August 13, 2019 Amazon's Choice under fire amid widespread fraud in recommendations A group of senators are demanding that Amazon explain how it comes up with its well-known "Amazon Choice" label, a mark of distinction that earns certain products preferred placement on the retail platform.
August 13, 2019 Sanders blasts Bezos-owned Washington Post over bias in echo of Trump Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted The Washington Post and accused the paper of biased coverage because of his criticisms of Amazon.
August 12, 2019 #JewsAgainstICE protest Amazon's role in 'profiting off cruelty,' dozens arrested Dozens of members of Jewish community groups protesting Amazon's cloud computing contracts and other work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement were arrested at an Amazon Books store in New York on Sunday.
August 12, 2019 Amazon devices are being built illegally by children working 'grueling' shifts, documents reveal Chinese schoolchildren are producing Amazon's Alexa and Echo devices in grueling shifts in order to meet certain production goals, according to a new report from China Labor Watch.
August 9, 2019 Josh Hawley: Tech giants have a business model based on 'taking stuff from us' Social media giants like Facebook make their money off of taking Americans' personal information and should come under greater scrutiny, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., argued.
August 9, 2019 Harmeet Dhillon: McConnell campaign's Twitter ban new shot in Big Tech war on conservatives – Wake up, America The McConnell campaign’s suspension was just the latest shot in a war that Big Tech has been waging against conservatives for years
August 9, 2019 Twitter unlocks Mitch McConnell’s campaign account after GOP fury Mitch McConnell’s campaign is back on Twitter.
August 9, 2019 Peter Thiel on Twitter freezing Mitch McConnell campaign account: Republicans right to be suspicious Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel said Friday on "Fox & Friends" that conservatives are right to be suspicious of bias by Google and social media companies since the big tech firms operate as "totalitarian, one-party states."
August 8, 2019 Facebook loses facial-recognition privacy appeal and could pay billions in fines Facebook lost a federal appeal on Thursday in a lawsuit over facial-recognition data. That could lead to the company paying massive fines over its privacy practices.
August 8, 2019 GOP goes to war with Twitter over McConnell campaign account freeze Republicans are going to war with Twitter after the platform froze the Mitch McConnell re-election account this week because the campaign posted a video of threats directed at the Senate majority leader, just as President Trump is planning a separate crackdown on left-wing social media bias.