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Twitch removed a video showing the full details of George Floyd’s death, which was shown during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer charged with the murder of Floyd. The Amazon-owned video streaming platform claimed […]
After years of hinting that it may remove the dislike button, YouTube has announced that it’s now testing new designs that hide public dislike counts. These public dislike counts are an important metric for YouTube […]
AT&T is lobbying against proposals to subsidize fiber-to-the-home deployment across the US, arguing that rural people don’t need fiber and should be satisfied with Internet service that provides only 10Mbps upload speeds. […]
We’ve all experienced this: one second you’re watching a product review on YouTube and the next you see an advert for exactly that product in your Instagram feed. While it still feels like some kind […]
Android handsets and iPhones share data with their respective companies on average every 4½ minutes, with data being sent back even when idle in a pocket or handbag, according to a new academic study. […]
In a development security pros feared, attackers are actively targeting yet another set of critical server vulnerabilities that leave corporations and governments open to serious network intrusions. The vulnerability this time is in BIG-IP, […]
Depending on how and when you count, Japan’s Toyota is the world’s largest automaker. According to Wheels, Toyota and Volkswagen vie for the title of the world’s largest, with each taking the crown from […]
The National Institute of Justice, the RAND Corporation and the Police Executive Research Forum want to give law enforcement real-time access to autonomous vehicles.Last month, this so-called expert panel identified 17 high-priority law […]
Facebook has permanently suspended the page of Virginia State Senator and gubernatorial candidate Amanda Chase which had more than 144,000 followers. The page was initially given a temporary 60-day suspension on January 8, days […]
Utah governor Spencer Cox has signed the infamous porn filter bill. If enacted, smartphones and tablets purchased in Utah will automatically block a potentially sweeping range of content based on fluctuating value judgments. There’s […]
MOSCOW—Three members of a Russian warplane crew died Tuesday when their ejection seats accidentally activated during preflight checks, the military said. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the incident happened Tuesday at a military […]
Facebook-owned Instagram is accused of censorship for restricting a page that raises awareness on Endometriosis, a chronic condition that affects women. Endometriosis is a chronic medical condition where the cells on the womb lining […]
Twitter was accused of censoring photos showing overcrowding at the cells holding illegal migrants at the United States’ southern border, hiding the content behind a filter warning as “potentially sensitive.” When questioned, the platform later […]
The classified data has since been removed from an online map, but it is unclear how long it was up and how many people might have made screengrabs of the bases’ locations. A detailed map […]
Facebook has deleted the page of Ahmad Al Issa, the man who has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting in Boulder, Colorado on Monday night. The deletion occurred […]
Facebook’s approach to registering 4.5 million voters affected the November election to President Joe Biden, a Facebook executive surmised in the hidden camera footage. The executive, Benny Thomas, showed gloomy views of the giant […]
YouTube has removed the Alex Jones episode of Flagrant 2, a podcast hosted by the comedians Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh, for “violating YouTube’s Terms of Service” less than two weeks after it was […]
In a flashback to how art that offended the Soviet regime was blacklisted, streaming giant Spotify is now censoring song lyrics that contain “misinformation.” Yes, really. Music icon Ian Brown revealed that Spotify had deleted […]
Not only is MyPillow CEO and prominent Trump supporter Mike Lindell facing deplatforming on major social media, with his company targeted by pressure groups – those who express their support for him are also […]
Outkick.com founder and owner Clay Travis has told a House judiciary subcommittee, which deals with antitrust issues, that Facebook deliberately damaged his business by cutting a huge chunk of the site’s traffic a day […]
You can’t be sure about your data’s security or the communication you are engaging in over online channels, especially messaging apps. There are such apps out there that will share your personal communication data […]
American and European researchers suggest that people who chase “likes“ on social media share similar thinking patterns with lab rats seeking food. In their study, which is set to be published in the journal […]
James Corbett is likely not long for the YouTube world, having received his second warning his channel is on the chopping block. There are still many platforms on which you can follow his work […]
