August 1, 2020 By Brett Wilkins At Wednesday’s House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust hearing, tech CEOs Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Tim Cook of Apple and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet (Google’s parent company) took a beating from lawmakers who grilled them on everything from monopolistic business practices Read more…
By Brett Wilkins Coronavirus misinformation is making me sick. Conspiracy theorists and armchair epidemiologists are running rampant on social media. This, despite tech companies’ best efforts to cure this cancer. If you’re familiar with the work of Ethics In Tech, you know that we are highly and incessantly critical of Read more…
By Brett Wilkins Unintended Consequences of Technology (UCOT) founder and CEO Christopher Ategeka was a featured speaker at the All Tech Is Human conference at ThoughtWorks San Francisco on Saturday, September 21. The topic at hand was how to better regulate tech companies. “Tech companies have become so big, bigger Read more…
The world’s largest social media network has banned what it called “dangerous individuals” who are known to disseminate hate speech. Facebook announced on Thursday that individuals including Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, white nationalist Milo Yiannopoulos, and organizations and media outlets including Jones’ Infowars Read more…
Facebook said on Wednesday that it is setting aside $3 billion during the first quarter to pay down an expected Federal Trade Commission fine resulting from an investigation of the company’s privacy practices. The announcement came as the Menlo Park, California-based social media giant released better-than-expected first quarter financial results, Read more…
The world’s largest and most influential social media network has finally banned white nationalism and white separatism. Motherboard reports Facebook announced the major policy shift — under which white nationalist and white separatist posts will now be treated the same as white supremacist material — in a blog post on Read more…
Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren published a Medium post on Friday calling for the breakup of big technology companies in service of “protecting the future of the Internet” by encouraging competition and innovation. “Today’s big tech companies have too much power — too much power over our economy, our Read more…