Santi Ruiz
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OANN Owner Slams Biden FCC Nominee, Undermines Son's Endorsement
One America News Network’s owner on Tuesday slammed President Joe Biden’s latest pick to serve on the Federal Communications Commission, weeks after his son, the network's president, threw his weight behind the progressive nominee. Speaking to OANN host Pearson Sharp, Robert Herring denied that the conservative network supports Gigi Sohn, a lawyer with a history […] → Read More
Top News Organizations Run Huawei-Sponsored Puff Pieces
Some of the country's most prominent news organizations have partnership deals with telecom giant Huawei, which the U.S. government considers a national security risk because of links to the Chinese government. → Read More
Google Cuts Costs for Third-Party Sellers As Political Pressure Mounts
Google will reduce the fee for selling software on its cloud marketplace, the company’s latest attempt to appease politicians who want to break up big tech. → Read More
LinkedIn Censors US Reporter's Account in China
LinkedIn on Tuesday censored a U.S. reporter's account in China. → Read More
Lithuania Tells Users To Ditch Chinese Phones Over Censorship Fears
Lithuania has warned its citizens that a popular phone manufactured in China contains built-in censorship technology, Reuters reported. → Read More
In a Blow to Resistance Movement, Taliban Shuts Down Internet in Holdout Province
The Taliban has shut off internet access in the Afghan province home to anti-Taliban resistance fighters. → Read More
Apple Promotes Hookup Apps to Children, Report Finds
Apple promotes dating apps to children and withholds information about underage users from app developers, according to a report. → Read More
Twitter Automatically Recommends Users Follow Taliban Accounts
Twitter’s "auto-recommendation" tool is pushing users to follow Taliban accounts. → Read More
Connection Failure
What's actually the problem with the world's biggest social media platform? Is it misinformation? Lack of regulation? That it rots the brains of children? Or that it makes us shrill, annoying caricatures of ourselves? → Read More
Facebook and Twitter Remove Fraction of Anti-Semitic Posts, Report Finds
Facebook and Twitter only removed a small fraction of anti-Semitic posts users reported in 2021, highlighting the difficulties social media companies face when moderating hate speech. → Read More
Bezos Contract Fight May Delay American Return to Moon
Jeff Bezos is pushing NASA to reconsider his space company's bid to build the craft that will bring Americans back to the surface of the moon, potentially delaying U.S. efforts to establish a permanent lunar presence by 2024. → Read More
Prime Mover
In 2016, Amazon faced a major decision as copycat listings and shoddy products began to flood the marketplace. According to Brad Stone in Amazon Unbound, company execs asked founder Jeff Bezos whether they should “prioritize the sale of high-end clothing … or should it favor low-end generic apparel and private label products across Amazon.com and via the Amazon Marketplace.” Bezos answered, “I… → Read More
Arizona Senate Candidate Blake Masters Comes Out Swinging on Big Tech
The latest entrant into Arizona’s Republican Senate primary has strong views on Big Tech. → Read More
Gettr Founder Says 'Authoritarian Regimes' Are Behind Attacks on the App
The CEO of the new right-leaning social media app Gettr suggested nefarious foreign actors were behind a coordinated trolling campaign that flooded the platform with obscene images. → Read More
Apple Employees Condemn Israel but Remain Silent on Company's Use of Chinese Slave Labor
A group of Muslim employees at Apple are pushing the tech giant to publicly condemn Israel's "illegal occupation" of the Gaza Strip amid violence in the region caused by terrorist group Hamas. → Read More
YouTube Blames COVID for Censorship of Pro-Israel Legal Scholar's Video
YouTube is blaming the COVID pandemic and shoddy technology for its inconsistent censorship of a legal expert's defense of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. → Read More
Can Josh Hawley Break the Internet?
The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley’s excoriation of corporate power, created a media firestorm before it even came out. The original publisher, Simon & Schuster, dropped the book amid the January 6 riots and the Missouri Republican’s insistence on contesting the 2020 election results. Now snatched up by conservative publisher Regnery, it’s selling well—the latest example of cancel… → Read More
Klobuchar's Big Bust of a Book
Some books are dull because of their subject matter, and others are dull despite it. Senator Amy Klobuchar's new opus, Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age, manages to be even duller than its already dull subject. Though the last few pages detail Klobuchar's goals as head of the Senate antitrust subcommittee and may therefore be useful for some readers,… → Read More
House Republicans Outline Plan To Regulate Big Tech
A group of House Republicans released a plan to strip legal protections from big tech platforms, signaling a growing willingness among conservatives to regulate private businesses. → Read More
Facebook CEO Calls for Regulations That Would Stifle Competitors
Facebook is ramping up its calls for government regulation of social media companies, which could give the company a leg up on its competitors. → Read More