‘Don’t be evil’? How Google’s search engine deceives and ‘harms’

‘Don’t be evil’? How Google’s search engine deceives and ‘harms’

BIG TECH Watch Commentary by Richard N. Madden, April 26, 2022 “Don’t be evil” is Google’s corporate motto and ostensibly the driving ethos behind the company’s decisions since its inception in the early 2000s. However, Google has been quietly distancing itself from this promise as the reality of its power over the world becomes too […]

Not gods: The leveling of high tech titans

Not gods: The leveling of high tech titans

Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore You’ve probably heard of the high-flying Big Tech FAANG stocks — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google. Among the five of them, their market cap reached $6 trillion last year, which is more than the GDP of all but a small handful of entire countries. Moreover, their net worth […]

Why building the wall is not even close to being enough

Why building the wall is not even close to being enough

Special to WorldTribune, April 25, 2022 Analysis by Mike Scruggs According to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the estimated number of illegal immigrants in the United States increased by 1.13 million to 11.35 million from January 2021 to January 2022 and is increasing by more than 100,000 per month. That may double to 200,000 […]

French election countdown: Macron vs Le Pen; Davos vs farmers markets

French election countdown: Macron vs Le Pen; Davos vs farmers markets

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler France faces a dilemma. Does a successful and prosperous West European state wish to gamble with its future? Or does that state, feeling the popular anxiety from high food and fuel prices, crime and a constricting COVID pandemic, still hold to the status quo? Now with the second […]

This is a newspaper, not a feed

This is a newspaper, not a feed

by WorldTribune Editor’s Line, April 21, 2022 Once upon a time, people had to make a modest effort to retrieve their newspaper which came once a day. Now the news is force-fed 24/7 via relentless apps, feeds and web browsers that screen out diverse perspectives with politically correct algorithms. Tale wagging the dog. WorldTribune.com is […]