Miller announced the project to Fox News on Sunday, saying that Trump’s platform would be ready for launch in “two or three months.” Trump was banned from his platform of choice, Twitter, in January. After a crowd of his supporters stormed the US Capitol to protest the certification of President …
Read More »Laura Loomer: As a Jewish woman, I can tell you Gab is NOT an anti-Semitic platform
You know what they say? Everything is bigger in Texas, and that seems to also apply to the free speech hypocrisy that was just displayed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has spent the last few weeks touting himself and his state as a place where free speech would be …
Read More »Disgraced establishment journalists, Big Tech attack independent platform Substack in ever-expanding definition of ‘harassment’
What began on Tuesday as an online campaign against Fox News host Tucker Carlson – for “harassing” the Times internet reporter Taylor Lorenz by questioning her claims of victimhood – turned into an attack on Substack by Wednesday evening, as former BuzzFeed reporter Ryan Broderick penned a piece accusing the …
Read More »‘Cancel them before they cancel us’: Gab CEO says banks have banned platform due to media smears
The third bank to sever its relationship with the company in three weeks told Torba on Monday that they were doing so because of “all the bad things the press has written about Gab,” he said in an interview published by the conservative outlet National File. “We sell hats, shirts, …
Read More »‘We will not be canceled’: Social media platform Parler RELAUNCHES after being axed by Big Tech following Capitol riots
“We will not be canceled. Welcome back to Parler,” read a post on the platform’s own account after its interim CEO Mark Meckler confirmed earlier on Monday that it is now operating via a new server. Some of the site’s 20 million users have already logged in, with the rest …
Read More »Twitter users cry foul as platform mulls subscription service… but meltdown may be premature
In an effort to reduce its reliance on advertising, Twitter is exploring new ways of generating revenue, including the use of subscription fees for some services, Bloomberg reported. In a statement, the company confirmed that it was exploring the option of introducing paid features that would provide “enhanced opportunities for …
Read More »In Spotify, music listens to you: streaming platform wins patent to surveil users’ emotions to recommend music
Spotify has received a patent that will allow it to use speech recognition and sound analysis to assess a user’s demographic attributes, determine their emotional state, and even glean insight into their location. The information will be used – hypothetically, at least – to pick the perfect song to play …
Read More »Twitter rejected pleas to remove child porn from platform because it didn’t ‘violate policies,’ lawsuit claims
The suit, filed by the teenage victim and his mother in the Northern District of California on Wednesday, argues that Twitter refused to pull the sexually graphic videos on the grounds that they did not violate its policies, allowing them to rack up well over 150,000 views. The plaintiff in …
Read More »Alternative tech platform DLive cracks down on users amid media complaints about ‘extremist’ audience after Capitol storming
After Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, media organizations like the New York Times, Wired, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) took aim at DLive for hosting users who attended and supported the incident – branding the alternative tech platform an “extremist haven.” “DLive has paid …
Read More »Minds next? Google sends ‘24 hour warning’ to free-speech ‘anti-Facebook’ platform, forces changes to app
In a post on Friday evening, Bill Ottman said that Minds had received a “24 hour warning” from the Google Play store. This forced them to submit an updated version of the app, based on “interim solution and ninja developers,” which removed the search, discovery and comments functionality. “I know. …
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