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YouTube has expanded its ban of channels ‘associated with’ Russian state-run media globally 11 March 2022 | Nat Rubio-Licht | Protocol YouTube is now blocking access to channels “associated with” Russian state-run media globally, expanding its previous ban that only covered Europe, the company tweeted on Friday. The ban goes into effect immediately, YouTube said in its…
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The order also applies to any individual who shares RT content. 10 March 2022 | JULIAN CLOVER | Broadband TV News EU sanctions aimed at silencing disinformation from Kremlin-backed organisations such as Russia Today require Google to remove them from its search results, it has emerged. Last week, the European Union outlawed the transmission of…
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Congressional hearings on “extremist content” on the internet were replete with demands for social media companies to take decisive action in censoring “harmful content.” 21 NOVEMBER 2017 HAWKINS BAY James Porteous 21 November 2017 | Trevon Austin| WSWS “All but admitting that Google is engaged in censorship, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google’s parent company…
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Now more than ever, labor is tech and union drives at Amazon and grassroots movements like #appletoo are fighting for worker rights. Photo: Some union workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama lost their union vote by more than a 2:1 ratio earlier this year. | Photo: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images 03 September…
Artwork: James Porteous The market value of Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook is now worth more than a third of the entire S&P 500 index of America’s 500 largest traded companies 27 July 2021 | Rupert Neate and Dominic Rushe | The Guardian Google, Apple and Microsoft reported record-breaking quarterly sales and profits on Tuesday night as the firms continue…
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28 June 2021 | Jeran Wittenstein and Sarah Frier | Bloomberg via The OCR Facebook shares posted their biggest intraday gain in two months after it won a dismissal of two antitrust cases, pushing its market value above $1 trillion for the first time. The social-media giant jumped as much as 4.4%, the most since…
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Photo: SITELAB urban studio, Google San Fernando Street area of Google’s proposed Downtown West transit-oriented neighborhood in downtown San Jose, showing buildings in the project near a light rail line and existing building, concept 26 May 2021 | Maggie Angst | Mercury News Downtown San Jose is headed for a kind of revival that has…
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