American “Big Tech” corporations are gaining massive profits through their control over business, labor, social media and entertainment in the Global South.
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Social Media Addiction short film 2017
Social media addiction short film 2017
Popular viral video firm sues Facebook over Russian propaganda label
The company behind In The Now, Soapbox and Waste-Ed is taking on media giant Facebook, who it claims is falsely labeling it as Russian state-controlled propaganda.
Freedom Rider: TikTok and the War on China
Every charge that Trump and his minions make against Chinese companies is true for US corporations, which have been spying on Americans and the rest of the world for decades.
Leaked documents reveal what TikTok shares with authorities – In the U.S.
A glimpse at what the social media platform does in the U.S. underscores that data privacy issues extend beyond China.
Twitter spreads paid U.S. gov’t propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads
Twitter says it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. However, U.S. government propaganda organs like Voice of America’s VOA Persian pay the social media corporation huge sums of money to spread disinformation against Iran and other foreign adversaries.
Having sucked America dry, tech giants seek new markets beyond reach of U.S. antitrust laws
An aggressive push to consolidate companies in the tech sector, coupled with the world’s ever-increasing dependence on digital platforms and tools, is quickly leading to a crisis of sovereignty.
Hawkish, Gov’t funded think tank behind Twitter decision to delete thousands of Chinese accounts
Twitter’s decision came after close collaboration with a deeply controversial U.S. and Australian government-funded think tank that has been denounced by Australia’s former ambassador in Beijing as “the architect of the China threat theory in Australia.”
Inauthentic behavior: SouthFront is the latest victim of the Facebook banhammer
The censorship of alternative media is becoming more widespread. The latest victim to fall to Facebook and YouTube’s overzealous banhammer is well-known conflict watchdog website, SouthFront.
