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August 17, 2021
The Chinese Communist government has reportedly taken a stake and board seat in ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company.
On April 30, ByteDance sold a one percent stake to WangTouZhongWen Technology, a Beijing company owned by three state entities…
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August 18, 2021
Lead Stories, a liberal fact-checker site, labeled a satire article from The Babylon Bee as “false.”
The fact-check on the Facebook post said the article had “false information” and that “independent fact-checkers say the information has no basis…
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August 18, 2021
Amazon and its third-party sellers have outsold Walmart for the year, according to a report from The New York Times.
The sales make the online retailer the largest retailer outside China. This year also marks the first year that a company outsold…
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August 18, 2021
"Why Trump's banned and the Taliban aren't: they play by the rules." Such was the absurd comment tweeted by Technology Policy Editor of The Washington Post Mark Seibel.
Facebook has issued a blanket ban on the Taliban, but…
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August 19, 2021
The Federal Trade Commission has refiled its lawsuit against Facebook, arguing that the social media giant is a monopoly.
The refiling comes after a federal court judge dismissed the FTC’s complaint in June.
The FTC and attorney generals from 48…
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August 19, 2021
Facebook is taking action after pressure from the White House. The Biden administration blamed the platform for the majority of coronavirus “misinformation.”
The news comes after the White House blamed accounts on the platform for spreading…
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August 20, 2021
Though the Biden administration suggested it would not implement a federal COVID-19 verification system, Big Tech has taken the reins and plans to step in as Big Brother. Google and Apple have announced updates that will allow users to display their…
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August 20, 2021
The controversial “geofence” warrants have increased twelve times over the past three years, data released from Google shows.
A geofence warrant is a special type of information request where law enforcement asks Google to provide them with the…
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August 20, 2021
On Friday night, Twitter decided that, without warning, it would temporarily suspend Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. According to a screenshot from Pushaw, the ban will last 12 hours.
Pushaw was…
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August 21, 2021
Christina Pushaw is back on Twitter after a twelve-hour suspension -- and she's ready to set the record straight about Big Tech.
Governor DeSantis’s press secretary was suspended from Twitter Friday night after the Associated Press sent DeSantis a…
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