ABC News legal analyst and co-host of “The View” Sunny Hostin said on Wednesday’s broadcast that Facebook upheld its ban of former President Donald Trump because she believed he continues to be “a public safety threat.”
Joy Behar told her co-hosts on Wednesday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View” that Facebook upholding its ban of former President Donald Trump was like if Italy kept fascist leader Benito Mussolini from broadcasting on the radio in the 1940s.
Appearing Tuesday on Yahoo! Finance Live, Twitter CFO Ned Segal reaffirmed that the social network giant will never reverse its blacklisting of former President Donald Trump. Segal’s pledge came ahead of the Facebook Oversight Board’s decision to uphold its ban on the former president’s account.
Facebook comms boss Sir Nick Clegg fell upwards to the role from his previous post as the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Facebook is reportedly taking on the hyperlocal social media platform Nextdoor with its new “Neighborhoods” feature. This latest move adds to Facebook’s long history of copying features from other platforms to apply its incredible market power to smaller competitors.
President Donald Trump’s team clarified Tuesday that the launch of a new section of his website was not a new social media network.
Facebook’s “Supreme Court” has upheld Mark Zuckerberg’s blacklisting of former President Donald Trump’s accounts temporarily, giving Facebook another six months to announce whether it will be lifting the suspension or deleting Trump’s pages.
The Wall Street Journal published an essay Wednesday warning of Facebook’s “secret rules” used to police users’ accounts and remove “offensive” material.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Ayman Mohyeldin Reports,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that while he doesn’t necessarily support banning former President Donald Trump from Facebook for life, letting him back on now is too early, as Trump is still
CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota asked Tuesday on “Newsroom” why Facebook would let former President Donald Trump back on their site “to peddle more of the crap?”
In an attempt to combat Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency privacy feature, Facebook is begging users to continue to allow the Masters of the Universe to track their app usage warning it is the only way to keep services “free of charge.”
The Facebook “Supreme Court” will announce its final decision on former President Trump’s Facebook account on Wednesday morning, according to a recent announcement.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis intends to sign a bill banning social media companies from “deplatforming,” “shadow banning,” and “censoring” users.
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “Life, Liberty & Levin,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) railed against big tech.
The city of Racine, Wisconsin, will soon deploy a “mobile” polling place funded by the non-profit Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), using money donated by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, in 2020.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have nearly doubled the size of their real estate empire in Hawaii, buying another 595.4 acres on Kauai from Waioli Corporation, a nonprofit established by a local family with roots going back to the era of the Hawaiian kingdom.
Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) has introduced a bill that takes aim at a key vulnerability of Big Tech — their increasing resemblance to common carriers.
Facebook revealed Thursday that it blocked all posts containing the hashtag #ResignModi in India for several hours Wednesday.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated in a recent interview that he plastered his face with sunscreen while on vacation in Hawaii in an attempt to disguise himself from photographers. The resulting creepy pictures have become memes comparing the social media Master of the Universe to everything from mimes to the Joker.
A leaked internal Facebook memo reveals how Apple’s long-awaited iOS 14.5 App Tracking Transparency feature may affect advertisers. Facebook reportedly expects ad campaigns will “fluctuate” as iPhone users update their devices.
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) said on Sunday it has asked Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms to remove posts that create “panic” about the coronavirus surge in India by spreading “fake or misleading information.” Opposition politicians and international free speech advocates denounced the action as political censorship by the embattled government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In a recent article, the New York Times details how Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s Tim Cook have become enemies and why their differences will begin to escalate this week.
Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix moguls have reportedly donated more than $7.5 million to non-profits controlled by Marxist Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, who has helped them lobby to control the internet via “net neutrality,” while the tech giants censor her online critics.
A recently discovered Facebook vulnerability has reportedly exposed the email addresses of millions of users, even those that have their information set to private.
The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been running a program called iCOP or “Internet Covert Operations Program” that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts.
Corporate America weighed in on the jury finding former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd.
Facebook-owned Instagram announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new tool to help users automatically filter out direct messages (DMs) that contain offensive words, phrases, and even emojis.
Federal authorities reportedly arrested a suspect in the U.S. Capitol riot after using facial recognition programs to find an image of the suspect on his girlfriend’s Instagram page. The arrest represents the first time that facial recognition was used to identify a suspect from the Capitol riot rather than to confirm the identity of an existing suspect.
In a recent interview, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that he believes Facebook is helping to make the world a better place — even if it causes some damage.
Although their arguments are almost universally pathetic, it is useful to occasionally pay attention to what the Swamp’s paid defenders of Big Tech giants are saying.
Law professor, former Trump official, and communications law expert Adam Candeub joined Alex Marlow on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily today, arguing that Republican voters need to pressure their state legislators if they want local bills to rein in Big Tech to succeed.
Facebook is reportedly planning to censor posts that may contain misinformation or “hate speech” related to the trial of Derek Chauvin as a verdict is expected in the near future. Facebook claims: “We want to strike the right balance between allowing people to speak about the trial and what the verdict means, while still doing our part to protect everyone’s safety.”
On lockdowns, vaccine passports, critical race theory, E-verify, and many other issues, Florida governor Ron DeSantis leads the way for Republicans. But in one important area, Big Tech censorship, he is being let down by poorly crafted legislation.
In April 2020, middle school teacher Louis Goffinet of Mansfield, Connecticut, started grocery shopping for elderly neighbors hesitant to enter a store when the coronavirus pandemic began.
Apple has approved social media platform Parler to return to its App Store, which will effectively allow iPhone users to download the Parler app once again.
Facebook has reportedly used legal pressure and other means to force two popular third-party Android apps off the Google Play store. In at least one case, the Masters of the Universe blacklisted the personal accounts of a developer in an apparent act of intimidation.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) will today introduce a bill targeting Big Tech monopolies, in particular the practice of favoring their own products and services in online marketplaces and search engines that they own, a practice that Amazon and Google are often accused of.
The New York Post has been censored by Facebook (again) after publishing a story about Patrice Khan-Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter organization, and her spree of mansion-buying across the country.
The Hungarian government has warned against Big Tech oligarchs’ moves to dominate the public square online through the arbitrary and opaque enforcement of community guidelines — in their view, a kind of “pseudo legal system”.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly under pressure from an international coalition of 35 children’s and consumer groups to drop plans for a version of Instagram aimed towards children under 13.