Google has struck a deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to pay the international media giant for the use of its premium content in the U.S., UK, and Australia, a major win for NewsCorp that could have far-reaching consequences for the relationship between news companies and the Masters of the Universe.
Former President Barack Obama, former First Lady Michelle Obama, and failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams will be joining YouTube Originals’ Black History Celebration, “Black Renaissance.”
Celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky recently stated on social media that one of his YouTube videos received a strike from the Google-owned platform and was removed. Dr. Drew alleges that non-medical professionals at the Big Tech Masters of the Universe are now deciding what qualifies as accurate medical advice. He posed this question on social media: “Do you trust a 23yr old computer coder with your life?”
Australia’s plans to force Google and Facebook to compensate publishers for access to news content has received bipartisan support across the political aisle.
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether or not to hear a case brought by Laura Loomer and Freedom Watch against Google, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, alleging that the Masters of the Universe have been discriminating on the basis of viewpoint and coordinating with each other in an anticompetitive manner.
Tech giant Microsoft has reportedly suggested to the Biden administration that the U.S. should adopt a similar plan to Australia’s proposed law which would force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for access to their news content.
The demand by Australia’s conservative coalition government that Google and Facebook pay for news content is drawing results, with the tech giants revealing Monday they are close to deals with major news providers.
YouTube has permanently banned LifeSiteNews, a popular pro-life news outlet with some 314,000 subscribers.
Australia’s Parliament will reportedly debate making Google and Facebook pay for news after a committee recently recommended no changes to drafts of proposed laws.
Australian lawmakers agreed Friday to proceed with world-first legislation that will make Alphabet’s Google and Facebook pay publishers for content.
Apple Chief Privacy Engineer Erik Neuenschwander recently spoke out against a proposed bill in the North Dakota Senate that would prevent Apple and Google from requiring developers to use their respective app stores and payment methods, stating that it “threatens to destroy the iPhone as you know it.”
Google-owned YouTube has banned LifeSite News, one of the leading sources of pro-life news and commentary on the web.
The CEO of travel booking site Trivago believes that the attitudes towards the world’s biggest tech firms have changed. Axel Hefer believes world governments are warming to taking on Google’s stranglehold on the internet, stating: “There is an increasing understanding that you need to set some rules that are specific to the digital world, as you’ve done in the offline world a long time ago.”
The Senate, now under the control of the Democrats, is escalating efforts to reform antitrust law to target anticompetitive behavior by major tech companies.
Google has quietly escalated censorship of its market-dominating search engine, adding a range of new topics where human moderates are allowed to manually penalize websites, suppressing them in search results.
Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, revealed on Saturday that the former president is considering launching his own social media platform in the not-too-distant future.
Microsoft announced Friday that the company will suspend contributions to Republican members that objected to the certification of the 2020 election results.
CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Jonathan Greenblatt told Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) that a term like “globalists” is “white supremacist” language, and that the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe have not done enough to stifle free speech on the internet.
In a recent article, tech site The Information outlines former Google CEO and Clinton lackey Eric Schmidt’s worries about the increasing antitrust scrutiny that the Masters of the Universe are facing. According to Schmidt, affordable smartphones are a sign that Big Tech fosters competition.
A study from New York University claiming that there is no anti-conservative bias from major technology companies was funded by a pro-Biden tech billionaire and drafted in consultation with employees from Google and Facebook.
A huge surge of advertising in the final months of 2020 saw Google’s revenue jump far above Wall Street forecasts, boosting shares in the firm’s parent company Alphabet on Wednesday.
A Google engineering director and a software developer have reportedly resigned from the company over the dismissal of AI research Timnit Gebru, who was fired from the company after refusing to retract an academic paper critical of the company’s AI technology. The director, who worked for Google for 16 years, said: “We cannot say we believe in diversity, and then ignore the conspicuous absence of many voices from within our walls.”
Thursday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) discussed her proposal of sweeping reform to U.S. antitrust laws that is aimed at reducing monopoly power.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Google’s dominance of Internet advertising is the financial heart of the company’s other monopolies.
Google has personal information on political opponents that can be weaponized, warned Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Tech giant Microsoft has reportedly offered to fill Google’s role in Australia after the search giant’s threats to leave the country if a new law is passed that would force Google to pay publishers for news content.
Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s call to Australian lawmakers for leniency over plans to regulate tech giants and force them to pay for news sourced from local media outlets has been roundly rejected by Canberra.
Tech giant Google is actively removing negative reviews of the Robinhood trading app from the Google Play Store after users expressed their anger over the trading platform’s halt on buying certain stocks yesterday, including Gamestop.
Google-owned YouTube took down several videos from the channel of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). The videos were from a Senate hearing on coronavirus treatments, featuring a doctor testifying about the use of the medicine Ivermectin in cases of the Chinese virus.
Google-owned YouTube has stripped the Epoch Times of its ability to monetize content on the platform, giving only vague reasons as to why.
Google-owned video platform YouTube has once again extended its suspension of former President Donald Trump’s account on the platform. In a related move, Youtube also removed Rudy Giuliani from its Partner Program, which allows creators to earn ad revenue from their videos.
Google announced Monday that it has suspended donations to lawmakers that objected to the certification of the 2020 presidential election.
British-born actor Sacha Baron Cohen wrote a mock PR statement for Google and YouTube containing his thoughts on why the tech giant should deny its services to former President Donald Trump, declaring that “freedom of speech is not freedom of reach.”
Allum Bokhair appeared on the Trevor Carey show to discuss Silicon Valley’s tightening grip on American politics.
Breitbart News senior technology correspondent Allum Bokhari appeared on the Mark Levin Show on the Westwood One podcast network to discuss his book, DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election.
Google workers across the world are reportedly forming a global union alliance called “Alpha Global” with the goal of holding Google and parent company Alphabet accountable.
A year-old defense company backed by a $63 million investment from board member and former Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is already working its way into the good graces of the Biden administration.
A judge in Seattle, Washington has denied Parler’s request for a preliminary injunction, which would require Amazon to restore web hosting services for the social media platform.
Tech giant Google has threatened to remove its search engine from the entire country of Australia if a proposed law goes into effect that would force Google to pay news publishers for their content.
Tech giant Google has reportedly locked the corporate account of Margaret Mitchell, the leader of the company’s Ethical AI unit, who was reportedly looking into the controversial departure of another prominent Google AI researcher, Timnit Gebru.
