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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Calls Out Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Silicon Valley for Censorship and Internet Content Manipulation…

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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, fired a direct shot across the bow of the technocrats who control social media platforms today. Chairman Pai righteously called out Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other platform control agents for being ideologically biased, and using their platforms to target their ideological opposition. Defending his plan to […]

Google Will ‘De-Rank’ RT and Sputnik Articles to Make Them Harder to Find…

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Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, says the company will “engineer” specific algorithms for RT and Sputnik to make their articles less prominent on the search engine’s news delivery services. “We are working on detecting and de-ranking those kinds of sites – it’s basically RT and Sputnik,” Schmidt said during a […]

Google Collects Android Users’ Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled…

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Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven’t used any apps, and haven’t even inserted a carrier SIM card? Even if you take all of those precautions, phones running Android software gather data about your location and send it back to Google when they’re connected […]

The Demise of Dissent: Why the Web Is Becoming Homogenized…

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We’ve all heard that the problem with the web is fake news, i.e. unsubstantiated or erroneous content that’s designed to mislead or sow confusion. The problem isn’t just fake news–it’s the homogenization of the web, that is, the elimination or marginalization of independent voices of skepticism and dissent. There are four drivers of this homogenization…

How a Half-Educated Tech Elite Delivered Us Into Chaos…

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One of the biggest puzzles about our current predicament with fake news and the weaponisation of social media is why the folks who built this technology are so taken aback by what has happened. Exhibit A is the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, whose political education I recently chronicled. But he’s not alone. In fact […]

Sen. Richard Burr Says Media Botched Russian-Social Media Story…

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The Russian operatives who ran Facebook ads surrounding last year’s election ran four times as many ads in Maryland — a deep-blue state — than they did on the critical swing state of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee said Wednesday. Sen. Richard Burr, North Carolina Republican, also said of the 55 ads […]

Here Are Two of the Russian-Bought Facebook Ads That ‘Helped Sway the Election’…

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Democratic Sen. Christopher Coons of Delaware shared two Russian-bought Facebook ads Tuesday during a congressional hearing on the foreign adversary’s attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. One post, published by a page called “Being Patriotic,” promoted an apparently phony event in Pennsylvania for “Miners for Trump” and advocated for coal-mining jobs. Another alleged […]

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