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In news that will surprise absolutely no one, Mariah Careys All I Want for Christmas Is You jingled its way back to the top of the charts this week.

The 51-page report, “Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook,” documents a pattern of undue removal and suppression of protected speech including peaceful expression in support of Palestine and public debate about Palestinian human rights. Human Rights Watch found that the problem stems from flawed Meta policies and their inconsistent and erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government in...

By almost any measure, the first three months of 2021 were the worst ever for online freedom. Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Google, Facebook, YouTube and others proved to the world that the Big Tech censorship of conservatives is a reality.

Google funded advertising against legislation that would require large tech platforms to pay news publishers.

​The Christmas colossus has reached No. 1 on Billboards Hot 100 chart the past four years in a row - measuring the most popular songs each week by airplay, sales and streaming, not just the holiday-themed - and its reasonable to assume 2023 will be no different.

“All I Want for Christmas is You,” Mariah Carey’s hit from 1994, has grown over the past three decades into the Christmas colossus.

“All I Want for Christmas is You,” Mariah Carey’s hit from 1994, has grown over the past three decades into the Christmas colossus.

Every year on Nov. 1, the song’s hibernation ends when Mariah Carey posts on social media that “it’s time” to play it again.

“All I Want for Christmas is You,” Mariah Carey’s hit from 1994, has grown over the past three decades into the Christmas colossus.

The New Mexico Attorney General’s office has taken a significant legal step against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, accusing it of impeding investigations into child abuse on its platforms.