Facebook’s digital colonization of Africa
“Zuckerberg’s team has another related project named 2Africa. A “mission”, as they call it… Civilians have been quite silent about
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Big Tech
Online ads know you well
The online advertising system is based on the collection and sharing of user data, in an opaquely competitive market which
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Big Tech-funded Super PAC spent over $100m to oust Trump
Democratic Super PAC Future Forward received major financial backing from some of Silicon Valley’s biggest players, spending more than $100
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YouTube to censor videos questioning 2020 US election
YouTube has announced that, as of December 9, any content that questions the 2020 US election results will be removed
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Twitter to warn users when they ‘like’ a tweet it deems misleading
Twitter has announced that it will warn users when they attempt to ‘like’ a tweet that the platform deems ‘misleading,’
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Whistleblower reveals internal Facebook tools which track users and coordinate censorship with Twitter and Google
A former Facebook employee has lifted the lid on two internal tools used by the company to track users across
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Facebook changed algorithm after US election to boost mainstream sources
Facebook made a change to its algorithm to boost news from ‘authoritative’ sources, better known as mainstream outlets, after the
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Twitter changes warning label on Trump’s election win claim after senate hearing
Twitter has become the centre of attention since election night of the 2020 presidential election, after it placed warning labels
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Big Tech’s aggressive EU lobbying has caused a power shift
The drastic increase of lobbying expenditure by Big Tech companies is denting Europe’s traditionally strict privacy laws and shifting more
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Joe Rogan’s Spotify launch marred by censored podcasts
Joe Rogan’s exclusive $100 million deal with Spotify was heralded as a victory for freedom of speech as it was
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