Murdoch criticizes Google, Facebook for banning disobedient | Modern

Rupert Murdoch re-launched his protests on Google and Facebook at his annual News Corp stakeholder conference on Wednesday, criticizing technical giants for trying to curb disobedient voices and call for “radical change”.

Silicon Valley companies are the favorite of Murdoch, 90, who for years has been criticizing Google for taking publishers’ accounts for free and Facebook for failing to provide adequate rewards to publishers.

The public outcry continued, although News Corp won agreements from both companies, which earlier this year agreed to pay the Australian publisher.

“For many years our company has been leading the global debate on Big Digital,” Murdoch said. “What we have seen in the last few weeks regarding Facebook and Google’s systems also confirms the need for radical change.”

Murdoch criticized Facebook staff for trying to curb the offensive voice, and called it a “fair choice” on Google results. But according to CrowdTangle’s Facebook accounting company, posts from very careful people like Dan Bongino and Ben Shapiro are often among the most popular on the platform.

In addition, a major journalist also cited a lawsuit filed last year by 10 state attorneys, criticizing Google for controlling the digital advertising market and for working with Facebook to crack down on online advertising where advertisers buy and sell advertising sites.

“Let’s take a closer look at the consequences of digital marketing disruption,” Murdoch said. “Obviously, printers have suffered a lot, but companies are paying more for their products, and consumers are paying more.”

Facebook representatives of Google’s Alphabet Inc and Meta Platforms Inc were not immediately reached for comment.

Murdoch called for a public hearing – repeating the controversy in Congress after a Facebook correspondent Frances Haugen revealed about online business practices.

“The false notion promoted by the platform is that algorithms have a purpose in some way and that scientists alone are useless,” Murdoch said. “Algorithms are robust and can be modified by humans to kill competition, destroy other people, printers and businesses.”

Murdoch also called on former United States President Trump, who published an October 27 letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal to reiterate the false claims that the 2021 presidential election was rigged, in order to continue to serve the U.S. legislature.