Technology

Brian Bradley | December 3, 2021

Sony managers were apparently too abrasive when they didn’t stay in the same room as women with the door shut and for showing genuine concern for women’s personal lives.

Those are two of several supposed gender-discrimination claims…

Autumn Johnson | December 2, 2021

Meta removed over 160 Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to Hamas, a designated terrorist group, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The accounts were reportedly primarily operated in the Gaza Strip and targeted “Palestinian territories…

Autumn Johnson | November 30, 2021

Twitter announced on Tuesday that it would expand its privacy policy to include media posted of an individual without their consent.

“There are growing concerns about the misuse of media and information that is not available elsewhere…

Autumn Johnson | November 22, 2021

In the latest example of Big Tech censorship, Foundation of Economic Freedom Policy correspondent Brad Polumbo accused TikTok of removing a pro-Kyle Rittenhouse video. TikTok's reasons? Not surprisingly, they were incredibly vague.

The…

Autumn Johnson | November 19, 2021

GoFundMe bizarrely tried to defend its ban on fundraising for acquitted Kenosha, WI defendant Kyle Rittenhouse.

The fundraising platform previously banned fundraisers dedicated to raising money to aid in Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense…

Autumn Johnson | November 19, 2021

Attorneys general from several states have decided to launch an investigation into the effects Instagram has on children who use the app.

The attorneys will investigate Meta’s outreach to young users as well as whether the company…

Autumn Johnson | November 16, 2021

Nick Clegg, Vice President of Global Affairs at Meta, says the world needs a “global internet.”

“Meta” is the new name for Facebook.

In an op-ed at Financial Review, Clegg said “global rules” were needed for a “global internet.”…

Autumn Johnson | November 16, 2021

TikTok has settled a class-action suit alleging that the popular entertainment app violated user privacy.

The lawsuit alleged that TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, “violated federal and state law by collecting and using,…

Autumn Johnson | November 14, 2021

A report from The Washington Post suggests Facebook purposefully prevents users from controlling their own feeds.

The “News Feed” feature on Facebook is meant to show the user the most up-to-date posts from friends, family, public figures…

Autumn Johnson | November 12, 2021

YouTube has once again temporarily suspended Senator Ron Johnson’s channel over so-called COVID-19 “misinformation.”

Johnson has frequently criticized the government’s “authoritarian” responses. This time, he was suspended over a video…

Craig Bannister | November 12, 2021

Two-thirds of U.S. adults don’t trust Big Tech and three-fourths say Facebook, in particular, makes American society worse, a new CNN poll finds.

The national survey of 1,004 adults (18 and over), conducted November 1-4, 2021 by SSRS,…

Autumn Johnson | November 11, 2021

The United States government is warning against rules the European Union has drafted that could risk companies’ intellectual property and trade secrets.

According to Reuters, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) sets out a list of things…

Autumn Johnson | November 9, 2021

Gigi Sohn, President Biden’s nominee to the Federal Communications Commission, appears to have troubling biases against conservative media outlets. The Twitter account of Sohn promised to “fulfill [Biden’s] goal of ensuring that every household…

Autumn Johnson | November 9, 2021

Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, is calling on Instagram to provide a dislike button on posts in an effort to promote kindness. Markle attended the “Minding the Gap” conference to promote paid sick and parental leave in the United States,…

Autumn Johnson | November 7, 2021

A new feature in Microsoft will provide employers with increased visibility on employee browsers.

The feature is aimed at “insider risk management,” where employers are able to monitor online employee actions online. The compliance center…

Autumn Johnson | November 7, 2021

A study from researchers at Facebook suggests addiction to the app is only growing.

The Daily Mail reports that researchers found that 1 in 8 of the platform’s 2.9 billion users is addicted to the app, displaying troubling behaviors that…

Autumn Johnson | November 6, 2021

Congressman Jim Banks is back on Twitter after he deleted a tweet that went against the platform’s Terms of Service.

On October 19, Banks tweeted about Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman who recently became the first transgender four-…

Autumn Johnson | November 4, 2021

A report suggests that The Washington Post is preparing an article criticizing the White Coat Waste Project, a group dedicated to ending cruel dog experiments. Journalist Glenn Greenwald detailed The Post’s reports on the animal rights advocacy…

Autumn Johnson | October 31, 2021

Twitter was criticized after it failed to remove tweets suggesting that Glenn Youngkin, the GOP nominee for Virginia Governor, had white supremacists at a rally.

The rally members were later discovered to be Democrats with ties to the…

Autumn Johnson | October 30, 2021

Trade Group NetChoice has once again criticized the Texas “free speech” law.

The law is aimed at preventing social media platforms from suspending accounts or removing posts based on political ideology. NetChoice said the new law will…