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Twitter Intervenes to Control Speech of The President…

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Many people foresaw this likely happening and today it begins. Twitter has intervened in the tweets and speech of the President of the United States to review, censor and use their own perspectives to countermand the opinions of President Donald Trump. By taking this position Twitter has put themselves into the position of arbitrating the […]

There’s No Telling What Data Facebook Will Collect if You Use Its Zoom Clone…

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Earlier this month, Facebook debuted its group video chat offering, Messenger Rooms, to a world under widespread pandemic lockdown, one that’s in large part replaced face-to-face meetings with streamed conversations. The chief beneficiary of this shift, Zoom, has spent months as a punching bag for privacy advocates, so Facebook was quick to assure users that […]

Democrats Deploying Tax-Payer Backed DARPA-Funded-AI Driven Information Warfare Tool to Target Pro-Trump Accounts…

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An anti-Trump Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal is planning to deploy an information warfare tool that received initial funding from DARPA, the Pentagon’s secretive research arm — transforming technology originally envisioned as a way to fight ISIS propaganda into a campaign platform to benefit Joe Biden. The Washington Post […]

Facebook’s Digital Currency Project Just Got a Lot Less Audacious…

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Remember Libra, Facebook’s plan to create a global digital currency? Unveiled last June, it was immediately met with resistance from policymakers and central bankers around the world. So, the team went back to the drawing board, and today it re-emerged with a new vision—one that is a lot less audacious than the original. Here are […]

NY Health Care Executive Fired Over Posts on Coronavirus and Trump Supporters…

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A New York health system executive has been fired after a Facebook post suggesting supporters of President Trump should “pledge to give up their ventilators for someone else” amid the coronavirus pandemic. In an exchange first flagged by Republican strategist Michael Caputo, Laura Krolczyk, vice president for external affairs at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center […]

Facebook Removes Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Post Touting Anti-Malaria Drug as Effective Coronavirus Treatment…

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Facebook made the decision to censor Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro by removing a video the company claims violated “community standards” by spreading misinformation that “could lead to physical harm.” Bolsonaro posted a video Sunday in which he said, “Hydroxychloroquine is working in all places.” Facebook took down the video, which featured Bolsonaro talking to a […]

Facebook Fact-Checking Is Becoming a Political Cudgel…

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Facebook’s fact-checking program is designed to stop false information from spreading. But being able to decide what’s true can also be a political weapon, and for the past few days, it’s been used in a fight over President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response. The battle centers on a recent Politico article about a South Carolina Trump […]

Bad News for Silicon Valley: William Barr Is Taking Control of Antitrust Probes…

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Attorney General William Barr has spent months taking greater control of the Justice Department’s antitrust probes into the big tech companies, a development that could increase the peril for major players like Google and Facebook. Barr has centralized oversight of antitrust matters under a handful of appointees in his office and that of his deputy […]

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