As a Donald Trump supporter, Andrew Torba felt like odd man out in California’s Silicon Valley—home of prominent tech firms like Apple, Facebook and Google. Last year he was outraged when he attended this campaign rally in San Jose and saw violent anti-Trump protesters attacking Trump supporters. TRANSCRIPT: http://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/sum-of-all-knowledge-part-1
Google Launches AI Program to Detect ‘Hate Speech’…
Google has launched a new AI program called Perspective to detect “abusive” comments online in an effort to crack down on hate speech. Publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Economist are testing the new software as a way of policing comments sections, according to the Financial Times…
The Five Guiding Principles for Facebook’s ‘Fake News Censorship’ Project…
The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) drafted a code of five principles for news websites to accept, and Facebook yesterday announced it will work with “third-party fact checking organizations” that are signatories to the code of principles…
Other Lefty Funders Backing FB Censorship Project – U.S. Government’s NED, Oligarch’s Including Soros, Omidyar & Gates & Google…
The Always Reliable Lefty Snopes Has a Seat at the Censorship Table Too…
Facebook Employees are Quitting Because of Users Being Censored…
The war on “fake news” embarked upon by Facebook, Google, and Twitter may be earning the media goliaths brownie points with establishment politicos, but users — and even employees — aren’t feeling as enthusiastic…
Reddit’s Pro-Trump Community Calls on CEO Steve Huffman to Resign Following Edit Scandal…
Reddit user UnimatrixZeroOne made an announcement in the subreddit today explaining why they leaked the Slack chat logs featuring conversations between Reddit admins and moderators. “I leaked the chat logs because of my anger at /u/spez for editing someone else’s comment. If he did this”…
Facebook Develops Software to Censor News in China…
Facebook has quietly developed software to suppress posts from appearing in people’s news feeds in specific geographic areas, according to three current and former Facebook employees… The feature was created to help Facebook get into China, a market where…
Twitter Purges Dozens Of “Alt-Right” Accounts…
In a move dubbed as “corporate Stalinism” by one of those impacted, overnight Twitter again suspended dozens of accounts associated with the alt-right movement, the same day the social media service said it would crack down on hate speech…
Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored…
“The Israeli government and Facebook have agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network”…