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Journalism Study Claims Search Engines and Social Media ‘Not Neutral’
The liberal media are ready to redefine social media platforms as something only they can use freely. Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Donovan and Data and Society head Danah Boyd wrote in a white paper that tech companies were responsible for a “new wave of hate groups.”
Amazon Alexa Has ‘New Ways’ to Detect, Listen for Things in Your Home
In a recent piece on Amazon’s “Day One” blog, Amazon detailed some of the “[n]ew ways Alexa makes life simpler and more convenient” and “your home smarter and safer” all the while keeping your “family and friends connected, and bring[ing] your favorite entertainment to you, wherever you are.”
Black Conservative Warns Twitter ‘Coming After Trump Supporters'
Comedian Terrence K. Williams of “The Deplorables” comedy troupe, pleaded for help Friday amidst fears Twitter was targeting his account for his support of President Trump. A popular blue check conservative with over 600,000 followers, Williams received a legal warning from Twitter right before he was to go to the White House’s “Young Black Leadership Summit.”
Dems Gabbard, Warren Defend Trump’s Free Speech on Twitter
Strange political times make for unexpected allies as Democratic primary candidates defend Trump’s right to have a platform on Twitter. Democratic presidential nominee rivals Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts rejected comments by Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-CA) calling for Trump to be suspended from Twitter.
Is Google CEO Op-Ed on Fox Business a Shift to the Right?
The massive search engine monopoly that is Google is now defending small businesses and it did so on Fox Business. That raises an interesting question: Do conservatives suddenly look more appealing to Big Tech in the face of regulatory statements by Democrat candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
China’s TikTok Video App Censors Posts about Trump, Christianity, LGBT
One of the news social media apps is copying the strategies of big name sites — censorship. TikTok, a wildly popular app that is managed by a sinister moderation system, is censoring posts about President Donald Trump, Christianity and the LGBT community, according to leaks sent to The Guardian.
EU: U.S. Tech Firms Must Remove Posts If They Are Illegal in Europe
So much for the Declaration of Independence? The top court in the European Union ruled that Facebook, an American company, must delete content globally if a European court deems it defamatory. As the Court of Justice of the European Union press release wrote, “EU law does not preclude a host provider such as Facebook from being ordered to remove identical and, in certain circumstances, equivalent…
Twitter Removes Trump’s Meme Video From Twitter
President Trump’s sense of humor has been limited by good old-fashioned copyright claims. After the president tweeted a video with a clip from Nickelback’s music video, “Photograph,” the meme was removed promptly.
Twitter Exec Revealed to be British Psychological Warfare Officer
Move over Russia, a Big Tech executive allegedly has had ties with an "information warfare" unit of the British Army. As reported by NewsWeek, Twitter executive Head of Editorial Gordon MacMillan, who has editorial responsibility for Middle East and Africa, “also serves with the 77th Brigade—an outfit formed in 2015 to conduct "information warfare" and develop ‘non-lethal’ ways of conducting war…
Facebook Promises to Stop Fact-Checking, Suppressing Opinions
Facebook is once more attempting to be seen as neutral, with a new decision about fact-checking. And the left isn’t happy about it. The social media giant will no longer fact-check opinion pieces and satire on its platform, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Beta Testing for Jordan Peterson’s Free Speech Platform Goes Live!
Dr Jordan B Peterson’s meteoric rise in popularity has started intense intellectual conversations on topics from free speech to gender politics. Now, after seeing free speech threatened by Big Tech censorship, he worked with experts to create his own platform for people to have just those kinds of discussions. MRC Techwatch, which covered the creation of this new platform, was selected as one of…
Trump Jr. Makes Case to Break Up Big Tech
“The free press that the founders envisioned looked a lot more like” Reddit. It didn’t look like New York Times writers who misrepresent basic tenets of free speech and demand censorship to protect their friends from “online harassment.” So said Donald Trump Jr. en route to arguing “the greatest threat to free speech and our democracy today is not the government, but the technology giants that…
Kamala Harris: Trump’s Twitter ‘Privilege’ Should ‘Be Taken From Him’
The Democratic candidates running for the nomination in 2020 are ready to impeach President Trump. It starts with his Twitter account. On Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, Senator and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris (D-CA) told host Anderson Cooper that President Trump should be “suspended” from Twitter.
Former Reddit CEO Wants Trump Banned From Twitter
While the liberal media indulges in a mass panic over a Trump tweet that quoted a pastor speaking about civil war, Silicon Valley is demanding practical action. Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao has been lobbying for Twitter to suspend the president’s account for two years.