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YouTube’s exec discusses “Intelligence Desk” to target emerging conspiracy theories
The crackdown on anything that YouTube deems to be a conspiracy or misinformation continues.
Antifa-supporting professor quotes free speech to receive $25,000 settlement from Iowa college
Antifa supports free speech now?
Poll suggests majority of people support big tech contact tracing
The pandemic has been a big boon for big tech overreach.
Financial Times reporter Mark Di Stefano suspended for reportedly snooping on rival news outlets
Di Stefano was in support of social media censorship at Buzzfeed before joining FT.
Activists in China detained for bypassing censorship using GitHub
The activists had been archiving the articles that the Chinese government had been suppressing.
Meme artist Carpe Donktum has 14 Twitter memes removed after a wave of DMCA takedown notices
The war on memes continues.
YouTube is hiding custom thumbnails on videos about Twitch streamers Alinity and InvaderVie
It’s unclear when or if YouTube will be resolving the issue.
WhatsApp was so desperate to suppress conspiracy theories it suppressed everything
Facebook is taking a sledgehammer approach to even private conversations.
YouTube: creators “espousing” opinions “in their basement” can’t provide context on the news
YouTube is cementing the power of the already-established players, making it difficult for small creators to get traction.
Bill Gates praises China’s response to the outbreak
China’s censorship-driven response to the coronavirus has earned it praise from the former Microsoft CEO.
The movies and shows censored on Disney Plus
Isn’t art supposed to be a product and a representation of its time?
MembersHow Twitter enabled the legacy media’s war on memes
?Memes are now “manipulated media” or “hoaxes” according to mainstream media.