Corporate media juggernaut Bloomberg is finally waking up to the dangers of surveillance capitalism, the prevalent business model the Masters of the Universe, but practiced more aggressively and successfully by Google than any other player on today’s web.
Tech giant Google announced this week that it plans to use a skin tone palette featuring 10 different shades of skin color for its apps to reduce bias in its AI system.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a Big Tech umbrella group’s efforts to block House Bill 20, a law passed by the Republican-controlled State of Texas that prohibits political censorship by large social media platforms, in a major win for online freedom campaigners.
Well over a year since Joe Biden’s inauguration, Big Tech continues to take a zero-tolerance approach to claims of fraud in the 2020 election, with YouTube recently removing a video of a speech by former President Donald Trump discussing the issue at an event in Florida.
The largest tech firms in the world have reportedly lost over $1 trillion in value over just three trading days. Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, and Google all lost more than $100 billion in a few days, while Facebook lost $70 billion.
Match Group, the company behind popular dating apps like Tinder and OkCupid, is suing Google, accusing the company of holding it hostage with its monopolistic stranglehold on the Android app store. The company’s lawsuit states: “Ten years ago, Match Group was Google’s partner. We are now its hostage. Blinded by the possibility of getting an ever-greater cut of the billions of dollars users spend each year on Android apps, Google set out to monopolize the market for how users pay for their Android apps.”
Google has launched a new tool that will allow users to remove their phone number, email address, home address, and other personal information from its search engine.
Left-wing group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) in Washington, DC, is trying to convince Apple to drop Truth Social from its store.
Google’s parent company Alphabet reported weaker-than-expected earnings and revenue for the first quarter this week, with YouTube showing particularly weak results.
A recent report reveals that a number of major technology companies including Facebook, Apple, and Google, have been tricked into handing over sensitive personal information about customers that was used to harass and even sexually extort minors.
An alarming new study found that Google’s Gmail marks Republican campaign emails as “spam” 8.5 times more often than it does Democrat campaign emails.
Google has announced the launch of an “inclusive language” function to help users eliminate politically incorrect words and expressions.
A San Francisco police officer recently pulled over a car for failing to have its headlights on, but when the officer approached the vehicle he realized the car was not only a self-driving with no one in the driver’s seat — the vehicle was completely empty. The puzzled policeman can heard to say “Ain’t nobody in it; this is crazy,” in a viral video of the incident.
Apple CEO Tim Cook (also known as Tim Apple) received widespread criticism on social media recently after he argued that current antitrust efforts against Big Tech are bad for national security and user privacy.
A former employee at the Google-owned AI research firm DeepMind is claiming that the company is trying to “discredit” her and “salvage their own reputation” following her recent allegations of sexual harassment and assault at the firm.
Google’s Gmail, the most popular desktop email client in the world, disproportionately filters emails from conservatives to the “spam” folder where they are much less likely to be read, according to a recent study from North Carolina State University’s Department of Computer Science.
Google-owned video platform YouTube has reportedly blocked Duma TV, a channel that broadcasts from Russia’s lower house of parliament.
Despite Google’s constant harvesting of user data, the Masters of the Universe have reportedly banned apps with hidden data-harvesting features from the Google Play Store.
MOSCOW (AP) — YouTube has banned the channel of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, prompting government officials to renew longtime threats against the platform.
Big media companies are making another attempt to pass the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill that would protect them from online competition, propping up legacy media in the face of widespread public distrust and a failing business model.
Despite recent advances in privacy measures that have disrupted online tracking, new highly effective tracking methods have been deployed by the Masters of the Universe, who have grown used to the megabillions brought in by surveillance capitalism.
Google will offer its employees free electric scooters to make them feel more comfortable getting back into the office amid the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
The DOJ has reportedly accelerated its investigation into Google and its Maps product to determine if the Masters of the Universe illegally stifle competition by bundling Maps with other Google software.
Former Google boss Eric Schmidt’s fingerprints are “all over” the Biden White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a closeness that even a former Obama White House ethics official has criticized, according to a report in Politico.
A recent report by CNBC details how Google and Amazon financed a small business owner advocacy group in order to lobby against Big Tech regulation.
DeepMind, the AI group owned by woke giant Google, has been accused of mishandling multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment.
Joe Rogan recently criticized “activist” employees at tech giants, calling them “mentally ill.” Describing the Masters of the Universe at Google, Rogan said, “The lunatics are running the asylum to a certain extent because there’s a lot of people working inside the company now that legitimately are mentally ill and they consider themselves activists.”
The Big Tech Masters of the Universe are facing renewed pushback as the European Union Council and European Parliament have reached a provisional political agreement on the Digital Markets Acts (DMA). The DMA will attempt to tame the anti-competitive power of tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook, which the act labels as “gatekeepers.”
Following Google-owned YouTube’s suspension of the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) channel, former President Donald Trump’s rally in Georgia is set to be broadcast on free speech-friendly video platform Rumble.
Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), who will have a tough reelection battle, found a way around his “no-corporate PAC pledge.” Throughout the last 18 months, he has accepted campaign contributions from business and professional interest groups.
Google has reportedly settled with six current and former employees who attempted to organize unionization efforts within the Masters of the Universe. The NLRB complaint alleged that Google illegally dismissed, disciplined, and even surveilled employees who were actively attempting to organize a tech worker’s union.
A recent research paper reveals that Google’s Messages and Dialer apps on Android smartphones have been sending user data back to the Masters of the Universe without notice or user consent.
The Department of Justice has accused tech giant Google of training employees to hide business communications from legal review “by using false requests for legal advice.” The DOJ has informed a judge overseeing an antitrust case against the Masters of the Universe that the company trains employees to add lawyers to written communications and seek legal advice even when not required so it could invoke attorney-client privilege when documents are requested as part of an investigation.
A lawsuit filed by a Florida restaurant chain alleges that Google purposefully directs users to “unauthorized” Google-branded food ordering webpages where it uses restaurants’ names “without their approval,” a tactic the lawsuit describes as a “bait-and-switch.”
Despite its status as one of the wokest companies in the world, including maintaining an official program to inject critical race theory into the field of programming, tech giant Google is facing a major lawsuit alleging it discriminates against black employees.
YouTube, the Google-owned video platform, continues its campaign of censorship in support of the official narrative on Ukraine, this time censoring a recent Fox News appearance by former Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, a longtime critic of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
The American Conservative Union (ACU), the organization that runs the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has blasted Google-owned YouTube for censoring its channel after it uploaded a video of former President Donald Trump’s speech at this year’s conference.
Vimeo, a video hosting platform that markets itself as an alternative to YouTube, has updated its terms of service to ban “fake news” and “conspiracy theories” that creates “a serious risk of material harm to a person, group, or the general public.”
Former Google CEO and noted Clinton lackey Eric Schmidt urged the American tech industry to take a deeper role in national defense.
Russia has announced plans to block Facebook in the country, claiming that the social media platform has discriminated against Russian media and information sources. The government of Russia is reportedly considering declaring Facebook an “extremist organization,” a decision driven in part by Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to allow users to call for the death of Russians.
