In a recent article, the New York Times outlines how a shrinking economy and the world in turmoil due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic has actually helped Silicon Valley tech giants to further amass their wealth and influence.
Tech giant Google has been engaged in a long battle with Australia’s news publishers, now Google is attempting to appeal directly to the Australian public, ominously warning them that the way they use the services of the Masters of the Universe is “at risk.”
YouTube has announced new updates to its policies relating to videos containing information obtained through hacking and other content that may “interfere” with upcoming U.S. elections.
Google-owned YouTube deleted a pro-life video with 1.8 million views posted by the pro-life organization, Live Action, four years after it was posted. The social media platform later reinstated the video after the organization appealed Google’s censorship.
FBI agents raided the California home of YouTube star Jake Paul on Wednesday. According to local media reports, a search warrant was served as part of the raid.
Vice President Mike Pence appeared with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily today to discuss how the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe are censoring conservative voices online. Commenting on Facebook, Google, and Twitter censoring a video of medical professionals holding a press conference to discuss the Wuhan coronavirus, Pence said, “we’re going to do our very best every day between now and election day and for four more years after that to make sure that we preserve the freedom of speech and freedom of the press on the internet.”
Big Tech is censoring conservatives. The pattern is reminiscent of the IRS scandal that emerged in 2013. Democrats are, once again, trying to suppress the conservative grass roots.
Rush Limbaugh spoke on his radio show on Wednesday about how tech giants, including Facebook and Twitter, have censored Breitbart News.
Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) grilled Google CEO Sundar Pichai today over the removal of footage from a recent press conference held by the organization America’s Frontline Doctors. Steube argued, the videos are “free expression of speech and you have these doctors who are giving their opinion as doctors.”
A few days after the 2016 election, at an internal meeting later leaked to Breitbart News, top Google executives, including Sundar Pichai, Sergey Brin, and Kent Walker, lamented Trump’s victory, comparing Trump voters to “extremists” and discussing their desire to make Trump’s election and the populist movement a “blip” in history.”
Big tech platforms like Facebook and YouTube are taking “draconian measures” against content that does not line up with the narrative of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) when it comes to the Chinese coronavirus, Dr. James Todaro stated during an appearance at Monday’s “White Coat Summit” in the nation’s capital.
Google-owned video platform YouTube has removed a video posted by Breitbart News of a recent press conference held in D.C. by the group America’s Frontline Doctors.
Facebook removed a live video stream posted by Breitbart News earlier today, which at the time of removal was the top-performing Facebook post in the world, of a press conference in D.C. featuring frontline doctors speaking out against misinformation about COVID-19.
Dr. Dan Erickson, one of the two doctors from Bakersfield, California, who were censored by YouTube after holding a press conference calling for an early end to the China virus lockdown in their state, says that attempts to censor the video backfired, causing the press conference to be distributed more widely.
Legendary engineer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is suing Google-owned YouTube over a series of cryptocurrency scams that reportedly used Wozniak’s name and likeness to lure in victims.
A recent report from the New York Times alleges that when promoting video clips on its platform, Google gives a secret advantage to its own video streaming service, YouTube.
YouTube star Jenna Marbles says she is quitting her channel, after being on the platform for a decade during which she garnered over 20 million subscribers and over 3 billion views, due to her past racist and sexist videos.
An internal poll from the campaign of Republican congressional candidate Laura Loomer, who is seeking the GOP nomination in Florida’s 21st congressional district, gives her a 9 point lead over incumbent Democrat Rep. Lois Frankel.
A group of Black YouTube creators is reportedly suing YouTube and its parent company Google over allegations that the Internet giant discriminates against their videos based on race.
Although President Donald Trump’s first rally since the Chinese coronavirus pandemic broke out in the United States fell short of attendance expectations, hundreds of thousands of people watched the president’s wide-ranging speech online.
