Twitter’s censorship problem looks like it’s here to stay. The company faced a sharp backlash last week after a Vice News investigation revealed that Twitter was hiding several prominent Republicans from its search bar. Those affected included four House Republicans: Rep. Devin Nunes of California, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio […]
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Sen. Mark Warner Floats Major Tech Company Regulations That Don’t Include Breakups…
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), a frequent critic of big tech companies’ behavior, has been floating a list of 20 options for regulating web platforms. Axios, which published the white paper today, says it was prepared by Warner’s staff and has been “circulated in tech policy circles in recent weeks.” The document includes proposals for three […]
Activist Publishes 11,000 Private DMs Between Wikileaks and Its Supporters…
Wikileaks is possibly the most opaque transparency organization. The group, founded by Julian Assange, sometimes hides its true motives, and has not published any information about its own finances in years, despite amassing tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. Now, an activist who has developed an adversarial relationship with the group has published […]
How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies by Zach Dorfman…
In the fall of 1989, during the Cold War’s wan and washed-out final months, the Berlin Wall was crumbling—and so was San Francisco. The powerful Loma Prieta earthquake, the most destructive to hit the region in more than 80 years, felled entire apartment buildings. Freeway overpasses shuddered and collapsed, swallowing cars like a sandpit. Sixty-three […]
Amazon’s Facial Recognition Tech Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress with Arrest Mugshots…
Amazon Rekognition, the controversial facial recognition tool from the Silicon Valley tech giant, has falsely matched 28 members of US Congress with mugshots in its database, a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union revealed today. “These results demonstrate why Congress should join the ACLU in calling for a moratorium on law enforcement use […]
Judges Hear Warning on Prosecution of WikiLeaks…
Prosecuting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing leaked documents related to the 2016 presidential election would set a terrible precedent for journalists, the top lawyer for The New York Times said Tuesday. Addressing a room full of federal and circuit judges at the Ninth Circuit’s annual judicial conference, David McCraw, the deputy general counsel for […]
Twitter Is ‘Shadow Banning” Prominent Republicans Like the RNC Chair and Members of Congress…
Twitter is limiting the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results — a technique known as “shadow banning” — in what it says is a side effect of its attempts to improve the quality of discourse on the platform. The Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel, several conservative Republican congressmen, and Donald Trump Jr.’s spokesman no […]
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U.S. Uber Driver Secretly Shared Livestreams of Hundreds of Riders…
Ride-sharing company Uber has suspended a St. Louis, Missouri, driver who recorded and livestreamed hundreds of his passengers without their permission. According to reports, 23-year-old Jason Gargac of Florissant, Missouri, has given around 700 rides in the St. Louis area since he began driving for Uber in March. He installed a camera on the dashboard […]
Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the U.K. What Comes Next? by Glenn Greenwald…
Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno traveled to London on Friday for the ostensible purpose of speaking at the 2018 Global Disability Summit (Moreno has been using a wheelchair since being shot in a 1998 robbery attempt). The concealed actual purpose of the president’s trip is to meet with British officials to finalize an agreement under which […]
Former Obama Officials Help Silicon Valley Pitch the Pentagon for Lucrative Defense Contracts…
Silicon Valley firms seeking lucrative business opportunities with the Pentagon face a range of obstacles, not least the morally fraught choice of enabling a military led by President Donald Trump with the latest technological solutions. Enter a group of former high-level officials from the Obama administration, who are helping to bridge the divide between tech […]
Inside WikiLeaks: Working with the Publisher that Changed the World…
Silenced and cut off from the outside world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in London for the last six years with no access to sunlight, fresh air, or proper medical treatment. Furthermore, last March President Lenin Moreno’s Ecuadorian government cut his access to the internet, phone calls and even […]
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Facebook Suspends World’s Largest Data Harvesting Firm Over Kremlin, USG-Linked Contracts…
Facebook announced on Friday that it is suspending data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon while it investigates whether the firm’s government contracts are in violation of the social-media giant’s policies on how public data is harvested and shared. The Boston based firm which uses AI-powered technology developed at Harvard University says it has the largest repository […]
Google Steps in to Fund United Nations Climate Programmes…
More evidence that taxpayer funds are not required for climate research – UN Environment and Google announced today a global partnership that promises to change the way we see our planet. Combining environmental science, big data and unprecedented accessibility, this joint effort aims to expand what the world knows about the impacts of human activity […]
Facebook Caught Profiling American Traitors – Russia and Putin Blamed!…
In this report, I want to accomplish two goals. First, I want to come out and admit that I often wonder what it is like to be totally devoid of intelligence and good character and to possess only one paramount and defining trace of good – to be lucky as hell. Secondly, I want to […]
Some Thoughts on the EU’s Latest $5 Billion Google Antitrust Fine…
As was widely expected, earlier today, the EU Commission brought down its latest antitrust fine against Google, this time for an eye-popping $5 billion. The number gets the attention, but it’s worth looking at the underlying details here. This was the result of a two year investigation, specifically into certain bundling practices that Google used […]
The Pentagon Wants to Bring Mind-Controlled Tech to Troops…
The idea of humans controlling machines with their minds has spun off sci-fi blockbusters like “Pacific Rim” and entire subgenres of foreign film, but while today skyscraper-sized fighting robots exist only on the big screen, the Pentagon is building technology that could one day make them a reality. Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency […]
SHOCK STUDY: Facebook Has Eliminated 93% of Traffic to Top Conservative Websites Since 2016 Election…
The Gateway Pundit has repeatedly reported on tech giant censorship of conservative content. The Gateway Pundit (TGP) reached a record number of page views in 2017. TGP readership hit an all-time high in 2017! We reached more than 224 million page views in 2017. This surpassed our previous record from 2016 of 182 million page […]
Big Win For Julian Assange…
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights based in Costa Rica has ruled that the British government has to let Assange leave the Ecuadorian embassy without harassment or threat of arrest and let him go to Ecuador where he was granted citizenship. The big question is will they allow this to happen? The bigger question is […]
Here’s the Inspector General Report on Imran Awan, Congressional Democratic Caucus IT Guy…
The Department of Justice found “no evidence” that former Democratic IT aide Imran Awan violated cybersecurity laws, prosecutors said Thursday, but the House of Representatives’ internal watchdog reported that the Pakistani native made “unauthorized access” to congressional servers. Prosecutors said police interviewed approximately 40 witnesses, reviewed relevant communications and examined a number of related devices, […]
Meet Hadrian, the Brick Laying Robot That Will Make Construction Workers Obsolete…
Across the US, cities are independently passing measures to implement a $15 minimum wage – or mandating higher wages with an eye toward one day achieving that goal. But low-wage workers who are celebrating their fatter paychecks should enjoy the feeling while it lasts…because the more expensive workers become, the faster employers will work to […]
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