Technology

The Biden administration announced at a press briefing on Facebook Friday that it was working with Facebook to censor posts that contained “misinformation.” The comments came after President Biden said misleading posts on Facebook were “killing people.”

Two Amazon employees have resigned in recent weeks in protest of the company’s decision to continue selling “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” a book that explores transgenderism in teenage girls.

The Democratic National Convention and other Biden allies are “casting conservative opponents of its Covid-19 vaccine campaign as dangerous and extreme.” And they will partner with Big Tech and fact-checkers to stop them, according to Politico. 

The article said pro-Biden groups are moving “more aggressively” and that they will “work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about…

Actor Ashton Kutcher is concerned that China is using TikTok to influence the beliefs of young Americans.

A lawsuit targeting a pro-Trump meme has been dismissed.

Members of the class-action lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump are looking for stories from other social media users who have had their content censored by Big Tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

President Biden took aim at Big Tech in his latest executive order on Friday. Or at least that's what they said. The sweeping executive order says it cracks down on Big Tech’s anti-competitive practices. The order includes 72 actions and recommendations aimed at promoting competition in the U.S. economy after the global pandemic.

Thirty-six states and Washington D.C. have sued Google over alleged antitrust violations in the Android app store. The California federal court case challenges a recently expanded Google policy that forces app developers to pay a 30 percent commission fee on sales made through the Google Play store.

One America News Network launched its own social media platform on July 4.

Facebook has censored search results displaying a #revolution hashtag.

YouTube has suspended Right Side Broadcasting Network and removed the news site’s videos of former President Donald Trump’s rallies. YouTube took down the videos because the footage allegedly violated the platform’s Community Guidelines, according to RSBN.

Former Trump advisor Jason Miller will launch a new social media platform designed to “declare independence” from Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. “GETTR,” which Miller says evolved from “getting together,” will launch on July 4. However, the platform’s app is already in the App Stores.

A federal court judge dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust complaint against Facebook on Monday.

Americans may have thought that physical marketplaces were safe from Big Tech surveillance. But Amazon is now tracking consumers as they shop at offline markets too.