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.
from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept Luminar Neo is an easy-to-use photo editing software that empowers photography lovers to express the beauty…
from the these-things-never-end-well dept Elon Musk is having a very bad week. The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to…
from the kavanaugh-stops dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration…
AI models may be a bit like humans, after all.A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas…
from the when-no-one-is-left-but-the-loyalists… dept The “appearance of impropriety” doesn’t bother this administration. It prefers open impropriety, having learned the wrong…
from the no-conflict,-no-interest dept There are levels of corruption, and then there’s whatever the hell this is. Donald Trump is…
European roboticists today released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that acts as a brain for industrial robots—helping them grasp…
from the everything-is-somehow-about-me dept If Elon Musk probably has a superpower, it isn’t his engineering or business savvy. It’s probably…
Eventually, they claimed that they came to believe that they were “responsible for exposing murderers,” and were about to be…
from the see,-men? dept Look, folks, I’m sorry, but RFK Jr. is going to force us to talk about sperm.…
from the thank-you-germany dept Just days after we wrote about the EU’s renewed push for chat control, Germany has delivered…
from the rousing-rabble dept As you know, we talk a lot about decentralization and protocols over platforms. When it comes…