Category: Google

DOJ Files Lawsuit Against Google in New Escalation

The Department of Justice and eight states on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Alphabet-owned Google, calling for the breakup of the firm’s ad-technology business and alleging it’s engaged in monopolistic practices. “Google abuses its monopoly power to disadvantage website publishers and advertisers who dare to use competing ad tech products in a search for higher quality, or…


Capitol Report: 50th Anniversary of March for Life; Breaking Down US Energy Transition

Thousands of people were in Washington, D.C., on Friday for the 50th annual March for Life in a post-Roe America. President Joe Biden is touting legislative achievements on his second anniversary in office. The White House makes its latest move after Biden says he has “no regrets” about classified documents. An often overlooked factor of…


NTD Business (Jan. 20): Google Laying Off 12,000 Workers; T-Mobile Investigating Extensive Data Breach

Google sends out a memo stating the company will have to lay off thousands of workers. How many will be affected? Another data breach at T-Mobile is affecting millions of users. What information was hacked? The U.S. government is fighting fake organic foods. People are falsely labeling non-organic foods as organic, leading to a loss of integrity…


Google Parent Alphabet to Cut 12,000 Jobs Amid Wave of Tech Layoffs

Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s CEO sent a note to employees Friday announcing the elimination of 12,000 jobs, as a response to economic changes over the past two years. The move—coming two days after a similar number of job cuts from Microsoft—will affect both U.S. and overseas employees. “Over the past two years we’ve seen periods…


Big Tech Unites, Urges Supreme Court to Keep Laws Protecting Social Media Companies in Place

A slew of big tech giants, including Meta, Microsoft, and Twitter, have joined Google in filing legal briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that amending a statute pertaining to social media companies’ liability for content posted on their platforms could strip the companies of protections from lawsuits. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act generally…


Supreme Court’s Section 230 Case Could ‘Upend the Internet’, Google Claims

An upcoming decision in the U.S. Supreme Court case regarding online social media companies’ liability for content posted on their platforms could transform the internet for the worse, Google said in a court filing. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Gonzalez v. Google next month and answer important questions surrounding the scope of Section…


Supreme Court’s Section 230 Case Could ‘Upend the Internet’: Google

An upcoming decision in the U.S. Supreme Court case regarding online social media companies’ liability for content posted on their platforms could transform the internet for the worse, Google said in a court filing. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Gonzalez v. Google next month and answer important questions surrounding the scope of Section…


Big Tech Adopts Communist China’s Tactics

This column is adapted from Ken Buck’s book, “Crushed: Big Tech’s War on Free Speech,” available January 17. Until recently most Americans probably didn’t think censorship occurred within our borders. They thought it happened in other places—China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Myanmar. These repressive countries limit and monitor speech to frightening degrees The…


[PREMIERING NOW] Google Has Programmed ‘Woke’ AI to Censor the Internet: Whistleblower

Google has been programming a “woke” artificial intelligence (AI) system that can censor the internet, according to Zach Vorhies, a former Google employee turned whistleblower. He explains that AI is at the heart of the future internet—determining what content is shown, how facts are weighed, and which voices should be suppressed. What Google is doing,…


Google Has Programmed ‘Woke’ AI to Censor the Internet: Whistleblower

Google has been programming a “woke” artificial intelligence (AI) system that can censor the internet, according to Zach Vorhies, a former Google employee turned whistleblower. He explains that AI is at the heart of the future internet—determining what content is shown, how facts are weighed, and which voices should be suppressed. What Google is doing,…