March 3, 2019 YouTube bans comments on most videos featuring minors to fight child exploitation YouTube will prevent users from commenting on most videos featuring minors, the Google-owned company said on Thursday, in response to growing concerns from users and advertisers that pedophiles were using comments to track and exploit children.
February 28, 2019 Conservatives call for PayPal boycott after CEO says Southern Poverty Law Center helps ban users Paypal is under fire from conservatives after its CEO recently revealed they work with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to help identify accounts to ban from the payment platform. The admission revived calls for a boycott for using a group that lists several conservative Christian organizations as "hate groups" or "extremists" simply for their religious views.
February 28, 2019 Doctors on Facebook face harassment from anti-vaxxers Facebook is coming under fire because doctors are facing harassment on the platform by anti-vaccination activists.
February 28, 2019 New York requests documents from Facebook, apps on data sharing A New York regulator is ramping up a promised investigation of how Facebook Inc. gathered sensitive personal information from popular smartphone applications after a report by The Wall Street Journal revealed that many such apps were sending the social-media giant data, including users’ body weight and menstrual cycles.
February 28, 2019 Gun safety devices get caught in online advertising bans As more Americans keep loaded guns in their homes, efforts to sell them new kinds of safety locks are getting stuck by policies intended to block ads for firearms online.
February 28, 2019 Teen video app Musical.ly agrees to $5.7 million FTC fine The operator of a video-sharing app popular with teenagers agreed to pay $5.7 million to settle federal allegations it illegally collected personal information from children.
February 28, 2019 At Facebook, Google and many other tech companies the level of political intolerance is stunning The tech giants of Silicon Valley, particularly Google and Facebook, have faced intense criticism in recent years for promoting partisan political agendas in the workplace. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey even admitted recently that conservative employees at his company “don't feel safe to express their opinions.”
February 27, 2019 Facebook permanently bans far-right British activist Tommy Robinson British far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram for repeatedly violating the tech giant's hate speech policies.
February 27, 2019 Facebook, Google in crosshairs of new FTC competition task force In a sign of the deepening scrutiny faced by Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google, the Federal Trade Commission launched a new heavily-staffed task force to monitor competition and consider possible antitrust violations in U.S. technology markets.
February 26, 2019 Amazon's Virginia HQ2 faces some New York-style pushback Amazon could be facing a New York-style backlash in response to its plans for a massive second headquarters in Virginia.