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CENSORED! How Online Media Companies Are Suppressing Conservative Speech…

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Like it or not, social media is the communication form of the future — not just in the U.S., but worldwide. Just Facebook and Twitter combined reach 1.8 billion people. More than two-thirds of all Americans (68 percent) use Facebook. YouTube is pushing out TV as the most popular place to watch video. Google is […]

What’s Genius for Obama Is Scandal When It Comes to Trump…

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On Sunday, The Guardian reported on the supposedly nefarious workings of President Trump’s data-gathering team at Cambridge Analytica. The report suggested that Cambridge Analytica had essentially issued questionnaires through a third party; those questionnaires, which were personality quizzes, requested that you use your Facebook login. Cambridge Analytica then compiled data regarding those who completed the […]

Internet Inventor Warns “Regulate Tech Firms Now Or Risk A Weaponized Web”

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The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee (not Al Gore), has a dire warning over the concentration of power among a few companies on the internet “controlling which ideas are shared.” In an open letter to mark the 29th anniversary of his invention, Berners-Lee calls for powerful “new gatekeepers” – internet platforms […]

Twitter’s Censorship May Be Unconstitutional…

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Does Milo Yiannopoulos have a constitutional right to tweet? Most Americans know they can speak their mind in the public square, thanks to the First Amendment. Speech on social media, however, can be censored because private companies own those cyber spaces. But a recent Supreme Court oral argument suggests Twitter’s practice of banning controversial right-wing […]

Dear Journalists: Here Are the Bots You’re Looking For..

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Dear confused journalists: I found the bots you have been looking for. They amplify trolls. They impersonate. They spam. They are funded by oligarchs. What more could you want in a story? And unlike @SecureDemocracy, I have actually shown my work. Gather round. First things first. Here are the accounts in question. They posted nearly […]

DoD Blatantly Admits on Twitter It Works With Hollywood to Sell You War Propaganda…

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This week, the Department of Defense sent out an interesting Tweet where they openly admitted that they control how the US government is portrayed in Hollywood films. While this is a fact that has been documented for many years, it is still largely overlooked by mainstream media sources, who insist that this idea is nothing […]

Tech Moguls Driving Mass Layoffs in the Economy Want Universal Basic Income As a Cure…

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Driverless cars! IBM Watson! News-writing robots! Amazon Go! The future is here, friends, and it apparently excludes humans. People are preparing for the next mass extinction — an evaporation, if you will — not of humans, polar bears or other creatures, but of jobs. This prospect has been sending shivers through humanity, from New York […]

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