Calling out scammers has always been a perilous approach when it comes to tech giants. Amazon has requested that Apple delete from its App Store the app Fakespot, a popular service that tries to uncover […]
Security researchers have found a way to bypass the Windows Hello facial recognition that is used by hundreds of thousands of Windows 10 users to login. The latest batch of ‘Patch Tuesday’ security updates from […]
US physician and media personality Dr. Drew Pinsky is once again in trouble on YouTube, after one of his videos was removed for allegedly containing medical misinformation. The video was an episode of one of […]
Twitter confirmed on Tuesday that it had mistakenly verified some fake accounts that the social media company has now permanently suspended, months after rebooting its verification program. The news comes at the same time that […]
YouTube has scrubbed a public Lake Forest High School District 115 board meeting from its platform after numerous parents at the meeting spoke out against required masking. Ben Bradley, a news anchor and investigative reporter […]
YouTube has deleted a video uploaded by the American Conservative Union, which hosts the Conservative Political Action Conference, for allegedly violating its terms and conditions about COVID-19, the group said on July 11. In an […]
YouTube censored and suspended the channel of independent journalist Alison Morrow after she posted a video highlighting several examples of the mainstream media violating the “medical misinformation” rules that are regularly used by the tech […]
Last year, YouTube was caught auto-censoring several phrases that criticized “wumao” (五毛) – a phrase describing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) internet propaganda division the “50 Cent Army” which is a reference to members of […]
YouTube has instituted many changes over the past year to limit the problematic videos it recommends to viewers. A new study suggests the repairs have a way to go. Software nonprofit Mozilla Foundation found that […]
China’s WeChat has permanently banned almost all “LGBT” public groups run by college students. In a since-deleted post on Twitter-like Chinese social media app Weibo, a user who often posts about such issues claimed that […]