Source: ZeroHedge Date: 9/22/2021 Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer, the man who oversees the the social giant's work in artificial intelligence, virtual reality and the blockchain, will step down next year after 13 years with the company; he will be replaced by longtime Facebook executive, Andrew Bosworth, will take over as CTO, Bloomberg reported citing an internal message on Wednesday from Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg Schroepfer’s move - which comes on a day Facebook shares tumbled after the company warned Apple's privacy changes will have a bigger Q3...

Source: Tweaktown Date: 9/18/2021 In a new report by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook has been well aware of a massive human trafficking service on its platform and has done nothing about it. Apple got a little mad at Facebook over it at least, threatening to pull the Facebook app from its App Store after a 2019 report from the BBC said that human traffickers were selling people using Facebook. Selling people on Facebook. Just thought I'd repeat that. The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that it has seen documents that said a Facebook investigation team was tracking down a human trafficking...

Source: NY Post Date: 9/18/2021 A multi-million dollar home owned by Google billionaire Larry Page — allegedly being used as a secret office for half a dozen employees — burned to the ground last week, according to a report. The Palo Alto home, one of many owned by Page, who actually has been living with his family in Fiji, was the work site of about six workers, neighbors told Palo Alto Online. The mysterious fire started in the back of the home which has a long driveway, an attached unit in the back and a basement, the site said reported. Page owns so many homes on the street he has created...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 9/10/2021 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill passed by the GOP-led legislature that is designed to stop social media companies from censoring users based on their political statements or viewpoints. The measure was introduced earlier this year but was delayed when dozens of Democrat state lawmakers left the state to deny Republicans quorum and block the passage of a voting overhaul bill that Abbott, a Republican, signed several days ago. House Bill 20, the social media bill, was signed by Abbott on Thursday. It prevents companies from suspending users...

Source: Axios Date: 8/31/2021 Facebook plans to announce that it will de-emphasize political posts and current events content in the News Feed based on negative user feedback, Axios has learned. It also plans to expand tests to limit the amount of political content that people see in their News Feeds to more countries outside of the U.S. Why it matters: The changes could reduce traffic to some news publishers, particularly companies that post a lot of political content. Details: Moving forward, Facebook will expand some of its current News Feed tests that put less emphasis on certain...

Source: Western Journal Date: 8/24/2021 Former President Donald Trump asked a Florida judge on Monday to issue a preliminary injunction against YouTube to reinstate his account. “What they do is say, ‘Hey, look, we have this free and open community you should join where you can share political thought, updates on family, or even have the ability to make a living,’” Katie Sullivan, executive director of America First Policy Institute’s Constitutional Litigation Partnership said during a phone interview with the New York Post. “But the defendants do not apply their rules evenly or consistently...

Source: Reuters Date: 8/18/2021 Facebook Inc said it removed over three dozen pages spreading misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, after the White House called on social media firms to tighten controls on pandemic-related facts shared on their platforms. Companies like YouTube, Twitter and Google have come under fire from the Biden administration for the alarming spread https://www.reuters.com/technology/white-house-sees-youtube-facebook-judge-jury-executioner-vaccine-misinformation-2021-07-23 of vaccine misinformation that is hitting the pace of inoculation in a country where...

Source: Zero Hedge Date: 8/18/2021 A Big Tech whistleblower said Google altered its algorithm in order to ensure that negative stories from the establishment media about former Present Donald Trump were what people saw when using the highest-trafficked website on the internet. Zach Vorhies, who previously worked for Google, said in an interview with The Epoch Times that the tech titan specifically tailored its news algorithm to harm the former president. Vorhies has written a book about his experience working at Google. He said he wanted to “take conspiracy theory and turn it into conspiracy...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 8/10/2021 WASHINGTON—A judicial panel on Tuesday said that Texas’ antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google would be moved to the Southern District of New York, where other similar cases would also be heard. Google had asked that the case, which was filed against it by Texas and other states, be combined with similar cases in U.S. District Court for Northern California. Texas opposed the move, and the request prompted federal legislation aimed at allowing state attorneys general to choose the venue for their lawsuits. The panel, which recently heard...

