Billionaire George Soros is blaming Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for helping President Trump win the 2016 election – completely ignoring that Trump’s 2016 digital director (and 2020 campaign manager) Brad Parscale simply outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton’s team when it came to social media. “Facebook helped Trump to get elected and I am afraid that it will […]
Four Tech Firms Sue Facebook for Running ‘the most brazen anti-competitive scheme in a generation’…
Four tech firms are suing Facebook for running a ‘brazen’ and ‘anti-competitive scheme’ which they say is the worst in a ‘generation’ and are demanding that Mark Zuckerberg give up his stake in the company. The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco on Thursday by Cir.cl, Beehive Biometric, Reveal Chat and Lenddo. Cir.cl and Beehive […]
Top Facebook Executive Admits He ‘Desperately’ Wants Trump to Lose But Wants Company to Play Fair…
Andrew Bosworth, Facebook’s head of virtual and augmented reality, said he wants President Trump to lose the 2020 presidential election, but that Facebook should not help stop him from winning. “I find myself desperately wanting to pull any lever at my disposal to avoid the same result,” Bosworth said about Trump’s election in a Dec. […]
Over 267M Facebook Users’ Information Exposed…
The private information of more than 267 million Facebook users was reportedly exposed online for anyone to access. Approximately 267,140,436 users, most of whom reside in the United States, had their Facebook IDs, phone numbers and names exposed in an unsecured database, according to a report published Thursday by cybersecurity firm Comparitech and security researcher […]
The Terror Queue: These Moderators Help Keep Google and YouTube Free of Violent Extremism — and Now Some of Them Have PTSD…
Google and YouTube approach content moderation the same way all of the other tech giants do: paying a handful of other companies to do most of the work. One of those companies, Accenture, operates Google’s largest content moderation site in the United States: an office in Austin, Texas, where content moderators work around the clock […]
Twitter Rolls Out Ban on Political Ads Covering Candidates, Elections and Legislation…
On Friday, Twitter released details of its global ban on political advertising. The ban will go into effect on November 22 and prohibits any ads that mention specific candidates, elections or legislation. Also included under the ban are ads from PACs or 501(c)(4) nonprofits, a category that includes political messaging groups. However, Twitter will allow […]
Inside Amazon’s Plan for Alexa to Run Your Entire Life…
The creator of the famous voice assistant dreams of a world where Alexa is everywhere, anticipating your every need…The crux of the plan is for the voice assistant to move from passive to proactive interactions. Rather than wait for and respond to requests, Alexa will anticipate what the user might want. The idea is to […]
Edward Snowden: ‘It is not data that is being exploited, it’s people’…
Edward Snowden urged tech companies to challenge the practice of widespread data collection by corporations in a speech on Monday, saying not enough progress has been made since he blew the whistle on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) data scrapping in 2013. Speaking via video link at the opening of the Web Summit conference in […]
Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Defamatory Content Worldwide, Top EU Court Rules…
Europe’s highest court ruled Thursday that Facebook could be ordered to track down and remove content globally if it was found to be illegal in one EU country. The decision represents a major step toward forcing social media companies to take greater responsibility for what is posted on their networks, and will likely support efforts […]
The Invisible Shackles of America’s Social Credit System…
The phrase “social credit system” or “social credit score” is relatively unknown to Americans. But in the People’s Republic of China, the communist government has been developing such a system for the last decade, and are looking to roll it out nationwide by 2020. The Chinese government intends to use social media data, surveillance, and […]
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