Censorship: Alex Jones Removed from Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify
All of these tech companies banning so-called conspiracy theorist Jones on the same day? It seems almost coordinated — a conspiracy, if you will. ...
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Facebook Posts Record Loss; Investors Want Zuckerberg Out As Chairman
Facebook tycoon Mark Zuckerberg has had a tough week: Facebook’s stock has dropped more than 20 percent, and a group of investors is trying to remove Zuckerberg as chairman of the company...
Twitter Reverses Shadow Ban On GOP & Conservatives
Twitter appears to have reversed a “shadow ban” on prominent Republicans, while YouTube is once again censoring Infowars videos. ...
Facebook Under Fire
Under mounting pressure to account for the exposure of its users to data-mining companies, Facebook suspended another analytics company that uses the social-media giant’s user information. ...
The Twitter “Fake Follower” Purge: What Does It Mean?
Twitter has begun purging tens of millions of fake accounts, causing many celebrities and politicians to lose millions of followers overnight. But — considering that the company has known of this...
Fact-checking? Facebook is Fiction-checking Conservative News and Calling It “Fake”
“You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts,” goes a saying attributed to liberal icon Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The liberals at Facebook may disagree, however: They’re...
Facebook Deletes Part of Declaration of Independence as “Hate Speech,” Removes Post
Facebook deletes a post containing part of the text of the Declaration of Independence, calling it "hate speech." ...
NSA Moving Data to a Cloud-based Service Such as That Built and Used by Amazon, Google
The NSA is in the process of moving to the cloud all the data it has collected. ...
Big Tech Firms Use SPLC to Police Content and Charity
Major tech firms such as Facebook and Amazon are partnering with the Southern Poverty Law Center to censor and prevent charitable donations to alleged "hate groups." ...
Surveillance State Grows with Help from State and Local Government Accomplices
The surveillance state — ever on the rise since 9/11 — is making plans to grow even bigger and dig even deeper into the lives of American citizens. And in this...
Facebook Investors Take Zuckerberg to Task
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being forced to face the music over his social media company’s treatment of users’ data. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal — in which...
Pew Survey Shows Facebook is Losing Teen Users
Social media giant Facebook — still reeling from the Cambridge Analytica scandal — is losing ground among the most Internet-connected generation ever, according to a recent survey. The platform held the...
Amazon Echo Story Illustrates Dangers of Putting Surveillance Devices in Your Home
With the report that Amazon’s Echo recorded a family’s private conversation and sent the audio file to a person in the family’s contact list, privacy concerns about the Internet of Things...
Amazon’s Alexa to Come Standard With Some New Houses. Is It a Good Idea?
Amazon has been shown to have a liberal bias. That being the case, can consumers trust Alexa to be objective while assisting to run your home? ...
In Facebook Data-breach Scandal, U.K. Privacy Watchdog Demands Data be Released to U.S. Citizen
The Cambridge Analytica data-breach scandal continues to haunt Facebook: The British Information Commissioner's Office ordered Cambridge Analytica's parent company to provide an American citizen all of the information it has on...