Journalist Tim Pool’s questioning of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and executive Vijaya Gadde on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Tuesday, is what Dorsey’s congressional hearing should have been.
Facebook has opened its users up to security risk, and potential theft, by allowing anyone on the platform to search for others using their phone numbers, which were only given to the social network for two-factor authentication security.
Google employees are reportedly concerned that the company is still developing the censored Chinese search app “Project Dragonfly” after discovering “ongoing work” on code associated with the project.
A lawyer claimed the United Kingdom could soon force users to provide valid ID if they want to access social media sites, as the U.K. implements mandatory ID checks on porn users starting in April.
Donald Trump Jr. called out news “trustworthiness” browser plug-in NewsGuard over its “inherent bias,” Friday, after Media Matters was given a green rating by the Microsoft partner, despite the partisan outlet keeping an article which attacked conservatives who called Jussie Smollett’s debunked “hate crime” a hoax.
Individuals working with Apple on the company’s venture into Hollywood to produce original content claim the Silicon Valley giant, and its CEO Tim Cook, are becoming too hard to work with. Cook is reportedly holding a tight grip on the content — shying away from any stories which show “the negative consequences of technology.”
Facebook reportedly lobbied George Osborne, the U.K.’s former Chancellor of the Exchequer, to influence the European Union’s data protection laws in the social network’s favor. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg also reportedly used her feminist memoir Lean In to win over female E.U. legislators.
Google denied it held a monopoly on “online searches” and advertising following calls from an Australian regulator for “increased scrutiny” and greater monitoring of Big Tech companies.
President Trump’s website error page features a picture of Hillary Clinton as President of the United States, along with the text, “Oops! This is awkward. You’re looking for something that doesn’t exist…”
Twitter is reportedly working on a new “hide tweet” feature, which will allow users to completely hide unwanted or critical replies made to their posts from the public.
Dozens of CEOs and government officials signed an open letter begging Amazon to continue with its development of HQ2 in New York City.
Facebook-owned social network Instagram is reportedly the most popular platform for child grooming in the U.K.
Google-owned video platform YouTube has disabled the comments on “tens of millions of videos” featuring minors, in an attempt to curb sexual predators on the platform.
Indian Facebook contractors, who help moderate the social media giant’s content, find the job “stressful,” and “traumatic,” according to Reuters.
Popular entertainment app TikTok will pay $5.7 million to the FTC over a children’s privacy complaint, which alleged that the company’s Musical.ly app was collecting data from children under 13 without parental consent.
Twitter has been warning users from around the world, including conservative writer and commentator Michelle Malkin, that their posts on the platform violate Pakistan’s Sharia law, and that they “may wish to consult legal counsel.”
Donald Trump Jr. appeared on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight, Tuesday, to warn that if America doesn’t fight back against Big Tech censorship now, it’ll never have the chance again.
Two lead Facebook engineers proposed the creation of a “Troll Twilight Zone” which would secretly glitch out the accounts of alleged “trolls” on the social network, to “confuse and demoralize them” around key election dates.
A former Facebook employee, who shared her discovery of a “deboosting” code found on the pages of popular conservatives, claimed she didn’t see the same censorship against “independent figures on the left,” like the Young Turks.
Free speech social network Gab has launched a new comments platform, Dissenter, which allows users to make comments on every single website on the Internet without fear of censorship or banning.
A report from porn website xHamster claimed frequent porn consumption might increase bisexuality.
Hollywood stars and other wealthy individuals are reportedly pricing dinosaur fossils out of museums and the hands of scientists, resulting in paleontologists calling for a worldwide halt of private sales.
Movie and television show review website Rotten Tomatoes has removed pre-release comments and the ability for users to rate an upcoming title based on how badly they want to see it, in response to alleged “trolling” on the platform.
The Daily Mail reported that home assistants could soon report their owners to the police for breaking the law based on a “Moral A.I.” system, if the ideas of academics in Europe are implemented.
Some Facebook content moderators have resorted to using drugs while on break as an escape from the “misery” of seeing traumatic images on the platform, which have led some to develop symptoms similar to PTSD after they leave the social media giant.
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman admitted during an interview with the Wall Street Journal that PayPal works with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) when it considers blacklisting conservatives.
Google-owned platform YouTube announced, Thursday, that “inappropriate comments” left by other users on content creators’ videos could result in the video becoming demonetized — ineligible for advertising revenue.
Google has agreed to one of the demands made by the thousands of employees who protested the company’s response to sexual misconduct and harassment allegations last year, and will no longer require employees to settle disputes at the company through arbitration.
NewsGuard, the browser plug-in that purports to separate real news from fake news and which is included in Microsoft’s mobile Edge browser by default, rated the exact same story about mainstream media journalist Lara Logan encouraging people to read news outlets from across the spectrum as fake on Breitbart News, but reliable on other websites.
BAE Systems, the military weapons manufacturer which sells weapons to Saudi Arabia, virtue-signaled its “ethical principles” and support for “cultural diversity” this week, declaring that diversity is the company’s “strength” and that it condemns “racism” and “violence.”
Microsoft’s Edge browser reportedly allowed Facebook to “run Adobe Flash code behind users’ backs.”
Major companies, including McDonald’s, Nestlé, and Epic Games have pulled advertisements from Google’s YouTube over reports of a pedophile problem on the platform.
Facial recognition software’s struggle to identify transgender and “nonbinary” people could have dangerous results in the future, according to a report from Vice’s Motherboard.
Nathan Bernard, a verified user on Twitter, threatened to post revenge porn of conservative author Mike Cernovich online, Tuesday, before the threat was eventually removed.
Google reportedly failed to disclose a “secret” microphone featured on its home security product, Nest Secure.
Emojis are increasingly common in court cases, and the meanings behind these emojis are reportedly being argued during trials.
Google reportedly flagged 100 pages of archaeological site Ancient Origins as “inappropriate content” due to “images of mummified bodies, nude statues, and ancient battle scenes.”
Journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post, and Bloomberg promoted a “completely fake” statistic “that doesn’t seem to exist” about sexism in technology this week.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio lashed out at Amazon, Sunday, for withdrawing from its plans to base half of its new “HQ2” headquarters in New York City.
Google’s written responses to Congress are as unresponsive as Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s answers during his hearing before the House Judiciary Committee in December.
