Category: Media & Big Tech

Senior Intelligence Official Warns of TikTok’s Influence on US Citizens

U.S. National Security Agency Director Paul Nakasone has said he is concerned about what data Chinese-owned TikTok may be collecting on users and how it could influence American children. Nakasone expressed his concerns during testimony delivered before the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 7. Asked by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) about any worries he has about TikTok’s…


Musk Says Twitter Could Be Cash Flow-Positive Next Quarter

Twitter Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the company had “a shot” at being cash flow-positive next quarter, as the social media platform has been aggressively cutting costs. Musk, speaking at a Morgan Stanley investor conference that was webcast, said it was “startling” how poorly Twitter managed to make money off its messaging…


Amazon Worker Loses Bid for California Class Action Over Remote Work Expenses

Amazon.com Inc. on Tuesday defeated a proposed class action lawsuit on behalf of nearly 7,000 workers in California that claimed the company should have reimbursed employees who worked remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic for home office expenses. U.S. District Judge Vincent Chhabria in San Francisco said the named plaintiff, David Williams, failed to show that…


Weaponization of Government Panel Says FTC Orchestrated ‘Aggressive Campaign to Harass Twitter’

The House panel investigating the weaponization of the federal government said Tuesday the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has orchestrated “an aggressive campaign to harass Twitter” as part of its “unusual response” to Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social network. The Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government…


Twitter Glitches as Links, Images Fail to Load

SAN FRANCISCO—Twitter experienced a bevy of glitches for over an hour Monday as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in and images were not loading for others. The company said “Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.”…


Senator Pushes Labor Government to Keep up With Allies on TikTok Ban

The federal government is under pressure over its slow response to bans on Tiktok in the United States, Canada, and the European Union. The shadow minister for Cybersecurity and Countering Foreign Interference, Senator James Paterson, says the Labor government has been “inconsistent and haphazard” in its approach to national security. According to an audit by…


Tesla Says South Australia ‘Represents the Future’ for Battery Production

South Australia is now on the world map after Tesla’s senior executive said the Australian state was “the future” for renewable energy technologies. This comes as South Australia opened its first 12 out of 140 border-to-border electric car charging networks. “Australia is a little bit of a special case; they represent the future—South Australia in…


TikTok Sets 60-Minute Screen Time Limit for Minors

Social media app TikTok, popular among teens, has announced that it will soon limit screen time to 60 minutes a day for any user under the age of 18 in an effort to curb young people’s time on the platform. According to a statement on March 1, “every account” on the short-form video app belonging to a…


Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’

“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.” I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute. Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Jeffrey Tucker: $6 Trillion Created Unprecedented Inflation, All to Feed the ‘Lockdown Machine’

“While we slept—while we thought the world was just fine—what was actually happening was a tremendous distortion of the production structures.” I sit down with Jeffrey Tucker, senior economics columnist for The Epoch Times and founder and president of The Brownstone Institute. Tucker says labor supply problems are approaching catastrophic levels with historically low worker-to-population…