Category: Media & Big Tech

Trump to Join Fox News’ Sean Hannity for 2nd Town Hall

Former President Donald Trump, the current frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, is set to partake in a town hall hosted by Fox News next week, NTD has learned. A spokesperson for the network confirmed with NTD early Friday that the event is set to be pre-taped in Clive, Iowa, on June 1…


Twitter Engineering Chief Resigns Day After DeSantis Campaign Launch Glitches

A senior Twitter engineer resigned on Thursday following glitches that marred the highly anticipated Twitter Spaces event in which Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced his presidential bid. Foad Dabiri, whose LinkedIn profile says he is Twitter’s engineering lead for growth, announced his resignation but did not mention what prompted the move. In his resignation statement,…


News Outlets Falsely Claim Biden Inauguration Poem Banned From Florida School

Multiple news outlets falsely reported that a poem read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration was banned from a school in Florida. The Associated Press, the Guardian, and USA Today were among the outlets making the false claims. “Amanda Gorman’s poem for Biden’s inauguration banned by Florida school,” the Associated Press reported. “Amanda Gorman ‘gutted’ after…


Tucker Carlson Named Most Popular Individual Americans Follow for News in Survey

Tucker Carlson was named the most popular individual that Americans follow for the news in a recent survey, potentially delivering a warning to Fox News after he exited the network last month. In a Gallup survey, Americans were asked about who they watch or follow the most to obtain their information. Carlson was ranked No….


Facebook Owner Meta Slashes Business Operations Staff in Final Round of Mass Layoffs

Meta Platforms Inc., owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, slashed jobs across its business and operations units on Wednesday as part of a plan announced last fall to eliminate 10,000 jobs in the course of a broader restructuring program. Dozens of Meta employees from enterprise engineering, marketing, corporate communications, site security, program management, and content…


EU Seeks Top Court Backing in $14 Billion Tax Fight Against Apple

LUXEMBOURG—EU competition regulators appealed to the bloc’s highest court on Tuesday to override a lower tribunal and make Apple pay a record 13 billion euros ($14.3 billion) in Irish back taxes. The case, which has far-reaching implications for corporate tax bills, is the most high-profile of EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager’s campaign against sweetheart deals…


Apple Inks Multi-Billion-Dollar Deal With Broadcom for US-Made Chips

Apple Inc. on Tuesday said it has entered a multi-billion-dollar deal with chipmaker Broadcom Inc. to use chips made in the United States. Under the multi-year deal, Broadcom will develop 5G radio frequency components with Apple that will be designed and built in several U.S. facilities, including Fort Collins, Colorado, where Broadcom has a major…


China-Backed Hackers Targeting Critical US Infrastructure, Microsoft and Five Eyes Warn

A Chinese cyber espionage group has been targeting a wide range of networks across U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, from telecommunications to transportation hubs, since at least mid-2021, according to Microsoft and various cybersecurity agencies under the Five Eyes alliance. Microsoft announced on Wednesday that the “stealthy and targeted malicious activity” is carried out by Volt Typhoon,…


Reporters Pushed Twitter to Change System, Shared ‘Intel’ on Competitor: Twitter Files

Reporters helped Twitter develop products and shared intelligence on a major competitor, according to newly released internal Twitter files. Reporters from NBC, Fox News, the New York Times, and Reason, including NBC’s Ben Collins, helped Twitter develop its Birdwatch “fact-checking” tool, according to one of the files. Collins and a slew of other reporters later…


Russia Extends Arrest of US Journalist Evan Gershkovich by 3 Months

MOSCOW—A Russian court on Tuesday extended the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich by three months in a closed-door hearing emblematic of the secrecy that has marked the case against the first United States correspondent since the Cold War to be detained in Russia on spying charges. Gershkovich, a 31-year-old American citizen, was…