Technology

Amazon and its third-party sellers have outsold Walmart for the year, according to a…

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) appeared to be very unhappy with China’s new stake in TikTok. He called on the Biden administration to “take immediate action” to block the platform and its parent company ByteDance from operating in the United States. “Even before today, it was clear that TikTok represented a serious threat to personal privacy and U.S. national security," Rubio said in a press…

Lead Stories, a liberal fact-checker site, labeled a satire article from The Babylon Bee as “False.”

The Chinese Communist government has reportedly taken a stake and board seat in ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company. On April 30, ByteDance sold a one percent stake to WangTouZhongWen Technology, a Beijing company owned by three state entities in China, according to Reuters. The deal also reporptedly allows the Chinese government to appoint a board director to ByteDance.

YouTube received criticism from a U.S. congresswoman after it reportedly removed a video of a news conference that discussed a legal challenge to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “vaccine passports.”

A purported Taliban spokesman still has an active Twitter account, despite the platform suspended former President Donald Trump for “hateful” and “violent” content.

Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies says Google altered its news algorithm to directly target former President Donald Trump. Vorhis was a senior software engineer at YouTube and Google. He…

Snopes co-founder David Mikkelson has been accused of publishing plagiarized articles under a false name.

Three Australian publishers have accused Facebook of taking their content for its newly-launched news service without compensation.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that mainstream news outlets should consider it their “duty” to reject Big Tech censorship before ultimately claiming “that's not going to happen.”

The new free speech-oriented video-sharing platform said it has experienced massive growth in recent months. “In just the past year, Rumble has experienced over a 25-fold increase in viewership – with no indication of slowing,” the platform said. Rumble’s primary audience has been users considered right wing, but the platform’s welcoming of a broader diversity of voices could bring even more…

At least eight GOP-controlled states have passed bans on donations to election offices in order to deter Big Tech influence. Last year, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to election offices during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, after Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, conservative groups want to prevent that from happening again.

Erickson was commenting on a post about the suspension of conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey, who had been suspended days before for the same violation.

Twitter has temporarily restricted the account of Liz Harrington, chief spokeswoman to former President Donald Trump (who is also a former MRC intern and former CNS News reporter). Twitter said the account was restricted because it contained “some unusual activity” and asks users if they “still want to view it.” Harrington had recently repeated Trump’s allegations of voter fraud online, the…