Even amidst national strife, Americans seem united in their distrust of Big Tech. “48 percent of Democrats and 49 percent of Republicans now want candidates to be more critical of the [Big Tech] industry — 6- and 5-point jumps, respectively, from…
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The teenager who was charged with shooting rioters while defending stores in Kenosha has reportedly been shafted from gathering donations on GoFundMe, but other organizations have stepped up. “A legal team says it will defend Kyle Rittenhouse,…
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After Apple snuck COVID-19 contract tracing software onto its iPhone updates in May, the company is now at least pretending to care about user privacy.
One feature of Apple’s iOS 14 update, originally announced in June, is intended to…
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In the latest dystopian story in the year of COVID-19, the World Health Organization is now monitoring conversations to have machines understand how to manipulate public conversation. “The World Health Organization is collaborating with an…
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Republican National Convention (RNC) speakers have not been afraid to call out Big Tech for its role in censoring conservatives. Speakers like Charlie Kirk, Nick Sandmann and Tiffany and Melania Trump have stressed the importance of maintaining…
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Twitter censors President Donald Trump for declaring he will enforce law and order, but issuing an ultimatum to randomly threaten police officers is A-OK with Twitter moderators. “A Twitter spokesman says activist and accused fraudster Shaun King…
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Google doesn’t seem to understand privacy. Perhaps its employees need to Google it. A recent lawsuit against Google included emails from employees claiming that the company’s privacy settings are so complicated, even its own engineers don’t fully…
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First Lady Melania Trump and the president’s youngest daughter Tiffany Trump blasted Big Tech during their speeches at the Republican National Convention. Many members of the Trump family have given the 2020 Republican National Convention a…
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When faced with the choice earlier this year, YouTube chose to censor more content on its platform during its second quarter than it had in any previous quarter.
YouTube reported that it removed twice as many videos in its second quarter…
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Activision apparently never read its own tagline “KNOW YOUR HISTORY OR BE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT.” The company edited its new video game, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to cater to ommunist China. Activision quietly replaced the game trailer with…
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Several Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee took a big step in holding Amazon accountable for discriminating against conservatives.
Republicans on the House Committee on the Judiciary sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff…
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A recent study found that Americans are divided strongly along party lines over whether Big Tech companies are worthy to fact-check politicians. Seventy-three percent of Democrats said they “strongly or somewhat approve” of Big Tech “labeling…
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TikTok is reeling after two executive orders have threatened the Chinese-owned apps existence in the U.S. Now it has decided to take to the U.S. courts.
Today, TikTok filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government after President Donald…
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Months before the presidential election, Facebook has already made plans to crack down on President Donald Trump’s posts in case he attempts to use the platform to contest the election’s legitimacy.
An August 21 New York Times article…
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It happened again. This time, Twitter undermined the president for expressing concern over voter fraud. President Donald Trump wrote an August 23 tweet criticizing “Mail Drop Boxes” as a “voter security disaster.” Twitter responded by placing an…
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Big Tech has allowed open season on President Donald Trump for years, but cracks down quickly on criticism of the Democratic presidential ticket. Conservative media analyst and author Mark Dice announced that “Facebook censored a viral meme I…
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Despite recent news that the social media platform Reddit would allow President Donald Trump’s campaign to run ads on the platform, the company still squashes free speech on the platform.
Reddit has banned nearly 7,000 subreddits since…
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Facebook fact-checkers should be “non-partisan and transparent.” But they defended Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) 20 times to one over the course of 10 days. Since former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden selected Sen.…
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Facebook’s latest bans include a purge of some Antifa accounts, which the left quickly defended. Leftist organizations and journalists themselves have covered for the banned groups, gaslighting that they are not tied to violence. A joint…
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A recent Pew Research Center (Pew) study found that most Americans are, at least to some extent, concerned about online censorship and the ability of social media companies to handle misinformation.
The Pew study, published on August 19…
