Facebook said it accidentally hid bizarre and “inappropriate” messages inside “tens of thousands” of virtual-reality controllers, including “Big Brother is Watching” and “The Masons Were Here.” Nate Mitchell, the cofounder of Oculus, the Facebook-owned VR company, said on Twitter on Friday that the company inadvertently printed some unusual messages in its Touch controllers, handheld devices […]
Shocking Leak Reveals Facebook Leveraged User Data to Reward Friends, Punish Enemies…
As traders focused on bank earnings and the outlook for global growth, NBC News wrested the market’s attention back toward Facebook by publishing a report on what appears to be the largest leak of internal documents since the data privacy scandal that has dogged the company for more than a year erupted with the first […]
Natural News Banned by All Major Social Media Platforms…
Twitter is run by a techno-fascist pig named Jack Dorsey (@Jack). Like all tyrants throughout world history, Jack Dorsey believes that no one has the right to criticize him, and he abuses his administrative power over Twitter to silence whatever voices he doesn’t like. This is how the Natural News channel (@HealthRanger) was de-platformed several […]
Somebody Needs to Put This Man in Time Out: Mark Zuckerberg Proposes Regulating Political Discussion, Immigration Debate…
In a Good Morning America interview with George Stephanopoulos, Thursday, Zuckerberg declared, “All of the laws around political advertising today primarily focus on a candidate and an election, right, so, ‘Vote for this candidate in this election.’ But that’s not, primarily, what we saw Russia trying to do and other folks who were trying to […]
How Is This Co. Even in Business?: Facebook Harvesting New Users’ Email Contacts ‘Without Consent’…
According to Business Insider, the company, which has been plagued by dozens of privacy and security scandals over the past few years, is asking “some new users to provide the social network with the password to their email accounts,” which Facebook then reportedly uses to import the user’s contacts, “despite not asking the user for […]
Facebook Reveals News Feed Algorithm’s Secrets…
Facebook is finally pulling back the curtain on how its algorithms decide what to show in your News Feed. The tech giant is launching a new button called “Why am I seeing this post?” that will show users what factors went into displaying specific posts on their News Feed. This transparency about ranking marks a […]
Silicon Valley and “Communication Weapons of War” by Yasha Levine…
I was in the New York Public Library recently doing research in the archives when I stumbled on a 1944 pamphlet from Western Electric, the old American techno-telephone monopolist. It’s called “Circuits for Victory” and its 40 glossy, slickly produced pages are dedicated to one thing: celebrating all the ways that the company’s telecommunication technology […]
HUD Is Also Probing Twitter and Google for Housing Discrimination Practices…
Federal officials alerted Twitter and Google in 2018 that they are peering into the tech giants’ business practices for possible housing discrimination, The Washington Post reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources. Reports about the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s decision to alert the two Silicon Valley companies comes hours after officials charged Facebook with housing […]
Federal Government Charges Facebook with Housing Discrimination Because of Its Targeted Advertising…
The federal government charged Facebook Thursday with allowing its massive trove of personal demographic data to enable housing discrimination, an allegation the company fiercely denied. The allegations set up a lengthy legal battle between the Trump administration and one of the world’s largest social media companies. At issue is whether the company’s sophisticated algorithms and […]
SPLC Implodes: President and Legal Director Resign Amid Sexual Misconduct Scandal…
The Southern Poverty Law Center – the “vicious left-wing attack dog” used by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Amazon to identify “hate groups” – is unraveling. A week after co-founder Morris Dees was ousted over sexual misconduct claims – with two dozen employees signing a letter of concern over “allegations of mistreatment, sexual […]
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