A media stupid season
It’s media stupid season. I know it’s hard to tell when it seems like every day is the same, but the last eight weeks of a close campaign are, I assure you, the dumbest.
This week alone we’ve seen PolitiFact’s chief correspondent “fact-check” former President Donald Trump for saying Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine had Trump still been in office.
Alexa Responds to Trump, Harris Questions Differently
U.K. Authority Closes Competition Probes Into Google, Apple App Stores
The U.K.’s antitrust authority closed investigations into Google’s Play Store and Apple’s AAPL 0.27 %increase; green up pointing triangle App Store as it prepares for the rollout of new rules that give the watchdog greater powers to boost competition in digital markets. The Competition and Markets Authority said Wednesday that it expects to consider competition concerns regarding the U.S. tech giants’ app stores under a new regulatory regime after the U.K.’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act was passed in May.
Letitia James Celebrates 'Major Victory' Against Google
New York Attorney General Letitia James has celebrated a "major victory" against Google after a court found that it maintained an illegal monopoly of online search engines.
"This decision is a major victory in our efforts to ensure all companies, no matter how powerful or influential, are held accountable when they harm others," James said in a statement.
How Google's huge defeat in antitrust case could change how you search the internet
In the most significant legal ruling against a major technology giant in more than two decades, a federal judge says Google illegally monopolized online search and advertising by paying companies like Apple and Samsung billions of dollars a year to install Google as the default search engine on smartphones and web browsers.
Google Is No Monopoly. It's Widely Used Because It's the Best
On Monday, a federal judge ruled that Google violated antitrust law and acted illegally in order to maintain its monopoly in online searches. There's just one glaring problem: Google isn't a monopoly—not even close.
AI Could Make the Google Court Decision Moot
In a decision by the District Court of the U.S. District of Columbia, Google has been found guilty of monopolizing its leadership in online search by its exclusive deals with browser providers. These deals, the court says, entrenched a position it had won by being the best search engine, keeping competitors from being able to challenge its position. The decision relies on the fact that very few people take advantage of the ability to change their default browser search engines.
Google Says Trump Shooting Search Result Issues Due to Bugs, Algorithm
Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has attributed failures in its search engine results about former President Donald Trump and the recent attempt on his life to unspecified “bugs” and the search engine’s algorithm, according to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
Google users searching for information about the former president last week reported their queries returned news stories about Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump’s name was also noticeably absent from Google’s list of suggested queries when users searched for it or about the July 13 assassination attempt against Trump.
Are social media companies doing enough to tackle disinformation online? Join The Independent Debate
Separating the truth from the lies on social media is harder than ever, with last week’s headlines providing a pointed example of how quickly platforms can be used to spread disinformation.
As families mourned the death of three young girls killed in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, riots broke out stoked by disinformation about the suspect’s identity.
Facebook admits it wrongly censored iconic photo of bleeding Trump pumping his fist after assassination attempt: ‘This was an error’
Facebook acknowledged that it mistakenly censored the iconic image of former President Donald Trump with his fist raised in the immediate aftermath of the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
A post on Mark Zuckerberg’s social media site by a user with the handle End Wokeness that showed the Republican presidential candidate defiantly pumping his fist in the air while blood streams down his face had initially been flagged as misinformation.
The user was threatened with being deplatformed.