by Adre's IT | 10 December, 2020 | 2020 Election, Adre's IT Blog, apple news, Policy, TC, YouTube
As Twitter and Facebook scrambled to institute new policies for the 2020 election, YouTube was… mostly quiet. The platform didn’t make any flashy announcements about a crackdown on election-related misinformation, nor did it really fully grapple with its...
by Adre's IT | 12 November, 2020 | 2020 Election, Adre's IT Blog, advertising, Boeing, EDPB, Facebook, TC
The election is settled, but the nation is far from it. Before Election Day in the U.S., Facebook hit pause on all political and social issue ads. At the time, the company made it clear that the precautionary measure designed to turn off one potential faucet of...
by Adre's IT | 10 November, 2020 | 2020 Election, Adre's IT Blog, censorship, TC, U.S. government
Chafing at new misinformation safeguards and a lost election, dejected Trump supporters flocked to the alternative social network Parler over the weekend. Parler’s homepage promises that users can “Speak freely and express yourself openly, without fear of...
by Adre's IT | 8 November, 2020 | 2020 Election, Adre's IT Blog, Boeing, monzo, TC
Following a tense week of vote tallying, Joe Biden won the state of Pennsylvania and vaulted ahead in the race to become the next president of the United States. Biden’s win in the critical state put him over the threshold of 270 electoral votes, cutting off all...
by Adre's IT | 6 November, 2020 | 2020 Election, Adre's IT Blog, apple news, contacts tracing, gig workers, Teslaquila, YouTube
Former presidential advisor and right-wing pundit Steve Bannon had his show suspended from Twitter and an episode removed by YouTube after calling for violence against FBI director Christopher Wray and the government’s leading pandemic expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci....
by Adre's IT | 6 November, 2020 | #Angels, 2020 Election, Adre's IT Blog, Automattic, costco, digital millennium copyright act, Facebook, General-Motors, gig workers, ikea, Marketing, Matt Blaze, national basketball association, operating systems, Politics, Quantified self, republican party, retailers, Seattle, Startups Weekly, TC, zte
Facebook has taken down a group that had amassed over 300,000 members and was sharing misinformation and organizing around false allegations of impropriety during the 2020 elections. The group, called “Stop the Steal 2020,” was organizing protests...
