U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) condemned Google for refusing to send a senior representative to the committee’s hearing on foreign interference online.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai wrote in a blog post on Tuesday that we need to think “seriously” about whether social media giants need to abide by “new transparency” requirements regarding censorship and privacy.
Facebook is creating a “war room” at the company’s HQ which will be used to counter attempts from foreign governments to influence U.S. elections.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are set to appear before the Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence tomorrow to discuss foreign interference online — the same day that Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh will be questioned by the Senate.
A new report from Bloomberg News revealed a deal between Google and Mastercard that allowed the Silicon Valley giant to track certain retail purchases.
Veteran media and telecoms investor John Malone, known as the “Cable Cowboy,” has predicted in a recent speech that Google will be “broken up” by competition watchdogs as the tech firm is growing too large.
PragerU’s recent Facebook shadowbanning was reportedly due to a single “employee error” — this employee has been sent for guideline re-education but is still employed by the company.
Investor’s Business Daily charged in an editorial on Thursday that net neutrality advocates unintentionally “made the case” for regulating Google and Facebook.
“I’ve made it clear that we as a country cannot tolerate political censorship, blacklisting, and rigged search results,” Trump said, calling out social media companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
President Donald Trump has suggested major technology firms such as Amazon and Facebook could be in a “very anti-trust situation,” but declined to comment on whether they should be broken up.
According to a recent report, more than 1,000 executives and employees from the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe have donated to a pro-Democrat super PAC since 2015.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) wrote to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simmons on Thursday, urging the agency to investigate Google’s anti-competitive practices.
Tim Hwang, former global public policy lead for machine learning at Google, claimed President Trump made a “good point” about the company’s bias this week.
After criticizing social media platforms for mass-censoring conservatives and the alternative media earlier this month, President Trump has turned his attention to Google. Not a moment too soon — of all the politically biased tech giants, Google is by far the most dangerous.
Snapchat apologized in a statement on Thursday after the app listed New York City as “Jewtropolis” due to its use of a third-party open-source mapping database.
DuckDuckGo, a pro-privacy search engine alternative, raised $10 million last week from Canada’s Omers’ venture capital fund amid growing privacy concerns from Google.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has refused to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in September.
Google is partnering with Indian banks to “bring quick loans to the masses,” according to a report.
More than a dozen human rights groups have urged Google in an open letter not to censor its search function as it expands into the China market, calling the Silicon Valley giant’s plans “an alarming capitulation.”
Conservative employees at Facebook are reportedly banding together to stand up to the company’s “intolerant” liberal culture.
Numerous mainstream news media outlets came together Tuesday to defend big tech giants including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, in response to warnings made by President Donald Trump earlier in the day about the left-wing bias the Masters of the Universe display on their platforms.
The far-left mainstream media is dutifully defending its ideological allies in Silicon Valley to do, arguing that President Trump’s criticism of bias in Google’s products is a “conspiracy theory.”
During Breitbart News’ Masters of the Universe town hall in April, psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein, author Peter Schweizer, author Ann Coulter, and Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow warned the audience about Big Tech’s influence over society.
The top story on Google News is currently a CNN article defending Google News, following President Trump’s criticism of Google’s biased news results.
On Tuesday’s “Rush Limbaugh Show,” host Rush Limbaugh stated the free market is the answer to social media and tech bias. After referencing a caller who suggested net neutrality as a solution to tech bias, Rush said, “[W]hatever you do,
“I think what Google and what others are doing – if you look at what is going on with Twitter and if you look at what’s going on in Facebook, they better be careful, because you can’t do that to people,” Trump said. “You can’t do it.”
Over 100 European journalists signed an open letter accusing Big Tech companies, like Google and Facebook, of stealing their news, and supporting a European reform which would make Silicon Valley pay for it.
The Trump Administration is “taking a look” at regulating Google following examples of bias at the Silicon Valley giant, according to President Trump’s economic adviser Larry Kudlow.
While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow stated that the Trump administration is “taking a look at” whether there needs to be some form of government regulation of Google and will let people know what
Tech giant Google has denied President Trump’s recent assertions that Google purposefully manipulates search results with a political bias.
President Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to condemn Google, criticizing the search engine as “rigged” for favoring liberal and establishment news publications in its search results.
Facebook, Google, and Twitter filed a legal brief on Monday, contending that Internet service providers (ISPs) such as Comcast or Verizon should not be able to censor content, while they reserve the right to censor content themselves.
Editors on Wikipedia added President Trump to a list of advocates for the “white genocide conspiracy theory” due to his recent tweets about South Africa farm attacks and government land expropriation. Other prominent conservatives were also on the list such as Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, and Ann Coulter.
New reports out last week claim that the Google Chrome web browser collects data on users even when they are in the private “incognito mode.”
President Trump’s recent comments on social media censorship suggest he doesn’t think social media platforms should be allowed to ban anyone for any reason. Some would call this a radical proposal, but they’re wrong. Social media companies could easily move to a “no bans” policy, with little disruption to their users.
Members of the Silicon Valley elite are celebrating the Burning Man festival this week, which has been described as a “networking event” for Big Tech billionaires.
Google News is overwhelmingly biased in favor of left-wing news outlets, featuring articles from CNN above all others, and excluding conservative sources, according to a report by PJ Media.
YouTube’s search algorithm update appears to favor videos from mainstream outlets over those from independent YouTubers, according to a report by Information Liberation, which studied the placement of an interview with Ann Coulter in the site’s search results.
The Intercept reported on Wednesday that Google is planning to launch a censorship-friendly search engine for the Chinese market, tailored to the demands of China’s authoritarian communist government. That’s quite a contrast with Google’s reluctance to work for the U.S. military. Just a few months ago, an employee revolt at the tech giant nearly killed a vital artificial-intelligence contract with the Pentagon.
Dr. Robert Epstein joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Thursday’s Breitbart News Tonight to warn of technology firms’ growing political power.