Apple, Facebook, and Spotify yank Alex Jones’ Infowars for hate speech

Having previously offered international platforms to fringe conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website Infowars, tech companies Apple, Facebook and Spotify each took steps to block access to their content late yesterday, reports Buzzfeed News. The companies each said that Jones’ content was pulled for containing “hate speech.”…Read More

Facebook will (soon) yank third-party ad data in the name of privacy

Your likes (or general actions) on FB are continuously being applied to the company’s machine-learning model. (credit: JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images) In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and rising public pressure against Facebook, the social media giant announced on Wednesday evening that it will restrict how much data advertisers can have access to. Facebook […]

Canadian officials believe that Trump is going to yank the US out of NAFTA

Evan Vucci/AP Canada is increasingly convinced that U.S. President Donald Trump will soon announce that the United States intends to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, two government sources said on Wednesday. The sources said they expected Trump would make his move at about the same time that negotiators from the United […]

Parents yank kids from class over Ivanka Trump’s Connecticut school visit

Published time: 20 Dec, 2017 19:05 Edited time: 20 Dec, 2017 19:06 Ivanka Trump’s visit caused a stir at a Connecticut high school, with some parents reportedly pulling children out of class and complaining little advance notice was given. The visit by the first daughter to Norwalk Early College Academy at Norwalk High School wasn’t […]