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October 21, 2019
TikTok, the viral Chinese app that may live on your high school student’s phone, serves another devious purpose. It is a propaganda tool for the Chinese government.
Australian human rights activist and Uyghur Muslim Arslan Hidayat tweeted a…
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October 17, 2019
Facebook and its developers have been in the race to define and correct what the platform calls hate speech. But in a speech given to Georgetown University, CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggested a different direction for the company.
In his speech, titled…
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October 10, 2019
Apple has no problem being woke, except when it might cost the company billions of dollars.
Apple removed an app, called HKmap.live, from the app store after it received criticism from the Chinese government. People’s Daily, the Chinese state…
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October 9, 2019
Video game industry legend Mark Kern disavowed Blizzard for kowtowing to Chinese censorship, encouraging gamers to “rise up” and “#BoycottBlizzard.”
Kern, who grew up in Asia, was involved in some of Blizzard Entertainment…
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October 8, 2019
Another American company bowed to Chinese censorship in order to protect their bottom line.
Blizzard Entertainment found itself in the same hot water as the NBA about China. The computer gaming firm, famous for titles such as “World of…
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October 3, 2019
One of the news social media apps is copying the strategies of big name sites — censorship.
TikTok, a wildly popular app that is managed by a sinister moderation system, is censoring posts about President Donald Trump, Christianity and the LGBT…
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July 17, 2019
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) roasted Google’s representative at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
The hearing, “Google and Censorship through Search Engines,” featured numerous heavy hitters from both sides of the…
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May 31, 2019
Tech companies have been strangely silent on the subject of Chinese censorship. But one reason for their silence might be the millions Chinese companies have invested in these platforms.
In a May 30 podcast with the Harvard Business Review, Reddit…
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April 25, 2019
Facebook is subtly trying to discredit conservative media as “conspiracy theories” and it’s using Wikipedia to do it.
The company’s latest policy update, “Expanding Our Fact-Checking Program,” included new…
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February 7, 2019
What happens when the front page of the internet is funded by the company that made the Great Firewall in China?
Reddit, the internet forum for communities, posts, and news, is currently fundraising to keep itself afloat, with a $300 million goal.…