Australian lawmaker labels TikTok a tool for Chinese government to collect data those outside of China
May 31, 2020
Hastie is not the first to make the allegations.
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Australian lawmaker labels TikTok a tool for Chinese government to collect data those outside of China
Hastie is not the first to make the allegations.
May 31, 2020
Facebook to some users that “rapidly go viral”: show some ID or be suppressed
Facebook may ask users who go viral and who it deems to be suspicious to provide ID or have their reach cut.
May 29, 2020
Laura Loomer prepared to take social media censorship case to the Supreme Court after losing appeal
After being banned from every major social platform, Loomer isn’t giving up.
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Silicon Valley billionaires plot to get Joe Biden elected using data and hyper-partisan news websites
Big data meets biased news.
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Firm secures deal to supply 15 countries with coronavirus digital “health passports”
The introduction of these were recently called a “conspiracy theory.”
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Journalists discover their “credible” reporting is being caught up in Twitter’s misinformation filters
Journalists who called for warning labels will have to learn to live in the world they created.
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CASIO files DMCA complaint against user who hacked calculator to connect to the internet
The Github project has been suspended.
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Trump reportedly plans new commission to deal with social media platforms’ restriction of free speech
**Situation-monitoring intensifies**
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