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Prof. Adam Candeub, who led President Trump’s efforts to reinterpret Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), Big Tech’s “get-out-jail-free card” in censorship lawsuits, warned the House Judiciary Committee that some bipartisan antitrust efforts could empower the federal government and Silicon Valley’s axis of censorship.

Tech giant Google has reportedly agreed to pay $391.5 million in a settlement with 40 state attorneys general over the company’s deceptive location tracking features. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said, “They have been crafty and deceptive. Consumers thought they had turned off their location tracking features on Google, but the company continued to secretly record their movements and use that information for advertisers.”

Google is reportedly in a panic to implement AI into its various products in an effort to catch up with competitors such as OpenAI’s notoriously woke ChatGPT and Microsoft’s unhinged Bing AI.

Microsoft continues to double down on AI, adding its AI-powered Bing search engine to new Windows computers despite stories about its deranged responses to user inputs.

Tech giant Google recently laid off thousands of employees, and the cuts didn’t stop there. The tech giant has laid off a team of robots trained to clear trash and perform other cleaning duties.

The DOJ says Google destroyed chat messages it was required to save during an antitrust investigation. According to a filing, “Amazingly, Google’s daily spoliation continued until this week. When the United States indicated that it would file this motion — following months of conferral — Google finally committed to ‘permanently set to history on’ and thus preserve its employees’ chat messages.”

In response to the “Online News Act” legislation that Justin Trudeau’s government introduced in April, Google is currently testing blocking access to news content for some Canadian users.

As eerily human-like AI chatbots exploded into the public consciousness, so too have highly publicized examples of their political bias. Why do AI programs, Microsoft-funded ChatGPT in particular, seem to think like radical Democrat activists? The answer may lie in a obscure academic field that is rapidly rising in prominence. Its name is Machine Learning Fairness, and it is to computer science what critical race theory is to the rest of academia.

The Supreme Court heard arguments today in the first case challenging critical protections for tech companies under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to be argued before the high court.

Companies are rushing to join the AI chatbot craze by bringing their own ChatGPT competitors to market. The trend could lead to a new AI revolution, according to multiple experts.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki recently announced plans to step down as CEO and will be succeeded by the censorship-happy Neal Mohan. Wojcicki leaves a legacy of censoring independent creators and favoring corporate media.

According to a recent article in The Washington Post, users of the popular ChatGPT AI-powered chatbot have found new methods to bypass the bot’s restrictions. In one “jailbreak” of the chatbot, the AI is tricked into disregarding all the strict woke rules on its behavior as set by its leftist creators, OpenAI.

A federal judge issued an injunction blocking enforcement of New York’s “Hateful Conduct Law” seeking to regulate “hate speech” on social media platforms, ruling that the law is a violation of the First Amendment, which prevents the U.S. government from regulating the speech of its citizens.

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, recently stated in an interview that the use of AI in warfare could become more prevalent in the future. The noted lackey of Hillary Clinton noted, “Einstein wrote a letter to Roosevelt in the 1930s saying that there is this new technology — nuclear weapons — that could change war, which it clearly did. I would argue that [AI-powered] autonomy and decentralized, distributed systems are that powerful.”

Google is preparing to launch a new “prebunking campaign” in Germany, claiming its purpose is to educate people about the damaging effects of online “misinformation.”

Smart speaker maker Sonos recently posted strong earnings for the first quarter of 2023. During its earnings call with investors, the company’s CEO mocked its main competitors Amazon, Apple, and Google for failing to do “anything interesting” in the audio market.

Shares of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, suffered a $100 billion decline in market value after the company’s new AI chatbot provided inaccurate information in a promotional video.

Major social media sites including Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram all faced outages last night. Although changes to Twitter may have caused some problems unique to that site, they can’t explain the significant outages suffered by Facebook’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube.

China’s tech giant Baidu on Tuesday announced it is nearly ready to launch ERNIE Bot, a competitor to the ChatGPT artificial intelligence that has captured worldwide attention over the past few months.

Tech giant Microsoft has announced that following its recent investment in OpenAI, the ChatGPT chatbot will be integrated with its search engine Bing. The move could make Bing a tougher competitor for Google, which utterly dominates the search market.

Zoom, which rose to prominence during the coronavirus pandemic as one of the most common video conference platforms in business and education, recently announced plans to lay off 1,300 employees, or 15 percent of its workforce.

The 1792 exchange, a new nonprofit seeking to counter the rise of “woke capitalism” and the leftist trend of Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance (ESG), the umbrella strategy for pushing progressive agendas into corporate boardrooms, has compiled an index of over 1,000 companies to evaluate their political biases.

Prof. Adam Candeub, who led the National Telecommunications and Information Administration under President Trump where he was tasked with overseeing efforts to combat Big Tech censorship, is warning that an upcoming case before the U.S. Supreme Court risks strengthening Big Tech’s legal defense for censorship.

Tech giant Google is asking its employees to test various potential ChatGPT competitors in a scramble to catch up to the AI software, which analysts say has the potential to significantly disrupt the internet search market.

A number of “pig-butchering” scam apps have reportedly made their way onto Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store, leaving users vulnerable to scammers.

The FTC claims that drug discount app GoodRx has been selling user data to Facebook and Google. Although the Masters of the Universe have an insatiable appetite for personal details of all types, medical data is particularly prized for use in advertising and other ventures.

Snap, the parent company of the popular Snapchat social media app, recently reported disappointing fourth-quarter earnings due to ongoing issues with digital ads. The company also forecasted a drop in revenue of up to 10 percent for the upcoming quarter.

PayPal, the woke payment processor that blacklists those it disagrees with politically, has announced plans to lay off approximately 2,000 employees.

The creator of Google’s popular email service, Gmail, recently tweeted that he thinks Google could be put out of business by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot within two years.

Tech giant Google recently laid off around 12,000 employees, including the company’s director of mental health and wellbeing. The Masters of the Universe removing their head of wellbeing is particularly important as their woke Silicon Valley employee base are seeking “psychological safety” after seeing their colleagues shown the door.

A former Google executive claims in a lawsuit that he was fired for turning down a higher-ranking female executive’s unwanted advances. According to the lawsuit, a Google HR representative “openly admitted … that if the complaint was ‘in reverse’ — a female accusing a white male of harassment — the complaint would certainly be escalated.”

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on Thursday published a report about a pro-China entity known as “Dragonbridge” or “Spamouflage Dragon” that flooded YouTube and other platforms with tens of thousands of messages last year.

The DOJ claims in a recent lawsuit that Google’s 2007 acquisition of internet advertising giant DoubleClick was the beginning of the company’s alleged ad monopoly. The DoubleClick purchase started a spending spree by the Masters of the Universe that increased its stranglehold on the ads market.

Google is facing its second antitrust lawsuit from the Department of Justice in two years, over its dominance in the digital ads market, which has seen the tech giant operate in both the buying and selling of ads in addition to running its ad exchange.

Google workers are feeling psychologically shaken after the company announced plans to lay off 12,000 of its workforce amid a general slump in the tech industry.

A Google employee of 16 years that was laid off as part of the tech giant’s massive staff cuts says the “faceless” company sees its staff as “100% disposable.”