Science, Technology, and Social Media

Congress Wants To Make Big Tech Responsible For Online Speech. Here’s Why That’s So Hard

Congress appears no closer to holding tech platforms accountable for undesirable behavior and content on their platforms following a hearing…

5 years ago

Former Facebook Employee Alleges Company’s Anti-Conservative Bias With Shocking Statistics

Former Facebook employee and research fellow for technology policy at The Heritage Foundation Kara Frederick sat down with the Daily…

5 years ago

Family Tracking App Life360 Is Selling Customers’ Locations To Data Brokers: REPORT

A family safety app used to track children’s movements is selling location data to several different data brokers, according to…

5 years ago

Twitter, Facebook Take Down Thousands Of Chinese Accounts Linked To Propaganda Campaigns

Twitter and Facebook each removed thousands of accounts linked to Chinese state-backed propaganda campaigns, according to the platforms’ reports Wednesday…

5 years ago

Facebook ‘Hate Speech’ Algorithm Found 90% of Hate Speech Directed at White People

Last week, the Washington Post reported that an April 2020 examination of Facebook’s anti-racism algorithm found that roughly 90 percent…

5 years ago

Facebook Will No Longer Censor Search Results, Posts Praising Kyle Rittenhouse

Facebook announced Wednesday that it will no longer block search results for “Kyle Rittenhouse” and will no longer remove posts…

5 years ago

Three Amazing Benefits That Could Come From the Metaverse

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently released a letter and video announcing the long anticipated new branding of the Facebook umbrella…

5 years ago

Twitter Expands Its Bans Day After It Names New CEO

Twitter is expanding the list of content banned from its platform, and it will no longer allow users to share…

5 years ago

Republicans Warn Of ‘Censorship’ From ‘Radical’ New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal

Republican lawmakers are raising concerns that Twitter’s new Chief Executive Parag Agrawal may threaten conservative political content on the social…

5 years ago

Wikipedia Moderators Are Debating Removing An Article About Communist Mass Killings For ‘Bias’

Wikipedia moderators are currently considering removing an article titled “mass killings under communist regimes” over concerns of “bias.” The article was…

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