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Big Tech’s growing crackdown on “misinformation” and “misleading” content has reached the popular online photo storage service Google Photos. App researcher Jane Manchum Wong has discovered that the service is working on the ability for […]

Although it initially announced that inserting itself and its opinions into the way people use the platform would be limited to the US election, Twitter’s intrusive behavior continues even weeks after. It started with adding […]

Starting next year, Comcast will implement a 1.2TB data cap on broadband usage in 12 states and the District of Columbia. The company has had a data cap since 2016, but this is the first […]

In the immediate aftermath of the contested US election, Facebook implemented a change to its news feed algorithm that favoured large general news publishers. This meant that sites like CNN, the BBC, New York Times […]

The outcome of the US presidential election has not yet been certified, but Joe Biden is considered its winner by the majority of mainstream media; at the same time, President Trump continues with his legal […]

Trapt lead singer Chris Taylor Brown says that the band has been banned on Facebook. The incident took place after Brown posted a Proud Boys meme to announce Trapt’s new account on the fast-growing new […]

Dr Mike Yeadon has argued that the British government is using “lethally incompetent” scientific advice in its Covid-19 response. YouTube has mysteriously taken down a video in which the immunologist explains his point. Video here: […]

The FAA certified the Boeing 737 Max on Wednesday. Here’s the inside scoop on exactly what caused the crashes. SOURCE: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/boeing-737-crashes-caused-few-lines-missing-code

Once again another “fake” Facebook “fact check” that is nothing more than disinformation and propaganda. This “fact check” takes on a peer-reviewed, published scientific study about the effectiveness of masks when it comes to virus […]

A huge US space telescope nestled deep in the Puerto Rican jungle will be shut down after suffering two destructive mishaps in recent months, ending 57 years of astronomical discoveries. Operations at the Arecibo observatory, […]

Tesla shares pared their “S&P 500 inclusion” gains on Thursday after it was revealed that Consumer Reports decided to not “recommend” the company’s Model S and panned the company’s Model Y “due to a decline […]

(Natural News) A functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner who helps men and women reduce EMF exposure while restoring gut health has been banned by MailChimp for daring to tell the truth about Covid-19. Linda Wilbert of […]

Russia is threatening to ban YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter for censoring Russia’s media outlets. Such censorship is a retaliation to the Big Tech giant’s own censorship of Russian state media but the ban would only […]

Facebook just offered its first look at the scale of its fight against election misinformation. In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, Facebook slapped warning labels on more than 180 million posts that shared […]

November 19, 2020 By James Pearson HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam has threatened to shut down Facebook <FB.O> in the country if it does not bow to government pressure to censor more local political content on […]

Don’t be surprised if you start seeing ads on videos made by smaller YouTube creators. The video-sharing website has updated its Terms of Service, and it includes a new section that gives it the right […]

The Egregor ransomware uses a novel approach to get a victim’s attention after an attack – shoot ransom notes from all available printers. Ransomware gangs know that many businesses would rather hide a ransomware attack […]

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted his company “was wrong” in censoring a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden just days before the 2020 presidential election; saying the platform “corrected” the situation within 24 hours. […]

During today’s Senate Committee hearing titled “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election,” Senator Josh Hawley revealed that his office had been contacted by a former Facebook employee who claimed that the Facebook’s […]

Mailchimp, a prominent email marketing service, is doubling down on its censorship. The email marketing service is mostly used for sending bulk email newsletters and has recently faced accusations of censorship for going beyond suspending […]

WordPress has deplatformed the Conservative Treehouse (CTH), the blog announced on Friday. The website, that has existed for ten years, has been denied hosting by WordPress.com, a hugely popular blogging service owned by Automattic – […]

You might need to take your Chevy Bolt in for major service. Detroit News and The Verge report that GM is recalling 68,677 Bolt EVs (50,900 in the US) to help it identify the causes […]

Some early iPhone 12 mini buyers are having a rough experience with their diminutive new handset. Users on MacRumors, Apple’s forum and Reddit report that the 12 mini’s touchscreen is partly unresponsive at the lock […]

On Thursday, Infowars host and founder Alex Jones appeared on journalist Tim Pool’s Timcast IRL podcast alongside author and media personality Michael Malice. As with most of Jones’ guest appearances, the episode was hugely popular […]

