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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…
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April 5, 2022
A report suggested a new chat app for Amazon employees would ban “insensitive” words and phrases.
The Intercept reported that words like “prison,” “plantation,” and “restrooms” would be automatically flagged by an automatic word monitor. Amazon…
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April 5, 2022
Research from N.C. State University indicated that Google’s anti-spam algorithm overwhelmingly labeled emails from right-wing candidates as “spam.” The paper, titled A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US…
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April 7, 2022
Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, explained why the satire site’s account was still locked. Twitter locked the account after The Bee posted that Rachel Levine was the site’s “Man of the Year.” Levine is a biological male that is being presented…
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April 9, 2022
A podcast host with The New York Times insisted that Twitter doesn’t censor people.
Kara Swisher, who hosts the publication’s “Sway” podcast, was a guest on MSNBC’s Morning Joe where she discussed content moderation.
Fox News reported that co…
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April 10, 2022
In an op-ed published Friday in The Washington Post, former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao slammed Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s investment in Twitter and, to put it mildly, his support and vision for free speech. Put simply, she called for Democracy…
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April 11, 2022
Twitter suspended Juanita Broaddrick after she questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines for COVID-19. Broaddrick accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978.
She stated on Twitter that pharmaceutical companies made overwhelming…