Meta (Facebook) is not the only tech company seeking to remake the world as a metaverse. Pokémon Go developer John Hanke recently suggested that augmented reality (AR) “is where the real metaverse is going to happen.”

It’s Episode Eleven of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about Big Tech’s overreach in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

Gigi Sohn, President Biden’s nominee to the Federal Communications Commission, has troubling biases against conservative media outlets. The Twitter account of Sohn promised to “fulfill [Biden’s] goal of ensuring that every household in the US has robust broadband Internet.” However, her true priorities may be much more troubling.

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, despite the fact that she lives in a $14-million in California and is married to a prince. She also discussed vitriol online.

Congress and Big Tech are still battling it out over which will have more control over the online speech of Americans. A new bipartisan congressional bill would allow users to experience social media without the algorithms.

Is Facebook put off by the word “penis” or merely a book that might embarrass a liberal politician? A former aide to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for free speech after Facebook reportedly banned ads for her book.

Big Tech censorship was even worse in the third quarter of 2021. This was especially alarming considering the platforms didn’t have much farther to fall from their pathetic second quarter grades. Online Freedom on Google, Twitter and Facebook all continued to decline. Once again, this quarter saw widespread censoring of conservative content.

Left-leaning populist YouTube celebrity Shoe0nHead called out Prostasia as a “tax exempted pedophile club” and shared purported screenshots calling out the website.

Big Tech better watch out! A new bipartisan Senate bill aimed at restricting tech companies’ “anticompetitive” acquisition abilities is getting attention from policymakers and experts alike. The new Senate bill introduced by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) would greatly limit the ability of Big Tech companies to acquire other tech companies. While the bill is being touted…

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 will be compatible with Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. 

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

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

Microsoft opened an event by apologizing to indiginous tribes of America on whose land their offices are built. No word on whether Bill Gates wants to actually return them.

It’s called “Big” Tech for a reason, and tech companies are looking to expand even more, this time into the field of health care.