Alternative social network CloutHub says its video hosting provider IBM has removed its video channels without warning. CloutHub describes itself as a “next-generation social network for social, civic and political networking” and said that all […]

Facebook has banned the personal account and public page of Mark Sidney, the co-founder of Spreely, a new social media site that respects the First Amendment rights of its users to the furthest possible extreme, […]

(Natural News) Many of us use our smartphones more than we’d like, but if you thought being in a constant state of stress was the main danger of these devices, we have some bad news […]

Twitch has a clear message to streamers: don't play songs that you don't have the rights to use. In a blog post, the service shed some more light on the huge uptick in music-related copyright […]

According to an Archive.org blog post, you will now know if a page was pulled down or received an alert over what “fact-checkers” consider “misinformation.” This also includes “dead” web pages that were archived. The […]

The hotel industry now has a potentially serious security headache on its hands alongside the pandemic. Website Planet reports that Prestige Software, the company behind hotel reservation platforms for Hotels.com, Booking.com and Expedia, left data […]

Facebook is blocking hashtags related to the accusations surrounding the 2020 election. The counting of votes is continuing and the race is still too close to call. The hashtag #sharpiegate has been blocked on Facebook. […]

It’s highly unlikely that Twitter will itself be in hot water or amid a storm of criticism for allowing Donald Trump to freely express himself now – as had been the case before and after […]

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) says that circumvention tools such as The Tor Network, DNS, and VPNs are a threat to legal streaming services. Could the organization be suggesting the banning of these services which […]

November 5, 2020 By Elizabeth Culliford and Raphael Satter (Reuters) – Facebook Inc <FB.O> on Thursday said it had taken down a rapidly growing group where supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump posted misinformation, violent […]

The data analysts firm NetMarketShare revealed that Windows 10 has seen another uptake in users and it went up to 64.04% from 61.26% last month. Linux (multiple distros) went from 1.14% to 1.65% and Ubuntu […]

Police in Jackson, Mississippi, are asking residents to connect their smart doorbells to a real-time surveillance centre, in an effort to fight crime. The mayor said the video streams would only be looked at if […]

It’s a far and sad cry from where Mozilla started decades ago, developing its Firefox browser as a plucky and technically superior browser fighting the good fight against Microsoft’s monopolistic dominance; today, staying afloat thanks […]

In advance of the 2020 US presidential election, Facebook said it would temporarily ban political, electoral and “social issue” advertisement starting on November 4th, the day after the election. Well, today is the day after […]

November 3, 2020 By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc on Tuesday suspended several recently created right-leaning news accounts posting information about voting in the hotly contested U.S. election for violating its policies. […]

Here is the original article we posted…Leaked Zoom Calls Reveal Federal Workers Conspiring To Shut Down White House/Disrupt Government. Citing a “violation” of “community guidelines, YouTube just removed ShutDownDC’s Zoom call video.  Interestingly, Twitter has allowed […]

If you’ve been following the leadup to the PlayStation 5’s November 12th release date, you’ll know that a company called PlateStation had emerged in mid-October to offer a way for people to customize the new […]

(Natural News) RICHMOND, Va. — In a blow to privacy that extends the government’s authority to create a web of surveillance, the Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that state and local police are free to […]

Antifa, a far left-wing organization active in the US, that many refer to as extremist and militant, is among the topics that are not to be questioned or criticized on YouTube, but also on another, […]

A number of pro-Trump groups and individuals representing women and minorities that are active on social media are being silenced in these days and weeks before the US presidential election. Whether or not Facebook thought […]

If you’ve been having problems syncing data across your Apple devices, you’re not alone. Apple is reporting (via 9to5Mac) outages across several of its iCloud services, including backups, calendars, Find My, photos and even sign-ins. […]

The Internet Archive has joined the ranks of those US tech companies or organizations who are applying the “soft censorship” of “fact checking” as a means to discredit content rather than outright ban and delete […]

Several Facebook groups set up by pro-Trump Jews who immigrated to the US from Russia (the then Soviet Union) have been banned on the giant social network in recent days, just ahead of the presidential […]

The “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast is causing tensions within Spotify. Some more radical employees have reportedly flagged some of the podcast’s content. Spotify acquired The Joe Rogan Experience, the world’s most popular podcast, back in […]

Even after announcing an arbitrary blanket ban on accounts associated with QAnon, Facebook isn’t done suppressing the movement. As part of another crackdown, the social media platform has revealed that searches for the “save our […]

