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US tech giant Apple has removed two popular religious apps from its Chinese App Store – “Bible App by Olive Tree” and “Quran Majeed – القران.” Both apps have hundreds of thousands of ratings in […]
We previously discussed how GoFundMe has joined social media sites in censoring opposing viewpoints on subjects from critical race theory to vaccines to election fraud. The site once offered a neutral site for those seeking […]
By Kenny Stancil Roughly 400 Amazon and Google workers on Tuesday condemned their employers for contributing to the surveillance and dispossession of Palestinians by selling cloud services to the Israeli military and government and urged […]
A group of German artists skeptical and critical of the government response to the COVID pandemic and promoting conversations around the topic, active online under the #allesaufdentisch (literally, “everything on the table”) hashtag, sued YouTube […]
(Natural News) Once again, two major technology giants are choosing left-wing politics over rationality and truth because their CEOs must figure when the Marxist revolution in America is complete they’re going to have a seat at […]
Facebook doesn’t seem to be alone in creating an “ecosystem” where all users are definitely not made equal – although that is not stated anywhere in the rules and guidelines of these giant social platforms […]
(Natural News) A Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, is set to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee tomorrow. She’s far from the first Big Tech whistleblower to expose Silicon Valley’s inner workings — but she is […]
R. Kelly was discreetly blacklisted by YouTube on Tuesday, only days after pledging to reveal a Hollywood pedophilia network as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. Users trying to keep up with R. Kelly […]
(Natural News) A manufacturer of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) rapid test kits is recalling hundreds of thousands of at-home test kits due to a very high rate of false positives. Ellume, an Australian company that develops […]
Think that the new iPhone 13 you’ve just paid hundreds of dollars for is yours? It isn’t. 5G support is one reason to buy a phone and be confident keeping it for two or three […]
Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all down, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has another headache: The personal data of 1.5 billion customers, scraped from his platform, is reportedly being offered for sale on the dark […]
By Arzu Geybullayeva Freedom House, a human rights watchdog, released the newest edition of its Freedom on the Net report on September 21. The report concludes that “internet freedom declined globally for the 11th consecutive […]
Twitter’s fact-checkers appended a “misleading” alert to an obituary about a young woman who allegedly died after contracting a rare blood-clotting condition provoked by the COVID-19 vaccine. After being accused of going so far with […]
WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have all gone down in a major outage. — The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly before […]
A former Facebook employee has unmasked herself as the source behind damaging leaks about the social media giant – and claimed it deliberately sought to stoke discontent to keep users coming back to their newsfeeds. […]
YouTube issued a notice to Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) on Friday, informing them that their “content was removed due to a violation of our Community Guidelines. Your channel now has 1 strike. You won’t […]
A report by a Kashmiri diaspora group has accused social media giants Twitter, Facebook and Instagram of silencing Kashmiri voices in the digital spaces through the frequent suspension of the accounts of artists, academics, and […]
YouTube has expanded its far-reaching “medical misinformation” rules beyond COVID-19 vaccines and will now censor any content that “falsely alleges that approved vaccines are dangerous and cause chronic health effects, claims that vaccines do not […]
Security researchers say they can extract a user’s phone number from the Bluetooth traffic coming from an iPhone smartphone during certain operations. The attack works because, when Bluetooth is enabled on an Apple device, the […]
If you’re still carrying around an older smartphone – running a very old version of Android – unfortunately, it’s probably time to upgrade. That’s because Google will block all users from signing-in with their Google […]
Google-YouTube announced back in December they were banning ANY content that doubts the US or Germany election results. SOURCE: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/google-youtube-outlaws-content-doubts-us-germany-elections-not-2016-election/
If you can’t beat them, join them, seems to be the motto under which various entities and individuals are worming their way inside some of the world’s best known VPN services, that are supposed to […]
Does the US have an internet kill switch? What do you think would happen if the President deemed it necessary, for “national security,” to flip that switch? SOURCE: https://www.theorganicprepper.com/internet-kill-switch/
