Epic Games has extended its legal battle with Google to Australia, pursuing the tech giant over anti-competitive practices, after the developer’s hit game ‘Fortnite’ was removed from the store last year. Epic Games has previously sued both Google and Apple over alleged anti-competitive practices in the United States and Europe. It comes as the Australian regulator…
Epic Games’ Google Lawsuit Extends Down Under, Amid Tech Giant’s App Store Dominance
Australian Regulator Begins Probing Google’s Search Browser Dominance
Following its acrimonious battle with Google and Facebook over media payment laws, the Australian regulator is now targeting the dominance of Google’s search engine and web browser services. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is seeking submissions from stakeholders, including consumers and industry participants, to examine the possibility of mandating “choice screens” in all…
Video: James O’Keefe, Ryan Hartwig, and Zach Vorhies on Blowing the Whistle on Big Tech
March 5, 2021
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“Even if we are removed from these platforms, we still have to be talked about on these platforms…The stories have to be strong enough [to] force them to talk about it,” says James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas. Project Veritas was recently permanently suspended by Twitter. At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), we sat…
Google Vows to Stop Targeting Ads Based on Tracked Browsing History
In a drastic shift of its core business model, Google on Wednesday said it will stop tracking individual user’s web browsing history in order to sell targeted ads. Over the past decades, Google has helped build an online digital advertising ecosystem based on tracking users across the internet and using that data to make marketing…
Censorship ‘the Biggest Problem’ Republicans Face Right Now: Rep. Nunes
February 27, 2021
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Censorship of people by Big Tech is “probably the the biggest problem that we face right now in this country, as a party,” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said Friday. People being kicked off websites such as Facebook and Twitter leave them without “a communications architecture” and struggling to communicate, Nunes told The Epoch Times’ “Crossroads”…
Facebook VP Nick Clegg Defends Tech Giant’s Australian News Ban
February 26, 2021
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Facebook’s Vice President of Global Affairs has defended the tech giant’s Australian news ban, saying it was “legally necessary” to do so before impending media payment laws were legislated through the country’s Parliament. Clegg, who is a former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom, wrote in a blog just hours after the news ban was…
Australian Parliament Passes Contentious ‘World First’ Media Payment Law
February 24, 2021
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The contentious “world-first” media payment law that spurred Facebook to censor news content in Australia will soon be in force after the Australian federal Parliament ratified it on Thursday. The media payment law locks Google and Facebook into a framework where eligible news outlets in Australia, with a minimum revenue of $150,000, can enter negotiations…
Australia Passes ‘World First’ Google, Facebook Media Payment Law
February 24, 2021
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The contentious “world-first” media payment law that spurred Facebook to censor news content in Australia will soon be in force after the Australian federal Parliament ratified it on Thursday. The media payment law locks Google and Facebook into a framework where eligible news outlets in Australia, with a minimum revenue of $150,000, can enter negotiations…
Big Tech Employees Donated More To Biden’s Campaign Than Any Other Sector
February 23, 2021
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Employees at Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Alphabet, Google’s parent company, donated at least $15.1 million to President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, according to Open Secrets. The donations eclipsed the amount given from employees in the banking and legal sectors, according to The Wall Street Journal. The five companies were also the largest fundraising sources…
Facebook Reverses News Ban on Australia
February 23, 2021
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Facebook has decided to reverse its sweeping ban on news content in Australia after the tech giant and the federal government agreed to amendments to the impending media payment law. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the Australian government have been engaged in eleventh-hour discussions since the ban came into place last Thursday. By Tuesday Eastern…
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