The Hungarian government has warned against Big Tech oligarchs’ moves to dominate the public square online through the arbitrary and opaque enforcement of community guidelines — in their view, a kind of “pseudo legal system”.
James O’Keefe, the founder of the investigative journalism organization Project Veritas, has been permanently blacklisted by Twitter, just as his organization releases bombshell undercover footage showing senior CNN employees admitting to using “propaganda.” @Project_Veritas, the organization’s official account, has also been suspended.
Twitter reportedly censored sports journalist Jason Whitlock over his criticism of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors over her purchase of a $1.4 million home in a mostly white neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Paris’ left-wing Mayor has blamed a “far-right” smear campaign for a protest against garbage and dirt in the streets of the French capital.
A number of woke verified Twitter accounts expressed delight, mockery, or derision in the minutes and hours after the announcement of the death of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on Friday.
Beijing urged Ankara on Wednesday to “stay vigilant” against Turkish “nationalist and anti-communist” factions critical of China’s genocide of Turkic Uyghur minorities in the western Chinese territory of Xinjiang.
Amazon-owned video streaming platform Twitch has unveiled a new policy of penalizing users based on their conduct off-platform as well as on-platform, creating a virtue test for any user wishing to use the popular streaming service.
Social media giant Twitter reportedly held talks in recent months to acquire the popular startup app Clubhouse for $4 billion, which is touted as an audio-based social media network and has received significant attention for its chat sessions featuring the leading lights of Silicon Valley.
Twitter will not allow an archive of former President Donald Trump’s account on its platform. The Masters of the Universe stated: “Given that we permanently suspended @realDonaldTrump, the content from the account will not appear on Twitter as it did previously or as archived administration accounts do currently.”
Paris’s city government has criticised a “smear campaign” after a hashtag spread among French social media users showed pictures of the capital with garbage piled up on the streets.
Indiana Attorney General has begun investigations into five Big Tech corporations for censorship of conservative content involving Joe Biden’s nominee, Vanita Gupta.
“We will soon have no choice but to address how our legal doctrines apply to highly concentrated, privately owned information infrastructure such as digital platforms” wrote Thomas.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was locked out of her Twitter account for a second time over the Easter holiday, in what the company says was an error. This is the second time Rep. Greene’s account has been “accidentally” locked by the Silicon Valley tech giant.
A NATO report has revealed that Finland’s female-led government has received a torrent of sexist and misogynistic comments on social media.
Activist and actress Rose McGowan is accusing Twitter of targeting her for censorship after her account was suspended over a tweet about Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton. The former Charmed star cut a video for Russia Today to take Twitter chief Jack Dorsey to task for shutting her out of her Twitter account.
The Internet Accountability Project (IAP) released a report showing big tech employees and corporate PACs contributed more than 12 times the money to Democrats than Republicans in 2020.
A professor of Theology and Baptist Studies at Duke University Divinity School says that a social media post in which he called evangelical Christianity “the greatest threat to human existence” was “taken out of context.”
Former President Donald Trump is said to be “moving forward” with a plan to launch a social media platform after Big Tech companies banned him from using their services, according to a Wednesday report.
Recently an unintelligible tweet was sent from the official U.S. Strategic Command account. According to a recent FOIA request, the tweet was sent when the Stratcom Twitter manager left their computer unattended resulting in a “very young child” tweeting from the account.
Leaked internal documents reveal that Amazon “ambassadors,” a social media propaganda force, were trained to defend the company and Jeff Bezos along with targeting Bernie Sanders under a program codenamed “Veritas.”
The Trust Barometer, an annual global survey from the international PR firm Edelman, found that trust in Big Tech and traditional media has plunged this year. In the United States, trust in the tech sector dropped even further, to an all-time low of 57 percent.
Republican lawmakers send a letter to social media giants to demand answers on their effects on children’s mental health.
Twitter censored Harvard professor of medicine Martin Kulldorff, a member of the COVID-19 vaccine safety subgroup that advises the CDC, FIH, and FDA, because he challenged the notion that children and young people require COVID-19 vaccination.
The ranking member on a House committee investigating Big Tech power thanked a leading conservative organization for opting not to accept donations from tech giants.
A recent report reveals that Amazon’s own security staff internally flagged recent antagonistic tweets from the company as “suspicious,” and believes that the company’s Twitter accounts may have been hacked.
Twitter can be a career derailing temptation, and Biden appointees keep biting into that dopamine apple.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said during a recent congressional hearing on misinformation on social media that his social media company made a “total mistake” by censoring the New York Post’s bombshell article about Hunter Biden. When pressed by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Dorsey claimed “Well, we don’t have a censoring department.”
Jack Dorsey, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg all testified before a joint hearing of two congressional committees today. With the chief executives of three of the most powerful technology companies facing questions from lawmakers, you’d expect some interesting things to be said, right?
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Representative Buddy Carter (R-GA), ahead of Thursday’s congressional hearing involving big tech companies, pushed for “transparency” from the likes of Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
