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Tech 09/16/21, 18:45

Joe Toscano, a well-known former Google employee, criticized the social network Facebook, accusing it of always putting economic benefits before taking care of its millions of users, especially children and teenagers, who are suffering terrible psychological consequences due to the policies implemented.  Toscano's comments were made during an interview published by Fox ...

U.S. 09/14/21, 15:12

The prestigious Wall Street Journal published a report on an internal investigation that Facebook conducted on the effect on mental health in children by the use of Instagram. It admits that the application is 'toxic' and generates serious problems such as eating disorders, anxiety, depression and even suicidal thoughts, Breitbart reported. The newspaper ...

U.S. 09/07/21, 18:59

One of the world's biggest internet companies went back to the drawing board after highly advanced technology failed to tell the difference between African Americans and wild animals. The Daily Mail shared a video of a verbal and physical conflict between multiple black men, a white male, and police on June ...

World 08/12/21, 00:26

Two of the CCP's major state-run media, China Daily and Global Times, published claims by a supposed Swiss biologist insinuating that it is because of pressure from the United States that the coronavirus is believed to have originated in Wuhan, only to have the Swiss embassy in China issue a ...

U.S. 08/10/21, 00:07

Facebook's recent decision to suspend an academic study about political ads quickly drew outcry from U.S. lawmakers. The social media company thought it was a good idea to disable personal accounts and prevent general access for multiple New York University (NYU) researchers on Aug. 3. BL understands the study team was ...

U.S. 08/04/21, 17:28

Two senators, Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn sent a letter this Wednesday, August 4, 2021, asking the CEO of Facebook to share data from research conducted on the impact on children's mental health of the Instagram kids app the company is about to launch. "We write with concern about the growing ...

U.S. 07/27/21, 18:03

A bill would strip social networking sites of legal protections from being sued for misinformation on health issues, primarily targeting those related to vaccines, according to Children's Health Defense. Minnesota Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar introduced a bill to take aim at Section 230, which would create an exception to the law ...

Europe 07/20/21, 19:46

As internet corporations like Facebook experiment with "brain-reading" technology, Klaus Schwab predicts brain microchips are fast becoming a reality. The Great Reset leader and World Economic Forum executive chairman, predicts Big Tech firms will increasingly pursue implanted microchips and other "transhumanist" technologies. A recently uncovered 2016 video interview with Swiss broadcaster RTS ...

News 07/17/21, 16:07

As the Biden administration desperately tries to get obstinate vaccine-doubters to accept the jabs in the face of the transmissive Delta variant, social media platforms like Facebook have become a hindrance.  On Friday, July 16, as U.S. President Joe Biden was leaving the White House, a reporter asked him to give ...

Politics 07/09/21, 16:19

Former President Donald Trump made clear on Thursday, July 8, that his class-action lawsuit is aimed to force Big Tech to stop censoring the American people, giving some bases for the case amid concerns that the lawsuit would be “dead on arrival.”  In an opinion article written and published in Wall ...

U.S. 07/02/21, 16:57

The social network Facebook launched a campaign to alert its users who have seen or visited pages that the company considers 'extremist' or have a friend within their profile who has done something similar. Criticism rained down on Facebook because all the people who received the notification are journalists or ...

U.S. 07/01/21, 16:39

A federal judge blocked a law signed in May by Gov. Ron DeSantis that allowed people to sue social networks for censorship and fine them up to $250,000 each day that the accounts of campaigning politicians were suspended. On Wednesday, June 30, Northern District of Florida Judge Robert L. Hinkle, through ...

2022 Campaign 06/28/21, 16:52

CNN recently published Biden campaign emails with Facebook where they apply pressure to censor the Trump campaign ahead of the November 2020 presidential election. The news network openly calls for Facebook to make sure that Trump has no forum on its platform for fear that it will influence the midterm ...

U.S. 06/26/21, 17:27

On June 25, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that victims of human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation will be able to sue Facebook/Instagram for their ‘knowing or intentional participation in human trafficking.' The final appeal instance of the state of Texas ruled in favor in the case of three ...

U.S. 06/23/21, 01:30

A Californian social media giant will be directly liable for content posted to its online platform in India. Indian authorities have stripped Twitter Inc. of its legal intermediary status, which prevented the San Francisco-headquartered company from being sued for hosting certain third-party text, images, and videos. Uttar Pradesh Police accuses the business ...

U.S. 06/15/21, 15:16

Facebook's vice president, Nick Clegg, admitted that the companies in charge of 'verifying' the authenticity of the information published on the social network could have their political bias and apply it to benefit their own agenda when acting, lacking the expected impartiality. Such statements were made by Clegg to the European ...

D.C. 06/12/21, 01:33

A group of congressional lawmakers is aiming at tech giants with their antitrust concerns. They proposed five anti-trust bills which could force big tech to overhaul or even break up the sector's increasingly dominant business empires. The package bills introduced by a bipartisan group in Congress on Friday, June 11, primarily ...

U.S. 06/09/21, 18:43

Former President Donald Trump has called for more countries to boycott two giant social media platforms, Twitter and Facebook, after hailing Nigeria for blocking Twitter in their country. “Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their President,” Trump said in a statement released via Save ...

U.S. 06/04/21, 20:24

On Friday, Facebook announced that it has banned former President Donald Trump from resuming his social media platform, including Instagram, for at least two years, maybe longer. The announcement came out in a blog post by Facebook's vice president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, on June 4, who declared that the ...

U.S. 06/04/21, 05:16

Among the handful of emails relating to the COVID-19 pandemic that Dr. Anthony Fauci exchanged with Mark Zuckerberg since last year was one from the Facebook CEO that contained several offers—with one mysteriously hidden part that appeared to be a controversial deal. The bulk of emails that contain more facts ...