The problem of hate news is built into the genes of big digital monopolies like Facebook. We need to break up these monopolies and regulate them as the new public utilities of the digital age. ...
“Facebook banning leftwing media is the logical end point of begging a US-based corporate publishing monopoly to arbitrate truth.” Facebook announced yesterday it has removed hundreds of “Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts” connected to ...
If we think inequality was bad before Covid-19, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. (Common Dreams) Six months into a global pandemic, the US economy just took its most grievous hit on record, ...
A consortium of the most powerful tech players like IBM, Microsoft and Facebook are teaming up with hospital networks with links to the Vatican and tech lobbying groups to shape the conversation about the future ...
When you tell people they won’t be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That’s what’s happened with our police and our social media, two institutional pillars of personal and political society ...
“Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley firm with partisan oversight of what we see: the bipartisan billionaire class and their security state have partnered with tech firms since the dawn of the internet to control ...
Big tech is opening its pocketbooks to fight growing anti-trust and consumer scrutiny. (By Andrew Prez and Tim Zelina, MapLight) With calls for big tech companies to be broken up growing louder, Silicon Valley is ...
Apple just committed $2.5 billion to help alleviate the California housing crisis. Facebook and Google already committed $1 billion each. Is it enough? And why are they facing harsh criticism? On Monday, news broke about ...
“The Warren bit (a little overhyped in the headline) will get attention. But the more damning thing in the Zuckerberg tapes is him saying they cloned TikTok and are perfecting it in Mexico.” Facebook CEO ...
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have spent more than $330 million on attempts to influence federal lawmakers since 2008. (By Frank Bass, MapLight) The nation’s largest tech companies, which are currently facing state and federal investigations to determine ...
Given Silicon Valley’s reputation (and penchant) for breaking things rather than stopping to think them through, brainwave reading devices will need close regulation and ethical reviews before testing begins. (By Garfield Benjamin, The Conversation) Not ...
“After four decades of weak antitrust enforcement and judicial hostility to antitrust cases, it is critical that Congress step in to determine whether existing laws are adequate to tackle abusive conduct by platform gatekeepers or ...
A compelling film on Netflix, The Great Hack, adds to our understanding of big tech’s threat to democracy and explains how a lot of “tools” came out of the military’s psychological operations (or psyops) and ...
Amazon, Facebook and Google for the first time ever are among the top 15 lobbying spenders in a single quarter. (By Karl Evers-Hillstrom, Center for Responsive Politics) Facing tremendous pressure from regulators and lawmakers from ...
“The anger is very real. Workers are taxed to the hilt. Why should large groups – Google, Amazon – be able to find a way round it?” France is pioneering big tech regulation with a ...
“If you find yourself spending more time fighting than getting to work, stop and ask yourself, ‘Who benefits from all the chaos?'” Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized Big Tech companies for failing to manage the ...
“This is about how do we get competition back in this space,” said Congressman David N. Cicilline of Rhode Island as he announced antitrust investigations into big tech. The world of big tech was shaken ...
Just weeks after Israeli-based fake social media accounts were deleted, pro-Iran accounts were also taken down in a purge on the never-ending war on fake news. On Tuesday, prominent internet security firm FireEye revealed the ...
Facebook’s GlobalCoin is expected to launch in early 2020 and began testing by the end of this year. After hints that Facebook was entering the digital currency world began last December, multiple reports now are ...
“I don’t think we spend nearly enough time focusing on antitrust measures. And the truth of the matter is I think it’s something we should take a really hard look at.” Social media giant Facebook ...
“They’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else.” (Reuters) – Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Friday that if elected U.S. president she would seek to break ...
As Facebook celebrates its 15th anniversary, Germany is certainly not joining in on the celebration but is instead ruling that Facebook is actually exploiting its customers. The Federal Cartel Office (FCO) in Germany is the ...
Whatever your outlook on the days, weeks, and years to come, it’s worth looking back on the moments of the past 12 months and revisiting the themes they evoked. Without further ado, it’s time for… ...
After the recent purge of over 800 independent media outlets on Facebook, the Supreme Court is now hearing a case that could have ramifications for any future attempts at similar purges. The United States Supreme ...
Facebook has taken down over 80 pages devoted to alternative health in an effort to clamp down on fake news. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently vowed to purge fake news from the social media platform, ...
The Transparency Problem According to Facebook, information of over 80 million users was used unethically by the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica. From a public statement in April, “In total, we believe the Facebook information of up ...
“Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat.” (Common Dreams) During a closed-door and off-the-record meeting last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown reportedly warned news publishers that refusal ...
In a move underscoring one of today’s most contentious debates Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and iTunes all removed various types of content from controversial political talk show host, Alex Jones and his Infowars website. The removal ...
Fallout From Cambridge Analytic Data Usage The conversation surrounding digital security is in the international spotlight following Cambridge Analytica filing for bankruptcy. Data and security experts have begun looking towards blockchain technology as a possible ...
Wells Fargo not long ago released a commercial titled “Earning Back Your Trust” that starts with a man on horseback riding in slow motion. The voiceover begins, “We know the value of trust. We were ...
Cambridge Analytica, the consultant company accused of manipulating millions of Facebook users’ data for political purposes, announced on Wednesday it will shut down. But is Cambridge Analytica really shutting down or just rebranding as Emerdata? ...
Facebook is under criticism following the data breach that affected 87 million users worldwide during the course of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. That number is much higher than the tens of thousands that Cambridge Analytica ...
Content creators are facing increasing rates of censorship on social media and major content platforms, but is the crackdown opening a door for new content platforms? Rising Anger Among Content Providers Many content creators have ...
Chairman of Commission I of the Indonesian House of Representatives Abdul Kharis Almasyhari, who is overseeing defense and foreign affairs, said that the head of Facebook’s Southeast Asia division will address parliament this week in ...
Secret Facebook Censorship: a trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression. (ProPublica by Julia Angwin and Hannes Grassegger) In the ...
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