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December 4, 2018
Wikipedia is considered by many in the media to be “the Internet’s greatest store of knowledge.” But what happens when that knowledge is compromised?
The information library is under siege from hackers who radically alter…
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December 3, 2018
New York’s State Senate is considering a bill that will allow the government to investigate a citizen’s social media and search engine history before the sale of a handgun.
The bill, proposed by Democrat Kevin Parker, would allow…
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November 29, 2018
With concerns about tech bias dominating the news cycle, Google wants to remove its information panel from search engine results.
The Knowledge Panel, generated primarily by crowd-sourced information website Wikipedia, is often the first thing…
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November 28, 2018
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is heading to Congress to answer accusations his company censors conservatives, as well as respond to reports that the firm will create a censored search engine just for China.
While Pichai has travelled to Washington…
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November 28, 2018
Twitter seems to be unprepared to deal with answering Congress’ questions, so instead it backed off.
The platform caused an uproar on November 25 when it permanently banned conservative pundit and former Marine Jesse Kelly without…
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November 27, 2018
Conservatives should just suck it up and accept their online punishments, according to Politico.
In an article criticizing the conservative backlash to Jesse Kelly’s ban on Twitter, Jack Shafer argued that there really wasn’t a reason…
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November 19, 2018
Conservatives are having a difficult time trusting that social media companies will protect the First Amendment.
In a new poll released by Axios, the general sentiment towards big tech companies such as Google and Facebook was negative. A majority…
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November 19, 2018
The press isn’t arguing any more: Silicon Valley is allied with Democrats. And The New York Times is worried that alliance is crumbling.
Democrats scrambled to condemn the company after fallout from a Times hit piece that accused Facebook of…
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November 14, 2018
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has butted heads with other big tech CEOs over tax policy. Now he wants big tech regulated.
Benioff doubled down on his recent critique of Facebook being as dangerously addictive as cigarettes, suggesting that it must be…
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November 13, 2018
Google has been under fire for complying with foreign governments’ totalitarian policies.
In an New York Times interview, Google CEO Sundar Pichai tried to combat internal and external backlash against the company’s accomodations to China’s…