Elon Musk took to Twitter on Thursday and took a series of shots at the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). They’ve been at odds before, where Elon Musk landed himself in some hot water over a Tweet stating he was contemplating taking Tesla private at $420 per share. The Tweet on August 7th of 2018…
Chris White Current and former Facebook employees who are responsible for heading off cyber attacks say the Silicon Valley giant is replacing them with machines, according to a new report. Facebook is shaking up its security team, with the company dissolving large chunks of the team over the past two years, The New York Times…
The 2020 presidential race has been a great opportunity to illuminate shady practices, both in politics and in private life. Much like with 2016, it has made it easy to identify mental gymnasts on your Facebook friends list, and which businesses will donate to which side of the aisle. But most of all, it has…
Today, influencer marketing is one of the hottest topics all around the world. The reason behind it is simple and obvious, it is a popular marketing strategy that is in trend. Also, maximum people are more informed concerning it than ever. Whenever it comes to deciding on buying, it’s the influencers that are driving them….
Chris White Facebook, YouTube and other big tech companies are not bound to abide by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a court ruled Wednesday, dealing a blow to conservatives online. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision came in a case brought by Prager University, a nonprofit that produces videos promoting conservative positions on…
The next several years may be among the most important for the future of free speech since the United States’ founding. The parameters of the United States’ centuries-old debate on the First Amendment are undergoing rapid and irreversible change driven by an explosion in information and communication technology. Before the widespread adoption of social media,…
With the recent commuting of Rod Blagojevich’s sentence, Trump has already been freeing up several of his buddies. Now, he’s implicated in one particular opportunistic pardoning scheme. According to Julian Assange’s lawyer, the founder of the notorious whistle-blowing website Wikileaks was allegedly offered a pardon by former Republican California U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher supposedly…
On Monday, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley continued his quest to crush Big Tech by releasing a radical plan to overhaul the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Hawley proposes replacing the FTC’s five-member commission with a single Director, who would report directly to the Associate Attorney General in the Department of Justice (DOJ). His plan would also…
Joakim Book The British science fiction author and futurist Arthur C. Clarke gave rise to three iconic laws, where only the third has, as we say in the twenty-first century, gone viral: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” This law can be easily illustrated by some early first contacts with isolated human tribes. In several…
Chris White Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey proposed a plan Wednesday night that could potentially make moderating the giant company’s enormous platform a relic of the past. The tech giant is spearheading a coalition of researchers to construct an open and decentralized network that would, if successful, make Twitter one of several clients for the standard….