Science, Technology, and Social Media

Twitter Dings Trump’s Tweets But Refuses To Fact Check Chinese Officials’ Virus Misinformation

Twitter fact-checked President Donald Trump Tuesday for suggesting California’s mail-in ballots are fraudulent, yet the company has declined to make…

6 years ago

YouTube Automatically Deletes Any Comments That Contain Certain Phrases Insulting To Chinese Communist Party

Youtube’s enforcement algorithm is automatically removing any comments that contain one of two Chinese-language phrases that are critical of the…

6 years ago

Trump Considering Forming Panel To Review Anti-Conservative Bias In Big Tech: Report

President Donald Trump is considering forming a commission to review anti-conservative bias on social media platforms, The Wall Street Journal…

6 years ago

Waiting for a coronavirus vaccine

Bob Holmes, Knowable Magazine The Covid-19 coronavirus has knocked our world off its axis. We won’t return to anything approaching…

6 years ago

FBI, AG Barr Accuse Apple Of Providing Virtually ‘No Help’ In Breaking Into Pensacola Shooter’s iPhone

Apple provided the Department of Justice investigators almost no help as they worked to collect cell phone data from the…

6 years ago

United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches the Sixth Orbital Test Vehicle for the U.S. Space Force

Mission dedicated to front-line responders and those affected by COVID-19 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., (May 17, 2020) –…

6 years ago

Trump Authorizes Moon Mining, Media Ignores Awesomeness

Sometimes the most consequential events are little understood—or even noticed—as they unfold. For instance, on July 14, 1789, the day…

6 years ago

Facebook Is Giving $1,000 To Content Moderators Who Said Online Trolls Turned Them Into Conspiracy Theorists

Facebook agreed to pay out a $52 million settlement to thousands of current and former content moderators who said they…

6 years ago

Keys to coping with lockdown

David Adam, Knowable Magazine For Peggy Whitson, what helped was a sense of purpose. Chris Hadfield advises focusing on the…

6 years ago

Twitter Rolls Out COVID Misinformation Warning Labels. Will They Target Chinese Officials Who Blame US For Outbreak?

Twitter will now slap warning labels and other messages on coronavirus-related content the company deems harmful but perhaps not harmful…

6 years ago