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Last Updated on January 13, 2025 After Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went on a media tour last week, apparently reversing his position on political censorship, #WalkAway founder Brandon Straka took to X to demand the reinstatement of the Facebook page for his massive movement. “Zuckerberg needs to reinstate the original #WalkAway Campaign group, and the […]
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Last Updated on September 7, 2024 Cox Media Group (CMG), a TV and radio news corporation, admitted to its investors in a pitched deck that its “Active Listening” software “capture[s] real-time intent data by listening to our conversations.” 404 Media reported that such marketing firms listen to smartphone microphone activity to determine pushed ads. CMG’s […]
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Last Updated on April 11, 2024 Meta’s Instagram is finally taking steps to minimize the unadulterated content sent to teens via its direct messaging system. Users under 18 will automatically see blurred images that contain nudity, Instagram announced Thursday just ahead of the upcoming presidential elections. The company also encourages adult users to turn on […]
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Last Updated on January 19, 2024 Big Tech is at it again, setting its sights on the 2024 presidential election. Meta’s Facebook posted a job listing on LinkedIn for “voting rights & elections,” granting a reasonable suspicion after social media platforms censored the Hunter Biden laptop story just before the 2020 election. The job description […]
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ADVERTISEMENT Last Updated on November 6, 2022 Facebook parent company Meta is set to announce large-scale layoffs that will affect thousands of employees this week, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The cuts could end up being the largest tech workforce reduction conducted this year, surpassing the recent Twitter layoffs that will […]
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ADVERTISEMENT Last Updated on August 19, 2022 Popular influencer Andrew Tate has been banned by Facebook and Instagram for violating its policy pertaining to “dangerous individuals,” parent company Meta has confirmed. Tate, a former kickboxer and now popular streamer known for hard-hitting takes on post modernism, has become one of the internet’s most watched personalities […]
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Protesters chanted “Free Speech” outside of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park in California on Thursday evening. California gubernatorial primary candidate Reinette Senum, who is running against Gavin Newsom on an anti-corruption platform, made an impassioned case for politics that deviates from the two-party system. Pastor Rob McCoy of Godspeak Calvary Chapel Thousand Oaks in California, […]
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A tech company founder has trashed the Facebook concept of the metaverse and said it represents the same type of thinking he heard as a child in the former Soviet Union. “’Metaverse’ is a squishscammy word. If you include things like video games and, um, the Internet, it’s already a big success. AR has future […]
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Sophie Zhang, a second Facebook “whistleblower,” wants to testify before Congress to talk about “potential criminal violations” from the social media giant. When she was fired from Facebook last fall, she wrote a nearly 8,000 word memo accusing them of not censoring their platform enough. Like the last whistleblower, she is expected to call for […]
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