by WorldTribune Staff, September 3, 2019 “Tech oligarchs” at Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other Silicon Valley giants are pushing a leftist agenda while trashing the First Amendment via widespread censoring of conservatives, Rep. Devin Nunes said in a Sept. 1 interview with Breitbart News. Regulating social media and tech giants has been discussed widely, but […]
Special to WorldTribune, August 12, 2019 Editors’ Note: Facebook sent two anonymous messages to the editors of WorldTribune.com Sunday saying that it was blocking distribution of the article headlined: Studio cancels release of ‘The Hunt’ after Trump blast: ‘They create their own violence’. Universal Pictures announced on Aug. 10 that it has canceled the release […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 14, 2019 President Donald Trump on July 11 called out Facebook, Twitter and Google for censoring conservative voices. “And the funny thing is that, in theory, they shouldn’t be liking the other side,” Trump told an audience of conservative social media leaders. “They should be really liking our side because we’re […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2019 Twitter is the first of the Silicon Valley tech giants to part ways with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has been accused of workplace mistreatment of women and people of color and scamming liberal donors out of money. “The SPLC is not a member of Twitter’s Trust and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2019 The unfriend button is taking a pounding as political rage spreads like wildfire on social media, a networking and privacy firm said. A survey for Comparitech found that nearly 52 percent of social media users have wiped friends over political arguments. Overall, 44 percent unfriended somebody with opposite political […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 19, 2019 Facebook is blocking the White House digital director whose unofficial mandate is to do an end run on a media establishment propagating non-stop negative coverage of his boss. On March 18, White House social media director Dan Scavino Jr. was temporarily blocked from making public Facebook comments. President Donald […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, December 26, 2018 The dark side of Silicon Valley came into clear view in 2018, and no one knows how to put the big data genie back into the bottle. The Associated Press noted in a Dec. 24 report that the technology […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 9, 2018 After failing in their efforts to stop the production of “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer”, the powers that be in Silicon Valley are now trying to silence promotion of the film, the movie’s producer said. “The Silicon establishment do not want this story told,” producer Phelim […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 16, 2018 The Department of Justice said it has invited the attorneys general of 24 states to a Sept. 25 meeting to discuss whether social media companies are violating anti-trust laws. The DOJ said it decided to host the meeting “on tech companies, competition, and the free exchange of ideas” following […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2018 President Donald Trump on Aug. 30 warned America’s tech giants, who have been termed “masters of the universe,” against censoring conservative voices. “I’ve made it clear that we as a country cannot tolerate political censorship, blacklisting, and rigged search results,” Trump said in calling out companies such as Google, […]
