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Facebook has started testing a new interface feature that will prompt people to at least open a link before they share it with their network. SOURCE: https://www.engadget.com/facebook-read-prompt-193102219.html
Mask-wearing, vaccinations, wokeness, white guilt; the list goes on and on for white divides us today, but a new poll suggests social media may be the fuel to the divisive fire. According to a […]
By this point, it’s common knowledge that YouTube is actively trying to reshape the content on its platform, promoting what it says are “authoritative sources” and suppressing others – a move that’s often been […]
NHS Digital, used for COVID-19 vaccination booking in the UK, after discovering a massive failure caused by the leaking of sensitive medical data from the site, is now reshaping the process by which it […]
A high severity security vulnerability found in Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chips (including the latest 5G-capable versions) could enable attackers to access mobile phone users’ text messages, call history, and listen in on […]
A Windows Defender bug creates thousands of small files that waste gigabytes of storage space on Windows 10 hard drives. The bug started with Windows Defender antivirus engine 1.1.18100.5 and will cause the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows […]
When Apple typically issues mid-cycle iOS updates, I don’t always update my iPhone immediately. Especially if the new update doesn’t address any serious security issues or have any compelling new features, I’ve never been […]
A Microsoft Edge bug is causing the browser to become unresponsive and crash while watching YouTube videos or reading comments. BleepingComputer has confirmed the bug on our machines, and it only takes a […]
Law enforcement has been struggling for years to find a way to unlock mobile devices used by suspects believed to be involved in criminal activities, with several officials, including FBI representatives, repeatedly calling for […]
Rebel News co-founder Ezra Levant announced that payment processor PayPal has canceled their account without an explanation. The Canadian outlet has been critical of the Covid-19 lockdowns and the government of PM Justin Trudeau. […]
Karoline Leavitt, the communications director for GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, had her Twitter account randomly suspended out of the blue this Wednesday, only to be restored the next day. Leavitt said that Twitter did not […]
DETROIT—Hyundai is recalling more than 390,000 vehicles in the United States and Canada for two problems that can cause engine fires. In one recall, owners are being told to park their vehicles outdoors until […]
Signal wanted to run ads on Instagram putting it all in your face It’s no secret that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp collect a fair bit user data. But how much exactly? A new blog […]
Dell has been releasing a firmware update driver since 2009 that contains “five high severity flaws.” SOURCE: https://www.engadget.com/dell-driver-vulnerability-affects-hundreds-of-millions-of-p-cs-122028649.html
Silicon Valley tech companies have once again blocked a live-streamed event featuring anti-apartheid activists, including Palestinian resistance icon Leila Khaled and South Africa’s former ANC military leader Ronnie Kasrils. The University of California at […]
The company will no longer sell Tread or Tread+ in the US. SOURCE: https://www.engadget.com/peloton-tread-recall-cpsc-safety-us-canada-154309695.html
A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack took down the websites of more than 200 organisations across Belgium, including government, parliament, universities and research institutes. The DDoS attack started at 11am on Tuesday […]
Big Tech’s censorship continues with the deplatforming of an information provider that goes against their beliefs and agenda regarding coronavirus vaccines. LifeSiteNews has been permanently banned on YouTube. Click HERE to sign up […]
It remains as one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, one that helped to change the course of history – and yet, on modern-day Facebook, the image is covered over with a […]
Access Now, along with several other groups and a collection of more than 180 musicians, are asking the company to publicly commit to never using, licensing, selling or monetizing the system it patented. SOURCE: https://www.engadget.com/access-now-spotify-patent-letter-201013423.html
(Natural News) When it overtook its social media rival, MySpace, even then few could have predicted that Facebook would grow into the big tech behemoth that it is today. Moreover, who would have thought that […]
(Natural News) Leftists love to pretend that they care about human rights until one of their own pet projects – take Chinese-made solar panels, for instance – is threatened by a lack of slave […]
Facebook’s Oversight Board overturned a decision made by the platform to remove a post accusing India’s ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Hindu nationalist paramilitary organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of threatening the […]
The publisher said it will only listen to a recording after a report is filed. SOURCE: https://www.engadget.com/riot-valorant-voice-chat-record-toxicity-181441193.html
RT’s Redfish, an award-winning Berlin-based digital content project, has had its Facebook page deleted over posts commemorating the Holocaust and the defeat of Italian fascism. The company’s Facebook account was suspended on Friday after […]
During an appearance at a panel titled “The Future of Technology and Democracy” which was hosted by self-described “non-partisan do-tank” The McCain Institute, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki suggested that the way YouTube selects and boosts […]
Judicial Watch, a group set up to investigate misconduct by government officials, has revealed the response to its query sent to the Office of the California Secretary of State concerning records documenting the way […]
YouTube always appears to find a reason to censor interviews with President Donald Trump and today is no different. YouTube censored Dan Bongino‘s interview of former President Donald Trump, for supposedly violating its “deceptive […]
Society has become even more dependent on online communications such as email and messaging services and email is of the most important aspects of our online life because it’s the address that links most […]
Facebook temporarily blocked searches for a hashtag that called for the resignation of India’s prime minister. SOURCE: https://www.engadget.com/facebook-blocks-resignmodi-hashtag-200853470.html
Critics of Canada’s Liberal government are accusing it of mounting an ‘assault’ on free speech after it proposed modifications to a broadcasting law that would enable it to regulate user-generated video content on social […]
Instant messenger Telegram has launched two new web apps, Telegram WebK and WebZ. The new apps replace the old Telegram web app, which was arguably redundant. The web apps are particularly notable as they […]
Online ammunition manufacturer and seller Fenix Ammunition has revealed that the tech giant Apple is actively scanning online stores that are hosted by the ecommerce service provider Shopify and instructing it to disable the […]
(Natural News) Lawmakers and human rights activists in India on Monday, April 26, slammed Twitter’s decision to remove dozens of tweets seen to be critical of the Indian government’s handling of the Wuhan coronavirus […]
Car makers Ford, Honda and BMW have reportedly joined tech companies Apple and Samsung in flagging production cuts caused by the global chip shortage. SOURCE: https://www.engadget.com/ford-bmw-honda-production-chip-crisis-124350237.html
A new malware believed to have been developed by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was spotted from “a collection of malware samples” studied since Feb. 2019. Kaspersky, the cybersecurity firm that discovered the […]
Security researchers have discovered a crafty piece of malware written for Linux, but finding it after three years in the wild is just “the tip of the iceberg,” they say. Its purpose remains a […]
Paterson, NJIn February 2019, Nijeer Parks walked into the Woodbridge Police Department to clear his name. Parks, a 31-year-old Black man living in Paterson, New Jersey, had received a frantic phone call from his […]
Platforms will have an hour to remove such material or face possible fines. SOURCE: https://www.engadget.com/eu-rules-takedown-terrorist-content-one-hour-142638538.html
Google is facing a £3 billion (approximately $4.16 billion) class action lawsuit at the UK Supreme Court over accusations that it secretly tracked the internet activity of millions of iPhone users. The tech giant […]
Back in April 2020, Big Tech firms Apple and Google released their frameworks for contact tracing in an effort to help governments track the coronavirus. When the frameworks were released, both the firms vehemently […]
The relentless and deteriorating nature of censorship deployed by Big Tech on their social media platforms comes hand in hand with non-transparency around their own rules, and sometimes seems to make little sense even […]
On Monday, Roku sent an email to users notifying them that it might no longer provide the YouTube TV app due to Google’s anti-competitive demands, including the preferential treatment of YouTube’s search results. The […]
(Natural News) Big tech corporations are pushing states to pass watered-down privacy laws that they helped write with the goal of preempting stronger privacy protections. In March, Virginia swiftly passed the Consumer Data Protection Act. […]
Facebook has banned the main page of Federal MP Craig Kelly following controversial coronavirus-related posts not in line with official health guidelines. “We don’t allow anyone, including elected officials, to share misinformation about COVID-19 that […]
Twitch is notorious for banning streamers and imposing bizarre rules out of the blue. What we have now is something close to that. A gamer has now been temporarily suspended for playing a video clip […]
Independent Australian politician and member for the Division of Hughes in the Australian House of Representatives, Craig Kelly, is banned from the Big Tech social media platform, Facebook, on grounds of sharing COVID-19 “misinformation.” Kelly […]
(Natural News) British automobile company Jaguar Land Rover announced the suspension of production at two of its manufacturing plants due to the global semiconductor shortage. The two factories that will be affected are the Castle […]
Facebook is working to quash distribution of revelations about how the leading Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization’s homosexual co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors has enriched herself, as evidenced by the purchase of no less than four […]
Reddit users have been reporting to Reclaim The Net that the social media site is censoring alternative video platform Rumble in private messages. Screenshots shared show that the platform is informing users that their messages […]
