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Cartoon is one of many flagged by Facebook's fact-checkers for the most arbitrary reason: Several memes, including a cartoon by Pat Cross of The College Fix, highlighting the…
Twitter suspends a parody account for satirical headline: A Twitter parody account of The Guardian known as The Grauniad was suspended for one of its headlines. The head line read: "Opinion | I can…
Lacking all sense of humor, Facebook fact checks joke meme: A joke meme that started circulating after inauguration day got fact checked by Facebook. The meme looks like an official letter from…
Twitter suspended U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan for a post celebrating the success of the U.S. southern border: A tweet from CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan…
Facebook fact-checker labels meme "Half True" despite admitting "the Obama administration did hold immigrants in chain-link enclosures": PolitiFact, one of Facebook's ostensibly neutral fact-checkers…
Facebook removes Monty Python inspired Babylon Bee article, Demonetizes its page: The Babylon Bee took inspiration from Monty Python when it produced an article titled: "Senator Hirono Demands…
Twitter temporarily locked the account of Lauren Witzke, the Republican party candidate in Delaware’s U.S. Senate race, over a tweet highlighting the impact of mass migration in Europe. “Let’s…
An advertisement from the Trump campaign, which connected Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden's immigration policy with the danger it could pose Americans during the coronavirus pandemic, was…
The Babylon Bee, a conservative satirical news site, received a "fact check" by USA Today on one of its blogs. The blog wrote that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled…
This user had a meme depicting a box of puppies that said, "The Box of Antidepressants I ordered Online Arrived" fact-checked for false information. The user reported that "the fact checkers found IN…
This Alyssa Milano parody account was suspended from Twitter. Action was reportedly taken as a result of the user's #Bidentherapist hashtag. The user's account is still currently suspended. …
Amazon-owned Twitch temporarily suspended Trump account for "Hate Speech" in past speeches: Twitch, the popular gaming live-streaming service owned by Amazon, temporarily suspended President…
Third-party fact-checkers have the ability to cause pages on Facebook to be suppressed. These fact-checkers, who are paid by Facebook, are putting efforts into fact-checking satire and cartoons.…
Twitter censors user for tweet about illegal immigrant crimes: A Twitter user shared a screenshot of her censorship notice. She had tweeted "When a family has been destroyed bc an illegal alien…
Facebook prematurely ended an ad campaign about the need for closing the border just one day before the 2018 midterm elections: An ad paid for by then-President Trump made its rounds on television…