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September 16, 2020
Google testified in an antitrust hearing before the Senate yesterday, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears to be gearing up to crack down on Facebook.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the FTC is preparing “a possible antitrust…
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September 17, 2020
It’s no secret that Americans have a complicated relationship with Big Tech, and a recent study from FleishmanHillard highlights just how complicated this relationship can be.
FleishmanHillard, a St. Louis-based marketing agency and public…
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September 18, 2020
It’s no secret that Twitter skews sharply to the left. A recent job change by a top employee of the platform shows why.
Carlos Monje, now the former public policy director for Twitter, left the company to join the transition team for Democratic…
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September 21, 2020
It is fairly common for Twitter to censor or flag conservative content it deems offensive. Now, the platform has decided that a video discussing Christian love and truth constitutes sensitive material.
Twitter placed an interstitial, or filter, on…
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September 21, 2020
Just hours before President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the WeChat app was to go into effect, a federal judge blocked it.
On Sunday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler temporarily blocked Trump’s ban of the Chinese-owned messaging app,…
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September 22, 2020
The Department of Justice (DOJ) may now be one step closer to bringing down Google’s massive empire.
The DOJ is expected to brief state attorneys general on plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google as early as this week, according to…
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September 22, 2020
Facebook is too willing to censor political content from the right, but now, the site is preparing to restrict even more content on election night.
In a recent interview with Financial Times, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s head of global affairs,…
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September 23, 2020
President Donald Trump isn’t finished with his fight against Big Tech censorship.
Trump is planning to meet with several Republican state attorneys general today to urge them to investigate Big Tech censorship of conservatives online. …
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September 23, 2020
Regardless of your stance on vaccination, hiding information about anti-vaccine groups and content probably doesn’t help anyone.
ZDNet, an Australian news website, reported that Facebook is attempting to hide what it deems “vaccine…
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September 24, 2020
Amidst calls for Section 230 reform and antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook, a House subcommittee hearing today explored the relationship between Big Tech’s lack of accountability and the radicalization of their respective platforms’…