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This TikTok video posted by the Mother Jones website contends that Elon Musk is supporting accounts on X, formerly known as Twitter, that promote outdated racial theories and racist pseudoscience.
This page from RationalWiki provides the background on the accounts responsible for the information that Musk is apparently promoting.
In this YouTube video, tech expert Mark Brownlee explores the U.S. government's anti-trust lawsuit against Apple.
Apple and Amazon.com must face a consumer antitrust lawsuit in U.S. court accusing them of conspiring to artificially inflate the price of i
“Your honor, this is a monopolist flexing.”
Click the image above to read the Wikipedia.com explanation of what is a sock puppet account is online.
Allegedly, the microblogging platform known as X, formerly known as Twitter, has a lot of sock puppet accounts, which influence public opinion.
Companies that provide Big Tech with AI data-labeling services are inadvertently hiring young teens to work on their platforms, often exposi
A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible
TikTok is 'on track' with its undertaking to have all U.S. user data hosted and overseen by Oracle
In May of 2023, the CEO of ByteDance Ltd., Shou Zi Chew, announced that the application’s source code was being reviewed by the American tech company Oracle.
This article from TIME suggests that now that Oracle is taking over TikTok, concerns about the application collecting user data for the Chinese government should be resolved.
What is the history of Oracle?
What current trends in the tech market does the article also describe?
This article can be useful as research for a Class Activity.
Salvador President Nayib Bukele is an example of the cultural diversity in the people of Central America.
Another important aspect of identity to keep in mind, in addition to the discussion of race and ethnicity, is the social class of individuals with diverse backgrounds.
It is a well-known fact in El Salvador that the people who control the government come from fourteen elite families who constitute an oligarchy.
This content is not an endorsement of Bukele and his policies, but rather to encourage students to explore who he is in relation to cultural diversity, the Fourteen Families, and the notion of oligarchy.
If you were to do a similar exploration of the history of U.S. presidents, you might find similar results...
Which search engine do you use, and why is it Google? A judge will soon decide.
Google is being brought to court for anti-trust violations.
In other words, why is Google a part of everything we do on the internet?
This article from Vox explains the details.
If you’re a TikTok fanatic worried about how you’re going to stay connected to the world after a bill that could ban the app passed the Hous
CNN explains the potential consequences of a U.S. congressional ban on the social media app TikTok.
Under a draft agreement between ByteDance and CFIUS, Oracle would be TikTok’s partner — and a government proctor. But stuck in limbo, the co
This August 2023 article from Forbes reports that the U.S. tech firm Oracle is hosting the TikTok social media platform to calm the U.S. government's concerns about ByteDance (the Chinese company that created the platform) collecting data from Americans.
But it appears there are concerns about who controls the algorithms for TikTok.
To complicate matters, as reported by Gizmodo ten years ago, consider that Oracle was first created as a CIA project.
Yesterday, Vox somehow managed to write an entire article about the history of Oracle and its founder Larry Ellison without mentioning the C
This article from 2002 explains the early history of Oracle, the Texas-based U.S. tech firm that now hosts TikTok.
The Google search on this topic reveals the following:
What are bots? Learn the definition of what a bot is, the difference between a good bot and a bad bot, and how malicious bot protection work
This informative article from Cloudflare services explains what a bot is.
Bots can be helpful for content creators who are trying to create interest in their content and inflate the number of their followers, but they can also be problematic.
Click the article link above to jump to the Cloudflare article which includes an informative video.
[MEDIA LITERACY EXERCISE]
This is a 2015 Coca-Cola ad that was removed from the mass media due to consumer criticism of its alleged “neocolonialist “implications. See if you can recognize the aspects of the commercial that some consumers may find offensive, keeping in mind the connection between soft drinks and diabetes.
A year ago, the U.S. Justice Department sued Google for monopolizing digital advertising tech.
Click the link above to read about the lawsuit.
