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June 12, 2022
Journalists at The New York Times criticized Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to push back against online censorship.
The paper published an article in the technology section that accused Paxton of standing up against censorship online…
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June 13, 2022
A Google engineer claimed an artificial intelligence bot that belonged to the company came to life. And then the company put him on administrative leave.
Google engineer Blake Lemoine told the Washington Post that the tech giant’s artificial…
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June 14, 2022
Google offered to allow ads from rival companies to settle an antitrust investigation.
CNBC reported that the company hoped this action would avoid a fine from a European Union antitrust investigation:
The European Commission opened a probe last…
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June 14, 2022
Here we go again! White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy said “we need the tech companies to really jump in” to combat so-called disinformation and misinformation.
It’s not the first time the Biden administration has advocated for Big…
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June 15, 2022
Big Tech platforms agreed to provide data to the European Union to fight “disinformation” online.
Financial Times reported that Meta, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft provided data to individual EU countries, giving the bloc more control over speech…
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June 16, 2022
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said that the White House national climate advisor’s recent comments urging Big Tech to combat so-called disinformation represent the Biden administration’s latest effort to “control” and “chill” speech.
Jordan’s comments…
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June 18, 2022
A new report suggested Facebook received sensitive medical information from hospital websites.
The Markup tested 100 hospital websites and on 33 of them discovered a tracking tool called “Meta Pixel” that collected patients’ sensitive health…
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June 19, 2022
U.S. lawmakers urged Google to “fix” abortion searches.
Reuters reported that Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) were among 14 senators and seven House lawmakers -- all Democrats -- who signed the letter to Google…
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June 21, 2022
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, faced a lawsuit after it was revealed the company used a tracking tool to obtain patient health information.
Reclaim the Net reported that the plaintiff, a patient who used the healthcare portal in Baltimore,…
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June 21, 2022
A new report suggested China exploited Google search results to spread its false narrative about COVID-19.
The Washington Examiner detailed a report that China manipulated Google search results to hide the country’s mishandling of the COVID-19…
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