On Wednesday, veteran TV journalist John Stossel sued Facebook for defamation, for slapping his 2020 post about forest fires and their cause with a fact-check label. According to the complaint, filed in a federal court […]
A YouTuber who has a channel dedicated to fishing and has made the money he earns from it his main source of income has been demonetized, with animal cruelty cited as the reason by Google’s […]
Cracks are appearing on the International Space Station, and retired NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd says they’re a “fairly serious issue.” After Russian cosmonauts spotted the cracks on the station’s Zarya module, Vladimir Solovyov, flight director […]
A new Kaspersky survey found that internet users in the US and Canada increasingly believe the internet is stressful. The findings coincided with a more general increase in internet usage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
(Natural News) Demand continues to outpace supply in the auto manufacturing industry as the ongoing shortage of microchips significantly impacts carmakers’ production of new vehicles. The high demand spills over to the used-car market. “As is always the […]
Facebook blocked an ad that promoted a song critical of President Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal, raising questions about how it applies its advertising rules. The social media giant twice prohibited Five For Fighting’s John […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published the results of research conducted into how lenders are likely to be doing their business in the future, and what new information and personal data these companies plan […]
Accusing the Biden administration of using social media platforms to restrict speech and push a certain agenda, some state lawmakers in Wisconsin are circulating proposals that would ban social media censorship. This story comes shortly […]
Facebook banned mentions of a waterway in Norfolk, England, called Cockshoot Dyke. The platform has previously banned names of other places in the UK. Cockshoot Dyke is a popular Norfolk Broads tourist attraction. Its name, […]
“The Facebook Files” is an in-depth series based on leaked internal documents that expose the way social media giant Facebook views its platform and its social impact. It was released earlier this week. Several factors […]
Facebook has pledged to significantly increase its censorship of the German anti-lockdown movement by removing pages and accounts of anyone who challenges the official narrative. Facebook’s head of security policy Nathaniel Gleicher smugly announced the […]
(Natural News) In March 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new “privacy-focused vision,” citing its global messaging service, WhatsApp as a model. He said that he hoped to bring about a future that allows […]
A Texas father who lost his teenage son to the Pfizer-BioNTech Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine has been kicked off the crowdfunding website GoFundMe. The father in question is Ernest Ramirez. His son, Ernesto Ramirez Jr. […]
In-store repairs are becoming increasingly commonplace, and T-Mobile is finally ready to catch up on that trend. The carrier now plans to offer in-store repairs to Protection subscribers in 500 stores starting November 1st. Pay […]
(Natural News) Did you or someone you know ever get tested for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) at a Walgreens pharmacy location? If so, you should probably know that your personal information, including test results, may […]
Apple is getting sued over the new QuickPath keyboard on the Apple Watch Series 7. The developer of a similar app, FlickType, took to Twitter to announce that he plans to bring up the new […]
Nicki Minaj claims she has been put in “Twitter jail” following her recent tweets promoting personal decision making over the COVID-19 vaccine that were interpreted by many as being anti-vaccine. The artist sparked backlash from […]
According to pro-life organization Live Action, Google has banned all of the group’s online advertising and prohibited the group from promoting its new video featuring a life-like reproduction of how an unborn baby develops in […]
Facebook has a secret program in place that provides celebrities and influential people to change the social network’s own laws, according to a report. The Silicon Valley giant’s program, called “XCheck” or “cross-check,” created a […]
New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul has asked Facebook to act on what she says is abortion “misinformation” following the upholding of the Texas abortion law that bans abortions after around six weeks of pregnancy. The […]
Facebook is accused of building a two-tier system of rules and standards around allowed content and speech: one for ordinary people, and another for the elites. At the same time, the company is under fire […]
Twitter’s overzealous censorship is increasingly hitting the accounts of public services, including emergency services such as fire departments who keep the public informed via Twitter. Twitter locked the account of a local California public safety […]
