Facebook just banned one of its biggest QAnon groups
Hundreds of thousands of advocates of the QAnon conspiracy theory are going to have to find a new online hangout. The second largest QAnon group on Facebook has been banned…
YouTube permanently bans white nationalist channel VDARE
The YouTube channel was a big promoter of white nationalist rhetoric and ideas
Facebook removes Trump post over coronavirus misinformation
In a TV interview included in the post, Trump falsely said children are ‘almost immune’
Facebook says iOS 14’s new privacy tools could harm its ad business
The social network’s CFO called it a “headwind”
Facebook boasts that ad boycott won’t make a dent
Boycott, schmoycott. Despite over 1,000 major advertisers participating in a July advertising boycott over the way Facebook handles hateful content, the company said in its Q2 2020 earnings report that…
Zuckerberg defends Facebook’s misinformation and hate policies in earnings call
The CEO said Facebook does not “profit from misinformation or hate”
Zuckerberg ludicrously claimed he didn’t remember paying teens to spy on them
When you’re the head of a company as scandal prone as Facebook, it’s perhaps difficult to keep track of all your varying and grotesque missteps. Even so, Mark Zuckerberg’s claim…
Everything that happened at the Big Tech antitrust hearing
There was yelling. There was butt-kissing. There was Jeff Bezos forgetting to take himself off mute. Another congressional hearing where members of congress get to blast tech CEOs with questions…
Big Tech CEOs’ showdown with Congress: The antitrust hearing that wasn’t
Members of Congress lacked any focus in their lines of inquiry
Zuckerberg wrote Facebook can ‘just buy any competitive startups’
He added, ‘It will be a while before we can buy Google’