Tag: US tech companies

Categories Journalism & Mass media

Are US spies behind Pandora Papers? And shady Facebook ‘whistleblower’ wants more censorship

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Moderate Rebels live: Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the Pandora Papers, how zero US politicians or billionaires were included, how the group behind it is funded by regime-change organizations and billionaires while working with US government front groups, and the CIA’s growing use of “hack-and-dump” operations. … Read More >Are US spies behind Pandora Papers? And shady Facebook ‘whistleblower’ wants more censorship

Categories Business

Apple cutting iPhone Christmas production by 10 million units due to chip shortage – media

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US tech giant Apple is reportedly planning to slash its iPhone production goals in 2021 amid growing shortage of semiconductors around the world. The news has triggered an immediate 1.2% drop in the company’s share value. … Read More >Apple cutting iPhone Christmas production by 10 million units due to chip shortage – media

Categories World

Android phones send device, user ‘identifier’ data to manufacturers & Big Tech firms offering ‘pre-installed’ apps, new study says

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Android OS devices transmit sensitive user data like handset serial numbers and app usage info to manufacturers like Samsung and third parties like Google, Microsoft and Facebook – even after consumers opt out, a new study shows. … Read More >Android phones send device, user ‘identifier’ data to manufacturers & Big Tech firms offering ‘pre-installed’ apps, new study says

Categories World

Not again?! Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp offline for second time in a week

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Social media giant Facebook, along with its subsidiaries Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, is offline for the second time in less than a week, leaving competitors to rescue its customers from an existential crisis. … Read More >Not again?! Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp offline for second time in a week

Categories Shows

This is ‘beginning of the end’ for Facebook – cybersecurity analyst

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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said in Congressional testimony on Tuesday that Facebook’s algorithm encourages people to watch angry, hateful and misleading content. She argued that the company places its $85 billion in annual revenue above the safety of its users, which is why congressional action is needed to curtail the social media giant lest it continue to “harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy.” … Read More >This is ‘beginning of the end’ for Facebook – cybersecurity analyst

Categories Russia

Catastrophic Facebook crash proves time for Russian internet sovereignty has come, Moscow announces after 6-hour network outage

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A massive internet crash that took out Facebook’s services, including Instagram and WhatsApp, shows that countries need to be less reliant on American tech giants and bolster their own domestic infrastructure, Moscow has said. … Read More >Catastrophic Facebook crash proves time for Russian internet sovereignty has come, Moscow announces after 6-hour network outage

Categories World

Facebook blames ‘faulty configuration change’ for massive outage amid calls to ‘break up’ tech giant

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Facebook has issued a mea culpa after disrupting the business and social interactions of millions of users as a Facebook-owned social media trio lagged for over six hours, while blaming an engineering error for the web apocalypse. … Read More >Facebook blames ‘faulty configuration change’ for massive outage amid calls to ‘break up’ tech giant

Categories Shows

Was Facebook sabotaged from the inside?

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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down just before noon on Monday, and the reasons remain mysterious. Their parent company has been under extra-harsh scrutiny lately, between its own research discovering the toxic effect of Instagram on the self-esteem of teen girls and new revelations, thanks to whistleblower and former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, that Facebook knowingly stokes public anger for the sake of profit. The sites didn’t begin to restore to life until seven hours later. … Read More >Was Facebook sabotaged from the inside?