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February 25, 2020
Reddit will once again crack down on users and communities it considers undesirable.
Buried in Reddit’s 2019 Transparency Report was a concerning update to its policies. Users who consistently upvote “policy-breaking content” in…
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February 25, 2020
Update: A Twitter spokesperson informed the MRC that the tweet had been censored in error. The filter has since been removed.
Twitter apparently considers direct quotes from Bernie Sanders about Castro and Cuba too “sensitive” for…
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February 26, 2020
For the second time, tech companies Apple and TikTok have declined to testify -- this time at a March 4 Senate hearing.
“This is a troubling pattern,” wrote Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Twitter. “What are they hiding? Don’t…
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February 26, 2020
A trillion-dollar company could be in trouble for copyright infringement, according to a lawsuit from tech company Oracle.
Oracle, a technology company known for its database management systems, has been embroiled in a legal battle with Google…
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February 26, 2020
Google in collaboration with Jigsaw is developing tools to measure subjective content online and rate it on a value scale. And scientists are taking it seriously.
A study done by eight academics from various universities together in the iDrama Lab…
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February 27, 2020
Twitter censored an account known for sharing videos from Wuhan showing scenes of a city on lockdown during the coronavirus.
Harry Chen PhD, whose now-suspended account had 35,000 followers and claimed to live in China on his bio, had been cited in…
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March 2, 2020
Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey is not popular with a wealthy investor, who is allegedly seeking to make changes at the company.
Elliott Management Corp., an investment company run by prominent Republican billionaire Paul Singer, has taken a stake…
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March 3, 2020
Facebook covers posts and news stories that have been fact-checked and found false. While this policy has affected conservative media outlets, it hasn’t appeared to affect the liberal media as much.
Until now.
A Politico post about the…
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March 17, 2020
A new report is urging Congress mandate greater transparency from Big Tech, not a Section 230 overhaul.
But will that be enough to protect conservative free speech online?
Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) released a report Tuesday headlined “It…
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April 21, 2023
Anti-free speech Google announced Thursday its decision to consolidate its AI research divisions to keep up with other Big Tech giants, despite its CEO’s insistence that AI advancement should slow down.
Google combined its DeepMind AI program and…
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