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Former President Donald Trump on Jan. 31 lamented that the United States resembles a communist nation under his successor, pointing to rampant inflation, diminishing freedoms, and the porous U.S.–Mexico border. “They’re destroying our country. They’re making us a different country. We’re becoming like a socialist or a communist state,” Trump told former top White House aide Kash Patel on his EpochTV’s “Kash’s Corner” program. The interview will premiere at 8 p.m. Eastern on Feb. 7.“Why would they want to have a weak military? Why would they want to have high interest rates and higher taxes? And why would they want...

Facebook's user numbers declined for the first time in its history last quarter.Facebook's parent company Meta reported daily active user numbers of 1.929 billion over the last three months of 2021. In Q3 of 2021, it reported an average of 1.93 billion active users. This means it lost roughly 1 million users over that period.Facebook stock plunged 22% in premarket trading following its Q4 earnings.CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in the company's earnings call that the company's social-media business is facing stiff competition.

When U.S. President Joe Biden accused Facebook of "killing people" by spreading vaccine lies in July, many experts and researchers hoped it marked the beginning of a White House battle against a flood of misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic coursing through the United States. Six months later, the deluge of misinformation continues and entities combating harmful information want the White House to do more. COVID-19 deaths recently hit their highest in almost a year, with over 2,600 people dying on average each day. U.S. studies show the unvaccinated are dying at much higher rates than those with jabs and boosters....

Did Big Tech get a little smaller? The Washington Post reports on a “startling” loss of active subscribers at Meta/Facebook — enough of a loss for investors and advertisers to take a big notice. Whatever the reason, Facebook’s active-subscriber numbers are falling by mid-six figures a day globally. Has the social-media giant become passé? Facebook parent Meta’s quarterly earnings report on Wednesday revealed a startling statistic: For the first time ever, the company’s growth is stagnating around the world. Facebook lost daily users for the first time in its 18-year history — falling by about half a million users in...

Note: VIdeo Google software engineer-turned-whistleblower Zach Vorhies rips open the soft censorship practices disguised by the tech goliath behind its algorithms for producing search results. He’s risked his own personal safety to bring to light the search engine’s manipulative practices. Each day, over 3 billion searches are conducted using Google. How DO we know whether results are catering to, or directing us?

Full title: As Neil Young, Joni Mitchell leave in protest of Joe Rogan’s podcast, Spotify loses more than $2.1 billion in market value: report ... Per the report, Spotify shares “fell %6 from Jan. 26-28. Over the same time period, the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 1.7% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.1%.”

The irony being half the video is about Youtubes' TOS and confusion regarding it

On Tuesday, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy offered insight into the purpose of Big Tech.Apparently, it’s censorship.Vivek’s comments concerned — in part — America’s most popular podcaster, Joe Rogan.If you’ve never given Joe’s show a listen, I highly recommend it. He truly has an open mind, and he hosts interesting people whose opinions run the gamut.That’s something Vivek doesn’t appear to appreciate, if a guest’s assertions run afoul of approved COVIDology.As reported by The Post Millennial, the government official was asked by MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski about coronavirus claims on Joe’s show.“[Joe]…has frequently promoted unproven methods for treating COVID-19 and downplayed...

YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino from the platform, saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension. The Fox host uploaded a video to his main channel while his secondary channel, which primarily hosted short clips from his digital radio show, was actively suspended for violating YouTube’s COVID-19 misinformation policy.

The Washington State Attorney General is filing a lawsuit Monday against Google, claiming it secretly tracks consumer locations. Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s lawsuit is set to file at King County Superior Court and says Google continues to track consumers even after they turn off location tracking settings. "If you go to the trouble on your phone, and actually disable location tracking, you think, well, they're not going to track you anymore," Ferguson said in an interview with KOMO News. "Well, guess what? Google has a back-end way to still track you. Even when you affirmatively check the box saying I...

Devin Nunes in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News previewed plans for the company he is heading,Trump Media and Technology Group, which aims to take on Big Tech and establishment media in what he called “the battle of all battles.” He confirmed that the first product to launch will be a social media platform and that the company is looking to launch it by the end of March. “Right now, we’re looking at by the end of the first quarter,” he said, but added, “We’re going to come out when it’s ready to come out.” He said there is a...

