Two Pennsylvania state senators are seeking to pass a bill that would allow residents to sue social media companies that censor their content based on political or religious views. Sens. Doug Mastriano (R-Gettysburg) and Scott Hutchinson (R-Oil City) sponsored state Senate Bill 604 (pdf), called the Social Media Accountability Act, that would allow individuals the…
Pennsylvania Considers Bill That Would Allow Residents to Sue Big Tech Over Censorship
October 25, 2021
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Facebook Is Rebuked by Oversight Board Over Transparency
October 21, 2021
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Facebook’s Oversight Board offered strong words in a quarterly report released Thursday that called out the company for not revealing information about its new XCheck program for VIP users, designed to better protect celebrities, journalists, and human rights activists. The board, developed in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol protest that led to Facebook’s…
Senators Introduce Bill Aimed at Controlling Big Tech and Restoring Competition
October 19, 2021
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A dozen Republican and Democratic senators on Oct. 18 introduced a bill aimed at stopping Big Tech from limiting consumer choice and restoring competition online. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) in introducing the bill, known as the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. It is cosponsored by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.),…
Facebook Updates Harassment Policy to Protect Public Figures, Journalists, and Activists
Facebook announced updates to its harassment policy on Wednesday to protect public figures, journalists, and activists from harmful content and attacks, according to a new statement from the social media giant. The changes follow the recent congressional testimony of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who shared concerns about the company’s practices. Haugen, a former product manager…
Kalev Leetaru: Update Section 230 to Legally Compel Big Tech Transparency
October 14, 2021
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“How can you have a digital society where you don’t even know what the rules are?” In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Kalev Leetaru, a media fellow at the RealClearFoundation and senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. Instead of repealing Section 230, he argues for an…
Nasdaq Ends Sharply Lower; Rising Treasury Yields Sink Big Tech
October 5, 2021
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Wall Street ended sharply lower on Monday (Oct. 4) as investors dumped Big Tech and other growth stocks in the face of rising Treasury yields, while concerns about a potential U.S. government debt default also fed caution. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet, the U.S. stock market’s four most valuable companies, each dropped more than 2…
Facebook Issues Statement Blaming Major Outage on ‘Configuration Changes’
Facebook on Monday blamed the widespread outage across a suite of its social media and messaging services on faulty configuration changes on its routers. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication,” Facebook said in a blog…
Facebook Says Major Outage Due to ‘Configuration Changes’
Facebook on Monday blamed the widespread outage across a suite of its social media and messaging services on faulty configuration changes on its routers. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication,” Facebook said in a blog…
Alibaba Opens Up Apps to Support Rival’s Payment Service Under Beijing’s Scrutiny
October 1, 2021
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Analysis China’s largest internet corporations are decimating their walled-off ecosystems amid Beijing tightening regulations on its tech giants. The latest instance came when Alibaba Group allowed rival Tencent’s payment system to be integrated with some of its apps this week. Such practices have come under scrutiny from Chinese regulators, which have launched new rules…
Vaccine Passport Concerns Muted at Big Tech-Affiliated Privacy Conference
At one of the world’s biggest privacy conferences last week, a seminar on vaccine passports opened with the question of how mandates should be implemented—skipping over the question of whether the inherently privacy-invasive requirement should become policy at all. “This panel will explore one of the most important topics being debated today: How do we…
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