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August 30, 2019
YouTube has been giving mixed messages about whether it is an open platform or not. The day after deplatforming multiple right-wing accounts, YouTube released a creator blog titled ”Preserving openness through responsibility.” It…
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September 3, 2019
After discovering Instagram’s plan to “hide the public like counts of photos,” reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong observed that Facebook may follow suit.
In her September 2, blog, she made clear that she works at neither Big Tech…
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September 3, 2019
YouTube deplatformed tens of thousands of videos for being “hateful,” then defended its actions as “responsibility.”
The blog post said the company balances the dual goals of that being “preserving free…
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September 4, 2019
The left is trying to steer Facebook into doing more censorship.
Sen. Ron Wyden, (D-OR) proclaimed that Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg should face dire consequences for how he has chosen to run the platform. However, he also calls for…
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September 4, 2019
Both Republicans and Democrats are chomping at the bit to take Big Tech to task over antitrust concerns.
The Hill reported on September 3 that Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust will host an upcoming hearing to “explore issues…
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September 5, 2019
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ phone numbers have been exposed online to the public.
According to TechCrunch’s September 4 story, a compromised server exposed over 419 million users across multiple countries, “including…
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September 9, 2019
Big Tech companies are facing their day of reckoning from the Pro-Life movement.
Leading pro-life organization Live Action has gone through its fair share of confrontations with Big Tech, and now is taking the fight to the next level.
In…
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September 9, 2019
Amazon, whose labor practices have been criticized from the left and right, is now facing a strike, over climate change activism.
Amazon will face its first worker’s strike in its meteoric 25-year history. Many other Big tech giants from…
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September 10, 2019
If nothing else, the sordid story of Jeffrey Epstein has done some good by exposing possible corruption in academia, science, and Big Tech.
Business Insider wrote that LinkedIn founder and Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman is the latest in…
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September 11, 2019
[UPDATE: After backlash from his fans, Felix Kjellberg has stopped his plans to donate to the ADL]
The most popular YouTuber on the platform is attempting to gain favor with the organization that wrote no company “has any obligation to…