Today, YouTube suspended and demonetized the channel of conservative firebrand Dan Bongino. According to Bongino’s response to the YouTube representative handling the case, which we’ll cover in a moment, his channel was nuked for questioning the efficacy of masks. That seems especially egregious given the overwhelming amount of evidence that masks have been largely ineffective in suppressing the spread of COVID-19 in communities across the globe. Further, even many coronavirus hawks are now admitting they simply aren’t a solution against Omicron, though, various compilations of real-world data never really showed them to be effective prior either. Returning to Bongino, he...

An antitrust proposal scheduled for markup in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday would arbitrarily choose which American businesses are subject to stringent new laws and massive fines unless lawmakers fix the bill’s serious flaws. The bill, S.2992, the bipartisan American Innovation and Choice Online Act, is aimed at imposing new parameters on ‘Big Tech’ business practices. But it uses flawed metrics to attack certain businesses and favor others. If the legislation’s cosponsors – Sens. Klobuchar, Grassley, Durbin, Graham, Blumenthal, Kennedy, Booker, Hirono, and Hawley – are serious about addressing consumer concerns, rather than simply penalizing popular businesses, they should...

Big Tech’s push to censor speech and content has reached a new level in weirdness. Microsoft, which controls 89 percent of the productivity software market, has slipped into its operating system a bizarre spellchecker which notifies users when they are using words outside of the ‘approved’ language of the far-left radicals.Microsoft’s spellchecker flags words that might be offensive in the following ways:Age biasCultural biasEthnic slursGender biasGender specific languageRacial biasSexual orientation biasAccording to the tech writers at Gizmodo examples include changing “blacklist” and “whitelist” to “accepted” or “allowed list,” and swapping the gender-specific “postman” with “postal worker.” Similarly, “humanity” or “humankind”...

The Washington D.C. wheeler-dealers are making patsies out of the rest of us. Members of Congress get million-dollar-plus expense accounts, lifetime pensions and lavish perks, but for the greedy, that's not enough. They're also racking up big bucks trading stocks in the very same companies Congress regulates. Stock picking by members of Congress should be illegal because they have an unfair edge over the rest of us. They're privy to the regulatory burdens or legal changes these companies are likely to face. And top leaders, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, actually control what's ahead for these companies. That control...

‘Gettr, the social media platform that bills itself as a way to escape Big Tech, actually includes trackers and features from companies like Facebook and Google.’ (LifeSiteNews) — Gettr, the social media app that has enjoyed a brief moment in the sun as a new home for conservative Twitter and Facebook refugees, is being slammed for disingenuous practices and for “falsely claiming to be a ‘free speech’ platform and an alternative to Big Tech.” The app skyrocketed into national prominence after popular talk show host Joe Rogan migrated to Gettr after his blockbuster New Year’s Eve interview with mRNA pioneer...

There is a certain level of madness required to reach the state our country is in today. I think most of us feel this and know this but I want to dissect the situation a little so that we can see the guts of the thing and understand the mechanics of it. Insanity has a structure, believe it or not, and there are ways to analyze it and identify it. For example, there are many forms of madness that stem from an obsession with power and control. In my previous article ‘Is There A Way To Prevent Psychopaths From Getting...

Presented by CVS Health Good Thursday morning. Press like — Gov. Ron DeSantis, more than three months ago, directed Secretary of State Laurel Lee to launch an investigation into a Facebook program that could have given incumbent politicians “an advantage over challengers” — a charge first outlined in a September article on the social media giant by The Wall Street Journal. Update — So how’s that going? … well… um… Status quo — It would appear there is nothing going on with this probe. Pressed repeatedly for answers, Mark Ard, a spokesman for Lee, said this week in an email...

I work in Big Tech. A name you would know and have probably used before. Wanted to give a rundown of what it's like from the inside right now.

Conservative commentator Dan Bongino has been suspended by YouTube for questioning "mask fascists." The Bongino Report announced on Twitter on Friday that the platform suspended Bongino for violating the site's COVID-19 misinformation policy. "YouTube just suspended Dan's channel for daring to question the mask fascists. I guess they were waiting for an apology from us. But that's not quite how it worked out for them. Here's Dan's email to 'Coco' at YouTube telling them to plant a big wet kiss on his ass," The Bongino Report tweeted Friday.