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June 28, 2021
Americans may have thought that physical marketplaces were safe from Big Tech surveillance. But Amazon is now tracking consumers as they shop at offline markets too.
Amazon recently opened its first full-size Amazon Fresh grocery store with both “…
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June 28, 2021
Facebook continues to allow China to lie to the world about its human rights violations against Uyghurs, while simultaneously banning the former president of the United States from its platform.
Experts in the fields of tech policy, human rights…
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June 27, 2021
Former President Donald Trump has joined YouTube alternative Rumble.
Trump’s account is verified and has just one video so far, an upload of Saturday’s rally in Ohio.
Several prominent conservatives have also joined Rumble. Charlie Kirk, Sean…
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June 26, 2021
Former TikTok employees have disclosed that the popular social media platform is largely controlled by its Chinese parent company.
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, supplies the Chinese government with endless American user data since Chinese law…
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June 25, 2021
A video channel dedicated to highlighting human rights violations in China has been blocked by YouTube.
Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights channel is run by Serikzhan Bilash, a Xinjiang-born activist who has been arrested for his pro-freedom activism…
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June 20, 2021
Former Congressman Denver Riggleman and Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, argue that hate speech “precedent” should be used to ban extremism online.
In an op-ed for Newsweek, the two criticize Gab, a social media platform that…
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June 18, 2021
Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, was inexplicably suspended from Twitter on Friday.
@BFFsPod, the Twitter account for the weekly podcast hosted by Portnoy and TikTok star, Josh Richards, tweeted screenshot of Portnoy's account with the…
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June 18, 2021
A book review discussing the irreversible damage of gender dysphoria in children was removed after backlash.
A favorable review on Science-Based Medicine about “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” by Abigail Shrier…
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June 13, 2021
Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg admitted that the tech giant’s “fact-checkers” employed to weed out “fake news” from the platform could be biased.
Facebook reportedly uses 80 different organizations across the world to flag misinformation.
The…
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June 11, 2021
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has been suspended from YouTube for seven days after he posted content promoting experimental treatments for COVID-19.
The senator led two Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearings on the…