Tech entrepreneur John Matze set out to fix the divisive discourse that is prominent on so many social media platforms with the recently launched app Hedgehog. “Hedgehog is a community we built for everyday Americans to get the biggest news of the day and have quality discussion about it,” Matze told Fox News Digital. Matze co-founded Parler in 2018, and …
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Some of us are more paranoid than others about what our phones are listening to and what they do with that information. We’re giving away a $799 iPhone 15.Enter to win now! Advertisers and data brokers know so much about you … They don’t need to listen to discover your secrets. Still, you better believe it’s happening. Worry not. I’m …
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed two measures into law on Thursday that are aimed at better protecting personal data online from Big Tech, including a bill making Maryland the second state to try to create strong limits on information collected on children. The measure, known as the Maryland Kids Code, seeks to limit data that could be collected from children …
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Facebook has “interfered” with elections in the United States at least 39 times since 2008, according to a study by the Media Research Center. Last month, MRC Free Speech America researchers found that Google “interfered” with elections in the United States 41 times over the last 16 years. The team then set its sights onto Facebook and concluded that although …
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is staying silent on a Democrat-led bill moving through the legislature that would create a “link tax” requiring big tech companies, like Google, to pay media companies for linking to their pages. Last week, Google began removing news links to news pages while the legislation, dubbed the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), is under consideration. The bill, …
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One of TikTok’s largest pro-Democratic Party political accounts that once campaigned heavily for President Biden has soured on him ahead of the 2024 election, according to a new report. Politico reported that the leaders of “Gen Z for Change” –formerly known as “TikTok for Biden” during Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign – are disillusioned with him because he has violated his …
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As the Senate mulls a TikTok ban, the real fight could turn out to be between presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Trump is not in favor of a House bill that would ban TikTok if the platform is not sold to a company without ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The position is a shift …
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EXCLUSIVE – A new parental rights group is launching a seven-figure ad buy that accuses TikTok of being a portal to content harmful to childrens’ mental health “while collecting vast amounts of personal data from its users, including minors.” The national television “TikTok is poison” ad simultaneously jumpstarted a new organization, American Parents Coalition (APC), launched Wednesday, that seeks to …
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Social media users were shocked and slightly bemused at Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s comments on the First Amendment Monday. The Supreme Court heard Murthy v. Missouri, a case challenging the Biden administration’s alleged coordination with Big Tech to censor certain messages. The case stemmed from a lawsuit brought by Republican-led states Missouri and Louisiana that accused high-ranking government …
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