by WorldTribune Staff, August 26, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Meta reached a $17 billion-plus settlement with 48 states and U.S. territories to resolve allegations that its Facebook and Instagram platforms’ addictive designs were harming minors, its deceiving the public about safety, and improperly harvesting youth data. The amount will be paid out over 10 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 17, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Big Tech continues to filter, suppress, and deplatform (mostly conservative) legally protected expression in what critics say is the greatest threat to the First Amendment freedoms of Americans. Groups such as the America First Policy Institute contend that Big Tech wields unchecked power over public […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2025 Real World News Google is continuing its practice of flagging fundraising emails for Republicans as “dangerous” spam while leaving solicitations for Democrats untouched, a GOP consulting firm said. If true, is this legal for a massive company that is also a federal contractor? Google LLC has been hit […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2025 Real World News A majority of European Union (EU) member states are pushing a proposal dubbed “Chat Control.” Thus far, 19 out of the 27 EU member states support a proposal which would mandate that messaging platforms, including WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram, must scan every message, photo, and video […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 3, 2025 Real World News With huge growth in its cloud-computing services and increasing demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings, Microsoft has become the second $4 trillion company. Just weeks after Nvidia became the first $4 trillion company, Microsoft crossed the milestone on Thursday morning. “Throughout its five-decade history, Microsoft […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 30, 2025 Real World News The city of Cheyenne will be the site of an AI data center that will consume more than five times the electricity of all Wyoming households combined. Cheyenne Mayor Patrick Collins announced plans for the AI data center on Monday, saying it is a joint venture […]
FPI / November 1, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Tech behemoth Apple is known for altering its policies to avoid running afoul of censors in communist China. What are the implications? Apple has censored products and apps in Hong Kong and Taiwan that were opposed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Some of Apple’s iCloud data is parked […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2023 On March 22 of this year, an open letter signed by more than 33,000 individuals, including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, called for a six-month moratorium on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) experiments. “We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2023 Freedom and freewheeling search and retrieval of information was fundamental to the Internet revolution in the 1990s which featured the rise of DrudgeReport.com and the birth of WorldTribune.com. But as the millions of netizens of the 1990s exploded to billions by the 2010s, Big Tech titans run and staffed […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 15, 2023 Edward Tian, a 22-year-old senior at Princeton University, has been working feverishly on a new app to combat what he and many others see as the abuse and misuse of ChatGPT. By its own description, ChatGPT is “an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI, based on the GPT (Generative Pretrained […]
