Thanks to new policies from the Trump administration aimed at cracking down at Beijing’s access to strategic US technologies, China has all but halted investments in US-based tech startups, according to Reuters. Venture funding out of China peaked last year at a record $3 billion according to the Rhodium Group, a New York economic research firm. […]
Chinese Money Flees Silicon Valley as Trump Clamps Down on Access to U.S. Tech…
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually…
In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers tend to want two things: people to look at their ads and “premium” websites — i.e., established and legitimate publications — on which to host […]
“Everything Is Fake”: Ex-Reddit CEO Confirms Internet Traffic Metrics Are Bullshit…
“It’s all true: Everything is fake,” tweeted Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao regarding a Wednesday New York Magazine article which reveals that internet traffic metrics from some of the largest tech companies are overstated or fabricated. In other words; they’re bullshit. Pao was responding to a tweet by the Washington Post’s Aram Zucker-Schariff, quoting the […]
Top House Committee Reviewing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Testimony for False Statements…
A top House committee that oversees the U.S. telecommunications industry is now reviewing whether Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey lied to Congress during a hearing about Twitter’s controversial history of arbitrarily censoring content published by the site, an aide for the House Energy and Commerce committee told The Federalist. “The committee is aware of Twitter’s actions […]
A Look Inside the Tactics of Definers, Facebook’s Attack Dog…
A small firm called Definers Public Affairs brought the dark arts of Washington’s back-room politics to Silicon Valley when, while working for Facebook, it began disparaging other tech companies to reporters. But a few days before Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, testified to Congress in September, Definers set its sights on a different target: […]
The Perils to Democracy Posed by Big Tech…
Silicon Valley’s Saudi Money Crisis Illustrates a Decline of ‘Moral Leadership’ in America…
Some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are swimming in billions of dollars invested by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman — a heavy financial backer of SoftBank’s Vision Fund who is now accused of ordering the torture and assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “Anywhere you tug, at any company or any investment […]
This Is What ‘Election Interference’ Actually Looks Like…
The purge of the right on social media was once a slow trickle, with high-profile bans happening only occasionally, and then subsiding. With just three months until the midterm elections, the Masters of the Universe in Silicon Valley have turned online censorship into a cascade. Earlier this month, Alex Jones was blacklisted on virtually every […]
Infowars Website Traffic Explodes After Silicon Valley Blacklists Alex Jones Empire…
Silicon Valley’s coordinated purge of all things Infowars from social media has had an unexpected result; website traffic to Infowars.com has soared in the past week, according to Amazon’s website ranking service Alexa. Infowars was recently banned by YouTube, Facebook, iTunes, Google Podcast, Spotify, iHeartRadio, MailChimp, Disqus, LinkedIn, Flickr, Pinterest and several others – leading […]
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