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Key point: It is important to put any research into context in order to better understand it. The Wall Street Journal recently reported a shocking revelation: Senior Google employees exert “editorial control over what (its search engine) shows users.” Another journalist and member of the managing board of the Stigler Center at the University of
Internal content guidelines show that TikTok censors content which is banned in China, including videos that mention Tiananmen Square or Tibetan independence. Source link
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Dennis Prager, the right-leaning radio host and pundit who runs the widely successful nonprofit PragerU, testified Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution. His subject was Google’s alleged censorship of conservatives. “I promise you, one day you will say, first they came after conservatives, and I said nothing,” opined Prager, invoking the famous
Google CEO Sundar Pichai provided an unconvincing explanation of how the near-monopolist in internet search supports a free market and democratic principles of press freedom. Both are critical for a healthy publishing market, and Google’s outsized power to control what people see threatens the industry. Yesterday, Pichai appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to answer
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“An eye-opening documentary, The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle – hence powerful – manner in which they do it.” The Creepy Line is a movie documentary which tries to build the case that Google and Facebook manipulate
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According to a Wall Street Journal article, Facebook, Google and Twitter have hired censorship teams to remove user posted content that German law prohibits. As of January 1, 2018 a new law in Germany puts tech companies that allow user posted content at risk of fines of up to $60 million if they fail to
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Project Veritas, an undercover conservative journalistic organization, has caught Twitter engineers exposing how Twitter currently censors Republicans and conservative tweets. They sometimes allegedly use a concept called shadow banning, where a Twitter user continues to tweet without realizing that Twitter is not allowing their tweets into their followers feed. On January 3rd, 2018, Abhinov Vadrevu,
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On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released its fall 2017 edition of the education magazine “Teaching Tolerance.” One of the articles in that magazine focused on the radicalization of the white supremacist Dylann Roof, who shot and killed nine members of a black church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015. The SPLC drew some
Over the past year, Facebook’s been skirting around the definition of what it is – or more specifically, Facebook’s actively worked to avoid being labeled a media company. And that makes sense – Facebook sees itself as more of a facilitator, a platform for anyone to share their voice. They don’t make editorial decisions, they
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