Alleged deployment of white phosphorus munitions in Raqqa, Syria. as reported by ISIS-linked Amaq news. (Photo: YouTube)

Facing Backlash, YouTube Reverses Censorship Of Syrian War Videos

A number of sites, including Middle East Eye, found videos removed for violating YouTube’s community guidelines after AI flagging.

Alex MacDonald

YouTube Under Fire After Mass Deleting Videos Deemed ‘Extremist Material’

Monitoring group and Syrian opposition videos and accounts have been removed for violating YouTube’s guidelines.

YouTube Under Fire After Mass Deleting Videos Deemed ‘Extremist Material’

YouTube is facing criticism after a new artificial intelligence program monitoring "extremist" content began flagging and removing masses of videos and blocking channels that document war crimes in the Middle East. Middle East Eye, the monitoring organization Airwars, and the open-source investigations site Bellingcat are among a number of sites

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CounterPunch: Google Censors Block Access To Alternative News

CounterPunch’s Eric Sommer on Google’s censorship of alternative news sites through de-ranking of Google search engine results.

CounterPunch: Google Censors Block Access To Alternative News

The U.S. government, and the information technology companies which collaborate with it, is moving fully into the camp of governments which relentlessly utilize the internet to collect users online data, monitor their activities, and control what they can see and do. First, there was – and is – the NSA, National Security Agency of the U.S.,

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YouTube Moves To Censor “Controversial” Content – Brings ADL On Board As Flagger

With the war between mainstream and independent media heating up, YouTube has weaponized a new content censorship program, calling it an effort to “fight terror content online.” With standards set by groups like the Anti-Defamation League, political agendas are sure to intrude.

YouTube Moves To Censor “Controversial” Content – Brings ADL On Board As Flagger

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA -- Ever since “fake news” found its place among the various explanations used by the Clinton campaign and supporters to account for their candidate’s loss, there has been a quiet but concerted effort on the part of establishment media, technology, and telecommunications companies

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a MintPress contributor who has written for several news organizations in both English and Spanish; her stories have been featured on ZeroHedge, the Anti-Media, 21st Century Wire, and True Activist among others - she currently resides in Southern Chile.

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Israeli Spyware Found Mining User Data On Google Play

Google said the spyware dubbed “Lipizzan” was developed by Israeli start-up Equus Technologies.

Israeli Spyware Found Mining User Data On Google Play

Security researchers at Google have discovered a highly sophisticated spyware specialized in stealing users’ data that appears to have been developed by an Israeli company.

Google said the spyware dubbed “Lipizzan” was developed by Israeli start-up Equus Technologies which claims that

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Wikileaks: Google Provided Tools To Bolster Ranks Of al-Qaeda

U.S. intelligence agencies’ use of technological innovation to further their agenda is not a revelation in itself. But WikiLeaks’ disclosure of collusion between the State Department and Google has a dark twist, as the former used tech created by the latter to help al-Qaeda gain new recruits.

Wikileaks: Google Provided Tools To Bolster Ranks Of al-Qaeda

MINNEAPOLIS-- Documents that were released last year by WikiLeaks have shed light on Google’s role in supporting al-Qaeda and other extremist groups that have been operating in Syria for the first few years of the country’s ongoing conflict. Specifically, emails between Jared

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Google Puts CNN, Washington Post, NYT In Charge Of Fact-Checking News

Currently, the growing list of 115 organizations includes the likes of CNN, The Washington Post, NBC, CBS, and The New York Times, to name a few.

Google Puts CNN, Washington Post, NYT In Charge Of Fact-Checking News

Google announced Friday that it’s adding a special feature to its news service — Fact Check. Searchers will now know who checked the validity of a news story and the conclusion they arrived at. The Fact Check tag

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