YouTube has censored a Heritage Foundation video featuring the testimony of a former transgender individual who participated in a panel titled “Summit on Protecting Children from Sexualization” last October. YouTube, in an email to the Federalist, claimed that the video violated the company’s policy on hate speech.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter to denounce NBC News for its attempt to financially damage and censor two of its competitors, the Federalist and ZeroHedge. But Google, the company that threatened to financially blacklist both sites by pulling their ability to generate ad revenue in response to NBC’s activist reporting, has a track record of censoring conservatives and the Trump movement even without pressure from the corporate media.
Earlier today, NBC reported that Google confirmed it financially blacklisted two sites known for criticism of the left: conservative commentary site the Federalist and alternative news site ZeroHedge. Following its publication, NBC amended its article to state that the Federalist has been “warned” by Google of imminent blacklisting from its Google Ads service due to “policy violations” in its comments section. ZeroHedge is also working with Google to resolve its blacklisting, which is also based on its comments section.
Google-owned video platform YouTube has announced a $100 million fund for black video creators, as well as a fundraiser special being hosted by rapper Common and actress and singer Keke Palmer.
Democrat lawmakers attacked AT&T for allegedly giving “preferential treatment” to certain streaming services, continuing a pattern of attacks on alleged internet filtering by telecoms companies while ignoring the “preferential treatment” afforded to certain types of content by big tech companies like Google, Apple, Amazon and others.
Former first lady Michelle Obama on Sunday urged the graduating class of 2020 not to ever let anyone tell them that they are “too angry” in the wake of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and the death of George Floyd.
According to a recent study, children aged between four and 15 spend 85 minutes per day watching YouTube compared with 80 minutes per day spent watching the Chinese-owned video app TikTok.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced this week that the company will donate $37 million to various anti-racism organizations in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. The donations will include $12 million in funding and $25 million in advertising credits.
YouTube star Jake Paul, who boasts 20 million subscribers on the platform, has reportedly been charged by police in Scottsdale, Arizona, with allegedly participating in looting and riots over the weekend. The police say they received “hundreds of tips” about Paul based on videos he posted to social media.
Former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) highlighted Facebook and Twitter’s politically-driven and arbitrary censorship of information, contrasting the platforms’ facilitation of operations executed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter while censoring disagreement with public health authorities’ positions.
“Freedom of expression is sacred,” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro declared on Thursday in a press conference responding to a police raid of 29 comedians, pundits, and YouTubers as part of what the nation’s Supreme Court is dubbing an operation against “fake news.”
YouTube has cancelled a video called ‘The Case Against The Lockdowns’ because it fails to support the WHO-approved narrative on coronavirus.
Even as the criticism of Wikipedia’s left-wing political bias intensifies, including from the site’s co-founder Larry Sanger, the major tech platforms continue to use the online encyclopedia in their services and rely on it as a model for addressing “fake news” concerns. Rather than improving their services, the integration of Wikipedia into Big Tech platforms has, instead, made them disseminate false or biased information.
YouTube has said it is “looking into” an alleged “error” in its system after it censored the term “Wumao,” a common description for online propagandists for the Chinese Communist Party. Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) sent a letter to Google asking the company to explain its censorship after tech pioneer Palmer Luckey pointed it out on social media.
Finally, YouTube has found the flimsy pretext it needed to cancel the controversial Michael Moore-produced eco-documentary which has been infuriating greenies with its anti-renewables message: ‘copyright infringement.’
The free-speech social media company Parler has announced that it won’t censor the controversial coronavirus documentary Plandemic after Silicon Valley giants including Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube have all banned the 26-minute movie from their platforms.
Comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan has signed a multiyear licensing deal with music streaming service Spotify reported to be worth more than $100 million to move his podcast exclusively to Spotify’s platform.
YouTube is scrambling to shut down a 26-minute vignette of the upcoming documentary Plandemic, which examines the response of global governments to the Chinese virus, and alleges that special interests including vaccine producers have the most to gain from the worldwide crisis.
Former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are set to give virtual commencement speeches for the graduating class of 2020, who are forced to celebrate their graduations remotely due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
The Democrats and their progressive allies in Silicon Valley and the mainstream media have spent the last two decades convincing themselves that they are the “party of science.” In their frantic panic to censor material related to the Chinese virus, we’re now seeing the dangerous outcome of that hubris.