Donald Trump
Facebook starts “fact-checking” jokes from comedian Terrence K. Williams
Facebook decided to start these “fact-checks” days after President Trump retweeted one of Williams’ jokes about Epstein.
White House drafts executive order to tackle social media’s anti-conservative bias
This follows numerous reports exposing anti-conservative bias in 2019.
President Trump calls Google manipulating political news stories “all very illegal”
Trump made the comments following an Oval Office meeting with Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Trump speaks on mass shootings, warns of the “perils of the internet”, says social platforms need to do more
President Trump’s statement comes in a speech after the recent shootings at the weekend.
Trump says popular video games are to blame for gun violence, says action is needed “immediately”
The President provided no evidence for the claim.
Trump says no post-Brexit trade deals for UK if they tax US tech giants
President Trump says only US should be able to tax big tech.
Of all big tech companies, it’s Microsoft employees that most support Trump
Big Tech companies are mostly anti-Trump but it’s been shown that more Microsoft employees support Trump, compared to any other tech company.
Just 4% of big tech employee 2020 candidate donations go to Donald Trump
An analysis of the twelve 2020 presidential candidates who received the most donations from big tech employees between January and June showed that over 50% of these donations went to Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, and Kamala Harris.
Senior Google engineer says Google shows CNN for 20 percent of searches for “Donald Trump”
The Google engineer thinks Google’s algorithms are biased.
President Trump says he’s “looking at” Google’s ties to Chinese military
After Peter Thiel’s suggestion about Google being compromised by China, President Trump is taking it seriously.
President Trump says he’s “not a fan of Bitcoin”
Trump also said that if Facebook wants to become a bank with its Libra cryptocurrency, it must become subject to all banking regulations.
President Trump considers retaliation against France’s new extra tax on US tech companies
France has approved a new 3% tax on the revenue of major US tech companies and President Trump isn’t happy.