The Republican National Committee slammed Facebook as “an extension of the left’s woke mob” after the company’s oversight board upheld a ban on President Trump. “We’ve known for multiple cycles that Facebook, Twitter and Big Tech have become an extension …
What do you get if you cross a former Danish prime minister, someone who once edited the left-wing Guardian newspaper, a Yemini activist, a bunch of law professors and a Pakistani digital rights advocate? The predictable banning of Donald Trump. Those …
WOW creepy AF! The multi-billion-dollar social media platform Facebook has announced the debut of a new super-local feature called “Neighborhoods,” aimed at challenging hyperlocal social media networks like Nextdoor and “making new friends.” Rather than simply alerting friends halfway …
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I still can’t believe Big Tech banned a US president. Republicans want to bust up these giant censorious companies and I hope they succeed. AC
Some of Silicon Valley top algorithm experts testified Tuesday in front of bipartisan members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, tasked with defending Big Tech from accusations it capitalizes on “short-term rage” and their role in society’s increasing polarization. Democratic Delaware Senator Chris …
https://www.ft.com/content/5527ddd1-77a8-4cd0-82fd-4568be5da80f Apple will expand its advertising business, according to two people familiar with its plans, just as it brings in new privacy rules for iPhones that are likely to cripple the ads offered by its rivals, including Facebook. The iPhone …
comment: Hello, my Big ‘Stazi’ Brother! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Facebook has been the king of social media for quite some time now and its constant evolution shows that it has no plans of stepping down from its throne anytime soon! One problem …
Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz has poured over $5 million into a network of nonprofits run by Black Lives Matter leader Patrisse Cullors, according to financial disclosure records, raising questions about whether this relationship played a role in the company’s decision …
James O’Keefe, who is in charge of Project Veritas, had his twitter account suspended. O’Keefe recently posted videos of CNN Technical Director Charles Chester (clip 1, Part 2 , Part 3: CNN Aiding BLM. According to Disclose.tv, facebook is not allowing users to share …
The investigation shows how Facebook has allowed major abuses of its platform in poor, small and non-western countries in order to prioritize addressing abuses that attract media attention or affect the US and other wealthy countries. The company acted quickly …
By Chris Black Surveillance capitalism is an imminent danger Silicon Valley’s surveillance capitalism will be far more enduring – and more dangerous – than China’s archaic “techno-totalitarianism.” It is interesting to compare GAFA (acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon) …
Last fall, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that it was time to rein in Section 230 immunity. Now, Justice Thomas is laying out an argument for why companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google should be regulated as utilities. On Monday, the Supreme Court vacated a …
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Facebook’s Oversight Board is likely to announce in the coming weeks regarding Trump’s Facebook ban and his return on Facebook and Instagram, Bloomberg reported. Trump’s Facebook ban decision might overturn in the coming weeks The board seems confident to lift …
Melanie Joseph has been fighting with the courts for the past year after her son was removed from her care over a Facebook post where she was not wearing a mask. Now, she is pleading with the public for help …
WATCH: Facebook Executive EVADES Questions About Big Tech’s Power
WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, just shut down the massive channel used by Spain's independent leftist political party Podemos. And it did this just days before the general election This is actual, extreme election meddling by a foreign corporationhttps://t.co/PxzZ722Mk8 …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djFCNuLKLd0 Questions are being raised over the growing links between Facebook and the US government. That as the social media giant announced it’s hired the State Department’s legal advisor as its general counsel and vice president of communications. According to …
by Dace What the Holy F*ck?..Damned: I hate Facebook…only have one to keep in touch with family and to share pictures with them all easily. Yesterday…I decided to update my privacy settings and I noticed an option regarding viewing or posting …
Our world today may be a high-tech wonderland, but we, the users, own nothing in it, with our personal data being the new oil for Big Tech. How do we break its grip on our digital lives? We asked Richard …
Facebook’s virtual reality subsidiary Oculus has shipped tens of thousands of its touch controllers with sinister-sounding messages the company described as “easter eggs.” The messages included phrases like “Big Brother Is Watching You,” “The Masons Were Here,” “This Space for …
Deactivation does nothing for your privacy I thought deactivating my Facebook account would stop the social network from tracking me online. But Facebook kept tabs on me anyway. Over the past year, I’ve tried to minimize my presence on Facebook. I deleted …
Ted Cruz speaking right now… The Dems in-on the hearing are going to pretend it doesn’t exist. h/t Voluntaryist
by 0naptoon It tracks user behavior on the site and connects it to info provided from the internet from a network of undisclosed partners. It share data with them to create a unique profile that can be used to reveal …
“The company cannot be left to its own devices, and existing enforcement authorities haven’t done enough.” By Bennett Cyphers and Jason Kelley, Electronic Frontier Foundation: Once again, Facebook is in the news for bad security practices, dark design patterns, and secretly reappropriating sensitive data meant …
by Geoffrey Grider Just two weeks after admitting it stored hundreds of millions of its users’ own passwords insecurely, Facebook is demanding some users fork over the password for their outside email account as the price of admission to the …
by rockytimber Jimmy Dore has been patiently tracking the Russia Collusion story for two years now, systematically building a case that enough cards are already on the table to prove collusion. Here Dore and Micheal Tracy dig in to the developments …
