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October 6th, 2022 - 9:04 pm § in Law and Courts

A Supreme Court case could drastically change the internet

Nohemi Gonzalez, then 23, a California student, was one of 130 people killed by ISIS terrorists in Paris on November 13, 2015 (see details here). Her family is suing Google, alleging its algorithms helped radicalize the killers by steering them to videos that ISIS posted on YouTube. Vox says in an a[...]

June 28th, 2022 - 2:46 pm § in Politics

Facebook and Instagram ban offers to help get abortion pills

“Facebook and Instagram have begun removing posts related to abortion pills,” the U.K.-based news site Guardian reported on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 (story here). However, it appears the company isn’t banning discussion of abortion pills, but only offers to help get them. A Meta spok[...]

January 26th, 2022 - 3:05 pm § in Health, Misc., Politics

YouTube bans vocal anti-masker

YouTube, owned by Google, “permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino” on Wednesday, January 26, 2022, “saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension,” The Hill reported here. The suspension was for calling masks “useless,” in defiance of a YouTu[...]

July 17th, 2018 - 11:56 am § in Politics

This video is fake.

But some people will believe it. And that’s dangerous. This fake video isn’t malicious. Rather, it was created to show how easy it is, using modern technology, to make fake look real and lies seem true. With this technology, you can make anyone appear to say anything, and use it to persu[...]