YouTube banned Mike Cernovich’s documentary on Sweden’s refugee crisis from being viewed in European countries, then restored the video but placed it in “YouTube Jail,” disabling comments and sharing, while adding a warning message to viewers.
YouTube took down a video featuring FCC chairman Ajit Pai making the case for Title II repeal earlier today, only to restore it several hours later.
Europe’s largest digital publishing house is joining up with the News Media Alliance (NMA), a U.S. trade association, to lobby in America and take on Google and Facebook and their grip on advertising revenue.
Google’s artificial intelligence unit is using games to test whether AI can teach itself to cheat in hopes of heading off a robot apocalypse.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it is opening an artificial intelligence (AI) research center in China to target the country’s local talent, even as the U.S. search firm’s products remain blocked in the country.
Google has once again overtaken Facebook as the number one traffic referrer in 2017.
Google is facing scrutiny by Israel’s antitrust agency following a complaint from video advertising platform Artimedia, according to a report.
A female entrepreneur alleges she faced character assassination and career sabotage by two “women in tech” groups over her conservative beliefs, including Google’s Women Techmakers.
Google’s DeepMind AI Now Rules the Chess World, Too
Late Wednesday, the Alabama Secretary of State’s office issued a statement claiming what it described as a “misleading” ad from the Birmingham-based pro-Doug Jones super PAC Highway 31 was removed by Google at its behest. According to the release, the office headed
How did it happen that that most people in, say, Poland, or Hungary, still believe that the old verities—of faith and family, of patriotism and nationalism—are valuable and worth conserving? And at the same time, how did it happen that so many people in the West have come to believe that those old verities are obsolete, if not downright false?
YouTube has ‘quarantined’ the hard-hitting video on Europe’s migrant crisis released by Poland’s conservative government as part the platform’s crackdown on “hate speech and violent extremism”.
The UK’s National Crime Agency has warned that live streaming websites pose an “urgent threat” as abusers use them to prey on young children.
Google is set to hire “thousands” of new human moderators following the revelation that its YouTube platform was allowing child abuse videos to stay online.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has been asked to investigate Facebook, Google, and other tech giants for their role in spreading fake news and discouraging advertisers from placing ads with traditional media.
Google Translate has been criticized for “sexist” algorithms, which associated nurses and cooks with women and engineers with men.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that Uber deployed an espionage team to plunder trade secrets from its rivals. The revelation triggered a delay in a high-profile trial over whether the beleaguered ride-hailing service stole self-driving car technology from a Google spinoff.
Uber, Tinder, Snapchat, Twitter, and other top apps have allegedly been secretly tracking users, according to a report.
YouTube’s search suggestion algorithm has been criticized after the company suggested “how to have s*x with your kids” to users.
The FCC cited the blocking of Gab from the Apple and Google stores and the blocking of the Daily Stormer as examples of content blocking.
Mark Cuban is another brash billionaire with a popular reality-TV show, an active Twitter feed (7.6 million followers), a habit of giving punchy quotes to journalists, and, yes, national political ambitions. And now the anti-Trump billionaire has become an inadvertent ally of the Trump administration’s populist crusade by providing a roadmap for antitrust action against Silicon Valley.
Regulators from both South Korea and the United Kingdom are reportedly investigating Google for allegedly collecting location data on its users without their knowledge.
Google has been criticized for a “distasteful” survey about children that was featured on an article about child sex abuse this week.
Left-wing activists warn that Net Neutrality reform will allow big corporations to destroy the open internet. But that’s already happening.
YouTube suspended several popular accounts in what they call a “technical error” on Thursday.
Millions of Americans cheered the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) proposed repeal of net neutrality, while others remain concerned about the repeal’s effect on the future freedom of the Internet.
At some point, the American people are going to conclude, for the sake of their privacy and security, that we can’t let this much power be concentrated into the hands of a few arrogant, irresponsible, and, frankly, neglectful, individuals and their companies. This isn’t just corporate malfeasance causing harm to individuals; this is malfeasance that jeopardize our economic and even national security.
During his time at Google, site reliability engineer Tim Chevalier repeatedly advocated and excused political violence.
Google is planning to “engineer” Russian news outlets, including Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik News, out of Google News results.
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Monday to block the merger of telecommunications giant AT&T with Time Warner, the owner of HBO and CNN. Here are the key takeaways.
Brave, the Internet browser from Brendan Eich — the creator of JavaScript and former Mozilla CEO chased out of the company because of political wrongthink — has announced a new feature that users might use to combat YouTube’s growing censorship of independent channels in favor of corporate brands.
Libertarian Internet pioneer Peter Thiel is not the only one concerned about the danger to freedom from tech monopolies like Google.
Google has called for a ban on foreign web advertisements during US elections, while Russia also prepares its own regulations against Western influence.
Facebook, Google, and Twitter are planning to use “trust indicators” on news articles posted to their platforms in an effort to combat “fake news.”
Global internet giants Google and Facebook can expect to receive a comprehensive tax bill from Israel within the next 12 months, according to a report in the financial newspaper TheMarker.
Over the last century or two, plenty of seers and scribblers told us that technological advances were a two-edged sword. For all the gains in our standard of living that inventions would bring, so, too, would come dangers—and maybe even more downsides than upsides.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s attorney general is investigating Google for potential violations of the state’s consumer-protection and antitrust laws, his office said Monday.
Hackers are reportedly using a new form of malware that targets unsuspecting victims’ bank accounts by placing malicious links into Google’s search engine results.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) called for regulation of social networks on Wednesday, claiming, “No one company should have the power to pick and choose which content reaches consumers and which doesn’t.”
A U.S. judge has blocked a decision by the Canadian Supreme Court that attempted to force Google to delete search results in every country around the world.
