2018
Elon Musk Says Some Political Candidates Running for Office Were Secretly Shadow Banned on Twitter
Musk is yet to reveal which ones.
Privacy-Focused Search Engine Mojeek Has Indexed More Than 4.5 Billion Pages
Growing an independent index.
Rumble Is a YouTube Alternative That’s Growing in Popularity
A new alternative in the age of YouTube censorship.
Newsweek Says It Flagged YouTube Channels That Contained Content From Rival Media Outlet, Infowars
YouTube deleted the channels in response to Newsweek’s flagging.
Facebook Shares Tank After Leaked Emails Revealed Zuckerberg Was Aware of Facebook’s Privacy Crimes
The FTC specifically wants to know if Facebook violated a consent decree that it has agreed to follow way back in 2012.
Is “Woke” Media Collapsing? Vox Media Staff Demand Higher Wages From the Already-Struggling Company
Vox’s staff are holding the company hostage at a time when analysts are saying Vox could be gone within a year.
Private Search Engine DuckDuckGo Hits a Record 9 Billion Private Searches in 2018 as Consumers Become More Privacy Conscious
This represents the company’s biggest ever year-on-year increase in the number of total private searches.