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Tech giants formally subpoenaed after lackluster cooperation with Jan. 6 probe

A slew of the world’s most powerful tech and social media companies failed to give the Jan. 6 Committee adequate information in response to an inquiry for records tied to the attack of the U.S. …

Fri Jan 14, 2022

John Dean: Trump has set quite the trap for himself with lawsuit against Facebook and Twitter

Donald Trump is a different kind of beast. It’s been clear for some time that he’s completely untethered from the truth, and that his army of sycophants is dutifully orbiting Planet Bullshit right …

Sun Jul 11, 2021

Study finds YouTube’s algorithms regularly promote content that violates content guidelines

Social media companies like YouTube—as we saw when the video platform suspended and then reinstated the channel for Right Wing Watch—are prisoners of their own algorithms, which are the keys to their …

Wed Jul 7, 2021

Watchdog site’s YouTube channel hit with short-lived suspension as company quickly backtracks

Large social-media companies like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have been struggling for a long time with the continuing spread of right-wing extremism and its attendant conspiracism primarily on …

Wed Jun 30, 2021

Even before Juneteenth federal holiday came to be, these businesses gave employees a paid day off

Black people have grown accustomed to waiting in America. We’ve had no other choice. More than a century removed from slavery, it took what should have been a racial reckoning after the death of …

Fri Jun 18, 2021

First, Trump throws fit of rage. Then, FBI secretly scores Apple data on White House counsel

A New York Times piece revealed on Friday just how easy it was for former President Donald Trump’s administration to get top technology companies to supply data regarding congressional Democrats. In …

Sun Jun 13, 2021