Alleged Censorship and Propaganda By Other Silicon Valley Firms

Reclaim the Net
View In: Alleged Censorship and Propaganda By Other Silicon Valley FirmsThe satirical website is often censored online. The post Communication platform Front deplatforms The Babylon Bee appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Reclaim the Net
View In: Alleged Censorship and Propaganda By Other Silicon Valley FirmsThe results of a new censorship filter. The post Activision bans over 500,000 Call of Duty players for “toxic” behavior appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Alternet.org
View In: Alleged Censorship and Propaganda By Other Silicon Valley FirmsIn a recent piece for The Atlantic, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that social media platforms are destroying democracy. They allow people to sort themselves into homogenous tribes, he argues. Haidt says that they can spread disinformation more quickly. People could be attacked more easily...

Popular Resistance
View In: Alleged Censorship and Propaganda By Other Silicon Valley Firms“Scheer Intelligence” has been reporting on the rise of censorship in the internet age in a number of ways since the podcast was started in 2015. Now host Robert Scheer is concerned that, under the cloak of the Ukraine conflict, all forms of alternative media on the internet could soon be eliminated...

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View In: Alleged Censorship and Propaganda By Other Silicon Valley FirmsAs the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, Big Tech companies with the world's largest social media platforms, mobile devices and apps are facing more pressure to use their platforms and online influence to push back against Russian aggression. On Friday, February 25, Ukraine’s digital minister Mykhail...

Counter Punch
View In: Alleged Censorship and Propaganda By Other Silicon Valley FirmsMainstream news media outlets have, in recent years, begun to create advertisements that look like news articles on their websites and on social media. My research raises questions about whether this modern form of advertising might influence those outlets’ real journalism. These specific advertisement...