Chat app Clubhouse is no longer available in Oman. The government claims the ban is due to a lack of license, but activists believe it is censorship. Speaking to news website WAF, the Omani telecoms […]
Before there were over-the-air updates for everything, you’d just park the car further away from the house if it had the risk of spontaneously combusting. That’s exactly that’s going on over at Kia, where the […]
Facebook says it will add labels to all posts about COVID-19 vaccines, as part of its efforts to help more people get a shot as well as to counter what it calls misinformation. “We’ve already connected […]
Netflix is on to your shenanigans, and by golly it’s going to do something about it. The streaming behemoth is taking new steps to stop the dreaded scourge of account sharing this week, demanding […]
It wasn’t a good day, particularly for the open source community, when the news spread several years ago that none other than Microsoft – the Bill Gates-founded original Big Tech bully and monopoly – […]
Twitter was now blocking all links, shared in tweets, to the BitChute domain. This is the case as of March 12. BitChute is an independent video hosting platform that has gained in popularity as […]
PARIS—A fire at a French cloud services firm has disrupted millions of websites, knocking out government agencies’ portals, banks, shops, news websites, and taking out a chunk of the .FR web space, according to […]
It looks like Parler’s App Store exile will continue. Bloomberg reports that Apple recently rejected the app’s bid to get back onto iPhones, citing “highly objectionable content.” Apple had originally kicked Parler out of the […]
In an episode featuring comedian Fahim Anwar, Joe Rogan admitted that Spotify censored some of his podcasts. He also admitted the rumors of some Spotify employees’ intolerant attitude towards him. In May 2020, Rogan’s podcast, […]
(Natural News) If you use Google’s Chrome browser to surf the web and do so “incognito,” which is supposed to mean private browsing, you should know that the Silicon Valley giant is still secretly […]
Political commentator and former Senate candidate Lauren Witzke has been banned from Twitter for writing “demonic” while responding to a transgender activist statement. Twitter suspended her account for violating its policies on “hateful conduct.” […]
YANGON, Burma—YouTube removed five channels run by Burma’s military (also known as Myanmar) for violating its guidelines, it announced Friday, as demonstrators defied growing violence by security forces and staged more anti-coup protests ahead […]
(Natural News) Multinational corporate giant Google is readying to unveil an Orwellian new “pre-crime” program known as “Geofence” that has the potential to assign “guilt” to innocent people who happen to be nearby when […]
We were disheartened to read yesterday that Facebook has removed the NVIC page. Barb Loe Fisher has been a champion for the right to informed consent, safety and choice for vaccination for more than 40 […]
If you frequently use Gmail’s native web client to send emails, you may have noticed something odd about how it handles emoji. Google may have said goodbye to its distinctive blobs in 2017, but for […]
Facebook’s censorship hides and distorts major events all over the world. Journalists in Greece are accusing Facebook of censorship after the social media platform took action against accounts sharing photos of a protest in […]
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 […]
Image by Larry Sanger Please Follow us on Gab, Parler, Minds, Telegram, Rumble A co-founder of Wikipedia is launching a competing website as a free-speech-friendly alternative to what he views as the increasingly monolithic left-wing bias of […]
Just a day after a massive Xbox Live outage, Sony's PlayStation Network has been experiencing issues for several hours. The problem on this end is a bit different, and based on reports may only affect […]
Twitter is blocking links to the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) website, with users being told they are sharing an “unsafe“ URL. CPAC is an annual political conference attended by activists, journalists and elected […]
When Turkey launched its Afrin offensive in early 2018 to dislodge Kurdish minorities from Northern Syria, the country ordered Facebook to block the page of a prominent militia group in the area known as […]
(Natural News) On Thursday, Feb. 11, Twitter permanently shut down the account of Project Veritas over supposed “repeated violations” of the social media network’s rules on sharing other people’s private information. The suspension came […]
BRUSSELS—Twitter said on Tuesday it had taken down 373 accounts which it said had ties to Russia, Armenia, and Iran and had breached its platform manipulation policies. The company said it had taken down […]
Amazon has removed the bestselling book “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment” without giving its author, Ryan T. Anderson, any notice or explanation. Anderson is the President of the Ethics & Public […]
Facebook is further clamping down on the Myanmar military following the coup that ousted its elected government. Reuters reports that Facebook has removed the main page (True News Information Team) for the military, known […]
A post by an Irish Catholic bishop has been deleted by Twitter for criticizing the country’s emerging pro-euthanasia policies. Given that the anti-euthanasia view holds true to core tenets of the Church, the bishop’s […]
ByteDance is the Chinese powerhouse behind the viral video giant TikTok – which almost got banned in the US under scrutiny for the way it is handling user data, and in light of some […]
Security researchers have spotted a new malware operation targeting Mac devices that has silently infected almost 30,000 systems. Named Silver Sparrow, the malware was discovered by security researchers from Red Canary and analyzed together […]
We hear much about the menace posed by racist robots, but mighty Google appears to have succeeded in inventing artificial intelligence with the natural stupidity of a professor of intersectionality. From A18 News: YouTube […]
Facebook is known for censoring political opinions, but it’s often revealing to see what the company seems unwilling to censor. Facebook is accused of allowing its advertising machinery to be used by Chinese state […]
One of YouTube’s biggest homegrown stars, PewDiePie, has been targeted by the platform once again, as one of his videos has been removed for a violation of the Google-owned giant’s cyberbullying and child safety […]
For several years, Big Tech censorship of non-mainstream, conservative, and libertarian views has been increasing. Recently, Facebook banned Australian News and health services–among others. 100 Percent Fed Up reports – According to a leading […]
Having covered telecom for twenty years, I’ve found there’s a good shortcut to determining if somebody’s really serious about fixing US broadband issues: can they admit that (1) monopolies exist, and (2) that this […]
Like a scene out of the 2020 film Sci-fi/thriller Songbird, Israel will require residents who wish to reenter society to have a COVID-19 ‘Geen Pass’ when lockdowns lift in the coming weeks. But cybersecurity […]
Macs with Apple's M1 processor have only been around for a few months, but it didn't take long for hackers to start targeting the systems. Security researcher Patrick Wardle says he has found a […]
(Natural News) An academic conference on media censorship and the dangers of free speech infringements online has, ironically, been censored by YouTube. The Google-owned video platform decided to pull all videos from the Critical […]
An Australian expert says it is “inconceivable” that Facebook accidentally restricted the pages of critical government departments, emergency services, and non-profit organisations when it implemented a ban on all news content from its platform […]
Facebook's senior executives knew that it was overestimating the number of users its advertisers could reach, according to an amended lawsuit reported by the Financial Times. A product manager told senior executives in 2018 […]
Worried that the GeForce RTX 3060 will be sold out as cryptocurrency miners snap up every GPU in sight? NVIDIA thinks it has a simple way to help: make the new card unattractive to […]
The United States is not the only Western nation that has had issues with electronic voting. In 2020 several states witnessed abnormalities, vote switching and inaccurate vote totals in the thousands. A reader from […]
A ransomware attack on a company called Automatic Funds Transfer Services (AFTS) has had a ripple effect on customers. One of those is the California Department of Motor Vehicles, which has warned drivers in […]
Instagram has removed the account of celebrity chef Pete Evans for “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.” Evans had over 277,000 followers on the platform and has been critical of coronavirus […]
The “war” Facebook’s censors are waging in Australia against a member of the country’s parliament for his opinions on coronavirus and treatment of the resulting disease is escalating. This is happening under pressure from […]
Facebook on Wednesday started blocking users and companies from distributing or viewing news content, the latest broadside in a rapidly escalating war between lawmakers and Big Tech. Australian elected officials introduced a bill late […]
Celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky announced on Twitter that one of his YouTube videos that featured a conversation with another physician received a strike on YouTube and was removed. He said that he presumed people […]
As Israel‘s record-setting inoculation drive slows down, it has set up a special unit to combat ‘fake news‘ about coronavirus vaccines, but messaging app Telegram turned out to be too much to handle for […]
HAVANA—Cuba’s telephone and internet connections were knocked out on Friday in a nationwide failure, though there was no general power outage, witnesses said. All internet service and international communications crashed at around noon (1700 […]
Story at-a-glanceBig Tech’s censorship is in full effect, which means they’re choosing what you get to see — and what you don’tMy top videos that have been banned by Google and YouTube — many […]
TikTok is under fire in Europe amid a growing backlash against the data collection policies of big tech and social media. The region's leading consumer advocacy group, BEUC, has filed a complaint against the […]
