FPI / November 1, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Tech behemoth Apple is known for altering its policies to avoid running afoul of censors in communist China. What are the implications? Apple has censored products and apps in Hong Kong and Taiwan that were opposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Some of Apple’s iCloud data is parked […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2023 On March 22 of this year, an open letter signed by more than 33,000 individuals, including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, called for a six-month moratorium on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) experiments. “We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2023 Freedom and freewheeling search and retrieval of information was fundamental to the Internet revolution in the 1990s which featured the rise of DrudgeReport.com and the birth of WorldTribune.com. But as the millions of netizens of the 1990s exploded to billions by the 2010s, Big Tech titans run and staffed […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 15, 2023 Edward Tian, a 22-year-old senior at Princeton University, has been working feverishly on a new app to combat what he and many others see as the abuse and misuse of ChatGPT. By its own description, ChatGPT is “an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT (Generative Pretrained […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2023 The Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that it abuses monopoly power in the ad-tech industry. The DOJ “is seeking the breakup of Google’s business brokering digital advertising across much of the Internet,” the Wall Street Journal reported on the suit filed in federal […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2022 Apple has helped communist China suppress public dissent multiple times. Usually, it is Apple complying with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) requests to remove apps used by protesters for information and communication. Apple also has assisted the CCP in preventing users from remaining private by banning VPNs in the region. […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2022 Google and YouTube proclaimed on Thursday that they plan to put in place for the 2022 midterm elections algorithms to guarantee that “authoritative” news sources are prominent. In doing so, the Big Tech firms join social media behemoths Facebook and TikTok in vowing to fight election “misinformation.” Critics […]
BIG TECH Watch Commentary by Richard N. Madden, April 26, 2022 “Don’t be evil” is Google’s corporate motto and ostensibly the driving ethos behind the company’s decisions since its inception in the early 2000s. However, Google has been quietly distancing itself from this promise as the reality of its power over the world becomes too […]
Special to WorldTribune, December 9, 2021 BIG TECH Watch By Richard N. Madden On Oct. 28, the (in-)famous thumbs-up logo on the sign at 1 Hacker Way was replaced with a new infinity symbol, signifying the completion of Facebook’s rebranding to “Meta Inc.” “We just announced that we’re making a fundamental change to our company,” […]
Special to WorldTribune, November 15, 2021 BIG TECH Watch By Richard N. Madden Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are the latest gold rush spawned from the world’s digital transformation. They’ve lit a fire under monetary systems across the globe and challenged our understanding of wealth and value. Individuals, corporations and governments alike have all seemingly been […]
