So this is crazy in terms of @googlepubpolicy suppression (and in light of news from the NYT that the WHO is basically full of shit). In April, WHO took a few minutes to remind the world how helpful abortion would be during the pandemic…
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Biggest Ransomware Attack Yet Crippled U.S. Hospitals Last Weekend…
One of the nurses, who works in a facility in North Dakota, said that computers slowed and then eventually simply would not turn on in the early hours of Sunday morning. “As of this a.m., all the computers are down completely,” the nurse said.”…
Senate Committee Subpoenas Heads of Facebook, Google and Twitter…
“Even if you happen to agree with them on a particular issue right now, ceding the power to the star chamber of Silicon Valley is profoundly dangerous”…
Because Congress Apparently Has NOTHING AT ALL IMPORTANT to Work On, It Introduced TWO MORE Section 230 Bills Yesterday…
Yes, she keeps saying that “if it’s a crime offline, it should be a crime online” and it always has been. This bill, like her last bill, changed literally nothing about what was a “crime”…
Justice Department Releases Its Dangerous & Unconstitutional Plan to Revise Section 230…
So many of these attempts to reform Section 230 refuse to take into account that people will seek to game the system. And restricting sites’ ability to stop those gaming the system is a recipe for disaster…
Testimony of Former Dir of Monetization for Facebook: “We took a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook” Making the Site “Addictive”…
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Testimony of Tim Kendall Thank you, Chairpersons Pallone and Schakowsky, for inviting me to speak today. When I started working in technology, my hope was to build products that brought people together in new and productive ways. I wanted to improve the world we all lived in. Instead, the […]
Why Netflix Keeps Canceling Shows After Just 2 Seasons…
Last month, Altered Carbon joined Sense8, The OA, and Luke Cage in getting the ax. Fans protested, but for the streaming service, it’s all about data…
REPORT: Google’s Search Business Targeted in U.S. Antitrust Case…
Timing of Justice Department case may slip to week after next. DOJ has been focused on search bias and distribution deals…
Facebook Fact-Checkers Dominated by Left-Leaning Funding, Personnel, Organizations…
What gets fact-checked is determined by Facebook based on “signals, like feedback from people on Facebook,” but the partners can also fact-check whatever they want…
Silicon Valley and Team Biden Collude to Rig 2020 Election…
Big Tech’s censorship has nothing to do with accuracy or fairness…
China Is Spying on Millions of People: And They Aren’t in China…
A Chinese technology company with links to Beijing’s military and intelligence agencies has been compiling personal information on millions of people from the US, UK, Australia, Canada, India, and Japan…
Facebook Takes Down Fake Pages Created in China Aimed at Influencing U.S. Election…
The social media campaign was small but targeted all sides of the debate. Officials said Beijing had not decided whether to wade more directly in the American presidential race…
5 Key Facts on the TikTok Global Deal…
The Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok recently laid out a partnership with U.S. companies Oracle and Walmart in a deal that has delayed the banning of the app for American users — here are five key facts about the deal currently pending government approval…
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Part Two — The Engineer’s Take…
Rod talks with Steve Justice, director of the aerospace division of To the Stars… Academy of Arts & Science. He is an aerospace engineer who spent 33 years at Lockheed Martin’s fabled Skunk Works — an elite organization that has been at the cutting edge of U.S. defense technology…
Facebook Moves to Censor Internal Debate As More Employees Quit in Protest…
Ironically, Zuckerberg reportedly described these new rules, which will explicitly identify where conversations about certain topics can be held, as giving the company’s employees more freedom, not less…
Facebook Sued in Federal Court for “Spying” on Instagram Users Through Camera…
And what is Facebook really up to? Is Facebook really harvesting biometric data and spying on users?…
Tucker Slams Facebook Censorship Of Chinese Virologist: “It’s Turning Us Into The Soviet Union”…
“What does that have to do with the interview we did last night? No one will tell us that. The truth is, and you know it if you’ve watched carefully, experts have been wrong frequently throughout this pandemic…
Hammer Drops on Hackers Accused of Targeting Game and Software Makers…
Men accused of spying on behalf of China and earning illicit hacking profits on the side…
“I Have Blood on My Hands”: A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation…
“I’ve found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, and caused international news on multiple occasions. I have personally made decisions that affected national presidents without oversight, and taken action to enforce against so many prominent politicians globally that I’ve lost count.”…
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