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Australia sets up a new antitrust branch to monitor Facebook and Google
The branch will eventually span out to monitoring other platforms. They’re starting with what they see as the worst offenders – FB and Google.
Rep. Paul Gosar introduces new bill to tackle online censorship
Gosar joins Senators Hawley and Cruz that are looking at ways to end online censorship.
Facebook willing to sacrifice user engagement for censorship
In the UK alone, Facebook engagement dropped 38% in the last year.
Tulsi Gabbard sues Google for election interference
Gabbard’s complaint is the latest example of Google using its search dominance to influence politics.
Twitter tells Canadian Yasmine Mohammed her tweet may violate UK speech law
This follows Twitter previously sending similar notices to people outside of Pakistan saying that their tweets may be violating Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.
YouTube deletes Dave Collum Quoth the Raven podcast episode about conspiracy theories for “hate speech”
Yet another example that questioning the official narrative is now prohibited on YouTube.
Twitter says it will show you the “best” tweets at the top, after “improving search”
Twitter wants to take a hands-on approach to what it thinks you want to see.
Google executive Greg Coppola placed on administrative leave after calling out Google’s political bias
This follows the former Google employees James Damore and Mike Wacker being fired after speaking out about Google’s policies.
YouTube destroys the income of popular independent creator Sir Spooks
Sir Spooks is the latest YouTube channel to be hit by YouTube’s new adpocalypse.
Senior Google engineer says Google shows CNN for 20 percent of searches for “Donald Trump”
The Google engineer thinks Google’s algorithms are biased.
Senior Google engineer says Google is “very politically biased”
Greg Coppola says Americans must grapple with the problem of tech bias before it completely undermines democracy.
Senior Google engineer suggests CEO Sundar Pichai’s statements to Congress on political bias were untrue
This follows former Google engineer Mike Wacker saying Pichai lied to Congress.