Speaking at a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to families negatively affected by his companies products after a grilling by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
“Sesame Street’s” Elmo performed a wellness check on social media, which resulted in thousands of responses from X/Twitter users expressing existential dread and despair, as well as lament over the economy and inflation in Joe Biden’s America.
In a major legal setback for Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a Delaware judge has voided his massive $56 billion compensation package granted by the electric vehicle maker in 2018. Ironically, the judge described the negotiations over his pay package as a “self-driving process,” even as Musk struggles to fulfill his promise of self-driving cars.
Executives from TikTok, Meta, X (Twitter), Snap, and Discord will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the exploitation of children online.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to defend Facebook and Instagram’s impact on young users amid ongoing scrutiny of the tech giant’s social media platforms. Executives of Snapchat, TikTok, X/Twitter, and Discord will also testify.
China’s TikTok said it has spent $1.5 billion developing an operation meant to convince U.S. lawmakers that it is safe for Americans to use the app. The company’s executives have also promised to wall-off U.S. user data and bring in engineers and third parties to verify the algorithm functions without interference from the Chinese Communist regime. TikTok, however, has so far failed to live up to its promises.
A left wing local council is slapping massive parking charges on electric vehicles (EVs) in the name of protecting the environment.
Gisele Fetterman, wife of Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), has silenced her social media presence amid backlash from leftists angered over her husband’s staunch support for Israel.
Harvard University Chief Diversity Officer Sherri Ann Charleston has been accused of plagiarism in a new complaint, which alleges that Charleston claimed credit for her husband’s work.
Two of the biggest Pro-Democrat pages on Facebook — The Other 98% and Occupy Democrats — are a geyser of smug memes jeering the right and celebrating left-wing pop sensation Taylor Swift and her Super Bowl-bond boyfriend and Chiefs star Travis Kelce as they are now the center of the NFL universe.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says Apple’s recently proposed changes to its App Store policies represent a “new low” for the tech giant. The Spotify boss, a constant critic of Apple’s stranglehold on the marketplace for apps and the “tax” it places on in-app purchases, calls Apple’s proposed changes “extortion, plain and simple.”
Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is taking steps to strengthen its notorious “trust and safety” team, which was responsible for widespread censorship of conservatives under prior management, following the circulation of explicit AI-generated images of pop star Taylor Swift on the platform.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk announced yesterday that his creepy company Neuralink has successfully implanted its first brain chip into a human patient.
American forces were caught by surprise when an enemy drone struck a Jordan military facility, indicating the military needs to up its tech.
The Maduro regime unceremoniously killed its scam cryptocurrency, the “Petro,” in January.
Online “sextortion” is the fastest-growing crime targeting kids in the West, and social media companies are failing to do more to prevent it, according to a recent study.
Donald Trump Jr. on Monday listed five questions senators should ask at an upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on big tech and the online child sexual exploitation crisis.
X was blocking searches for “Taylor Swift”over the weekend following the spread of AI-generated images depicting the pop star in sexually explicit poses.
Elon Musk’s Tesla has taken a big hit in the stock market across the last several sessions after the company released weak earnings and poor prospects for 2024 growth. Musk forecasted “notably lower” growth in sales this year, a sign that Americans are quickly losing interest in the electric vehicle (EV) market that Tesla currently dominates.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) said in a letter to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler that its investigation of free speech platform Rumble may be influencing the site’s role in the 2024 presidential election.
Japan’s Moon lander resumed operations on Sunday some five days after it was reported to be in trouble on the lunar surface due to a lack of power.
The White House says it is “alarmed” over sexually explicit AI-generated images of pop star Taylor Swift circulating on social media.
An antisemitism complaint involving Northwestern University has triggered a federal investigation. The U.S. Department of Education opened a probe on Tuesday into allegations that the school has discriminated against Jewish students.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is implementing a default setting to Facebook and Instagram that will prevent strangers from sending private messages to minors on the social media platforms. The damage control move comes after an unredacted complaint revealed horrifying claims of sexual harassment against children on Mark Zuckerberg’s social media platforms.
LOS ANGELES — The estate of George Carlin has filed a lawsuit against the media company behind a fake hourlong comedy special that purportedly uses artificial intelligence to recreate the late standup comic’s style and material.
A major Cornell donor says he will no longer donate to the university if it continues to implement diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The donor is also calling for the resignation of the school’s president.
Microsoft acquired gaming giant Activision Blizzard for almost $69 billion in October, and isn’t wasting any time in finding ways to cut costs. The company has announced the layoff of 1,900 workers from Activision Blizzard and its own Xbox division, accounting for eight percent of its employees in gaming.
Israeli hostage posters at that were hung up on Harvard University’s campus have been vandalized with antisemitic messages. The occurrence makes for the latest incident of antisemitism at the Ivy League school.
Streaming giant Netflix is on the verge of releasing its live-action version of the popular cartoon “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” but the newly released trailer is already causing a wokelash for not featuring enough “dark-skinned” actors.
Fans are outraged after graphic AI-generated photos of pop star Taylor Swift went viral on social media. One image depicts the singer nude with Kansas City Chiefs-themed red and white body paint all over her, and “F*K ME” scrawled over her chest.
Japan’s lunar lander ended up standing on its nose with its engines pointing at the inky sky after its touchdown on the Moon’s surface, images released Thursday appear to show.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta made a decisive shift away from the news distribution business on Facebook and Instagram in 2023, which CNBC reports has had a massive impact on the media industry.
eBay joins other tech giants in massive layoffs, announcing the dismissal of 1,000 employees, which constitutes nine percent of its full-time workforce.
Apple has announced a 2028 release date for its much-anticipated electric vehicle, codenamed Project Titan, which has been developing since 2015.
Top cancer researchers at Harvard have been accused of scientific fraud affecting 37 studies. The researchers are also accused of manipulating data images with simple methods such as copy-and-paste and Adobe Photoshop.
The end is nigh. So says a science-oriented advocacy group that Tuesday pointed to its famous “Doomsday Clock” that shows 90 seconds till midnight and the Earth nearing apocalypse.
Harvard University has acknowledged that it has found some problems with former president Claudine Gay’s academic work via its plagiarism probe.
Tesla CEO and X/Twitter owner Elon Musk called himself “aspirationally Jewish” after visiting the Auschwitz death camp site as part of an antisemitism summit as part of his damage control tour for previous comments that people have called antisemitic.
Barack and Michelle Obama’s Netflix documentary “American Symphony” failed to earn an Oscar nomination in the documentary feature category on Tuesday despite the widely held industry belief that it would not only be nominated but was also the frontrunner to actually win.
In a recent blog post, Linda Yaccarino, the woke CEO of Elon Musk’s X/Twitter, highlighted the company’s intensifying efforts in fighting hate speech and ensuring the safety of communities, calling it a “lifetime dedication.”
