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A lawsuit filed by a Florida restaurant chain alleges that Google purposefully directs users to “unauthorized” Google-branded food ordering webpages where it uses restaurants’ names “without their approval,” a tactic the lawsuit describes as a “bait-and-switch.”

YouTube, the Google-owned video platform, continues its campaign of censorship in support of the official narrative on Ukraine, this time censoring a recent Fox News appearance by former Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, a longtime critic of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.

The American Conservative Union (ACU), the organization that runs the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has blasted Google-owned YouTube for censoring its channel after it uploaded a video of former President Donald Trump’s speech at this year’s conference.

Vimeo, a video hosting platform that markets itself as an alternative to YouTube, has updated its terms of service to ban “fake news” and “conspiracy theories” that creates “a serious risk of material harm to a person, group, or the general public.”

Russia has announced plans to block Facebook in the country, claiming that the social media platform has discriminated against Russian media and information sources. The government of Russia is reportedly considering declaring Facebook an “extremist organization,” a decision driven in part by Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to allow users to call for the death of Russians.

The European Commission and the UK have announced formal antitrust investigations into Google and Facebook and their online ad businesses. The investigations focus on the Masters of the Universe and their secret “Jedi Blue” deal to maintain their duopoly stranglehold on the online advertising business.

Tech giants Google, Apple, and Facebook have joined a group of 60 companies calling on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to drop recent legislation that defines permanent sex reassignment surgery on children as child abuse. The Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe and their friends have called on Texas leaders to “abandon efforts to write discrimination into law.”

Popular privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo, commonly considered an alternative to Google, has announced that it will be “down-ranking” sites associated with “disinformation,” along with adding “information boxes” to “highlight quality information.” The announcement received widespread backlash from DuckDuckGo supporters, who view the changes as adopting the censorship policies of the Masters of the Universe.

Google-owned YouTube has censored Ukraine On Fire, a 2016 documentary chronicling the events of Euromaidan, the uprising that overthrew Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and installed a pro-EU, pro-NATO government.

“Big Tech oligarchs” such as Mark Zuckerberg should be criminally pursued to stop large technology companies’ anti-competitive conduct, Josh Mandel, a Republican candidate running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Ohio, said on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Wired reports that Google’s latest privacy-invading technology can read your body language without using cameras. One Google designer ominously commented, “We’re really just pushing the bounds of what we perceive to be possible for human-computer interaction.”

The Masters of the Universe at Google have paused all ad sales in Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The internet giant said the “extraordinary circumstances” of the war led to its decision after it faced criticism from the Russian government over ads “aimed at creating a distorted perception of current events.”

Tech giant Google has reportedly blocked Russian state media apps including Russia Today and Sputnik from the Google Play store across Europe.

Tech giant Apple has shut down the sales of its products in Russia and restricted the apps of Russian state news outlets such as Russia Today and Sputnik.

Republicans are desperate for policy solutions to the issue of Big Tech, so much so that they’re allowing the Democrat point woman on tech regulation, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), to dupe them into supporting a leftist, pro-censorship agenda.

As well as economic sanctions on Russia, several attempts to isolate the Eurasian state culturally are also underway. 

Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok have reportedly blocked Russian state media like Russia Today and Sputnik in the EU.

Tech giant Google has disabled the live traffic data on its Maps app in Ukraine after consulting with Ukrainian officials who worry that the feature could be used to track military movements.

Tech giant Google is reportedly dropping many of its coronavirus-related restrictions, including its vaccine mandate for U.S. employees.

The UK is introducing draft legislation that would require tech platforms like Facebook and Google to verify the identities of their users. 

A California court has ruled in favor of Google’s self-driving car company Waymo allowing the company to keep its autonomous vehicle emergency protocols secret.

Truth Social, the alternative social media platform created by former President Donald J. Trump, launched on Apple’s app store today, rising to become the most popular social networking platform in the app store shortly after release.

The New York Times recently purchased the popular online word-guessing game Wordle — and appears to have immediately added ad-tracking, sending user data not only to the Times, but also to Google and other third parties.

Christopher Bedford is on the front lines fighting Big Tech and left-wing organizations’ online efforts to silence conservative voices.

Google announced this week that it’s planning to introduce new privacy restrictions that will reduce app tracking across its Android devices, similar to the system implemented by Apple that contributed to Facebook’s historic drop in market value due to its impact on Mark Zuckerberg’s invasive targeted advertising. Although Facebook has publicly fought a war of words with Apple over its privacy measures, it is publicly supporting Google’s change.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki recently urged world governments to pass stronger speech laws to restrict speech online deemed “harmful.” Her ominous message is that the path to “more control over online speech” is to pass laws that ignore the First Amendment.

Recent studies have revealed that the Chinese-owned social media TikTok can bypass security protections on Apple and Google app stores to gain full access to user data.

A recent analysis of YouTube search results found that users looking for videos relating to the Genocide Games are being bombarded with Chinese propaganda videos.

Tech giant Google is facing another antitrust complaint filed in the EU related to the company’s digital advertising business. The European Publishers Council compares Google’s stranglehold on the digital advertising business and its built-in conflicts of interest as both ads buyer and seller to “Goldman or Citibank owning the New York Stock Exchange.”

Tech giant Google is facing yet another antitrust lawsuit, this time a suit in Europe potentially worth $2.4 billion over its online shopping service unfairly favoring the tech giant’s own offerings by “abusing its dominant position.”

Dan Gainor, who leads Big Tech and free speech watchdog operations at the Media Research Center, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) last week, warning lawmakers that far from benefiting the local news industry, the bill rewards the same national media outlets that are destroying it.

Speaking at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) last week, Harvard fellow and former FTC antitrust enforcer Dr. Daniel Francis told lawmakers that he “cannot think of anything the country needs less, now or ever” than the kind of national news media cartel the bill would create.

Politico, the liberal magazine that aims to influence D.C. politics but is owned by a foreign media conglomerate, has published a hit piece on Breitbart News over its opposition to the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill that aims to protect the discredited corporate media — including outlets like Politico — from online competition.

Politico, the liberal political magazine that covers D.C. politics but is owned by a German media conglomerate, Axel Springer, is trying to paint Breitbart News as “on the same side” as Google and Facebook because it won’t join the corporate media in supporting the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill that would create a news media cartel.

As details emerged about the resignation of CNN president Jeff Zucker after he admitted a sexual relationship with a subordinate, democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee were holding a hearing on a bill that would allow the corporate media to form a state-sanctioned cartel to protect themselves from online competition.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) slammed collusion between Big Tech and Big Media to control the news that Americans see online, during a hearing on the controversial Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA).