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August 28, 2018
It turns out public relations actually mean something to a tech company.
After conservative outcry was sparked when NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch criticized Twitter for not suspending users who threatened her children, Twitter miraculously decided…
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August 29, 2018
Google isn’t the only big tech company with internal issues.
Facebook apparently suffers from an internal ideological monopoly, where progressive thought reigns supreme. According to the New York Times, an employee published an memo inside…
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August 30, 2018
While Facebook rushes to focus on hate speech in the United States, apparently it hasn’t analyzed accounts from war-torn places like Myanmar.
Until recently, military personnel from Myanmar were allowed to have accounts on Facebook. At the…
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August 30, 2018
Public officials are still calling into question the practices of social media tech companies.
Both Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey are set to testify in front of both the House and Senate next week, on…
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August 31, 2018
A new study about Google News shows that while everyone gets the same results, five liberal news organizations “alone” made up 49 percent of the total recommendations from the respective experiments. The five were The New York Times…
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August 31, 2018
Twitter jumps on conservative content at the first opportunity. But how long does it take for the platform to remove actual threatening posts? If the target is conservative, the answer is too long.
On August 30, shortly after a memorial service for…
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September 4, 2018
Wouldn’t it be nice if Twitter allowed people to see posts from everyone they followed in the order that things were posted?
On September 2, TwitterSafety, one of the many official accounts of Twitter, posted a tweet thread explaining the…
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September 5, 2018
It’s worth asking big tech companies whether they practice core American values on a global scale.
In the Sept. 5, Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on social media, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO…
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September 5, 2018
Denial might be a river in Egypt but today it looked an awful lot like the Potomac.
At the Energy and Commerce hearing about Twitter on Sept. 5, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey answered many questions about his platform, but one topic he completely denied…
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September 6, 2018
Big tech companies have been trying to say that they don’t favor one political ideology over another. But their users don’t agree.
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An Axios poll, released on Sept. 6, showed that a large number of people believe Google…