senators wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Feb. 6…
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February 17, 2020
Twitter defines “sensitive content” as something that might contain “violence or nudity.” So why did a photo of a Nascar racer and the president get flagged by the platform as potentially sensitive content?
NASCAR star…
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February 17, 2020
Instagram announced in May of 2019 that it would be fact-checking and “reducing distribution” for what it considered to be “disinformation.” Since then, it seems to be targeting pro-life content.
Brazilian third-party fact-…
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February 19, 2020
In his introductory statement made to the Department of Justice Section 230 Workshop, Attorney General William Barr discussed the problems brought on by the rise of Big Tech.
“No longer are tech companies the underdog upstarts,” said…
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February 21, 2020
An automated service will no longer label people as male or female, according to a report from Business Insider.
Google's Cloud Vision API, a “computer vision” product that has the ability to “[a]ssign labels to images…
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February 21, 2020
Democrat candidate and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg tweeted a humorous video of his performance during the February 19 debate. Liberal journalists wanted the video taken down.
“There is no doubt that these videos are…
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February 24, 2020
The liberal media sees working with President Donald Trump or Republicans as a black mark on one’s reputation. For The Washington Post, having a handful of Republican employees means that Facebook fears Trump and the GOP.
The result was a 4,…