It’s bad enough that YouTube’s latest censorship move against RT reflects disregard for free speech and scientific principles. It’s also horrible strategy if Big Tech is trying to build public confidence in its favored narratives. […]
Facebook has removed a popular, rapidly growing group where members would post stories about alleged negative COVID-19 vaccine side effects. The group, “COVID19 VACCINE VICTIMS AND FAMILIES,” had over 120,000 followers when it was shut […]
Google is blocking access to a PDF document that has compiled 106 pages of screenshots of mainstream media reports about people who have allegedly experienced negative side effects or died after taking a COVID-19 […]
A Facebook executive is now on record telling a whistleblower that “state-sponsored” (government-funded) disinformation meant that she had job security. Facebook allowed authoritarian governments (including the United States) to use the platform to generate […]
When the U.K.’s Daily Mail published a bombshell report on the verified contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop earlier this month, sharing the “shocking details” the president’s son left out of his low-selling memoir, […]
Former Congressman Dr. Ron Paul has been censored by YouTube again, this time for posting an episode of his political talk show titled “What’s in it for Bill Gates – Does He Want To Rule […]
Three years after the first Eve-branded computers went on sale, some customers still haven’t received their machines, and attempts to reclaim their money have largely gone unanswered. Now, with a bevy of new products […]
The newly released Nextdoor social media app warns users that they may be engaging in racism before allowing them to send certain words or phrases, including “all lives matter” and “blue lives matter.” Yes, […]
Many TikTok users are currently unable to post to the app due to a strange issue affecting uploads to the video app. SOURCE: https://www.engadget.com/tiktok-uploads-broken-002957807.html
UK-based news outlet The Daily Mail has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, citing among many other things, the coverage of the Royal Family. The tech giant, which has a monopoly in the search engine […]
A site that tracks WhatsApp users’ activity for the purpose of catching cheating partners says Facebook is to blame WhatsApp’s refusal to let users hide their online status is a huge issue that’s being […]
TOKYO—Japanese automaker Subaru said on Tuesday that it was suspending production at its plant in Indiana through the end of April due to a global shortage of semiconductors. Automakers from Ford Motor to Nissan Motor […]
Chinese tech firm Huawei had the capability to monitor all users of one of Netherlands’ largest mobile network providers and even eavesdrop on private conversations. Back in 2010, Huawei could have been monitoring all KPN […]
More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, you’ve probably at least heard of Zoom fatigue – if not experienced it yourself – and now a new study has dug deeper into the reasons for it […]
The China Uncensored YouTube channel is making a case of not being able to report all the news out of the country because the Google-owned video giant won’t let them, by means of subtle, […]
A countrywide wireless outage left customers of Rogers Communications Inc. with intermittent access to call and texting services on Monday. The outage had broad economic ramifications across Canada, including impacting business operations, sales and payments and […]
Facebook has been the king of social media for quite some time now and its constant evolution shows that it has no plans of stepping down from its throne anytime soon! One problem that […]
China’s Communist government has launched a new app that encourages citizens to report dissidents for expressing “mistaken opinions” on the Internet. The new platform will target anyone who criticizes the dictatorship’s ruling CCP, disputes […]
Last week the US Department of Justice revealed how the FBI had worked to remove malicious web shells from hundreds of computers in the United States that were running vulnerable versions of Microsoft Exchange […]
Following a string of undercover exposés into how CNN injects bias into their narratives, Twitter has suspended Project Veritas’s founder, James O’Keefe. Project Veritas has, for several years, been releasing exclusive undercover video footage […]
After a public break with Facebook and Twitter, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell is getting close to the launch of a new conservative-focused social network, giving more detail on the project in a video posted […]
(Natural News) The National Center on Sexual Exploitation Law Center (NCOSE), The Haba Law Firm and The Matiasic Firm are all suing Twitter on behalf of child survivors of sexual abuse who were trafficked […]
YouTube is suspected of taking to “editing” the like but also dislike counts on videos uploaded on the platform, and apparently in experimenting with the feature, resulting in confusion and loss of likes and […]
A global shortage of automotive chips has become critical this year, with almost all major automakers experiencing varying degrees of production cutbacks or short-term shutdowns resulting from a shortage caused by Chinese companies stockpiling […]
Instagram is testing a new way to hide likes in its first major update to the long-running experiment. SOURCE: https://www.engadget.com/instagram-tests-new-way-to-hide-likes-150048669.html
