It’s often said that “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” For years, the Big Tech giants held to this business model with an idle solidarity, pocketing the cash as users signed away their profitable data rights. …

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s ever-controversial chief executive, has authorized the use of a secret initiative code-named Project Amplify. For years, we’ve been subjected to The Endless Facebook Apology, described by New York Times journalist Kara Swisher as the company’s “persistence of the tired old, so-so-sorry, we’ll-do-better excuses that its executives trot…

It’s no secret that social media sites like Facebook are a negative force on society. For years, the world’s top journalists, politicians, human rights advocates, and epidemiologists across the ideological spectrum have taken the website to task, though few exposed scandals take accountability beyond the daily press. …

It’s fascinating to see the lengths a political movement will go to protect its own. Since 2014 during the days of Anita Sarkeesian and Francesca Ramsey, the anti-social justice warrior community pushed a narrative that lefties were afraid of debate, unable to put “facts over feelings” when confronted by the…

When India’s doctors and hospitals were scrambling to handle a devastating surge in COVID cases, the Modi government was quickly turning social media companies into their own P.R. triage centres, demanding the removal of any posts critical of the government’s pandemic response. …

In 2020, there’s no law so fundamentally misunderstood as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the controversial big tech provision being sniped at from all political sides of Capitol Hill. …

Cyberpunk, one of sci-fi’s most rebellious subgenres, is all about holding power to account. Although people focus on the glitz of advanced cybernetics, scientific advancements, and overall attitude of cool, it’s the satirical underbelly of megacorporations and superstates versus low-life space cowboys where the genre holds its love. These fictional…

The COVID pandemic didn’t need to happen. Since the beginning, the Chinese government has outright rejected accusations of having deliberately concealed information related to the growth of the virus, decrying their critics as being dishonest obfuscators on the international stage. In a stunning new report from CNN, however, official documents…

After a year-long Congresstional investigation into Google’s anti-competitive practices, members of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and 11 state attorneys general have filed a landmark lawsuit to finally contest the tech giant’s monopolistic control over the online marketplace. On Tuesday, the lawsuit was filed in a Washington, D.C. courthouse…