Approximately 700,000 vaccine passports were affected by mistakes made by the NHS England, according to a report in The Telegraph. The news comes as the government insists on making vaccine passports mandatory for domestic use, […]
According to the latest report by Axios, Facebook is planning on cutting down political content, posts, and current events in the News Feed based on user feedback. The Big Tech company is also planning on […]
The mother of a Marine killed in the suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, last week had her account removed from Instagram and “incorrectly deleted” from Facebook following her fierce criticism of President Biden in the […]
The Gateway Pundit, a media outlet ranking among 200 top sites in the US that claims it has been under constant attack by Big Tech in their bid to silence conservative voices through censorship and […]
The Security of the QR codes in the Quebec vaccine passport app has been called into question. In Quebec, residents will be required to produce proof of vaccination starting September 1st when entering businesses considered […]
Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson has been permanently banned from Twitter for violating its COVID-19 “misinformation policies.” The author has become well-known as a critic of coronavirus quarantines and mandates. A Twitter spokesperson […]
Forming an “election commission” to oversee a fair and smooth election process, until recently, used to be something exclusively reserved for nation states, but now Facebook is reported to be meddling in that domain, at […]
A Mirai-based botnet now targets a critical vulnerability in the software SDK used by hundreds of thousands of Realtek-based devices, encompassing 200 models from at least 65 vendors, including Asus, Belkin, D-Link, Netgear, Tenda, ZTE, […]
Samsung says that it can disable any of its Samsung TV sets remotely using TV Block, a feature built into all television products sold worldwide. This was revealed by the company South Korean multinational in […]
Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5005932 setup update to fix ‘”PSFX_E_MATCHING_BINARY_MISSING” errors when attempting to install the latest cumulative updates. After installing the May 25, 2021 (KB5003214) and June 21, 2021 (KB5003690) cumulative updates, […]
In an abrupt about-face, OnlyFans, the subscription-based content creation platform, has announced it will no longer ban sexually explicit content. OnlyFans, which rose to popularity among sex workers as a place to sell nude and […]
In this age of constant surveillance and data collection, increased under the guise of COVID protections, stories such as this will become increasingly common. Microsoft’s Power Apps were recently misconfigured and this resulted in over […]
T-Mobile says millions more people have been impacted by its recent data breach than initially believed. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the company said an additional 6 million or so accounts were affected, […]
Google changed its news search algorithms in order to target Donald Trump, according to Zach Vorhies, a Google whistleblower and author of a new book titled “Google Leaks.” The new book Google Leaks: A Whistleblower’s […]
Sex pervert Hunter Biden is once again being exposed for conspiring with his dad to commit treason against the United States. Newly surfaced emails from Hunter’s infamous laptop shows that he and his Pedophile-in-Chief father […]
German social-media researcher AlgorithmWatch said it was forced to abandon a project monitoring Instagram’s newsfeed algorithm after the Big Tech platform’s parent, Facebook, threatened to take punitive action. “Ultimately, an organization the size of AlgorithmWatch […]
Facebook and other social media behemoths have consistently said they’re not biased against conservatives and independent publishers, and just as often as they deny it they are proven to be liars. That happened again this […]
YouTube took down a video of Rep. Nicole Malliotakis unconditionally without warning or explanation. The video consists of her news conference in which she announced her lawsuit against the Democrat mayor of New York City, […]
Former baseball star Aubrey Huff has been suspended on Twitter. The 44-year-old blamed the suspension on “liberal Karens.” Huff took to Instagram to announce the Twitter suspension. It’s not clear why he was suspended. Huff […]
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have demonstrated a novel way to spy on electronic conversations. A new paper released today outlines a novel passive form of the TEMPEST attack called Glowworm, which converts […]
Twitter (TWTR) has suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account for one week following another violation of the platform’s rules, the company said Tuesday. Greene tweeted on Monday that the Food and Drug Administration “should not […]
After having its YouTube channel blocked for a week and facing a government investigation, Sky News Australia has been pressured into deleting videos on YouTube and its website that include what mainstream outlets say is […]
