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Elon Musk acquires Twitter, immediately fires top executives
Eventually, the chickens come home to roost. For Twitter, they began roosting on Thursday when Elon Musk acquired Twitter and fired…
Free speech proponent Elon Musk acquires Twitter for $44 billion
Twitter today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk, for…
Elon Musk poised to take over Twitter, promote free speech
Twitter is poised to agree a sale to Elon Musk for around $43 billion in cash, the price the chief executive of Tesla has called his…
Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $41 billion, allow free speech
Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter outright with a $41 billion cash offer on Thursday. Musk says in order for free speech to…
NSO Group hacked new Pegasus victims weeks after Apple sought injunction
Security researchers say they have found evidence that a journalist and human rights defender’s iPhone was hacked with the Pegasus spyware…
Twitter appoints free speech advocate Elon Musk to its board
Twitter announced Tuesday it is appointing billionaire Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk to its board of directors, expanding the free speech…
Free speech advocate Elon Musk buys 9.2% stake in Twitter, becomes largest shareholder
Free speech advocate Elon Musk has bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter, according to a regulatory filing published Monday by the U.S. SEC…
Elon Musk: Starlink will not censor Russian news outlets
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted early Saturday morning that Starlink has been told by some governments to block Russian news…
President Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ app opens to beta testers ahead of expected launch
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s new social media app, “Truth Social,” has begun a beta rollout to about 500 beta testers who are now…
Rumble offers Joe Rogan $100 million to dump Spotify over censorship
Top podcaster Joe Rogan was offered $100 million on Monday by video sharing platform Rumble. Chris Pavlovski, the CEO of the…
President Trump’s Truth Social free speech app needs Apple and Google to survive
Close to its expected expected launch, former President Donald Trump’s new media venture, headlined by the ‘Truth Social’ free speech app…
EU looks to regulate ‘hate speech’ on social media
The European Union will work towards regulating social media platforms by establishing liability for “hate speech.”
Russia demands Apple, Google ban Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s app
Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has demanded that Apple and Alphabet’s Google ban Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s app…
President Trump sues Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet CEOs over being banned from their platforms
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced class action lawsuits against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and…
Apple CEO Tim Cook fears people not being able to ‘express themselves fully’
Tim Cook: They’ll begin to think less, they’ll begin to search less, they’ll begin to not express themselves fully…
Justice Thomas argues for regulating Google, Facebook, and Twitter as public utilities
Justice Thomas is laying out an argument for why companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google should be regulated as public utilities …
H&M erased from Apple Maps and other apps in China
As of Thursday, H&M had been wiped off Apple Maps in China and also removed from China’s leading e-commerce, ride-hailing, daily-deals…
Judge won’t force Amazon to restore web service to Parler
Amazon won’t be forced to restore web service to Parler after a federal judge ruled Thursday against a plea to reinstate the fast-growing…
Apple CEO Tim Cook to appear on ‘Fox News Sunday’ to discuss Parler, free speech, and more
Apple CEO Tim Cook will appear on Fox News Sunday. Cook will talk about Apple’s decision to remove Parler from the App Store, free speech…
Parler urges U.S. judge to order Amazon to restore its platform
Parler urged a U.S. judge on Thursday to order Amazon.com Inc to restore the company’s account, saying Amazon had no evidence…
U.S. AG Barr blasts Apple as ‘all too willing’ to cooperate with China
U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday said U.S. technology companies including Apple have been “all too willing” to collaborate with China’s CCP…
Apple pulls U.S. podcast platform Pockets Casts from China App Store
Pockets Casts, ranked 85th most popular in the podcast news app section on Apple’s U.S website, said on Wednesday its app had been taken down from…
Apple-backed tech group’s lawsuit says President Trump’s social media order is unconstitutional
An advocacy group backed by Apple filed a lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his executive order that would remove or change…
Apple gets ‘striking warning’ from shareholders over China app takedowns
An Apple shareholder proposal that was critical of the company’s takedowns of virtual private network (VPN) apps in China received a notably high…
Apple shareholders defeat proposal over Chinese app removals
At the Apple shareholders meeting on Wednesday, voters defeated a proposal critical of the company’s removal of apps at the request of the Chinese…
Apple faces shareholder vote over Chinese app removals
Apple shareholders today will vote on a proposal critical of the company’s decisions to remove apps at the request of the Chinese government…
Apple declines to testify at second congressional hearing probing tech’s ties to China
Apple and TikTok have each declined a request from U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) to testify at a March congressional hearing that would have probed…
U.S. senator blasts Apple for ‘risking compromise to authoritarianism’ in China
A key U.S. senator warned that Apple and the Chinese-owned music-video app TikTok are threats to international data security…
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz blasts Apple, ‘desperate to make a buck in China,’ for prioritizing profits over principles
I don’t think U.S. companies should be willing to aid and abet oppression and censorship by the Communist government…
Apple CEO Tim Cook joins influential Beijing university board as company’s China woes continue
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been appointed as the chairman of the advisory board at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing, a role which offers access to state leaders…
Ted Cruz, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among U.S. lawmakers urging Apple to restore Hong Kong police activity tracking app
First Apple pulled the HKmap Live app. Then they reinstated it. Then China criticized Apple, warning of “consequences,” so Apple CEO Tim Cook quickly kowtowed and pulled it again…
Apple CEO Cook meets China regulator after pulling Hong Kong police activity tracking app
Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook met the chief of China’s market regulator in Beijing on Thursday, the Chinese agency said…
Apple accedes to China’s despotic demands
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has said that “companies should have values, just like people do.”
Apple execs told Apple TV+ content creators not to portray China negatively
Apple’s recent actions in China are a continuation of the company’s years-long practice of appeasing Beijing. To do business in China..
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s continued kowtowing to China is a very bad look
China poses a triple threat to Apple. First, the escalating trade war between the US and China…
Want Facebook to censor speech? Be careful what you wish for
The only figure as capable as Donald Trump of spinning up an instant and frantic media cycle these days is Mark Zuckerberg…
Chinese Apple iCloud accounts are now based in a state-run cloud
Apple users in China have had their data migrated to a local cloud, run by the Red State’s mobile telecoms provider…
Pew Research survey: Majority of Americans believe social media platforms censor political views
In the midst of an ongoing debate over the power of digital technology companies and the way they do business,…
Telegram says Apple has prevented it from updating its messaging app since April
Apple has prevented the Telegram messaging service from updating globally ever since Russia ordered Apple…
Russia wants Apple to pull Telegram off Russian App Store – or else
Apple and Russia are locked in a stand-off over the company’s App Store…
Apple removes apps with CallKit framework from the App Store in China
It’s been nearly a year since Apple began removing all VPN apps from the App Store in China…
