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Fauci suggests “do more” to stop “dangerous conspiracies”
With censorship of anti-official narratives already rife, it’s hard to see how more could be done.
New bill aims to strip immunity protections for tech companies that profile users for ads
Senator Josh Hawley’s new bill would reqire tech companies to avoid profiling users for advertising if they want to keep Section 230 protections.
Facebook gives $500,000 to Ontario university project that says coronavirus will drive online hate
The money is meant to help create a knowledge hub on “hate and violent extremism.”
Zuckerberg wants AI to pre-emptively remove 99% of “hate speech”
Facebook is already training its AI to censor “hateful memes.”
Republicans don’t appear to want to break up Big Tech
The Republican approach has been to complain about Big Tech’s power but reject the idea of breaking them up.
The money antitrust committee members receive from Big Tech
Money murkies the waters.
Mark Zuckerberg: If someone says hydroxychloroquine is a cure for COVID, we’ll take it down
Facebook overrules the opinion of individual doctors.
Trump administration asks FCC to begin Big Tech crackdown
The petition follows the president’s March executive order.
Twitter says it will start blocking some links for “hateful conduct”
“Inciting fear” against “protected” groups of people is one of the many things Twitter prohibits under its hateful conduct rules.
Bill Gates: with private messaging we can’t “intervene” in removing conspiracies and “misinformation”
Bill Gates has some words on end-to-end encryption being able to bypass censorship.
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter all censor videos of frontline doctors, call it “false information”
All major platforms scrubbed the video from frontline doctors who claim they’ve treated coronavirus with a 100% success rate.
Big Tech companies wants to be more heavily involved in the next pandemic
Tech companies want a more robust technologically-driven response to the next outbreak.