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Google purges over 8 million negative TikTok app reviews in “corrective action”
Google said the negative reviews not genuine and were “abuse.”
Trump proposes regulating or closing down social media platforms
Trump has made similar fruitless proposals in the past.
Twitter faces backlash after chief “integrity” officer’s anti-Trump past is scrutinized
Users push back as Twitter puts questionable individuals in positions of immense power on the platform.
Firm secures deal to supply 15 countries with coronavirus digital “health passports”
The introduction of these were recently called a “conspiracy theory.”
Twitter starts editorializing President Trump’s tweets and adding fact-checks from CNN
Politicians all over the world lie 24-7. But only one of them is getting fact-checked on Twitter.
Senator raises the alarm on TikTok spying “to serve their bosses in Beijing”
TikTok’s ties to China is facing increasing scrutiny.
Gamer grandma Shirley Curry calls out fake news
Journalists are up to their same old tricks.
India jails those found sharing coronavirus “misinformation” on WhatsApp
Coming to a country near you?
Twitter says it will be making changes after media calls for Trump’s tweets to be censored
Twitter announced the changes hours after a New York Times article asked Twitter to delete President Trump’s tweets about Joe Scarborough.
Some Facebook users find commenting the single word “coronavirus” results in auto-censorship
A weird way of censoring.
Michael Moore documentary Planet of The Humans censored on YouTube after copyright claim
Just 4 seconds of footage in a 1 hour 40 minute documentary got the whole thing removed under YouTube’s bogus system for dealing with copyright.
Vice President Mike Pence: We’re not going to tolerate social media censorship
Pence didn’t provide specifics on how the Trump administration plans to tackle online censorship.