WSJ: DOJ, State AGs May Launch Antitrust Lawsuits Against Google

May 18th, 2020 3:03 PM

The U.S. Justice Department and state attorneys general may file antitrust lawsuits against search giant Google, The Wall Street Journal reported. Attorney General William Barr, according to The Journal May 15, sees this probe against Alphabet Inc.-owned Google as a top priority. He reportedly told the outlet in March that he hopes the Justice Department will make its decision by this summer…

Did Google Reduce Diversity Programs to Avoid Conservative Backlash?

May 15th, 2020 12:02 PM
After years of Big Tech being in the spotlight for anti-conservative bias, Google appears to have cut back its far-left diversity and inclusion programs. “Google has significantly rolled back its diversity and inclusion initiatives in an apparent effort to avoid being perceived as anti-conservative,” eight current and former employees told NBC News in a May 13 article. One example of a program…

Most Americans Unable or Unwilling to Use Big Tech Virus Tracking Tech

April 30th, 2020 12:24 PM
Even a global pandemic isn’t enough to make Americans want to surrender their privacy to Big Tech. Apple and Google had launched an unprecedented “contact tracing” project in mid-May that would notify users when they have entered the presence of a person with the coronavirus. This was launched in an effort “to protect people and get society back up and running,” according to an April 10…

Eric Weinstein BLASTS Big Tech for Censoring Content, Protecting WHO

April 23rd, 2020 2:20 PM
The man who coined the term “Intellectual Dark Web” blasted Big Tech executives for censoring content related to COVID-19 and warned: “Don’t even think about silencing responsible dissent.” Just “[p]ut it out of your mind,” Managing Director of Thiel Capital and host of The Portal Eric Weinstein warned in a tweet thread. “Stop fantasizing about being N Korean.” Weinstein’s remarks came in…

Google Allegedly Censors Church for Violating Coronavirus Guidelines

April 17th, 2020 12:35 PM
An Idaho evangelical church might have had its app pulled from the Google Playstore for having references about the coronavirus within the app. Christ Church, a church in Moscow, Idaho, alleged that its app was suspended on Good Friday, April 10.

Trump Forms Tech Task Force to Help Chart Path Forward, Revive Economy

April 15th, 2020 1:42 PM
Coronavirus has created a U.S. market full of instability and uncertainty, but President Donald Trump is calling on industry leaders and experts to answer the call “to chart the path forward toward a future of unparalleled American prosperity.” Trump announced the Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups on April 14, the same day he stated that “plans to reopen the country are close to…

Apple, Google Launch COVID-19 Tracking Tech That’s Voluntary…for Now

April 15th, 2020 10:25 AM
Ready for Big Tech companies to review your movements to avoid the COVID-19 pandemic? In mid-May, Apple and Google will roll out an optional app that will notify users when they have entered the presence of a person with the coronavirus. This project was launched with the intention “to protect people and get society back up and running,” according to an April 10 announcement via Apple’s newsroom…

The Economist, Financial Times Exploit Virus, Push Socialist Policies

Business
April 7th, 2020 11:20 AM
The Economist and The Financial Times Editorial Board both published liberal spin advocating for policies straight out of the socialist handbook. It’s as if the eco-extremists in the liberal media bleating about climate change in the middle of a pandemic wasn’t bad enough.  

Google Under Fire for Allegedly Collecting Students’ Data

April 7th, 2020 10:42 AM
Could 1984-esque conditions really be heralded by the same Big Tech company that brought us cheerful Google doodles? If Google’s totalitarian monitoring of people’s locations amidst lockdown weren’t disturbing enough, now students are apparently suing the Big Tech company for collecting their facial and voice data. “[T]wo Illinois children have filed a lawsuit alleging that the multinational…

Google Flip-Flops on Ad Policy After Dems Complain It May Help Trump

April 3rd, 2020 4:10 PM
What steers Google’s policy decisions? Liberal outrage, apparently. Google has made two major changes in its ad policies after massive pushback by liberals and the media. Google and YouTube completely reformed their approach to no longer allow microtargeting with ads in late 2019, something that Facebook continued to allow despite pushback. Liberals considered any allowance of Trump’s…

OOPS! MarketWatch Falls Prey to Climate Change April Fools’ Day Prank

Business
April 2nd, 2020 1:35 PM
Yesterday was April Fools’ Day. Looks like a prominent liberal business outlet did not get that memo and fell prey to a major climate change prank. MarketWatch ran a story on April Fools’ Day originally headlined “Google will no longer pay lobbyists that deny climate change, pledges zero emissions by 2025.” The problem? The source for that story came from a parody account, according to a…

The Virus, the Media and the Economy

March 17th, 2020 5:50 PM
A friend tweeted from Ireland (in time for St. Patrick's Day), blaming President Trump for the major decline in the value of stocks. This same friend credited Barack Obama's economic policies when the Dow Jones Industrial Averages approached 30,000. This -- and more -- is part of our political, economic and medical divide with mixed messages coming from supposed professionals, amateurs and people…

Google Invests $1M-Plus in Lefty Ad-Targeting Project

March 12th, 2020 2:37 PM
A project launched by Vox Media, the parent company of the outlet (Vox) that gave us Carlos Maza and a constant stream of loony leftism, is now being backed by Google. The Google News Initiative program will invest an estimated sum upward of $1 million to the “Concert Local” project. This investment is said to be “one of the largest single-publisher investments that Google is making of this kind…

Dr. Robert Epstein Warns Big Tech Can Rig 2020 Election

February 26th, 2020 3:49 PM
Prominent liberal Google critic Dr. Robert Epstein wrote an op-ed warning that Big Tech companies can rig the 2020 election and “make the Russians look like rank amateurs.” “President Donald Trump can’t win the 2020 election,” wrote Dr. Robert Epstein, a senior researcher at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and former Editor-in-chief of “Psychology Today.” In a Feb.…