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Project Veritas confirms the manipulation of YouTube’s trending algorithms
One James confirms the suspicion of another James.
James O’Keefe III and his team at Project Veritas has verified what many other rational thinkers, including James Damore, have long theorized about big tech companies. Companies such as Alphabet (YouTube, Google) and Facebook have had their internal offices infiltrated with postmodernist zeal… Read more
The Yahoo! and Equifax hacks teach the Internet a valuable lesson, but the students aren’t listening
Yahoo! recently revealed that all of its 3 billion accounts were compromised, up from its initial estimate of 1 billion.
… Read more“Whether it’s 1 billion or 3 billion is largely immaterial. Assume it affects you,” Curry said. “Privacy is really the victim here.”
Yahoo first disclosed the breach in December . The stolen informat
Exploiting the “big data” monopoly: YouTube, Google and Facebook are vulnerable in ways small startups are not
“Big data” is a relatively new domain in software. Programming languages such as Python and R have sharply risen in popularity as they specialize in statistical analysis of large data sets. Fluency in these languages is a requirement for aspiring employees of Alphabet (YouTube/Google) and Facebook.
“Big data” only exist… Read more
Former Google software engineer James Damore points out the politicization of big tech companies
James Damore is a former Google (parent company Alphabet) software engineer that was fired for sharing his thoughts on discriminatory hiring practices within the company and his suggestions on how to better attract diverse talent.
To prepare for a series of upcoming blog posts on how big tech and social media firms are becoming increasingly detrimental t… Read more
The hidden cost of Facebook, Google and other “free” services
In yesterday’s post about the Equifax hack, I referenced a video by Computing Forever that describes the technocratic dystopia where the information users voluntarily put in to “free” online services like Facebook is nefariously being used against the users.
Facebook and Google own a large market share of the Internet user base beca… Read more
Google Aims to Block Fake News, but who determines what fake news is?
… Read moreIn the wake of complaints about rampant misinformation affecting the presidential election, Alphabet, Inc. (GOOGL) subsidiary Google announced on Monday that it is working on an update that will restrict ad-selling software from appearing on fake news sites.
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Social media giant Facebook, Inc. (FB) and to a lesser degree Twitter, Inc. (TWTR) h