January 13, 2021 (Reuters) – Slack Technologies Inc said on Tuesday its customers on the U.S. East Coast may be experiencing trouble loading its workplace chat app. The company’s team is investigating the problem, […]
(Natural News) Banning President Donald Trump from social media while silencing his supporters who dare to object is simply not enough to stop “violence and hate” from spreading on the internet, according to Mozilla, […]
Critics of Silicon Valley censorship for years heard the same refrain: tech platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter are private corporations and can host or ban whoever they want. If you don‘t like what […]
Apps that use the Android Exposure Notifications System are currently experiencing loading issues. The Android apps, which track the spread of COVID-19 via Bluetooth, are taking longer to load and carry out exposure checks, […]
As if “homegrown“ censorship carried out through major US apps and by the companies behind them wasn‘t enough of a potential threat to freedom, users of China‘s giant, Tencent owned WeChat, are also finding […]
Former Congressman Dr. Ron Paul has been blocked from posting to and managing his popular Facebook page after the tech giant accused him of “repeatedly going against our community standards.” Paul wrote that he and […]
Twitter says it’s purged more than 70,000 accounts for spreading conspiracy theories associated with QAnon. The company first began cracking down on QAnon over the summer, but now says it ramped up its enforcement following […]
In another aggressive crackdown on election-related conversations, Facebook has banned all mentions of “Stop the Steal” on Facebook and Instagram. The phrase started gaining traction on social media in November 2020 as social media users […]
Just how comprehensive the current push to “once and for all” silence political opponents and drive them out of some of the biggest internet platforms becomes clear when fintech companies start joining in the […]
Facebook says it’s barring all mentions of the phrase “stop the steal” in the wake of last week’s riot in Washington D.C. that resulted in five deaths. The social network said Monday that it […]