Tag: Media & Big Tech

PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Miranda Devine: The Concerted Cover-Up of Biden Family Scandals—From the Laptop to China

This episode will premiere on Thursday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m. ET. “There are a lot of secrets that a lot of powerful people don’t want told about exactly how our story was suppressed—how Joe Biden was protected from that information before the election…it’s very high stakes.” Today I sit down with New York Post…


Google Must Delete Search Result Data at Users’ Request If ‘Manifestly Inaccurate’: EU Court

Privacy advocates have scored a win against Big Tech in a “right to be forgotten” case as the European Union’s top court has ruled that Google must honor requests to delete search result data at the request of people in Europe—as long as they can prove the information is “manifestly inaccurate.” The Court of Justice…


Elon Musk’s Twitter Restores More Accounts in Latest Wave

The Twitter accounts of several prominent conservatives were restored this week under new owner Elon Musk, including former President Donald Trump campaign associate Roger Stone and one-time congressional candidate Laura Loomer. Stone, who worked on a number of GOP presidential campaigns since the 1970s, cheered Musk granting him access to the social media platform on…


Musk Says Key Bits of ‘Twitter Files’ Were Compromised as He Fires Ex-FBI Twitter Lawyer Involved in ‘Vetting’ the Data

Twitter boss Elon Musk has revealed that the “most important data” from the social media platform’s internal communications on free speech suppression, known as the “Twitter Files,” was hidden and some may even have been deleted. Musk made the remark in a Dec. 7 tweet, in response to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s question as…


Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft Awarded $9 Billion Cloud Deals: Pentagon

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle have been awarded lucrative cloud contracts valued at up to $9 billion in total, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced on Dec. 7. The contracts were awarded to the four tech companies to help build the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC), which will replace the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) and effectively streamline…


Texas Bans TikTok From Government Devices, Joining Several Other GOP-Led States

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday ordered all state agencies in the state to ban video sharing app TikTok on all government-issued devices, joining several Republican-led states in doing the same. The governor’s office said the “aggressive action” against TikTok comes amid a growing threat of “the Chinese Communist Party gaining access to critical U.S….


‘It’s Our Position That Disney Will Pay Its Debts’: DeSantis Office

A spokesperson for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office is standing by his statement that “Disney will pay its debts.” “My statement stands,” executive press secretary to DeSantis Bryan Griffin told The Epoch Times by email. “Yes, it is our position that Disney will pay its debts.” The reiteration was in response to an inquiry by The…


Former Twitter CEO Urges Elon Musk to ‘Release Everything’ After Ex-FBI Official’s Exit

Former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey called on new owner Elon Musk to release all of the company’s internal files after Musk apparently fired former deputy counsel James Baker on Tuesday for the alleged role he played in suppressing a Hunter Biden laptop report. “If the goal is transparency to build trust, why not…


State Department Team Focused on Disinformation Meets Regularly With Big Tech Companies: Official

A State Department team that is focused on misinformation and disinformation meets regularly with Big Tech companies, including Twitter and Facebook, an official said in a recent deposition. Daniel Kimmage, the principal deputy coordinator of the department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), said that the team would exchange information during the meetings, including providing social media firms…


Facebook’s Oversight Board Calls for More Equitable Censorship

Facebook parent Meta’s Oversight Board, the quasi-independent body that advises the social media giant on content policy, has issued a report warning of flaws in the company’s “cross-check” system that gives more leeway to high-profile users to post violating content. The advisory panel has urged Meta to modify “cross-check,” which it calls a “false-positive mistake-prevention”…