Google is taking a second attempt at storing personal health records. It first explored the idea in 2008 but shut it down in 2012 because widespread adoption was not possible at the time. According […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook believes that it would be a good idea to have Americans vote from their iPhones. What could possibly go wrong? The 2020 election was the most corrupt and fraudulent in […]
So yeah this really happened. The Wrap reports: YouTube has deleted a video in which Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a handful of medical experts questioned the effectiveness of having children wear masks to […]
YouTube has banned the channel of Millat Times, an Indian news website, for posting a video showing workers protesting lockdown in the state of Maharashtra. YouTube said that the video violated its COVID-19 misinformation […]
You might still be reeling from the news that personal information from 533 million Facebook accounts has been made freely available online. But now there’s another huge batch of people’s data floating around the […]
Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public or harass opponents despite being alerted to evidence of the wrongdoing. The Guardian has seen extensive internal documentation […]
How independent are the largest corporations in the world? It is often portrayed that companies such as Google are simply private corporations that have very few connections to the establishment. Yet, as It […]
Social media censorship is escalating and ever more blatant. Unfettered knowledge is dangerous to the phony narratives that progressives wish to brainwash the public into accepting, and with social media, the blockade imposed by mainstream […]
According to Apple, it is totally racist for residents of Georgia to have to show proper identification before being allowed to vote. However, when it comes to allowing people to travel internationally without a […]
Justin Opinion, a YouTube channel that reviews guns and related gear, has been told that it’s no longer eligible to monetize its videos because YouTube has deemed them to be “harmful content.” The channel […]
(Natural News) On April Fool’s Day, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly announced that his social media platform is unveiling new “Covid vaccine profile frames” that users can add to their profile pictures to shame […]
April 9, 2021 SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co said on Friday it has decided to suspend production for two days starting on Monday at its Asan plant because of a chip shortage. […]
April 9, 2021 (Reuters) -Some LinkedIn data, including publicly viewable member profile, has been scraped and posted for sale, Microsoft Corp’s professional networking site said based on an investigation. The incident was not a […]
A new consumer protection lawsuit alleges Facebook executives like Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have misled Congress and the American public by falsely stating the company removes content that violates its policies. SOURCE: https://www.engadget.com/muslim-advocates-sues-facebook-183132654.html
During an appearance at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) Global Technology Governance Summit 2021, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki discussed how the platform has increased the volume of videos it removes and vowed to further […]
YouTube has censored a video of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s March 18 public health roundtable which featured former White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Scott Atlas and the authors of The Great Barrington Declaration – […]
A 25-year-old preschool teacher named Desiree Penrod took to Facebook after she got the covid-19 vaccine. … Desiree’s first post was on March 10th. She wrote: “The vaccine is killing me today. My arm […]
A data leak involving personal details of hundreds of millions of Facebook users is being reviewed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC). The database is believed to contain a mix of Facebook profile names, phone […]
Google has started to remove certain entries from its search results in Russia in compliance with long-standing demands from the authorities, the Vedomosti business daily reported Wednesday. Russia fined Google $7,500 in November 2018 […]
Crowdfunding platform GoFundMe removed a fundraiser by a group of parents in a Virginia school district who are against the teaching of critical race theory and are the target of an online mob. The […]
Apple has been forced to show Russian iPhone users a recommended list of local apps following the implementation of a new law. SOURCE: https://www.engadget.com/apple-iphone-russia-state-approved-apps-setup-111058316.html
A Reddit user who identifies as “trans” was caught spreading pornographic drawings of children under the age of 10 on the platform, and moderators at the site reportedly allowed and supported this illegal activity. […]
In yet another crackdown on independent media and creators, YouTube has removed the channel of Byoblu – an independent Italian media outlet that had more than 525,000 subscribers. The popular channel had uploaded more […]
GoFundMe has shut down a fundraiser for a group of parents in a Virginia school district who were attacked and doxxed by a mob for opposing the teaching of critical race theory. The parents […]
Online censorship regarding dissemination of Covid information in the US at this point looks sure to have to get much worse, before it gets any better. The latest “victim” in this raging online campaign […]