In an unprecedented step, far-left funding platform GoFundMe has announced it will “redirect” donations intended for the Canadian Freedom Convoy to “credible and established charities” that are chosen by Freedom Convoy organizers and “verified by GoFundMe.”
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.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg suffered a plunge in net worth of almost $30 billion in one day following a poor earnings report this week. The 26 percent drop in Facebook’s share price represents a historic one-day loss of market value.
Facebook lost more than $232 billion in value following the announcement of the company losing daily users for the first time ever. The humiliating 26 percent drop in the company’s stock price set a record for the largest one-day loss in market value ever in history. The loss is $50 billion more than the previous record holder, Apple’s one-day loss in September 2020 of $182 billion.
A historic steel bridge in the Netherlands is to be partly dismantled in order to allow Jeff Bezos’ new superyacht to pass.
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.
Facebook has censored a group of American truckers who are following the lead of their Canadian counterparts by organizing a protest against vaccine mandates.
Conservative author and journalist Michelle Malkin and her husband were banned by Airbnb as “retaliation” for her engaging in free speech at a conference last November. Malkin says: “The speech delved into the K-20 metastasis of anti-white curriculum, the corporate media’s whitewashing of black-on-Asian attacks, and the long campaign to censor nationalist dissidents who put America first,” adding that “San Francisco-based Airbnb notified me that I was banned from using its services ever again and imperiously deleted my account.”
Facebook stated as part of its earnings release on Wednesday that the consumer privacy measures recently taken by Apple have made it harder for Mark Zuckerberg’s empire to track every detail of its users’ lives, which will cost the social media giant $10 billion in 2022 due to a decrease in the ability to target advertisements.
Facebook reported its first-ever quarterly decline of daily users globally this week, sending its stock price plummeting by 23 percent in intraday trading on Thursday.
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).
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said during a hearing that the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act would create a big media “cartel” to benefit the New York Times and the Washington Post.
CLAIM: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) claims of the media cartel bill: “our bill gives local news outlets the ability to collectively negotiate for fair compensation with companies like Google and Facebook.”
In a recent article, Fortune outlines the ongoing issues at Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface startup company, Neuralink. Despite the massive hype Musk brings to everything he touches, the company isn’t impression neuroscientists and much of its original team has fled for calmer waters.
There’s an arms race to capture the “metaverse,” the posited futuristic world of interconnected virtual realities. Microsoft and Facebook are locked in an increasingly expensive battle for control of what they believe to be the future. But where did this hype come from?
Apple CEO Tim Cook has had his house blurred on Google and Apple maps following an incident with an alleged stalker.
Viewer data suggests that many Netflix original hit series quickly fizzle out after peaking in the first month following their debuts. Even the extremely popular Squid Game series reportedly suffered a pronounced drop after a hot start.
Facebook’s decision to shift its focus from social networking to virtual reality worlds, now broadly called the “metaverse,” has caused disarray throughout the company, according to a report in the New York Times.
35 states have commented on their support for Epic Games in its ongoing legal battle with tech giant Apple. A letter signed by dozens of state attorneys general to a California appeals court reads: Apple’s conduct has harmed and is harming mobile app-developers and millions of citizens.”
According to a recent report from the Federal Trade Commission, social media scammers had a record year for ripping off Americans, stealing approximately $770 million in 2021.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the ranking Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, appeared on Breitbart News Saturday with Matt Boyle today. Rep. Jordan slammed Senate Democrats’ attempts to revive the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which failed to pass his committee last year.
The recent drop in Tesla’s stock price wiped out around $109 billion of the companies valuation in a single day. According to one analyst, “Tesla is clearly running out of momentum, and the lack of a launch of a low-budget car in the mid-$20,000 range really dampens the growth outlook as the competition tries to catch up.”
Google Ads, by far the dominant player in the online ads market, has blacklisted bongino.com, the website of the popular conservative author and commentator Dan Bongino.
After Apple posted a record quarterly revenue of $124 billion on Thursday, analysts described the company as a “freight train at the moment.” CEO Tim Cook noted on the tech giant’s earnings call that inflation is a major factor as well as “Logistics, as I’ve mentioned on a previous call, is very elevated in terms of the cost of moving things around.”
Tech giant Apple has made an attempt to attract more users to its music streaming platform by advertising itself as the “home of Neil Young,” after Young’s music was removed from Spotify after the company refused Young’s demands to censor Joe Rogan from the platform.
Biden-appointed U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Silicon Valley tech companies have an “important role to play” in preventing the spread of alleged coronavirus “misinformation.” His comments came during an MSNBC interview that specifically mentioned Joe Rogan.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing next week to begin considering a highly controversial bill that would allow media companies to form a collective bargaining cartel, a proposal that critics have warned will empower big media companies and harm independent journalism.
Tech giant Apple has released new safety information on the usage of its AirTag tracking accessory following multiple reports of the devices being used to stalk people and even target cars for theft.
Amazon has reportedly shut down its “Sold by Amazon” program following an investigation from Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson which found that the program violated antitrust laws. The program involved Amazon setting minimum prices for certain sellers’ products and the Masters of the Universe taking a cut of anything sold at prices above the minimum. One Amazon seller commented on the program, “Almost everyone I talked to said this doesn’t seem right. Normally, when you let the foxes run the hen house, the hens get eaten.”
iPhone maker Apple hit a record 23 percent market share in China in 2021, reclaiming its spot as the number one smartphone brand in the country. The surge in iPhone sales comes after it was revealed that the company signed a secret $275 billion deal with the communist government to build “the most advanced manufacturing technologies” in the country.
Dan Bongino, who hosts one of the most popular podcasts in conservative media, has been permanently banned from Google’s YouTube video hosting platform. Bongino was an early investor in Rumble, a competitor to YouTube.
Twitter required account holders to delete 4.7 million tweets that allegedly violated the platform’s rules in the first half of 2021, according to the far-left Silicon Valley platform’s latest transparency report — while simultaneously complaining that the “open internet” is “under threat: from authoritarian governments.
An activist in Germany has reportedly used AirTags, a mass-market GPS tracking device developed by Apple, to identify a secret arm of German intelligence.
Amazon has reportedly shut down its “ambassador” program that paid warehouse workers to tweet positively about the e-commerce giant.
According to recent reports, the Facebook-sponsored cryptocurrency project Libra appears to be shutting down.
Google is facing yet another lawsuit, with the latest multistate suit alleging that the company is engaging in “deceptive” location tracking. Washington DC Attorney General Karl Racine said: “Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy and control what personal data the company could access. The truth is that contrary to Google’s representations it continues to systematically surveil customers and profit from customer data.”
Tech giant Amazon is reportedly bringing its cashierless convenience stores to the suburbs. Areas outside of major American cities can soon expect to see “Amazon Go” stores pop up as Amazon continues its assault on the bricks and mortar retail industry.o