What do you do when your sources of information get corrupted? That is one of today‘s great questions, as UnHerd discovered this week. On Wednesday, Facebook censored an article on these pages which was […]
PARIS—Google has agreed to pay a fine of 1.1 million euros ($1.3 million) after French authorities concluded the search engine displayed “misleading“ rankings for French hotels. Previously, Google used the official source Atout France […]
The best way to keep your sensitive data safe is not to upload it online, as even encrypted apps are unable to guarantee its protection, Natalya Kaspersky, the head of the InfoWatch cybersecurity […]
Please Follow us on Gab, Parler, Minds, Telegram Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne was deeply involved in the analysis of the 2020 U.S. general election, leading a team of ‘white hat’ hackers to delve into […]
(Natural News) Facebook, Google and eBay asked the Supreme Court to make it more difficult to sue them by raising the bar for acceptable evidence. They were supported by multiple trade groups that represent them and other […]
Clapper, a relatively new TikTok-like platform, has banned all QAnon-related and vaccine-skeptic content. The social media app had slowly started to become popular with those who were banned from more mainstream platforms. On Thursday, Clapper […]
NEW YORK—Mercedes-Benz is recalling more than 1.3 million vehicles because the software in their emergency-call systems could send responders to the wrong location after a crash. The recall comes after Mercedes-Benz learned of a crash […]
At least 10 US-based independent, left, and progressive YouTube channels were recently undermined by the social media giant, when their videos were demonetised for alleged breaches of its terms and conditions. Graham Elwood is a […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s calls to make India “self-reliant” have picked up pace in the tech sphere. Over the past ten days, local alternatives to Twitter and WhatsApp, dubbed Koo and Sandes respectively, have debuted […]
Facebook has censored Australian lawmaker Craig Kelly by removing one of his posts addressing the consequences of the use of face masks by children. Kelly, who comes from the country’s ruling party, has previously […]
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Bebo is a social media blast from the past you’ve probably never heard of – but it plans to relaunch now with some very “modern” and even “avant-garde” censorship features: banning users even before they […]
Facebook has revealed that its artificial intelligence (AI) systems are now preemptively flagging 97.1% of the “hate speech” and 49% of the “bullying and harassment” that’s removed from the platform before any human flags […]
Facebook has detailed how it’s handling the political situation Myanmar in a new post, where it has revealed that it’s limiting the distribution of all content posted by the country’s military. According to the […]
Facebook banned a UK-based art gallery from advertising after mistakenly flagging its photos for violating its policies — photos of cows standing in a field, the England cricket team, and a skyscraper were deemed […]
Twitter has permanently suspended the investigative reporting outlet Project Veritas which recently published several leaked videos exposing executives from Big Tech companies discussing censorship, “hate speech,” and more. Project Veritas had over 735,000 followers when […]
Video content creator Ford Fischer’s “adventures in Big Tech” continue even after his YouTube channel eventually got remonetized, after getting inexplicably demonetized. The controversy arose after his video from a Trump rally in front of […]
February 10, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — YouTube just completely removed the LifeSiteNews YouTube channel. This isn’t a temporary ban; every single one of our videos is completely gone. Thankfully, we have backups of all our videos, […]
Instagram on Wednesday took down the account of controversial anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “We removed this account for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” a spokesperson for Facebook, which owns […]
Even though they’re supposed to be private and your data anonymous, smartphones are busy tracking their owners — and sharing the information, with names and other data connected.The New York Times reports that they were […]
Israeli ministers and lawmakers on Wednesday presented tech giants Facebook, Google, TikTok and Twitter with proposals to beef up the fight against anti-Semitism on social media. The companies should institute policies similar to those they […]
A recent hand recount in the Rockingham District 7 NH House Race in Windham, New Hampshire, found that the Dominion voting machines shorted EVERY REPUBLICAN by roughly 300 votes. The Dominion machine counted results were wrong for […]
The YouTube channel for LifeSiteNews, a non-profit Christian news outlet, has been purged from the platform for “violating YouTube’s community guidelines.” “YouTube just completely removed the LifeSiteNews YouTube channel,” LifeSiteNews wrote in a post about […]