Netflix is raising the prices of its standard and premium plans. Its standard plan, previously $13 a month, is now $14, while the premium plan has been raised from $16 to $18 a month. The […]

The founder of a mastectomy support group on Facebook claims that the platform repeatedly censors its content despite their content not violating Facebook’s community standards. Facebook admitted that the content was removed in error but […]

Microsoft has released an optional Catalog update that removes Adobe Flash from Windows 10 and prevents it from being reinstalled, paving the way for the eventual death of the app in 2021. However, as Bleeping […]

Facebook is among the giant social platforms that have over the past months taken action to suppress and remove content uploaded by those believing in the existence of an international child trafficking conspiracy that involves […]

October 27, 2020 By Elizabeth Culliford and Raphael Satter (Reuters) – The first day of Facebook Inc’s effort to stop new political advertising being introduced in the final stretch of U.S. election campaigning was marked […]

Two Christian organizations that operate in China officially are resorting to camouflaging references to Jesus Christ and the Bible by replacing them with initials – in order to maintain the presence of their stores on […]

(Natural News) As we approach the most critical election in the history of this nation, we remind everyone that both Facebook and Twitter have, for at least the last six months, completely blacklisted the sharing […]

Dubai is introducing a facial recognition system on public transport to beef up security, officials said Sunday, as the emirate prepares to host the global Expo exhibition.”This technology has proven its effectiveness to identify suspicious […]

Oculus’ move to require Facebook accounts is creating serious problems for some of its biggest fans. Windows Central reports that Facebook is banning Oculus users who simultaneously use more than one VR headset linked to […]

You won’t find the source code for YouTube-DL, a popular tool that can be used to download videos from YouTube, and for some of its forks and copies on GitHub anymore. When you visit their […]

Patreon is joining the ranks of tech companies cracking down on QAnon. Bloomberg reports the crowdfunding site is banning accounts “dedicated” to promoting the discredited conspiracy theory, while others that have pushed some QAnon content […]

A recent study carried out by the Media Research Center showed that since May 2018, Twitter and Facebook censored Donald Trump 65 times compared to zero such instances affecting Joe Biden, who is now the […]

Just days after US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez played Among Us to an audience of more than 435,000 viewers, InnerSloth, the developer of the popular multiplayer title, is struggling to contain a spam attack that is […]

God Emperor Trump, a popular pro-Trump meme page, was banned by Facebook with just a few days left for the US Presidential Election. Tom Pappert, who owns the page, said that Facebook has banned his […]

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has been locked out of his Twitter account for tweeting out the details of a story about voter fraud in Pennsylvania and asking the question “what’s going on?” In […]

Facebook altered its algorithm to prevent articles from certain news websites from appearing on its newsfeed, a new report states. According to the Wall Street Journal, CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the changes that would result […]

October 16, 2020 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Thursday its social networking site was down for many users due to “some trouble” with its internal systems. The company said in a tweet https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1316880612691591174 that […]

YouTube has scrubbed many popular “QAnon” and independent news channels from its platform after announcing new rules that prohibit what it deems to be “harmful conspiracy theories.” The channels collectively had millions of subscribers and […]

The Facebook page of a New Zealand political party was suspended days before the election as the page apparently shared what the Big Tech giant says is COVID-19 “misinformation.” Ever since the coronavirus saga started, […]

October 15, 2020 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc on Thursday temporarily restricted U.S. President Donald Trump’s election campaign account from tweeting, saying a video from the account about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son violated its […]

With just weeks to go before the 2020 presidential election, YouTube has confirmed it is expanding efforts to crack down on harmful conspiracies being shared on its platform, with a specific focus on prohibiting “content […]

After blocking links to the New York Post story about Joe Biden’s foreign lobbying scandal, Twitter has now followed up by blocking a link to the official Republican Judiciary website at house.gov. Both Facebook and […]

Facebook and Twitter are both taking steps to slow the spread of a New York Post story that claimed to have obtained emails from the laptop of Joe Biden’s son.A Facebook spokesperson said Wednesday that […]

Twitter has followed Facebook’s example by censoring a New York Post article about Joe Biden’s foreign lobbying scandal after users were prevented from tweeting links to the story, leading one NY Post editor to describe […]

YouTube will remove videos that contain misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines (via Reuters). It will ban any content that contradicts information about those vaccines from the World Health Organization (WHO) or local health authorities, the company… […]

