Tag: Media & Big Tech

Robert Malone Says He Will Sue New York Times Unless It Corrects ‘Defamatory’ Article

The New York Times will face a lawsuit unless it corrects an article claiming Dr. Robert Malone has spread “unfounded claims about the [COVID-19] vaccines and the virus” and misrepresents his role in creating messenger RNA technology, the doctor and his lawyer say. The New York Times recently published a piece calling Malone the “latest…


Beijing Hired ‘Real Housewives’ Star, Paralympian, TikTok Influencers to Boost Winter Olympics

A “Real Housewives” star, a Paralympian, and a top TikTok celebrity are among social media influencers the Chinese regime financed to help boost the image of the Beijing Winter Olympics in the minds of millions in the United States and elsewhere, new Justice Department records show. The social media posts promoting Beijing’s narrative on the…


Beijing Hired ‘Real Housewives’ Star, Paralympian, TikTok Influencers to Boost Winter Olympics in US

A “Real Housewives” star, a Paralympian, and a top TikTok celebrity are among social media influencers the Chinese regime financed to help boost the image of the Beijing Winter Olympics in the minds of millions in the United States and elsewhere, new Justice Department records show. The social media posts promoting Beijing’s narrative on the…


Beijing Hired Prominent American Influencers to Boost Winter Olympics in US

A “Real Housewives” star, a Paralympian, and a top TikTok celebrity are among social media influencers the Chinese regime financed to help boost the image of the Beijing Winter Olympics in the minds of millions in the United States and elsewhere, new Justice Department records show. The social media posts promoting Beijing’s narrative on the…


Twitter to Hold ‘Ask Me Anything’ Session to Address Concerns About Elon Musk

Twitter announced on Friday that it would be holding an “Ask Me Anything” session of questions concerning the role of Elon Musk, whose recent acquisition of a major stake in the company has raised both hopes and alarms that the Tesla CEO may radically overhaul the company’s content moderation policy. In an internal email first…


Fox News Reporter Benjamin Hall Reveals He Lost Body Parts in Ukraine

Wounded Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall revealed that he suffered severe injuries during a deadly attack in Ukraine last month that left two other Fox colleagues dead. “To sum it up, I’ve lost half a leg on one side and a foot on the other,” Hall wrote on Twitter before deleting the post. “One hand…


Why this HP Analyst Remains Skeptical Even After Warren Buffett’s $4.2 Billion Investment

HP Inc. shares rallied Thursday after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. revealed a new 121-million-share stake in HP worth about $4.2 billion. In a new filing, Berkshire said it now holds roughly an 11 percent ownership stake in HP, a major vote of confidence from one of the most famous and successful investors of all…


Toyota Joins Tesla in Developing Self-Driving Tech With Low-Cost Cameras

San Francisco—Toyota Motor Corp unit Woven Planet is following the lead of Tesla Inc in trying to advance self-driving technology with low-cost cameras. Woven Planet told Reuters it is able to use cameras to collect data and effectively train its self-driving system, a “breakthrough” that it hopes will help drive down costs and scale up…


Russia Takes Steps to Punish Google Over YouTube Fakes

Russia’s communications watchdog said on Thursday it was taking punitive measures against Google, including a ban on advertising the platform and its information resources, for violating Russian law. Roskomnadzor accused Google’s YouTube video-sharing platform, which has shut out Russian state-funded media globally, of becoming “one of the key platforms spreading fakes (fake images) about the…


Analysis: Musk’s Twitter Bet Gins up Meme Stock Hype

NEW YORK—Kyle Ash snapped up $2,615 worth of Twitter Inc shares as soon as he heard that Elon Musk had become the social media company’s largest shareholder. The 25-year-old retail worker from Reading, Britain bought into Twitter on Monday after shares surged 27% on news of Musk’s investment in the San Francisco-based company. Ash paid…