Mexican authorities warned this Tuesday about the use of online gaming platforms on mobile phones, where criminal groups enter to convince young people and involve them in illicit activities.
The Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection (SSPC), through the General Directorate of Service Management, Cybersecurity and Technological Development, explained in a statement that the “growth of this sector is due to the easy access and versatility of smartphones.”
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A newly updated study concludes that the popular Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok suppresses anti-China content and influences user opinion on the communist country’s human rights record and society, likely manipulating its algorithm.
The study from researchers from Rutgers University and the Network Contagion Research Institute, follows preliminary findings from the group released in August and is now backed by more evidence than before.
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Meta is ending its fact-checking program in the U.S. and replacing it with a system similar to the one used by the X platform.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, announced the policy overhaul and assured the platform would work with the incoming administration and return to the company’s foundational values and roots.
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The United Football League (UFL) announced its full 2025 game schedule on Thursday, adding that the league’s media partners – FOX, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, FS1, FOX Deportes, and ESPN Deportes – will broadcast all 43 games.
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Reflecting back on 2024 and looking forward to a future with less misinformation and more facts, Just Facts has summarized 50 false or misleading claims spread by journalists, commentators, and so-called fact checkers during the past year.
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Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who next month will begin overseeing the Senate’s most powerful investigative body, says the government’s vaccine safety system is no longer protecting Americans adequately because of conflicts of interest and lack of transparency, and he is vowing to work with the incoming Trump administration to press for sweeping reforms.
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It’s no secret that many of the tech giants operate as monopolies, and one of the worst offenders is Microsoft. The Federal Trade Commission recently launched an antitrust investigation against Bill Gates’s creation, alleging it works unfairly to stifle competition and control various sectors of the tech market. The FTC wants to inquire into how Microsoft offers its cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity products. The agency is particularly concerned with the tech giant’s bundling services that kneecap the competition.
There is some uncertainty about whether the FTC will continue the investigation under the new Trump administration. It was launched by current FTC chair Lina Khan, a notorious leftist rightfully distrusted by conservatives. But while many of her initiatives should be discarded by Andrew Ferguson, Trump’s pick to replace her, the Microsoft investigation is not one of them. It aligns with conservative priorities on correcting Big Tech malfeasance.
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The Anti-Defamation League got a lump of coal in its stocking from a Texas judge known for frustrating a wide range of progressive priorities, from redefining sex to include gender identity in Title IX and Obamacare coverage requirements to “ghost gun” rules and vaccine mandates.
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The corporate media attempted to discredit any concerns about President Joe Biden’s mental acuity following the release of a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report from June detailing the president’s decline.
The WSJ detailed in a Thursday article that White House aides and advisers handled Biden’s responsibilities as his mental health waned, with some cabinet advisers revealing that they met with advisers rather than the president himself. Six months earlier, the paper published a damning June 5 piece titled, “Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs Of Slipping,” outlining several accounts of many who shared their concerns about the president’s age and mental acuity from a wide range of sources.
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In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential victory, Big Tech companies became central hubs of the so-called “resistance” against him, firing up censorship and deplatforming campaigns, culminating in the then-former president’s banishment from Facebook and Twitter after the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google founder Sergei Brin famously led thousands of employees in protest against Trump’s immigration policies. During the 2020 campaign, Big Tech platforms even censored discussions of the Hunter Biden laptop story in order to curry favor with his father and Trump’s opponent — former Vice President Joe Biden.
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