There has been a lot of talk lately about centralized and unaccountable entities and internet monopolies preventing competition and participation in highly visible places, like social media sites and various online services controlled by giant […]
The site has never been much liked by Google but has now gotten to where more people find it via Duckduckgo (2.3% of the market) than with Google (87% of the market): By some measure, […]
Twitter has announced a new strikes system where accounts that repeatedly post what it deems to be COVID-19 “misinformation” will be permanently banned from the site. Under the new system, users that tweet what […]
Right-wing social media network Gab appears to have suffered an extensive data breach. According to Wired, a self-proclaimed hacktivist who goes by the handle “JaXpArO“ obtained more than 70GB of data on the platform‘s […]
Facebook does not seem to recognize that marijuana is legal in some jurisdictions. Not only has Facebook been censoring marijuana-related posts, but also content about legal cannabis products such as hemp bioplastics, and educators […]
Twitter has introduced new rules to prevent the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines. Under the new policy, the company will label tweets with “misleading“ information and ban accounts that repeatedly break […]