Senator Rand Paul has given the video sharing platform Rumble his seal of approval after one of his recent interviews was censored by the tech giant YouTube. Paul said that the now-censored interview featured him […]
YouTube has made a number of changes over the past year to limit the problematic videos it recommends to viewers. New research suggests that there is a way to go for repairs. SOURCE: https://postnewsd2.blogspot.com/2021/07/youtubes-search-algorithm-directs.html
Facebook has decided to turn a blind eye to a certain type of speech on Facebook. And it doesn’t mean it will suddenly allow users’ political opinions or thoughts about Covid. Instead, people will be […]
A popular Argentinian Catholic writer and intellectual has been banned from Instagram a second time. His ban from Instagram underscores Big Tech’s suppression of voices and content with which they don’t agree. Agustín Laje, a […]
(Natural News) YouTube’s censorship of conservatives continues in full swing as The American Conservative Union (ACU) reports that the platform has deleted one of its videos covering class-action lawsuits filed by former President Donald Trump […]
In deleting an Instagram post that is offensive to the Chinese government’s sensibilities, and apologizing for posting it, Kodak has basically promised Beijing that it will “learn, grow, and do better.” The US company issued […]
It’s not just you, it’s Steam, PlayStation, Disney, GoDaddy, Amazon, UPS, LastPass, and a whole bunch of other websites that are out-of-commission right this minute. One part of the problem appears to be an issue […]
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 […]
Facebook has revealed that it will ban anyone who’s charged in connection with the riot at the US Capitol on January 6 and may start “fact-checking” claims that the riot was staged. In an article […]
In March 2019, security biz Kaspersky Lab shipped an update to KPM, promising that the application could identify weak passwords and generate strong replacements. Three months later, a team from security consultancy Donjon found that […]
(Natural News) Podcaster Bret Weinstein has been demonetized by YouTube for spreading “medical misinformation” about the possible lab origin of the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19). In the past month alone, Weinstein and his wife have seen […]
Information about the inventor of the mRNA technology used in certain COVID-19 vaccines was removed from the online encyclopedia site Wikipedia after he publicly warned against giving the experimental gene therapy vaccines to young people […]
The federal oversight agency Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report on the use of facial recognition by government agencies. The main revelation in the report is that there is little internal oversight on […]
Counterfeit products have been circulated in China’s electronics market for a long time. However, as the global chip shortage intensifies, a large amount of refurbished, substandard fake chips are flood the market, exposing major deficiencies […]
YouTube has stripped independent video creator Matt Orfalea of his ability to earn ad revenue via its Partner Program after it flagged a 13-second parody video from May 2014 for allegedly violating its “violent criminal […]
Even though Apple devotes a lot of resources towards bolstering iPhone security, every so often a bizarre bug emerges out of nowhere. The most recent example was unearthed by security researcher Carl Schou a few […]
Gone are the days when Audacity users and enthusiasts thought this powerful free and open source audio editing program’s only real problem was its clunky user interface; the project, now under new ownership, is being […]
The Indian government has raised the stakes in its battle with Twitter over social media regulations in the country by removing the tech giant’s liability protection against user-generated content in India. In a court filing, […]
Employees of NHS England claim that they are being denied access to datasets on the COVID-19 data store, which is built on Palantir’s Foundry Platform. The employees suspect they’re being denied access to the datasets […]
The data breach was discovered on June 22 when the hacker responsible advertised the sale of the data on a forum on the dark web. The hacker posted a sample of one million records on […]
Homes in the UK have an average of more than 10 different connected devices, from televisions to thermostats. But, while these products have benefits, they can also be a potential target for hackers. Consumer publication […]
Right Side Broadcasting Network has been announced that it has been banned from broadcasting on YouTube for seven days, just hours before a Trump rally that it planned to cover. Also, many of the channel’s […]
Windows 11 will require eighth generation Intel chips or AMD Ryzen 2000 processors at the very least. Machines will also need to support Secure Boot and TPM 2.0. The long and short of it is […]
Owners of Western Digital network attached storage (NAS) devices may have yet another security headache on the horizon. Following the two flaws hackers exploited to wipe My Book Live devices remotely, security journalist Brian Krebs […]