Elon Musk, the Omicron Puppy, and Satire That May Save Twitter
Pulling off the Hunter Biden laptop incident was comparatively easy for Twitter’s woke police. But this doesn’t work so well in a growing minefield of satire accounts and the people…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #213: Tech, Musk, and Philanthropy
Editor’s Note: Between recording and publication, Twitter announced that Musk would not be joining the Twitter board of directors. Hello, I’m Michael Watson and this is the InfluenceWatch Podcast.
Elon Musk’s Philanthropy Is Still Big Philanthropy
Boy-genius Elon Musk—of SpaceX, Tesla, and $5.7 billion in charitable gifts no one’s yet seen distributed—nearly broke the internet this week when first he became the largest single shareholder of…
Can “Woke” Boardroom Culture Be Broken?
Hollywood has been at the vanguard of a new push from corporate America—including sports leagues, retail products and platforms, and even shareholders—to ignore that pithy truth: Adopt political positions and…
The Fall of the Digital Town Square
Like an authoritarian regime, Big Tech unilaterally decides to silence opinions, people, and even news stories that don’t comport with their ideological preferences. Perhaps you’ve agreed with their behavior, believing…
Addressing Big Tech Censorship: The Censorship Timeline
The recent avalanche of censorship from Big Tech companies has been shocking. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media platforms silenced a sitting president. Apple, Amazon, and Google decided within…
Addressing Big Tech Censorship: Purging Parler
Between January 8 and January 10, three Big Tech companies systematically wiped Parler from existence. Google struck first. On January 8, a Friday night, Google removed Parler from its Play…
Addressing Big Tech Censorship: Big Tech’s Friends in Washington
Looking at the fallout Parler faced following the riots, it’s easy to wonder why a start-up was squashed while Facebook and its Big Tech peers remain unscathed. The difference between…
What Might a War with Big Tech Look Like
On the Bill Meyer Show, Michael Hartmann discussed his reposted article on the impending war with Big Tech and how we got where we are now with Google, Facebook, and…
Big Tech, Big Trouble
Big Tech sure seems to be in big trouble, with a lot of people and for a lot of reasons. During the past couple of years, it’s variously angered liberals…