Google has bought its way into health care through fitness tracking. Is the European Union (E.U.) right to call foul?
Both U.S. and E.U. regulators are wary of Google’s $2.1 billion purchase of fitness tracking company Fitbit last…
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February 24, 2020
The liberal media sees working with President Donald Trump or Republicans as a black mark on one’s reputation. For The Washington Post, having a handful of Republican employees means that Facebook fears Trump and the GOP.
The result…
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February 21, 2020
About 300 Oracle employees have staged a virtual walkout over their founder and chairman’s support for President Donald Trump.
Oracle employees were outraged when they found out that Big Tech billionaire Larry Ellison was hosting a…
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February 21, 2020
Democrat candidate and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg tweeted a humorous video of his performance during the February 19 debate. Liberal journalists wanted the video taken down.
“There is no doubt that these videos are…
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February 21, 2020
An automated service will no longer label people as male or female, according to a report from Business Insider.
Google's Cloud Vision API, a “computer vision” product that has the ability to “[a]ssign labels to…
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February 20, 2020
A leaked demo revealed a new system that may change the way Twitter users get information on the platform.
NBC News reports Twitter confirmed a leaked demo of upcoming anti-“misinformation” features, reported NBC News. The…
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February 19, 2020
Facebook’s plans for regulating Big Tech have not met the expectations of some bigwigs in EU leadership.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg toured Brussels earlier this week, meeting with press and politicians and also publishing a white…
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February 19, 2020
In his introductory statement made to the Department of Justice Section 230 Workshop, Attorney General William Barr discussed the problems brought on by the rise of Big Tech.
“No longer are tech companies the underdog upstarts,…
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February 19, 2020
Facebook is finding some forms of government regulation to be too much for the company, even as CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls for more of it.
Facebook has been "legally compelled," according to Bloomberg News, by the government of…
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February 18, 2020
The fate of free speech on the internet could be discussed at an upcoming discussion hosted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
The News Media Alliance (NMA), a thousands-strong coalition of U.S. news organizations, is criticizing…
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February 18, 2020
The origin of the coronavirus is still being debated, but Twitter has responded to one skeptic outlet by censoring it.
The ZeroHedge founder reportedly, under the pseudonym Tyler Durden, asked “Is This The Man Behind The Global…
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February 17, 2020
In a country where the squeaky wheel gets the grease, the Democratic Party may be getting led astray by a small but vocal minority on social media.
A Pew Research Center study released February 3 found that “The political views…
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February 17, 2020
Instagram announced in May of 2019 that it would be fact-checking and “reducing distribution” for what it considered to be “disinformation.” Since then, it seems to be targeting pro-life content.
Brazilian third-…
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February 17, 2020
Twitter defines “sensitive content” as something that might contain “violence or nudity.” So why did a photo of a Nascar racer and the president get flagged by the platform as potentially sensitive content?
NASCAR…
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February 14, 2020
YouTube, once again, is doing everything it can to stop discussion about the alleged “whistleblower.”
YouTube removed a clip of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) of him speaking on the Senate floor, the National Review reported. In the…
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February 13, 2020
The man whose complaints single handedly caused an entire adpocalypse on YouTube has returned to the platform to “flood its airwaves with leftist propaganda.”
Carlos Maza is leaving Vox to establish his own channel according…
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February 13, 2020
How dangerous is a single tech-savvy conservative? Enough to politically divide Silicon Valley itself and get a CEO to rant about the future of “democracy.”
Digital Content Next CEO Jason Kint, in an article-filled tweetstorm…
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February 13, 2020
Major social media platforms are removing Iranian disinformation and coordinated behavior from their platforms. But Republicans don’t think that’s enough.
Four Republican senators wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on…
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February 12, 2020
The British government may be free from Europe thanks to Brexit, but it appears to be sliding into authoritarianism as it drafts regulations to crack down on freedom of speech.
Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s media watchdog, according…
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February 12, 2020
A wealthy billionaire tech CEO has endorsed the economically irresponsible concept of a universal basic income. Unfortunately for him, its advocate Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has dropped out of the race.
Twitter head…
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