YouTube deletes Ford Fischer’s newsworthy footage of crowd reacting to Trump speech, calls it “spam”
More bias with how YouTube treats news agencies.
Google reinstates decentralized chat app Element after sudden ban
A federated alternative to Google’s own Hangouts and Duo Android apps got suspended from the Play Store without explanation on Saturday. Element (previously known as Riot.im) is one of the clients, and a popular one, for Matrix, a federated open source messaging protocol. Judging by the comment
YouTube deletes videos of doctors testifying in Senate Homeland Committee as “coronavirus misinformation”
The video was uploaded by Senator Ron Johnson.
YouTube demonetizes The Epoch Times
The growing media outlet can no longer earn advertising revenue on the platform.
Now it’s Google’s turn to be sued for not banning Telegram
Another censorship-driven lawsuit, luckily expected to fail.
YouTube has now removed over 500,000 videos under its COVID-19 rules
YouTube has introduced several one-sided censorship rules amid the coronavirus pandemic.
UK says Big Tech is “manipulating lives” launches investigation into its algorithms
Algorithms also reduce competition and harm consumers, a UK watchdog says.
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.
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo breaks records
Over 100 million searches per day.
Biden looks to former Obama staffers, Amazon and Google advisers, for top antitrust roles
A conflict of interest for an administration saying it wants to regulate Big Tech.
Secret deal between Google and Facebook allegedly revealed in anti-trust case
A preferential deal.












