The Verge’s tech survey has a few big takeaways: Americans are skeptical of Facebook, want Big Tech broken up, and seemingly say Twitter is a menace to society.
The Verge has conducted surveys, starting with “the hangover of…
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March 4, 2020
The New York Times sees YouTube purges as a start, but still not good enough.
“YouTube’s efforts to curb conspiracy theories pose a major test of Silicon Valley’s ability to combat misinformation,” The Times…
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March 3, 2020
YouTube has been overhauling its policies, and one result is clear: chances to successfully appeal your content once it has been removed are slim.
In YouTube’s latest Community Guidelines enforcement report spanning from Oct. to Dec…
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March 3, 2020
Facebook covers posts and news stories that have been fact-checked and found false. While this policy has affected conservative media outlets, it hasn’t appeared to affect the liberal media as much.
Until now.
A Politico…
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March 2, 2020
Google critic Dr. Robert Epstein warned of Big Tech’s potential for abuse in elections -- and apparently Americans are beginning to heed his concerns.
Both Republicans and Democrats appear to agree that Big Tech will be unable to…
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March 2, 2020
Conservative leaders spoke at a game-changing panel about how the movement will take on Big Tech censorship.
Donald Trump, Jr., House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) blasted Bich Tech bias at a Feb 28…
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March 2, 2020
Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey is not popular with a wealthy investor, who is allegedly seeking to make changes at the company.
Elliott Management Corp., an investment company run by prominent Republican billionaire Paul Singer, has…
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February 28, 2020
After a brief controversy where the viral video app TikTok censored and reinstated a pro-life organization, the platform has allowed a viral video showing young women seemingly giddy about abortion.
Live Action founder Lila Rose blasted…
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February 28, 2020
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that YouTube may censor whomever it chooses, and is not bound by the First Amendment.
The ruling in Prager University v. Google dealt a blow to PragerU’s cause this past Wednesday,…
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February 27, 2020
Worried about the rise of socialism? The Big Tech oligarchs over at Twitter don’t appear to be.
Despite a Twitter rule which states that the platform will censor accounts for using “hateful symbol[s],” a Twitter…
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February 27, 2020
Twitter censored an account known for sharing videos from Wuhan showing scenes of a city on lockdown during the coronavirus.
Harry Chen PhD, whose now-suspended account had 35,000 followers and claimed to live in China on his bio, had…
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February 26, 2020
Prominent liberal Google critic Dr. Robert Epstein wrote an op-ed warning that Big Tech companies can rig the 2020 election and “make the Russians look like rank amateurs.”
“President Donald Trump can’t win the…
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February 26, 2020
Google in collaboration with Jigsaw is developing tools to measure subjective content online and rate it on a value scale. And scientists are taking it seriously.
A study done by eight academics from various universities together in the…
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February 26, 2020
A trillion-dollar company could be in trouble for copyright infringement, according to a lawsuit from tech company Oracle.
Oracle, a technology company known for its database management systems, has been embroiled in a legal battle with…
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February 26, 2020
For the second time, tech companies Apple and TikTok have declined to testify -- this time at a March 4 Senate hearing.
“This is a troubling pattern,” wrote Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Twitter. “What are they hiding?…
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February 25, 2020
A 19-year-old German woman is being hailed as the conservative response to climate change activist Greta Thunberg. She has condemned climate alarmism as a “despicably anti-human ideology,” and liberal journos are heated about it…
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February 25, 2020
Update: A Twitter spokesperson informed the MRC that the tweet had been censored in error. The filter has since been removed.
Twitter apparently considers direct quotes from Bernie Sanders about Castro and Cuba too “sensitive…
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February 25, 2020
Reddit will once again crack down on users and communities it considers undesirable.
Buried in Reddit’s 2019 Transparency Report was a concerning update to its policies. Users who consistently upvote “policy-breaking content…
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February 25, 2020
The First Amendment covers freedom of speech and freedom of religion. But what if someone’s religion does not allow homosexuality?
Facebook apparently deems that kind of speech to be “hate speech.” When the founder of…
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February 24, 2020
Can Bloomberg’s money hack the election? Twitter moderators would disagree.
Twitter reportedly suspended 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts this past Friday for engaging in “platform manipulation.” For all of former New York City…
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