All six witnesses representing Big Tech companies before a Senate committee last week mentioned “misinformation,” “disinformation” and/or “hate speech.”
Company executives, current and former, associated with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube…
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Canada’s CBC, a government-funded outlet, pushed increased online censorship to stop “radicalization” -- by conservatives like Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief and political commentator Ben Shapiro.
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Political motivations drove Facebook’s reported spying on users’ private messages in the lead-up to the 2020 election, Brownstone Institute founder and President Jeffrey Tucker told MRC Free Speech America Thursday.
“The collaboration…
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Three pro-American organizations flayed an NBC News report last week that called for censorship of text messages in one of the latest leftist rallying cries against so-called “disinformation.”
NBC published a story exaggerating the issue…
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Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, claimed to have accidentally allowed Republican and Democrat firms to dip into each other’s target audiences for political ads.
A Snap spokesperson told MRC Free Speech America that the platform’s…
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld Texas's “free speech” law on Friday, which would prevent social media companies from censoring certain viewpoints online.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that the ruling was a…
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Shortly after Biden said MAGA Republicans represent a threatening “extremism,” the Biden White House heralded that leftist Big Tech companies, in “coordination” with the administration, will be rolling out new tools and policies to combat so-…
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All aboard the censorship train! Today’s destinations: YouTube and Eventbrite.
On this week’s episode of CensorTrack with Paiten, we looked at YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s attempt to portray her platform as a haven for free speech. We…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday that he signed a bill that will radically change how social media companies are required to disclose certain policies.
The law, which Newsom called a “transparency measure,” will require…
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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and two other Republican House lawmakers on Tuesday demanded the Biden White House hand over its correspondence allegedly pressuring Big Tech to increase online censorship.
House Energy and Commerce…
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What is the Department of Homeland Security doing online in the wake of the death of its failed Disinformation Governance Board? It’s trying to resurrect its remains and make something worse.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas…
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Despite contentious legal battles, Twitter’s shareholders approved Elon Musk’s deal to purchase the platform for $44 billion.
The Verge reported Tuesday that the company confirmed it has enough votes to approve the purchase. Musk, however…
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As another 9/11 anniversary came and went, Facebook censored 9/11 photos rather than what appeared to be an embarrassing suicide joke from President Joe Biden. Even Facebook had to admit its mistake.
Facebook censored an image of a man…
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This isn’t the first time we’ve heard allegations of foreign governments meddling in U.S. industry.
Twitter may have employed at least three foreign intelligence agents and kept Chinese Communist Party-linked advertising accounts on the…
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YouTube’s CEO said she wants free speech on her platform. The only problem is that she qualified it.
“We want to enable people to express their points of view and enable as much free speech as we possibly can have.” YouTube CEO Susan…
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Twitter reportedly paid a whistleblower $7 million for his silence on company operations.
Bloomberg News reported Thursday that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is citing the transaction to bolster his claims that Twitter misled him and the Securities…
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Former Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company did not purchase Twitter because of “bots” on the platform.
On Thursday, the New York Post reported that Iger told attendees at the Vox Code Conference that “hate speech” and “bots” were large…
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Big Tech companies often don’t prioritize child safety, and parents know it.
Eighty-two percent of American parents are concerned about Big Tech’s influence on their children’s lives, according to a new poll by child advocacy nonprofit…
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The Communist China-appeasing oligarchs at TikTok have kicked the platform’s ridiculous censorship apparatus into high gear to nix free speech from its platform.
MRC Free Speech America has been tracking TikTok’s anti-American censorship…
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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday struck down a bill that would have allowed big media companies to ignore antitrust laws and jointly negotiate with social media companies on content distribution.
The committee by a vote of 11-10…
