Covid
Facebook, Twitter, and Google to face UK lawmakers over controlling coronavirus “conspiracies”
MPs want Big Tech to answer for what they allow people to speak about online.
YouTube and Facebook remove video from Professor Dolores Cahill who criticized lockdowns
Cahill is from the School of Medicine at University College Dublin.
Huawei’s $6.1M deal with UK coronavirus-modeling college raises eyebrows, faces scrutiny
The deal has garnered attention for a variety of reasons.
Bill Gates to invest $6B in “next-generation quarantine methods” and symptom surveillance tech
The project is to be trialed in South Korea.
Google bans Podcast Addict app after 9 years for letting users play podcasts that reference COVID-19
Google says it needs to be authorized by official government entities or public health organizations.
YouTube deletes video of anti-lockdown epidemiology researcher Knut M. Wittkowski after millions of views
Content that doesn’t support the view of the WHO is increasingly vulnerable on YouTube.
Anderson Cooper: criticism for inviting Greta Thunberg to corona town hall was “phony online outrage”
It’s easy to remain unaccountable when you dismiss valid criticism as “phony online outrage.”
India’s contact tracing app is increasingly mandatory
The “unhackable” app has already been hacked.
Hungarian police interrogate 64-year-old man after he criticizes government coronavirus response on Facebook
Police showed up at dawn and took the man from his home.
“Misinformation” seminar canceled after people realize controversial Chinese company Huawei was the sponsor
The organizers obviously hadn’t seen anything wrong in accepting Huawei’s money.
UK NHS corona tracing app details leaked in Google Doc accidentally made public
The developers can’t handle a Google Doc and want to handle sensitive user data.