Google Employees Call Term ‘Family’ ‘Deeply Homophobic'
January 30th, 2019 3:38 PM
A Google executive sparked backlash from LGBT- supporting employees after using the term “family” in an internal presentation. The Daily Caller exposed a 2017 incident where Google was in uproar over a “family”-oriented product aimed at children. LGBT-sympathetic employees disparaged the term as “offensive, inappropriate, homophobic, and wrong” because it denies that non-traditional arrangements…
Facebook Hires Three From Soros-Funded Foundations to Fix Privacy
January 30th, 2019 2:52 PM
Want a job at Facebook? You’re a shoe-in if your resume includes having worked for liberal billionaire George Soros. According to Ars Technica, Facebook hired three people to analyze its privacy practices, which it mentioned on January 29.
Facebook to Create a Panel to Police Content
January 29th, 2019 3:45 PM
Facebook has mentioned that enforcing policies against “hate speech” is one of its priorities. In a new announcement released on Facebook’s blog, the platform stated that it was looking into creating a board to help determine content policing.
Slippery Slope? YouTube Cracks Down On Misinformation
January 29th, 2019 3:19 PM
YouTube announced it is restricting more videos — including “borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways.” The platform has a bad history of policing content.
Twitter Accused of Banning Accounts for Tweeting ‘Learn to Code’
January 29th, 2019 11:25 AM
Left wing journalists once told working class Americans to “learn to code” and adapt to a globalized economy. Now those same journalists have been laid off, rumor has spread that users will be banned for tweeting the phrase back at them on the grounds of “targeted harassment.”
Study Blames Conservatives For ‘Fake News’ on Twitter
January 28th, 2019 4:39 PM
Left-wing academia attacks conservatives and conservative news for “fake news.” But their studies fall short of proving this theory. A new study found that “fake news was most concentrated among conservative voters.” Yet it highlighted 11 sources as “fake news” or “questionable” that constitutes a large part of conservative media
This Might Explain a Lot: Facebook Touted That LGBTQ Staffing Hit 8%
January 28th, 2019 11:27 AM
Facebook celebrates that it is “one of the best places to work for LGBTQ equality.” The company’s LGBTQ employment has jumped to eight percent in 2018, far higher than the 2017 Gallup Poll estimate that claims only 4.5 percent of the national population is LGBT.
Zuckerberg: Facebook Tries to Take Down All ‘Divisive Content’
January 25th, 2019 12:45 PM
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about content now, he talks a lot about restricting speech. Zuckerberg wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal to explain the platform’s nebulous position on free speech.
Banned! Facebook to Silence More Pages for ‘Misleading Headlines’
January 24th, 2019 2:12 PM
Yet another new Facebook content policy has hit the platform, enabling Facebook to censor even more pages than before. Facebook updated its fake news policy on January 23, to include some more reasons to take down pages and groups. Facebook updated its fake news policy on January 23, to include some more reasons to take down pages and groups.
Interference? Original Covington Kids Video Posted by Fake Account
January 23rd, 2019 3:41 PM
A deleted Twitter account that originally posted the edited video of the Covington kids and Nathan Phillips is now under scrutiny and bears a number of suspicious earmarks. Twitter has banned @2020fight, the account that tweeted the deceptively edited video from Jan. 19, but the damage to the Covington kids, the media’s credibility and the general culture has already been done.
CEO Dorsey: Twitter ‘Amplifies Counter Narrative’ When Trump Tweets
January 23rd, 2019 2:13 PM
Twitter’s liberal CEO wants the platform to counteract President Trump. In an interview with Rolling Stone on January 23, Jack Dorsey talked about the importance of being “a citizen of the world,” how Twitter should address climate change, and fake news on the platform
Google Funds Anti-Conservative Group Southern Poverty Law Center
January 23rd, 2019 9:20 AM
One of the world’s biggest tech companies funds one of the most prominent anti-conservative groups in the United States. Google’s charitable branch Google.org has donated $250,000 to the Southern Poverty Law Center, since 2016. Google’s charitable branch Google.org has donated $250,000 to the Southern Poverty Law Center, since 2016. The SPLC is a liberal bastion of hate against Christians,…
Sheryl Sandberg: ‘We Don’t Want an Internet Where Anything Goes'
January 22nd, 2019 4:03 PM
Facebook has demonstrated over the past year alone that it is not interested in promoting freedom of speech on its platform. To say the least. Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg spoke at the annual DLD Conference in Munich, Germany, January 20.
Twitter Deletes Some Covington Threats, Ignores Others
January 22nd, 2019 1:36 PM
Twitter took action against one account that promoted the false story about Covington students at the March for Life. The social media site also removed some tweets promoting violence, but still allows some verified celebrities’ violent threats to remain online. Twitter deleted the original account that tweeted the deceptively edited video. But has allowed users who tweeted calls to violence such…