• MRC’s Dan Schneider Says Google ‘Far More Effective’ at Censorship Than Facebook, Twitter

    MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider addressed Google censorship in the wake of a new bombshell MRC report exposing the tech giant’s years-long election interference to benefit Democrats. Schneider ripped Google apart for putting its thumb on the election scales during an appearance on Washington Watch with Tony Perkins on March 21. “One of the really dangerous things about Google is how it does it, all of this censorship, behind the wall within its dark box of algorithms,”...

  • MRC’s Dan Schneider Says Google ‘Far More Effective’ at Censorship Than Facebook, Twitter

    MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider addressed Google censorship in the wake of a new bombshell MRC report exposing the tech giant’s years-long election interference to benefit Democrats. Schneider ripped Google apart for putting its thumb on the election scales during an appearance on Washington Watch with Tony Perkins on March 21. “One of the really dangerous things about Google is how it does it, all of this censorship, behind the wall within its dark box of algorithms,”...

  • Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Spam Update Done, Patience With Core Update, Helpful Content Recoveries, Yahoo Search Coming & New Head Of Google Search

    This week we covered that the Google March 2024 spam update is done rolling out. Google says to wait for the March 2024 core update to be done before making changes. Google will collect feedback after the core and spam updates are done. We have yet to see any September 2023 helpful content recoveries, but there is still time to go. Google said publishing content in bulk is not considered spam. Google is having issues again with showing images in the search results. Google replaced the...

  • Google Pixel 9 leaks in new renders

    The Pixel 9 appeared in a new set of CAD-based renders suggesting that Google is going for a new approach to its phone launch schedule. We previously saw two sets of renders back in January which are now said to have been the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL. The new images show the same basic design as the Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL with a flat metal frame and revised camera island which now adopts an oval shape without warping into the frame like the visors on the previous two generations...

  • Google Invents a New Way to Stick It to Trump

    “When I tell you what a word means," Google Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."

  • First it was Facebook, then Twitter. Is Reddit about to become rubbish too?

    Reddit’s IPO is worrying for users – big money has a nasty habit of ruining our favourite sites, says digital culture journalist Hussein Kesvani

  • What is Grok? The new X/Twitter feature explained

    You may have come across the term Grok on X, formerly known as Twitter. Launched in November 2023 in select countries and for Premium+ users, Grok is a product of xAI, a startup founded by X’s controversial owner, Elon Musk. Grok, however, can be found on the X platform. To help make things less confusing, we’ve put together a guide on what Grok actually is, how it works and how users can access it.  What is Grok? Grok is an AI chatbot created by xAI. A startup launched by Elon Musk...

  • Transparency: New reports on Google and Amazon's advertising platforms

    The introduction of these transparency reports by Google and Amazon can be seen as a direct response to the upcoming Digital Markets Act (DMA).

  • Morning Digest: We've got new data for New York's new House map

    The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team. Subscribe to The Downballot, our weekly podcast Embedded Content Leading Off ● New York: With New York's new congressional map now in effect, Daily Kos Elections is rolling out a batch of updates to some of our most frequently used data sets. Up first is our chart of the results of the 2020 presidential election broken down by congressional...

  • The Google Pixel 8 is $230 off and down to a new record-low price

    There's good news for anyone looking to upgrade their phone as the Google Pixel 8 is currently down to a record-low price. Woot is running a 33 percent discount on the new Google Pixel 8 — one of our picks for 2024's best smartphones — dropping its cost to $470 from $700. The sale is on for the next five days or until the smartphone sells out.  The new Google Pixel 8 launched last October and scored a 90 in our review due to features like its Tensor G3 chip. Google claims the chip allows the...

  • EU Probes Apple, Google, Meta Under New Digital Law

    The EU on Monday hit Apple, Google parent Alphabet and Meta with the first ever probes under a mammoth digital law, which could lead to big fines against the US giants.Among six firms named as market "gatekeepers" under the EU's landmark Digital Markets Act -- along with Amazon, TikTok owner ByteDance and Microsoft -- the companies have been obliged to comply with the new law since March 7."We are not convinced that the solutions by Alphabet, Apple and Meta respect their obligations for a fairer...

  • Judge slams Twitter's attempt to silence hate speech watchdog

    Elon Musk's "thermonuclear lawsuits" against watchdog groups are turning out to be wet firecrackers. In a significant legal setback for Musk, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer has dismissed Twitter's lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a hate speech watchdog group that conducted a study exposing the proliferation of hate speech on the platform. — Read the rest