Congress kickstarts its investigation into major tech companies over antitrust law violations
The first hearing will be related to the news media.
Leaked documents reportedly show that Google blacklists Breitbart News, The Gateway Pundit, and others from some of its search results
This is yet another example of Google manually manipulating its search results.
Google outspends all of its rivals in lobbying efforts
Google is the biggest tech giant in terms of lobbying spending.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki explains why YouTube didn’t bend to Vox’s demands and ban Steven Crowder from YouTube
The CEO explained if they took down Steven Crowder, they’d have to take down a whole lot more channels.
In the face of censorship complaints, Google’s CEO weighs in on YouTube moderation, calls it “a hard societal problem”
YouTube is currently facing harsh criticism for its censorship and demonetization of its creators.
A New York Times article about privacy regulations contained more than 15 privacy-invading trackers
Some suggested that the NYT should disclose the conflict of interest.
YouTube’s handling of the VoxAdpocalypse is a taste of the way Google will treat Stadia gamers
Stadia’s “always online” way of playing, puts Google in charge of who gets to play.
Judge rules lawsuit about Google’s biased internal culture against conservatives can move to the discovery phase
Lawyer Harmeet K. Dhillon celebrated the win.
The SPLC is being caught up in the Vox-triggered adpocalypse
The SPLC are learning what it’s like to be on the receiving end of the censorship they’ve so often campaigned for.
For YouTubers whose livelihoods are at stake due to a problem with their channel, their best chance of YouTube even bothering to acknowledge them is, for some reason, on Twitter
If you don’t have many Twitter followers, you’re probably out of luck.
In the face of antitrust investigations, big tech has almost doubled its spend on lobbying
At this point, antitrust motions seem imminent and big tech giants are doing what they can to hold it off.
Google’s new search engine changes could reduce traffic to Reddit, Stack Overflow, and other forum sites
It’s not yet known what kind of impact this will have.












