Technology

Congress should target monopolies as it advances Big Tech legislation, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said last week. “If ninety percent of your searches go through one search engine, is that a monopoly?” McCarthy asked during an interview on Thursday. “If you’re using a platform, and you’re picking and choosing what somebody can say on it, you shouldn’t have liability protection…

Recalling White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s revelation that the Biden Administration is working with Big Tech social media platforms to limit free speech, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) warned Friday of the threat to Americans’ First Amendment rights.

A new law in the European Union would force Apple to allow sideloading and third-party app stores. According to The Verge, Apple would be prevented from requiring users to download apps in its own app store under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Critics have alleged that this requirement categorized Apple as a monopoly.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he is giving “serious thought” to creating a new social media platform to rival Twitter. “Would you consider building a new social media platform, @elonmusk?” an account asked on Saturday. “One that would consist an open source algorithm, one where free speech and adhering to free speech is given top priority, one where propaganda is very minimal. I think that kind of…

Podcaster Joe Rogan said that “woke” employees of Big Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter are “mentally ill.” The New York Post reported that Rogan made the comment on his Spotify podcast during an interview with Antonio García Martínez, a former engineer who worked for Apple and Facebook until the companies’ woke politics got in the way.

Tesla’s Elon Musk tweeted in support of free speech and questioned Twitter’s “adherence” to it. Musk asked his followers to vote “yes” or “no” in a poll that asked his users whether the platform supported free speech.

YouTube removed hours of videos that were live-streamed at last month’s Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC).

Twitter censored The Federalist’s reporting and warned that links to the publication’s reporting “may be unsafe.” According to The Federalist, Twitter displayed the following message to users who attempted to access the publication’s content: “The link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or…

The Department of Justice requested that Google be sanctioned in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit. The basis of the suit was surrounded by the argument that Google was a monopoly. Reclaim The Net reported that the DOJ alleged in a pleading that Google instructed its employees on how to mark documents as “confidential” to hide documents during the discovery phase of the lawsuit.

The chief executive of a megafund dedicated to health care workers attacked Facebook for allowing “misinformation.” Debby Blakey is chief executive of HESTA, a megafund worth $68 billion.

Twitter locked The Babylon Bee’s account Sunday evening. The platform locked the account after the satire site posted that Rachel Levine was the site’s “Man of the Year.” Levine is a transgender woman.

Twitter Blocks Links To Daily Mail Article Questioning COVID-19 Deaths. The article was written by the Daily Mail’s deputy health editor, Eve Simmons, and alleged that the UK’s government may have vastly overstated the number of deaths from the virus.

Twitter flagged tweets from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the wake of his comments on two transgender women. According to the Washington Examiner, Paxton tweeted last week about Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine and swimmer Lea Thompson. Both are transgender women.

Joe Rogan blasted “woke” Big Tech CEOs in a recent podcast. Rogan hosted Daryl Davis, a black musician and author who befriended members of the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis in an effort to turn them away from racism. Bill Ottman, an internet entrepreneur and free speech activist also joined the show.