Source: HuffPost Date: 7/28/2021 In one of the biggest announcements of its kind, Google told its 140,000-plus employees Wednesday that they must be vaccinated against COVID-19 to return to work in the company’s offices. “Getting vaccinated is one of the most important ways to keep ourselves and our communities healthy in the months ahead,” Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, said in a company-wide email obtained by The New York Times and The Associated Press.  The company also pushed back its planned return-to-office date from September to mid-October,...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 8/5/2021 Apple announced Thursday is it planning to scan all iPhones in the United States for child abuse imagery, raising alarm among security experts who said the plan could allow the firm to surveil tens of millions of personal devices for unrelated reasons. In a blog post, the company confirmed reports saying that new scanning technology is part of a suite of child protection programs that would “evolve and expand.” It will be rolled out as part of iOS 15, which is scheduled for release sometime in August. Apple, which has often touted itself as...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 8/5/2021 Facebook “coordinated closely” with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in controlling the narrative of the CCP virus pandemic, including suppression of alleged misinformation, and gave the health agency free advertising estimated at $3 million, according to Judicial Watch, which obtained emails that were released on July 28. The CDC released 2,469 new documents (pdf) to Judicial Watch in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filed against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In an email exchange beginning...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 8/2/2021 Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has amended his class-action lawsuit against Big Tech to incorporate additional class representatives and more censorship stories provided by everyday Americans. According to the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), Trump’s July 7 lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and Google is adding ”additional censorship experiences” from some of the nearly 65,000 people who submitted them to the institute. ”Late last night, Amended Complaints were filed in the Big Tech lawsuits against Facebook, Inc., Mark Zuckerberg,...

Source: Breitbart Date: 7/27/2021 Twitter has suspended several accounts focused on ballot audits in the states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on the same day that that Congress begins partisan Democrat-led select committee hearings on the events of January 6th. The suspensions occurred on the same day, and affected the accounts of @ArizonaAudit, @Audit_PA, @AuditGeorgia, @AuditNevada, @AuditWisconsin, and @AuditWarRoom. Twitter has yet to offer a public explanation for the suspension of the accounts, and has yet to respond to Breitbart News’ request for comment. The...

Source: National File Date: 7/27/2021 Twitter has suspended the “Audit War Room” accounts of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, as well as Arizona. This comes as evidence of voter fraud continues to emerge and as states announce action to conduct forensic audits of the 2020 election. Twitter has just suspended the “Audit War Room” accounts of multiple states including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, and Arizona. This comes on the same day as the start of the January 6 Select Committee hearings. Earlier today, National File reported that the Audit War Room account for Arizona...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 7/26/2021 Commentary This is the first in a three part series explaining legal and constitutional issues in former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter. This installment focuses on how social media censorship abuses federal law.   Trump’s lawsuit, filed on July 7, 2021, alleges that Twitter abridged Trump’s First Amendment free speech rights by censoring his tweets and canceling his account. Joining the lawsuit is another individual plaintiff canceled by Twitter, as well as the American Conservative Union, which alleges that Twitter has shadow banned...

Source: Business Insider Date: 6/25/2021 The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that Facebook can be held liable for sex traffickers that use its platform to recruit and prey on child victims. As the Houston Chronicle reported, the ruling followed three local lawsuits involving teenage victims who had met their traffickers through Facebook's messaging tools. The plaintiffs said Facebook was negligent and did not attempt to key sex trafficking off its technology. Facebook has argued that it is shielded by the protections of Section 230 — part of an internet law that states online platforms...

Source: American Spectator Date: 7/11/2021 Last Wednesday, former President Trump filed a class action lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook, and Google pursuant to their partisan censorship of viewpoints that conflict with those of their CEOs and employees. The next day, Trump took to the Wall Street Journal, where he succinctly summed up his most compelling argument for suing: “If they can do it to me, they can do it to you.” Ironically, this echoes what Bernie Sanders told the New York Times last March: “[Y]esterday it was Donald Trump who was banned, and tomorrow, it could be somebody else.”...

Source: Wall Street Journal Date: 7/11/2021 The media has panned Donald Trump’s First Amendment lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube: “sure to fail,” “as stupid as you’d think,” “ridiculous.” Mr. Trump’s complaint omits important precedents, facts and claims for relief, but there’s a strong case to be made that social-media censorship violates the Constitution. If his lawyers do better in court than in their initial filing, Mr. Trump can win. It’s true that the First Amendment ordinarily applies to the government rather than private companies. But the central claim in Mr. Trump’s...

Source: Gateway Pundit Date: 7/10/2021 Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee are pushing a plan to regulate social media companies, in part, by allowing users who have been censored to sue the Big Tech firms which they describe as “monopolies.” If enacted, the plan, which is meant to serve as a foundation for future legislation, may have significant implications for massive online platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google. “Big Tech is out to get conservatives,” the House Republican members of the committee wrote in a news release about the plan. “Today, House Judiciary...

