Our tour of one of Germany's new content moderation centers gave us a look at Facebook's content moderation--and what it means for the people who have to enforce its deletion rules.
Our tour of one of Germany's new content moderation centers gave us a look at Facebook's content moderation--and what it means for the people who have to enforce its deletion rules.
Ok everybody, grit your teeth, this is going to be very, very painful. Google is escalating its campaign of internet censorship, announcing that it will expand its workforce of human censors to over 10,000, the internet giant announced on December 4
In September of last year, we noted that Facebook representatives were meeting with the Israeli government to determine which Facebook accounts of Palestinians should be deleted on the ground that they constituted "incitement."
Under Strange Circumstances...Update 2: in another odd twist, on Monday morning, the US Navy's official Twitter account posted just these words in quotes "Julian Assange" which it then quickly deleted. Wikileaks captured a screenshot of the twe
The tension between big tech companies and national governments like China has never been greater. Should Apple help China censor its Internet and its citizens, or not? Thus far, Apple has caved to China's demands. ? TN Editor
Field Marshall Eric Schmidt announced that Google is now implementing the most complete form of censorship in the history of the planet with a new set of AI algorithms which will seek and destroy (ie de-rank) various websites that go against popular
China is leading the world in creating a Scientific Dictatorship, aka Technocracy, as it applies state-of-the-art technology to manipulate its citizens. By definition, Technocracy is the science of social engineering. ? TN Editor
Facebook And Twitter To Censor Political Speech...The Internet is certainly used for all sorts of horrible things, but it has also allowed ordinary people to communicate on a mass scale that would have been unimaginable decades ago. In the old days,
The US government and its mainstream media propagandists are now reduced to whining about "divisive" Russian ad buys on social media to the meager tune of $100,000 over three years in an election where billions were spent by the candidates to inf
It's preposterous that the US government purports to tell Americans what they are allowed to read on social media, says Daniel McAdams, executive director of Ron Paul Institute. He adds that it undermines US democracy.
If, as and when Facebook-like tech giants decide to collude with government to impose their worldview on their constituents, it will be game over for all other forms of government, worldwide. In the case of Mark Zuckerberg, remember that he has highl
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Twitter suspended an Alt-Right troll after he posted a Tweet criticizing a MSM pundit, but it has yet to suspend countless users who publish death threats.