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White House Declines to Back Christchurch Call to Stamp Out Online Extremism Amid First Amendment Concerns…

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The United States on Wednesday broke with 18 governments and top American tech firms by declining to endorse a New Zealand-led response to the live-streamed shootings at two Christchurch mosques, saying free-speech concerns prevented the White House from formally signing onto the largest campaign to date targeting extremism online. The “Christchurch Call,” unveiled at an […]

Google’s Left-Leaning Media Biased Revealed: Academic Study Exposes How Algorithm Favors Liberal News Websites…

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Google’s bias towards left-wing media outlets has been laid bare by an algorithm which detected that it favors sites including CNN and The New York Times over others. According to data compiled by researchers from Northwestern University, the search engine promoted those sites over others repeatedly in November 2017. Of the 6,302 articles that appeared […]

Google Preps New Privacy Controls to Let You Delete Your Location Data…

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Google is preparing new privacy controls that can periodically erase your location history from the company’s servers. They will be three options: Erase the data every three months, every 18 months, or keep the data until you delete it manually. “You should always be able to manage your data in a way that works best […]

TurboTax Deliberately Hides its Free File Page from Search Engines…

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This week, we reported on how TurboTax uses deceptive design and misleading advertising to trick lower-income Americans into paying to file their taxes, even though they are eligible to do it for free. There’s a new wrinkle: It turns out, Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, is deliberately hiding the truly free edition — TurboTax Free […]

I Used to Work for Google. I Am a Conscientious Objector…

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“We can forgive your politics and focus on your technical contributions as long as you don’t do something unforgivable, like speaking to the press.” This was the parting advice given to me during my exit interview from Google after spending a month internally arguing, resignation letter in hand, for the company to clarify its ethical […]

Google Quietly Pushes Back on Media ‘Blacklist’ Story, but Offers No Specifics…

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Google’s communications department took the time Tuesday to tweet criticism of a Daily Caller story on their media “blacklist,” but refused to answer what supposedly makes the story “purposefully misleading.” In a set of three Tweets, Google’s team insisted that the company does not “manipulate” search results “to fit a particular political ideology,” but admitted […]

Documents Detailing Google’s ‘News Blacklist’ Show Manipulation of Special Search Results…

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Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company’s official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate. Two official policies dubbed the “misrepresentation policy” and the “good neighbor policy” inform the company’s “XPA news blacklist,” which is maintained by Google’s Trust & Safety team. “T&S will be in charge of updating […]

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