insert_link Tech Made Simple Twitter permanently bans Trump; Facebook and Twitch disable him “indefinitely” Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump on Friday, days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol leaving five dead. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” Twitter said in a statement Friday. The ban comes after the president incited a mob that broke into the US Capitol […] todayJanuary 11, 2021
insert_link Tech Made Simple Big Tech rakes it in during the pandemic, and Apple is on top in the world Apple is now the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, passing Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco. According to CNBC, as of close of business Friday, Apple has a market valuation of $1.84 trillion, while Saudi Aramco’s is $1.76 trillion. Apple’s stock, which has been on a largely-steady climb since the end of March, closed up more than 10 percent on Friday following the company’s record-breaking third-quarter earnings on […] todayAugust 5, 2020
insert_link Tech Made Simple FTC Finally makes it Official: Cambridge Analytica Deceived Facebook Users The Federal Trade Commission has officially ruled that Cambridge Analytica deceived consumers through its data-gathering practices. In July, the FTC accused the consulting company, as well as CEO Alexander Nix and app developer Aleksandr Kogan, of collecting data on tens of millions of Facebook users through a personality-testing app. The news, first revealed in 2018, upended Facebook and led to a congressional appearance by Mark Zuckerberg. The FTC previously settled […] todayDecember 11, 2019
insert_link Food & Drink What do the World’s Wealthiest People Eat for Breakfast? People sometimes forget that billionaires are human just like us. Just because they make a substantial amount of money doesn’t change the fact that they need to eat, you know, just like the rest of us. However, with the world at their fingertips, what do these billionaires choose to eat on a daily basis? Do they go through a drive-thru or hire a personal chef? Here’s the scoop on what […] todayApril 4, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Snopes Breaks Up with Facebook Snopes, a fact-checking organization, announced on Friday its decision to end its partnership with Facebook, which has been ramping its efforts to curb misinformation on its services since the 2016 U.S. election. Facebook and Snopes had been working together since December 2016 to fact check content on the social network, reportedly paying the debunking giant as much as $100,000 for the work in 2017 alone. Snopes issued a statement […] todayFebruary 5, 2019
insert_link Tech Made Simple Facebook Takes More Drastic Measures Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is trying to tackle the rabid spread of sensational content on its site by taking “more drastic measures.” In a conference call with the media last week, Zuckerberg stated, “People naturally engage with more sensational content. What we see is that as content gets closer to the line of what is prohibited by our community standards, people seem to engage with it more.” By […] todayNovember 19, 2018
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