Palantir, the data analytics company founded by Peter Thiel, has been awarded a contract by the Department of Defense to develop artificial intelligence and machine learning for all branches of the U.S. armed forces, as well as Special Forces and the Joint Staff.
Google-owned YouTube restored a viral video of a speech from the winner of the Italian election, Giorgia Meloni, claiming it was “mistakenly” removed from the platform. The speech went viral after Meloni’s win, but had been posted to the platform without problem since 2019.
Major brands are weighing the option of boycotting Twitter after a Reuters investigation found their ads appeared next to tweets soliciting child pornography, while the leftist tech company insists it has “zero tolerance” for child exploitation. Some brands, including Dyson, Mazda, Forbes, and PBS Kids have already suspended marketing campaigns on Twitter, according to the report.
Google-owned YouTube took down a video featuring Republican politician and activist Laura Loomer, claiming her speech, which referenced the issue of voter fraud, violated its policy on misinformation.
Users of Google Photos, the tech giant’s service to back up and share pictures, are reporting that older images have been corrupted, with discoloration, lines, and other artefacts appearing on old photos.
Apple is scaling back production of its new iPhones after an anticipated increase in demand failed to materialize, according to reports from Bloomberg.
Google-owned YouTube removed the video of a 2019 speech from incoming Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni which had been going viral across numerous platforms. The internet giant claims the video “breached” its community guidelines, a transgession that apparently took several years and a successful election for it to notice.
The House Minority Whip, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) appeared on the Breitbart News Daily podcast with Alex Marlow yesterday. During the interview, Scalise came out against the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), saying the media cartel bill would “surely not” pass a Republican-controlled House.
A battle is shaping up in Europe between Google and the major telecom companies of that continent, as the European Commission weighs the question of forcing Big Tech to fund the companies’ network costs.
Users of the Fitbit smartwatch will be required to have Google accounts next year to access some of the device’s features, following the fitness tracking company’s acquisition by Google-parent Alphabet Inc. last year.
Two leading figures in the UK Labour Party, deputy leader Angela Rayner and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, are pushing the government to speedily pass new regulations on “online hate” — a sign of the party’s priorities if it defeats the ruling conservative party at the next election.
Microsoft has marked the 30th anniversary of its substantial presence in China with a pledge to hire over 1,000 more workers in the communist country.
Frances Haugen, the Facebook “whistleblower” with a long history of left-wing activism, who was elevated to celebrity status by the media after she began publicly criticizing the tech giant for not censoring enough, has officially launched her nonprofit.
British Members of Parliament for the governing Conservative Party are considering an amendment to internet regulations that would prohibit payment processors like PayPal from blacklisting political campaigners, following the tech giant’s decision to withdraw service from the Free Speech Union (FSU), the anti-cancel culture organization founded by columnist and author Toby Young.
Amazon had to walk back an announced pay raise for corporate employees after a computer glitch miscalculated their compensation, according to internal emails obtained by Business Insider. Managers were advised that they would have to prepare for an “uncomfortable conversation” with employees losing out on the raise they were promised.
The CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, was deposed today as part of the company’s lawsuit to force SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk to honor his agreement to purchase the social media company for $44 billion. Musk will be deposed himself on Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which recently said that questioning official narratives on matters like coronavirus policies constitutes a terrorist threat, has awarded nearly $700,000 to left-wing researchers to study radicalization in video games, with a focus on “white supremacy.”
At a hearing in which supposed conservative firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) inexplicably rescued the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a Democrat-championed bill to enable collusion between the mainstream media and tech companies, the Texas Senator claimed that Big Tech “hates” the bill.
The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) was saved from legislative oblivion yesterday after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) worked with the Democrats to rescue it, based on the false claim that the media and Big Tech are opposed to each other. But, as Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) have pointed out, nothing could be further from the truth.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) commended sponsors of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) today, as he rescued the derided media bailout bill from the jaws of legislative death.
On September 8th at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the JCPA, Senator Ted Cruz introduced a proposal which temporarily forced the Democrat co-sponsors to withdraw the bill.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), the leading domestic intelligence agency in Germany, operates “hundreds” of fake right wing accounts that it uses to infiltrate right wing political networks, according to a report by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Gays Against Groomers, an activist coalition opposed to the sexualization, indoctrination and medicalization of children, has had its accounts blacklisted by PayPal, Venmo, and Gmail, all within the space of 24 hours.
Google has launched a pilot program to prevent political campaign emails from being caught in Gmail’s spam filter, a company spokesperson told Axios.
Melania Trump has slammed the media and her former aide, Stephanie Wolkoff, over comments about the White House Christmas celebrations leaked by Wolkoff and widely reported by the media, in an exclusive comment to Breitbart News.
Joe Biden was attacked from all sides of the political spectrum on social media yesterday after a 60 Minutes interview in which he declared an end to the coronavirus pandemic — even while emergency government powers and declarations remain in effect.
Republican Senate candidate for the state of Nevada, Adam Laxalt has called out the incumbent Democrat, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, for backing President Biden’s far-left FCC nominee Gigi Sohn.
A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law allowing users to sue social media platforms in the event of wrongful account suspension, in a win for defenders of free speech online.
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has signed a bill into law that would require social media companies to report their content moderation policies to the state government, legislation that even the Washington Post admits is “controversial.”
A member of China’s intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), was on the payroll at Twitter, according to testimony from a whistleblower appearing before Congress today. The whistleblower also testified that the company didn’t care about having foreign spies working within its walls, with one executive telling him, “Well, since we already have one, what does it matter if we have more?”
After nearly two years of lobbying by representatives of the nation’s largest, wealthiest, and most pro-censorship media companies, after being killed in the House and then revived in the Senate, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is (temporarily) dead again — killed by its champion, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), because Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) successfully added an amendment that would prevent media companies and tech companies from colluding on content moderation.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who is pushing to bail out the nation’s largest and wealthiest media companies through the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), faced opposition from her own party as well as Republicans at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee today.
Lobbyists for big media companies are working overtime to get Republican lawmakers on board with the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), promising it will somehow protect conservative media. Yet those same lobbyists are telling Democrats the bill will help curtail “misinformation” online — a buzzword for censoring conservatives.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), the lead Republican co-sponsor of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) in the Senate, has been raising questions about the bill, several senior congressional sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) condemned the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) for a second time after Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) released an amended version of the legislation that exacerbates the worst problems of the media cartel bill.
A new version of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is circulating that is worse than the original. It allows mainstream, legacy and left-wing media to form exclusionary media cartels and then empowers them with extraordinary collective-bargaining power to collude with Big Tech companies. The amendments serve only to spell out in greater specificity how to exclude conservative and anti-establishment media from any alleged benefits.
The Twitter account of actress Gina Carano, who plays a leading role in the upcoming movie about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, My Son Hunter, has been deleted.
The approval of Donald Trump’s Truth Social on Google’s app store, which controls access to 44 percent of smartphones in the U.S., is being held up due to “content moderation concerns,” according to reports. As Google’s decision hangs in the balance, a flurry of negative media coverage about Trump’s platform is underway.
The New York Times is making celebrities of a few dozen alleged “QAnon” accounts on Truth Social in an effort to smear the platform and its creator, former President Donald Trump, because it allows more free speech than its highly censorious Silicon Valley competitors.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s first appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, the most-listened to podcast in the world, contained a number of bombshell revelations, foremost among them that the FBI was involved in the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
