Tag: Media & Big Tech

Jurors in Sarah Palin v. New York Times Trial Learned of Judge’s Plan to Override Them

February 16, 2022
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Jurors considering whether the New York Times defamed former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin were alerted when the judge overseeing the case announced his plans to override their decision if they opted to side with Palin, the judge revealed on Feb. 16. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff, a Clinton nominee, announced Feb. 14 that Palin failed…

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Mark Zuckerberg Now Referring to Meta Employees as ‘Metamates’ in New Vision for Company

February 16, 2022
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Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is now referring to staff as “Metamates” according to a memo outlining Mark Zuckerberg’s new vision for the company. The Facebook CEO shared a list of new corporate values “that guide our work” in a lengthy social media post on Feb. 15, and references employees as “Metamates.” “Meta, Metamates, Me is about…

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Jury Decides in Favor of New York Times in Sarah Palin’s Defamation Lawsuit

February 15, 2022
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NEW YORK—After roughly 15 hours of deliberation over three days, the jury in the Sarah Palin v. The New York Times trial delivered a verdict of “not liable” on Feb. 15, giving the newspaper a victory. Since the verdict in the defamation trial was not in Palin’s favor, there was no monetary figure attached for…

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Texas AG Sues Meta for Unauthorized Biometric Data Collection

February 15, 2022
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Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas filed a suit against the Facebook parent company Meta Platforms on Monday, claiming that the social media giant was in violation of state law for its collection of biometric data of users through facial recognition technology. “Facebook will no longer take advantage of people and their children with the…

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Intel’s Mobileye to Launch Self-Driving Shuttles in US in 2024

February 15, 2022
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San Francisco—Intel Corp’s Mobileye unit plans to build and deploy self-driving electric shuttles with its partners in the United States in 2024, in a bid to scale up its automated driving system beyond taxis and delivery vehicles, executives told Reuters. Mobileye, Benteler EV Systems and Beep will launch the on-demand driverless shuttles, which will feature…

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John Durham’s Recent Clinton Findings Ignored by Mainstream Media: Republicans

February 14, 2022
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Republicans seized on a recent court filing submitted by special prosecutor John Durham that alleged the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee tried to infiltrate Trump campaign and White House servers, arguing that mainstream news outlets are avoiding covering Durham’s findings. “A tech company hacked the White House and spied on a sitting President. This…

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Apple Given Fourth Dutch Fine in App Store Dispute

February 14, 2022
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AMSTERDAM—The Dutch antitrust watchdog fined Apple 5 million euros ($5.7 million) on Monday, its fourth such fine for failing to allow software application makers in the Netherlands to use non-Apple payment methods for dating apps on the App Store. The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has been levying weekly fines of 5 million euros…

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Google Faces Scrutiny From French, Russian Regulators

February 14, 2022
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France’s watchdog CNIL alleged Alphabet Inc.’s Google Analytics of giving U.S. intelligence services access to French website users’ data. The regulator alleged the U.S. tech giant lacking sufficient measures to guarantee data privacy rights under European Union regulation when transferring data between Europe and the United Stats. The French website manager responsible for the non-compliance had one…

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John Durham: Democrats Paid to ‘Infiltrate’ Trump White House Servers

February 13, 2022
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Special counsel John Durham’s team alleged Saturday that a Democrat-aligned tech executive was paid to spy on former President Donald Trump’s residences and the White House while he was president. Lawyers for the Clinton campaign allegedly paid the technology executive to infiltrate servers that belonged to the Trump Tower and the White House, Durham said in…

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Google’s Anti-Competitive Practices Causing ‘Considerable Harm’ to Advertisers and Consumers: Publishers Council

February 12, 2022
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The European Publishers Council (EPC) has filed an antitrust complaint against tech giant Google with the European Commission, aimed at breaking the company’s hold over publishers and other entities that are part of its vast ad ecosystem. “It is high time for the European Commission to impose measures on Google that actually change, not just…

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