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March 25, 2022
Tesla’s Elon Musk tweeted in support of free speech and questioned Twitter’s “adherence” to it.
Musk asked his followers to vote “yes” or “no” in a poll that asked users whether the platform supported free speech. “Free speech is essential to a…
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March 26, 2022
Podcaster Joe Rogan said that “woke” employees of Big Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter are “mentally ill.”
The New York Post reported that Rogan made the comment on his Spotify podcast during an interview with Antonio García Martínez, a…
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March 27, 2022
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he is giving “serious thought” to creating a new social media platform to rival Twitter.
“Would you consider building a new social media platform, @elonmusk?” an account asked on Saturday. “One that would consist an open…
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March 27, 2022
A new law in the European Union would force Apple to allow sideloading and third-party app stores.
According to The Verge, Apple would be prevented from requiring users to download apps in its own app store under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).…
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March 29, 2022
A senior editor at The Federalist was locked out of his Twitter account over the weekend after he called Rachel Levine a man.
According to The Federalist, Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson tweeted that Levine “is in fact a man” and was locked out…
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March 30, 2022
Big Tech faced yet another blow from the Department of Justice.
Originally reported by The Wall Street Journal, the DOJ sent letters to members of the congressional judiciary committees and asked them to support an antitrust bill that prevented Big…
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April 2, 2022
Google threatened to demonetize publishers for “dissent" on Ukraine.
Publishers received a message from Google warning that it would not monetize content that “exploits, dismisses, or condones” the war in Ukraine.
Deadline reported that the…
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April 2, 2022
Two committees of the parliament of the European Union voted for a bill that would strip all privacy protections from cryptocurrency. Axios reported that the bill “would ban transactions that state authorities can't readily tie to a person or an…
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April 3, 2022
Once again, it appears Twitter has operated by a different set of rules. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling had been criticized for her comments on transgenders in the past, but a new response to her comments included a death threat.
On Sunday,…
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April 3, 2022
YouTube once again removed content that involved former President Donald Trump. The Washington Times reported that the platform removed the Republican National Committee’s podcast with Trump for so-called election “misinformation.” McDaniel hosted…