What the big tech companies know about you
The idea that our data is being kept, stored and used by big tech companies went from a paranoid suspicion
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Connecting the dots
Big Media and Silicon Valley’s weaponized algorithms silence dissent
Given the Trust Project’s rich-get-richer impact on the online news landscape, it is not surprising to find that it is
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Big Tech investor urges Toronto to abandon smart city development
American venture capitalist Roger McNamee, an early investor in big tech companies including Google and Facebook, urged Toronto officials this week to
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How Big Tech designs its own rules of ethics to avoid scrutiny and accountability
Big Tech does not want to be regulated. Personal information is the raw material for the algorithms that enable it
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Fake news: Google’s latest witch hunt on discourse
Google has announced plans to clamp down on “fake news” sites due to their purported influence on the outcome of
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Google to punish alternative media by blocking ad revenue
Since the US election’s ‘surprise’ outcome, supporters of Hillary Clinton have been searching for who and what to blame. One
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Facebook and Google aim to shut down the alternative media
This week three media goliaths — Facebook, Google, and Twitter, who collectively act as information gatekeepers for the Internet — announced they
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Google plans Orwellian ‘ministry of truth’
Google is setting out to create a ‘ministry of truth’ to rank the internet not by popularity but based only
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