After years of being hammered by liberal talking heads for being too lenient about policing content, social media companies are considering radical changes to the social media landscape. Big Tech giants might begin to decide “what is true…
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August 20, 2019
Ready for a handful of liberal news sources and a maybe a conservative or two? How about a computer program that chooses what stories you should read? Facebook’s upcoming “News Tab” already sounds suspect. Especially, in light…
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August 20, 2019
Facebook released its official report about accusations of bias from conservatives — only it bears no resemblance to the similar audit it did for the left. The company didn’t actually admit conservative concerns about censorship were…
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August 19, 2019
Facebook is allegedly trying to monitor its workers’ psychiatric trauma sessions.
According to a letter written by whistleblowers within Accenture, a Facebook contractor, “This pressuring of a licensed counselor to…
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August 16, 2019
Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) questioned whether Facebook was entirely honest in its previous Hill testimony about recording its users’ supposedly private conversations.
Peters wrote in an Aug. 15 letter “regarding recent…
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August 14, 2019
Facebook has been recording audio clips of its users and paying contractors to copy what they say.
According to Bloomberg, the employees, “who are not told where the audio was recorded or how it was obtained” are merely…
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August 13, 2019
A lawsuit against Facebook has ended in a loss for the massive social media platform.
Reuters reported that a federal court ruled against Facebook, declaring that it illegally collected and stored biometric data of users without…
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August 2, 2019
Instagram has gone to war with meme pages. The reason why is unclear.
“Instagram seems to have purged most of the top meme accounts on the platform,” according to Insider. Reports indicate that pages with hundreds of…
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August 2, 2019
Facebook announced that it had removed 259 accounts, allegedly part of a Saudi Arabian propaganda network.
The accounts, the pages set up by the accounts, and the events hosted by the pages promoted propaganda about the Saudi…
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July 31, 2019
According to a Michigan-based survey to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, user satisfaction with Facebook is dropping rapidly.
As the study reported, “ACSI results show a dramatic loss in user satisfaction with…
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July 31, 2019
Major business leaders aren’t all eager for Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, Libra.
In an interview with The Verge’s Nilay Patel, billionaire and Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban had some objections to Facebook’s…
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July 29, 2019
America’s favorite Border Patrol officer, Kiara Cervantes -- hailed as the "ICE Bae" -- has called for a boycott against Instagram after the Big Tech giant deplatformed her.
Apparently, Instagram allows multiple…
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July 26, 2019
Democrats are trying to buy their way to a presidential victory in 2020 on Facebook and Google.
Priorities USA, a Democratic SuperPAC, announced that it was launching an advertising campaign that would repackage local news into…
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July 25, 2019
No one is happy with the fine the FTC levied on Facebook. Not even the FTC.
Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter wrote in a July 24 letter that she objected to the $5 billion fine handed to Facebook for privacy…
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July 24, 2019
Facebook and Amazon set new records for lobbying spending in early 2019, according to recent disclosures.
Bloomberg reported July 23, that Facebook Inc. spent more than $4.1 million lobbying, and Amazon Inc. spent more than $4 million in…
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July 23, 2019
Facebook and Twitter are working together to squelch any conservative opinions about illegal aliens.
Conservative writer and Breitbart contributor Warner Todd Huston wrote that he had been suspended from both social media platforms…
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July 15, 2019
Key Republican leaders have called for action from the FTC, accusing Big Tech companies of threatening democracy.
Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri put Big Tech companies on notice by pressing the Federal Trade…
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July 10, 2019
The Thursday Social Media Summit at the White House will rally supporters of free speech.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who plans to attend the summit, has commented that he is “concerned there are people who work at the major…
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July 10, 2019
BlazeTV pundit Deneen Borelli called out Facebook’s CEO for destroying her video career via censorship.
Internet personalities depend upon viewers and clicks so that their videos generate ad revenue, just like how TV shows…
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July 9, 2019
Facebook’s policy for posting content that called for violence used to be straightforward: don’t do it. Now, there are exceptions.
According to an updated version of Facebook’s Community Standards, calls for…
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