Freedom IndexTech & Big Tech
Tech & Big Tech examines the influence of major technology companies and digital platforms on free speech. From content moderation and AI-driven policies to antitrust debates, this category uncovers how tech giants shape online expression and public discourse.
It all began, as these things often do, with an Instagram ad. “No one tells you this if you’re an…
Today’s high school students face an uncertain road ahead. AI is changing what skills are valued in the job market,…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok are pushing Russian state propaganda from sanctioned entities—including citations from Russian state…
There’s a fluffy robot, about the size of a guinea pig, sitting on my couch, and it’s squeaking. My friend’s…
As you’re hunting through real estate listings for a new home in Franklin, Tennessee, you come across a vertical video…
from the so-it-went dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020, hypocrisy was on full display as the GOP went…
The cloud giant Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday leading to cascading outages that took down wide…
An increasingly popular solution is the inclusion of a solar panel to keep that battery topped up, enabling you to…
from the booted dept Way back in Trump’s first term, back when he was still claiming he was going to…
from the well,-there-you-go-again dept Donald Trump just cut off all trade negotiations with Canada because an Ontario ad campaign quoted…
Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange…
from the this-won’t-end-well dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed…