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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…
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January 2, 2020
Apps collect data about their users. What happens when a foreign government owns that data?
The U.S. military did not want to find out. According to an NBC News report, the Defense Information Systems Agency advised employees to avoid using the app…