by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2019 President Donald Trump on July 11 called out Facebook, Twitter and Google for censoring conservative voices. “And the funny thing is that, in theory, they shouldn’t be liking the other side,” Trump told an audience of conservative social media leaders. “They should be really liking our side because we’re […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2019 Twitter is the first of the Silicon Valley tech giants to part ways with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has been accused of workplace mistreatment of women and people of color and scamming liberal donors out of money. “The SPLC is not a member of Twitter’s Trust and […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 26, 2018 The dark side of Silicon Valley came into clear view in 2018, and no one knows how to put the big data genie back into the bottle. The Associated Press noted in a Dec. 24 report that the technology […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 23, 2018 Google employees were told to delete a memo which leaked details about the tech giant’s plans to launch a search engine in China which will comply with Beijing’s rigid censorship demands, a report said. “The memo, authored by a Google engineer who was asked to work on the project, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 16, 2018 The Department of Justice said it has invited the attorneys general of 24 states to a Sept. 25 meeting to discuss whether social media companies are violating anti-trust laws. The DOJ said it decided to host the meeting “on tech companies, competition, and the free exchange of ideas” following […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2018 George Gilder, whose 1981 book “Wealth and Poverty” championed the free market and influenced Ronald Reagan’s supply-side economics, laments the era of “Google Marxism” which aims to make the human mind obsolete. But the author of “Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2018 President Donald Trump on Aug. 30 warned America’s tech giants, who have been termed “masters of the universe,” against censoring conservative voices. “I’ve made it clear that we as a country cannot tolerate political censorship, blacklisting, and rigged search results,” Trump said in calling out companies such as Google, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2018 A dozen of the largest U.S. tech companies sent representatives to a private meeting on Aug. 24 to discuss how to handle warring political digital media strategies ahead of the 2018 midterms. Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, invited the companies, which include Google, Microsoft, and Snapchat, to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2018 “It appears that Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have all gone to war with President Trump, and are punishing anyone who dares to speak up for him,” columnist Doug Wead wrote for The Federalist on Aug. 17. Wead noted that new membership on his Facebook page “stopped dead,” and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 19, 2018 Since the First Amendment prohibits the Left from achieving its goal of government suppression of conservative speech, liberals have “outsourced censorship” of speech they don’t like to the tech giants in Silicon Valley, a prominent conservative blogger wrote. “Liberals control every newspaper in America, as far as I know, […]