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YouTube Scrubs Thousands of Dislikes From Joe Biden Videos on Official White House Channel
YouTube’s actions temporarily reduced the dislike-to-like ratio by more than 6x on some videos.
TikTok Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration Expected to Fail
It’s a “delaying tactic, at best,” argues U.C. Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and the Economy professor Steven Davidoff Solomon.
TikTok Caught Using Encryption to Hide Tracking User Data
TikTok caught again.
New Bill Could Get Big Tech to Support Free Speech and Privacy or Lose Liability Protections
The bill could arrive as early as this month.
How Big Tech Employees Feel About Trump Being Censored, Free Speech on Platforms
Here are a results of a survey.
Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales Says Social Platforms Should “Tell Trump to Go Away”
Wales doesn’t think platforms should be unbiased.
President Trump’s Social Media Censorship Executive Order
For reference. Presented as-is.
PA Governor Wolf Didn’t Get the Memo, Says Social Media Is “Forum for the Exercise of First Amendment Rights”
Big tech platforms are hardly a place for free speech.
Hong Kong Starts Blocking VPNs as Protests Continue
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam hinted that the country may start blocking certain internet applications to stop the protestors organizing last week.
Twitter Gives Senator Mitch McConnell Campaign Account Ultimatum, Won’t Unlock It Unless He Deletes Video
Yet another example of Twitter’s actions impacting US elections.
