January 24, 2019 Zuckerberg’s mentor: Facebook is 'public health' hazard and it should be broken up One of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mentors has soured on the social network and now thinks of it in the same category as addictive public health problems like smoking.
January 23, 2019 Covington row: Lawmakers want details from Twitter on account that promoted viral video, report says Lawmakers have reportedly asked Twitter for details of the shadowy account that circulated a controversial video of students from Covington Catholic High School and their encounter with a Native American activist near the Lincoln Memorial.
January 22, 2019 Facebook deletes comments on ad that called anti-Brexit lawmakers 'scumbags' Facebook removed threatening messages posted in reaction to a paid advertisement by a pro-Brexit group that called people who want the U.K. to remain in the European Union "globalist scumbags."
January 22, 2019 WhatsApp limits users to five text forwards to fight rumors, fake news Facebook's WhatsApp messaging service is setting a global limit on the number of times a user can forward a message to five, as the company tries to fight the proliferation of misinformation and rumors.
January 22, 2019 Facebook doesn't really believe in free speech. What they believe in (and actively practice) is censorship Facebook doesn't really believe in free speech. They believe in and actively practice censorship on a scale almost unimaginable a few years ago.
January 21, 2019 Google's censored Chinese search engine protested by human rights activists in 10 countries A coalition of Chinese, Tibetan and human rights groups organized demonstrations in ten countries against Google's plan to launch a censored Chinese search engine on Friday.
January 21, 2019 French watchdog slaps Google with $57M fine under new EU law France's data privacy watchdog has fined Google 50 million euros ($57 million), the first penalty for a U.S. tech giant under new European data privacy rules that took effect last year.
January 21, 2019 Facebook's Sandberg says tech giant is 'far from done' fixing its problems Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg defended the tech giant's efforts to fix a wide range of problems but conceded that it is "far from done" during a speech in Munich.
January 21, 2019 EU's antitrust cop lays groundwork for more scrutiny of tech Silicon Valley’s notorious nemesis, Margrethe Vestager, plans to end her term as the European Union’s antitrust enforcer this year with a bang, laying out a long-term plan to intensify scrutiny of the world’s big tech companies.
January 21, 2019 Amazon investors press company to stop selling 'racially biased' surveillance tech to government agencies A group of Amazon shareholders is pushing the tech giant to stop selling its controversial facial recognition technology to U.S. government agencies on the same week that a coalition of 85 human rights, faith, and racial justice groups are demanding Jeff Bezos' company stop selling the surveillance technology.
