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November 11, 2019
CNN can’t even tell people whether naming the whistleblower is illegal. But tech companies are now the judge and jury for the common user.
Facebook and YouTube announced that they would delete content that named the whistleblower whose story…
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November 5, 2019
The Heritage Foundation released a video that blasts the biggest video platform on the net for alleged censorship.
This video is “the first public acknowledgment of a months-long, behind-the-scenes dispute” between the conservative…
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October 24, 2019
Yet another social media study, this time from Penn State University, characterizes a group of YouTube creators as a threat.
The study, “A Supply and Demand Framework for YouTube Politics,” offers a new way to look at the “alternative media” found…
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October 7, 2019
The liberal media are ready to redefine social media platforms as something only they can use freely.
Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Donovan and Data and Society head Danah Boyd wrote in a white paper that tech companies were responsible…
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September 30, 2019
Big Tech’s fear of clowns appears to be no laughing matter.
A YouTuber known as the Video Lexicographer released an installment of his “Video Dictionary,” a channel where “we explore the language and the words we use every…
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September 11, 2019
[UPDATE: After backlash from his fans, Felix Kjellberg has stopped his plans to donate to the ADL]
The most popular YouTuber on the platform is attempting to gain favor with the organization that wrote no company “has any obligation to…
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September 4, 2019
Another member of the intellectual dark web has jumped into the world of tech development to circumvent censorship.
Dave Rubin, host of the popular podcast and YouTube show The Rubin Report, announced on September 3 that he was launching a beta for…
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September 3, 2019
YouTube deplatformed tens of thousands of videos for being “hateful,” then defended its actions as “responsibility.”
The blog post said the company balances the dual goals of that being “preserving free…
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August 30, 2019
YouTube has been giving mixed messages about whether it is an open platform or not. The day after deplatforming multiple right-wing accounts, YouTube released a creator blog titled ”Preserving openness through responsibility.” It…
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August 29, 2019
When is the best time to pretend to be a neutral and open platform? Probably not after banning several accounts for content.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki released a creator blog ”Preserving openness through responsibility” Tuesday…