Commentary Most people are by now aware that the mainstream digital platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter—don’t respect freedom of speech and have become venues for comprehensive restriction, suppression, and censorship. This censorship is pervasive, multilayered, and involves an increasingly wide range of topics: election fraud, COVID-19, issues of transsexuals and sexual orientation, Black Lives Matter, climate…
Survey Calls Facebook ‘Worst Company of 2021’
December 17, 2021
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Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, was declared “the worst company of 2021” in the results of an audience survey conducted by Yahoo Finance. The poll, which surveyed 1,541 readers, saw Facebook receive 8 percent of the total votes for the ignominious distinction. Respondents were polarized in their assessments of the tech company and expressed…
Meta Removes Seven Surveillance-for-Hire Entities From Facebook and Instagram That Targeted Nearly 50,000 Users
Meta announced Thursday that it has removed seven surveillance-for-hire entities from Facebook and Instagram that targeted nearly 50,000 users following a monthslong investigation. In a statement, the company said the surveillance-for-hire entities—which target people across the internet to collect intelligence, manipulate them into revealing information and compromise their devices and accounts—had indiscriminately gone after users in 100 countries…
Russia Fines Facebook Owner Meta Platforms 13 Million Roubles
December 16, 2021
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MOSCOW—Russia has fined Facebook-owner Meta Platforms 13 million roubles ($177,000), a Moscow court said on Thursday, for failing to delete content the government deems illegal, the latest in a string of penalties against foreign technology firms. Moscow has increased pressure on Big Tech this year in a campaign that critics characterize as an attempt by…
US, Australia Police to Access Each Other’s Residents’ Messaging Data
December 16, 2021
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The United States and Australia are tightening their crime fighting alliance, with a new landmark agreement that could see law enforcement agencies in both countries have easier access to the communications data of each other’s residents. It comes under the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act passed in 2018 requiring all U.S.-based cloud…
US, Australian Police to Access Each Other’s Residents’ Messaging Data
December 16, 2021
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The United States and Australia are tightening their crime-fighting alliance, with a new landmark agreement that could see law enforcement agencies in both countries have easier access to the communications data of each other’s residents. The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act, which was approved in 2018, requires all U.S.-based cloud service providers…
Big Oops: Facebook Lawyers Reveal Why Company Must Be Broken Up
Commentary More than any principle, freedom of speech is what makes America, America. Other defining characteristics exist—many extremely important as well—but once we have lost the ability to express our opinions openly, we are no longer the semblance of a democratic republic. Other principles are automatically undermined. For some time now, this freedom has been…
Meta Attorneys: Facebook Fact Check Labels Are Opinion
Labels placed on posts on Facebook accompanying so-called fact-checks are opinion, lawyers for the social media platform’s parent company said in a recent court filing. Television host John Stossel sued Facebook and two of its fact-checking partners, Science Feedback and Climate Feedback, earlier this year, accusing the entities of defaming him. Stossel posted two video…
Rampant Online Child Abuse Spurs Calls for Big Tech to ID Users on Sign-Up
Growing cases of child sexual abuse material being distributed online are prompting calls to crack down on perpetrators by removing the veil of anonymity users have when signing up to social media accounts. In an inquiry into the capability of law enforcement to tackle child exploitation, Uniting Church senior social justice advocate Mark Zirnsak said…
Australian Broadcaster Alan Jones Announces His Return
Australian broadcaster Alan Jones has announced his return with his new online show, “Alan Jones Direct to the People.” The show will be streamed live from Monday to Thursday on Facebook, YouTube, and Jones’ own new website. “This has never been done in Australia before. It is the tomorrow of media,” he told the press…
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