Source: Daily Mail Date: 7/7/2021 Dozens of U.S. state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit in federal court against Alphabet Inc's Google on Wednesday. The 144-page lawsuit was filed by 36 states and the District of Columbia in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, court documents obtained by DailyMail.com show.  It claims Google violated the Sherman Act, the federal law prohibiting monopolistic business practices. The states have been expected to file a lawsuit saying that the search and advertising giant violates antitrust law in running its app store for...

Date: 7/7/2021 Class Action Complaint Donald J. Trump v. Facebook, Inc. Mark Zuckerberg

Source: Politico Date: 7/7/2021 A group of 36 states and Washington, D.C., sued Google on Wednesday in an antitrust case challenging the company’s control over its Android app store — opening a new front in regulators’ attempts to rein in the search giant. The suit, filed in California federal court and led by Utah, North Carolina, Tennessee, New York, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa and Nebraska, is the latest in a series of major antitrust cases filed against the tech industry's biggest forces, after years of brewing unhappiness with the growing wealth and power of Silicon Valley. It...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 7/6/2021 LinkedIn has reinstated the account of mRNA vaccine technology inventor Dr. Robert Malone, who said his page was deleted last week after he made comments about mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and questioned whether they’re appropriate to give to certain groups of people. In a Twitter post on Monday evening, Malone said he’d received a “very kind and personal note from a senior executive of LinkedIn,” and shared, with permission, an anonymized version of the message. “Dr. Malone’s account has been fixed as of this morning,” the note from the LinkedIn...

Source: Judicial Watch Date: 4/27/2021 (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it received 540 pages and a supplemental four pages of documents from the office of the Secretary of State of California revealing how state officials pressured social media companies (Twitter, Facebook, Google (YouTube)) to censor posts about the 2020 election. Included in these documents were “misinformation briefings” emails that were compiled by communications firm SKDK, that lists Biden for President as their top client of 2020. The documents show how the state agency successfully pressured YouTube...

Source: Gateway Pundit Date: 7/2/2021 President Trump held his first rally of the political season on Saturday in Wellington, Ohio at the Lorain County Fairgrounds. Trump held the rally in support of Max Miller who is challenging Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, a Never-Trumper who voted to impeach President Trump in January. The event was PACKED hours before President Trump’s speech. Right Side Broadcasting Network aired the live feed for the rally tonight in Ohio. 38,000 supporters were watching the rally at 5 PM ET — two hours before the event. This compares to a typical Biden speech that draws...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 7/2/2021 Dr. Robert Malone, who identifies himself as the inventor of mRNA vaccines, said that LinkedIn recently deleted his account after he made comments about mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and questioned whether they’re appropriate to give to certain groups of people. “My business pays for linked in premium. I have been deleted,” Malone wrote on Twitter this week. “Purchased a service from linked in to promote my company. This is very different from the YouTube or Twitter terms. This arbitrary and capricious action has damaged our business, and we deserve...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 6/28/2021 A federal court has dismissed two antitrust cases that were brought against Facebook, representing a significant setback for federal and state regulators in their attempts to rein in Big Tech. The lawsuits were filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general seeking to break up what they’ve described as Facebook’s monopoly on social networking. Facebook shares rose more than 4 percent on June 28. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, an Obama appointee, said that FTC lawyers didn’t provide enough evidence...

Source: Washington Examiner Date: 7/8/2021 After three Houston-area lawsuits were filed against Facebook alleging sex traffickers used its platform to commit crimes, Facebook asked the Texas Supreme Court to intervene. In response, the highest court in Texas ruled that Facebook could be held liable for sex traffickers using its platform, arguing Facebook isn’t a “lawless no-man’s-land.” Facebook has argued for over a decade that it’s immune from prosecution because of Section 230, a federal regulation that has broadly been used by courts to grant immunity to social media companies when publishing,...

Source: Gateway Pundit Date: 6/26/2021 Recently released emails reveal that, during the lead-up to the November election, Biden campaign hacks pressured Facebook to silence his political opponent, the sitting president of the United States. The radical Democrats had become concerned with so-called “violent rhetoric” and “misinformation” coming from the Trump campaign’s Facebook accounts.  This resulted in a years-long barrage of complaints from the party in an attempt to exert political influence over the world’s largest social media giant. Democrat-hack operative Timothy Durigan, a Biden...