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U.S. Tech Giants Are Too Big, Too Powerful and Now Are Running Into Serious Trouble
U.S. Tech Giants Are Too Big, Too Powerful and Now Are Running Into Serious Trouble Within Google, knowledge about Dragonfly has been restricted to just a few hundred members of the internet giant’s 88,000-strong workforce, said a source with knowledge of the project. The source spoke to The Intercept on condition of anonymity, as they […]
The Big Social Media Companies Are Being Used As A Weapon To Advance The Agenda Of The New World Order
The Big Social Media Companies Are Being Used As A Weapon To Advance The Agenda Of The New World Order In 2018, we have seen an unprecedented crackdown on anti-establishment voices on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. When they were first created, these social media platforms were essentially neutral, and they really did greatly contribute to […]
The Economy is Cracking Up. Are You?
The Economy is Cracking Up. Are You? Economic cracks big enough to drive a car industry into are opening up all over the globe. Trade gaps are opening up between major allies. Widening spreads between the dollar and other currencies are shredding emerging markets. As we start into summer, these cracks and several others described […]
Amazon’s Fusion With the State Shows Neoliberalism’s Drift to Neo-Fascism
Amazon’s Fusion With the State Shows Neoliberalism’s Drift to Neo-Fascism In Part 1 of our investigative series on Surveillance Capitalism, MPN spoke to author Yasha Levine and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster about the rise of the Amazon.com empire and its fusion with the U.S. state apparatus. In our next installments, we will continue […]
Google and Facebook Are Quietly Fighting California’s Privacy Rights Initiative, Emails Reveal
Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK ARE QUIETLY FIGHTING CALIFORNIA’S PRIVACY RIGHTS INITIATIVE, EMAILS REVEAL LOBBYISTS FOR THE largest technology and telecommunications firms have only three days to prevent the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, a ballot initiative that would usher in the strongest consumer privacy standards in the country, from going before state voters […]
Facebook Wants To Spy On You Via Hidden Inaudible TV Ad Messages
Facebook Wants To Spy On You Via Hidden Inaudible TV Ad Messages Social media giant Facebook continues to ramp up the creepy factor. According to a recently filed patent, Facebook wants to spy on you by hiding inaudible messages in TV ads. Facebook has filed a patent for a system that hides audio clips in […]
Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down the Iron Curtain on Yankeedom
Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down the Iron Curtain on Yankeedom Leading a double life When my partner, Barbara, first opened an account on Facebook, she used it in a way that most people in Yankeedom use it. Her network was an eclectic assortment of family, current and former workmates, new and old friends, neighbors and […]
Morgan Stanley: The Tech Bubble “Can Burst At Any Moment, Without Warning”
Morgan Stanley: The Tech Bubble “Can Burst At Any Moment, Without Warning” Earlier this week, Goldman Sachs, whose market-timing calls leave much to be desired, declared that tech stocks are “not a bubble”, and went so far as to predict that the secular increase in tech names could continue for decades, spawning vivid memories of […]
In Latest Privacy Scandal, Facebook Gave Apple, Amazon And Others Unprecedented Access To User Data
In Latest Privacy Scandal, Facebook Gave Apple, Amazon And Others Unprecedented Access To User Data Facebook has been giving user data to at least 60 major device manufacturers over the last decade – including Apple, Amazon, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Samsung – as part of a data-sharing partnership program which allowed the companies to integrate various features such as […]
Edward Snowden on Privacy in the Age of Trump and Facebook
Photo: Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times/Redux EDWARD SNOWDEN ON PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF TRUMP AND FACEBOOK EXACTLY FIVE YEARS ago this week, Edward Snowden absconded to Hong Kong with a trove of documents detailing the extent of the U.S. government’s global and domestic surveillance programs. He soon found himself in exile in Russia and […]
Facebook & Atlantic Council unite: Now social media giant serves NATO’s agenda
Facebook & Atlantic Council unite: Now social media giant serves NATO’s agenda © NurPhoto / Getty Images Facebook has engaged a think tank funded by weapons manufacturers, branches of the US military and Middle-Eastern monarchies to safeguard the democratic process. It’s akin to hiring arsonists to run the fire brigade. If Facebook truly wanted to “protect […]
Is Social Media Destroying Humanity on Purpose?
Is Social Media Destroying Humanity on Purpose? You may not be on social media yourself, but chances are your friends and family are. Some of us are on there for work purposes and some so we can keep in touch with loved ones who live far away. There are valid reasons we have accounts on […]
Social Media, Not Religion, The Opium Of The People
Social Media, Not Religion, The Opium Of The People Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. – Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique […]
How Facebook, Etc., Suppress Key Truths
How Facebook, Etc., Suppress Key Truths On April 23rd, the great independent investigative journalist, Craig Murray — a former British diplomat — headlined at his blog, “Condemned By Their Own Words”, and he posted there the translated-to-English transcript (excerpted below) to this Israeli radio Hebrew broadcast on April 21st, in which an Israeli Brigadier-General, named Fogel, explained why […]
Escape the Echo Chamber
Escape the Echo Chamber First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Something has gone wrong with the flow of information. It’s not just that different people are drawing subtly different conclusions from the same evidence. It seems like different […]