October 13, 2020 (Reuters) – Netflix, the world’s largest streaming service, said on Tuesday it has stopped offering free trials in the United States. “We’re looking at different marketing promotions in the U.S. to attract […]

Mark Zuckerberg has clearly had enough of being hauled in front of Congress and hectored by a gang of senior citizens and listening to the head of the ACLU slam his company as a vessel […]

Facebook has reportedly disabled the account of former U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant John “Tig” Tiegen, one of the men who helped defend the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in 2012, now a conservative activist and public […]

Reddit moderators removed The Great Barrington Declaration, an anti-lockdown statement by some of the world’s leading epidemiologists. The censorship is proof that social platforms, like mainstream media, are not welcoming of discussions surrounding alternatives to […]

October 12, 2020 (Reuters) – Facebook Inc said on Monday it was updating its hate speech policy to prohibit any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust. “Enforcement of these policies cannot happen overnight,” Facebook […]

Twitter, in attempts to silence conversation around vote-by-mail on its platform, has now locked the former acting Director of National Intelligence out of his account. Upon his friend’s request, Ric Grenell took to Twitter and […]

TikTok may have received a temporary reprieve from its ban by the Trump administration recently, but the app is struggling to keep its welcome in other countries. Following a recent ban in India, TikTok has […]

Hyundai has issued a recall for 25,564 Kona EVs in South Korea following reports of battery fires, according to Reuters. It’s also in the process of filing a recall with the the National Highway Traffic […]

Facebook-owned Instagram has announced that will ban all QAnon accounts, including ones that don’t promote violence, while refusing to remove ISIS propaganda accounts that celebrate 9/11 under the justification that “people may express themselves differently.” […]

The QAnon conspiracy theory is no longer welcome on any of Facebook’s apps. The social network is banning QAnon from its platform entirely, the company now says.“Starting today, we will remove any Facebook Pages, Groups […]

After investigating and reporting on DNC/Deep State/State Department/Biden criminal behavior in Ukraine since 2014, CDMedia was de-platformed across 5 Silicon Valley companies within a few days. These included Twitter, PayPal, Stripe, CJ Affiliate, and Patreon. […]

Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and longtime confidant of Julian Assange, has been fastidiously reporting on the Australian publisher’s extradition hearing to the United States. Yet few people have been reading it. […]

You’ll have to watch retail websites like a hawk and be ready to refresh like mad if you want to get an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 or 3090 before the year ends. According to Tom’s […]

Facebook mistakenly removed a Fallout 76 group by The Free States Militia, one of the most popular roleplaying entities. The group received no warning, and Facebook admitted it was a mistake and reinstated the group. […]

October 5, 2020 (Reuters) – Slack Technologies Inc <WORK.N> said on Monday some of it users were facing faulty performance on its workplace messaging platform, which is widely used by employees working remotely during the […]

Apple has filed a lawsuit against its former contractor GEEP Canada for allegedly reselling over 100,000 iPhones, iPads and Watches that were supposed to be disassembled and recycled. “At least 11,766 pounds of Apple devices […]

October 3, 2020 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Honda Motor Co <7267.T> said on Saturday it has confirmed a 17th U.S. death tied to a faulty Takata air bag inflator. The Japanese automaker said that after a […]

Pinterest is trying to re-educate users on what it calls “cultural appropriation” when it comes to Halloween costumes. Pinterest is the go-to app for Halloween costume ideas. Even though the celebrations this year will be […]

Facebook and YouTube both announced that they ramped up their tracking of “Trump-coronavirus conspiracy theories” within minutes of President Trump announcing that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. In a statement to Motherboard, Facebook […]

QAnon is increasingly spreading on LinkedIn as members continue to identify as supporters. However, LinkedIn, like other social media sites, isn’t happy about it and is taking measures to reduce the spread of the movement […]

Twitter will change its automated image cropping feature after users complained that it was biased. The company says it’s working to “decrease our reliance” on automatic cropping so users can ultimately control how their images appear […]

Five bar owners in France have been arrested in Grenoble for offering public WiFi without keeping connection logs and spying on its users. The owners claimed they were not aware of the anti-privacy law that […]

Facebook is taking new steps to limit QAnon’s influence on its platform. The social network said that it was banning ads that “praise, support or represent” QAnon or “militarized social movements,” and that it had […]