COVID-19
Microsoft, Oracle, and others join new digital vaccine passport coalition
They’re expected to integrate with smartphones and rollout this year.
Britain to start digital health passport trials
Supporters of privacy and human rights are, of course, concerned.
Twitter blocks medical journal after it published a positive study on Ivermectin treatment for coronavirus
An entire journal censored.
2020 year in review: an unprecedented year of Big Tech censorship and surveillance
The coronavirus and the US presidential election were some of the many events that ushered in a never-before-seen wave of social media censorship and surveillance.
Meetings app Vybe Together removed from App Store after being accused of promoting parties
Apple pulled the app after a New York Times reporter drew attention to it on Twitter.
College refuses to say if professor who used the term “Chinese virus” will be back to teach
Ucker was disciplined for using the term in an email.
Melinda Gates says “more could be done” to suppress “disinformation” on social media
Calls for more censorship.
Twitter suspends pro-hydroxychloroquine Doctor Zev Zelenko
Support of HCQ has often been censored on Twitter.
YouTube hints its next “misinformation” crackdown will curb videos that get referral traffic from other sites
The video-sharing platform suggested that changes would be coming as part of its “ongoing improvements.”
YouTube bans independent Swedish media outlet SwebbTV
SwebbTV described YouTube’s actions as an attempt to “ban information that questions their agenda.”
Facebook deletes page of former celebrity chef Pete Evans for COVID “misinformation”
Another popular commentator down.