Tag: Media & Big Tech

4 Newspapers in Alabama, Mississippi to End Print Editions

January 3, 2023
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For readers of three newspapers in Alabama and one in Mississippi, next month will mark the end of an era of print journalism. Alabama Media Group (AMG) announced in November that publication of four print editions will halt on Feb. 26 to move fully digital. “We remain deeply committed to serving our local communities and…

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Twitter Sued for Allegedly Not Paying Rent for California Office

January 3, 2023
Business & MarketsCaliforniaCompaniesLocal NewsMedia & Big TechNorthern CaliforniaRegional-Local NewsTwitterUSUS News
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Twitter has been sued for allegedly not paying rent for an office in San Francisco. The landlord of the office filed a complaint for breach of lease against Twitter, which is headquartered in California, in state court on Dec. 29, 2022. Twitter was alerted in mid-December that it owed approximately $136,260 in rent and that,…

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Google Must Face Privacy Lawsuit for Tracking Children Without Parental Consent: Appeals Court

December 29, 2022
Business & Marketscollecting childrens' informationCompaniesgoogle advertisingGoogle lawsuitMedia & Big Techparental consentSocial IssuesTechTech Newstracking children onlineUS
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Google is set to face a class action lawsuit that accuses the tech behemoth of collecting information and tracking children’s behavior online without consent, according to the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The lawsuit was filed in 2019 by children, through their parents, against Google, YouTube as well as other firms with…

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Elon Musk Calls Out ‘Corporate Journalism’ Over Coverage of His ‘Twitter Files’

December 29, 2022
Big Tech, Censorship, and SocialismBusiness & MarketsCompaniesElon MuskFeatured Topicslegacy mediaMedia & Big TechRoger Wickertwitter filesUSUS News
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Elon Musk has criticized mainstream media outlets over their coverage of the so-called “Twitter Files.” “Why is corporate journalism rushing to defend the state instead of the people?” Musk wrote on Twitter on Dec. 27, in response to a tweet from journalist and documentary filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse. The latter was sharing his new Substack post…

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Elon Musk Announces New Twitter Policy to Follow and Question Science

December 28, 2022
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet Wednesday he is enacting a new Twitter Policy related to post on the platform about science. “New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science,” Musk wrote. No further details of the plan had been released, but The Epoch Times…

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Elon Musk Reveals Twitter Staff Had a ‘Fauci Fan Club’

December 28, 2022
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Elon Musk said Twitter employees had an internal group on Slack that was a fan club for White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, with Musk hinting that this shows Twitter staff’s political leanings under prior management. Musk, who was strongly opposed to COVID-19 lockdowns that Fauci had backed, made the remark in a…

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Apple Being Sued by New Yorker Alleging ‘Racial Bias’ Against Minorities on Watch’s Blood Oximeter

December 28, 2022
Apple WatchBusiness & Marketsclass action lawsuitCompaniesLocal NewsMedia & Big TechNew YorkRegional-Local NewsTechTech NewsTech Products & ReviewsUS
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Apple is facing a federal class-action lawsuit in New York over claims that a blood oxygen reader app on the Apple Watch yielded inaccurate results for minorities. Alex Morales, a New York resident, filed the lawsuit on behalf of several customers against the tech giant on Dec. 24, alleging that the Apple Watch’s blood oximeter had a…

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Twitter Files Show ‘Shocking Level of Government Overreach and Abuse’: Kash Patel

December 28, 2022
Business & Marketscancel cultureCompaniesExecutive BranchFeatured TopicsKash PatelMedia & Big TechPoliticsTwitterUSUS News
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A Trump-era Pentagon official believes that the amount the FBI actually paid to Twitter to “censor free speech” is ten times higher than the $3.5 million that was revealed in a recent installment of the Twitter Files and that lawmakers in Congress should “keep digging” to uncover hidden ties between government and Big Tech. Kash…

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Inflation, Recession, and Earnings Among Factors to Drive US Stocks in 2023

December 28, 2022
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NEW YORK—U.S. stock investors could not be more eager to turn the page on 2022, a brutal year dominated by market-punishing Federal Reserve rate hikes designed to tamp down the steepest inflation in 40 years. The S&P 500 is down nearly 20 percent year-to-date with only a few trading days left in 2022, on pace…

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Hacker Claims to Be Selling Personal Data of 400 Million Twitter Users

December 27, 2022
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A hacker claims to be selling the personal Twitter data of 400 million users, according to a report. The individual in question claimed to be selling the public and private data of more than 400 million Twitter users stolen in November 2021, which exploited an API vulnerability that was not fixed until January 2022. Although…

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