Big Tech platforms have allowed reported hoaxes about the Ukrainian war to spread, even as they consistently censor users for posting actual facts about COVID-19.
Which is more dangerous, questioning COVID-19 narratives or pushing…
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DirecTV dropped Russian propaganda outlet RT America on Tuesday as a belated response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. DirecTV absurdly refused to renew One America News Network earlier this year while RT’s programming was only suspended after…
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Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine being condemned by the U.S. and kindred countries around the world, Twitter continues to allow Russian President Vladimir to post on its platform.
Twitter, which has permanently banned former U.S.…
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Comedian, actor and commentator Russell Brand called out the American government for criminalizing misinformation, despite the government’s deep record of pushing misinformation itself.
Brand is well-known as a free-thinker and comedian,…
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UPDATE: Social media companies as of Tuesday morning have reportedly announced various actions against Russia state-affiliated accounts and material. YouTube will block channels that are linked to Sputnik and RT across Europe, Reuters reported,…
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Over the weekend during a CPAC panel, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) slammed Big Tech dominance. A long proponent of reforming Section 230, Lankford stated reform was essential to protecting free speech.
Lankford doubled down on this…
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UPDATE: TikTok removed another Reality Check with Brittany Hughes clip and then restored it a couple of hours later since the publishing of this blog. Including the most recent incident, the platform censored MRC 18 times, 15 times in 2 months…
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A new study from Princeton alleged that liberal content on Twitter turned moderate voters against former President Donald Trump.
Social media platforms, especially Facebook and Twitter, have long had a complex relationship with politics.…
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Although the federal government has not utilized vaccine passports to prove that someone has been vaccinated against COVID-19, some states are quietly using “SMART Health Cards."
According to Forbes, a SMART Health Card is being used in…
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NewsGuard CEO Steven Brill this week painted his company as a white knight that can save impressionable dupes from repeating another Jan. 6 “insurrection,” and said Fox News and OANN traffic in conspiracy theories.
Brill tried to…
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U.S. District Judge James Donato reportedly questioned the claim that powerful lawmakers and organizations called for Big Tech platforms to censor then-President Donald Trump, despite the fact that it clearly happened.
A court case may…
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Online “credibility” arbiter NewsGuard strongly favors an organization that kills babies, declaring abortion giant Planned Parenthood credible. Meanwhile, the rating firm gave very negative ratings to three pro-life outlets.
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Special Report: Digital Brownshirts Attacking Free Speech on Climate Change Boosted by Liberal Media
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UPDATE: The White House released a readout Feb. 25 confirming that its meeting on combatting climate change denial had in fact taken place.
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The leftist U.K.-based Center for Countering…
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Siri is reportedly getting a new voice.
Axios reported that Apple is beta testing a gender-neutral device for the latest iOS. The voice was available to the public for beta testing earlier in the week.
Apple said the new option…
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It’s Episode 26 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated TikTok app has been on a censorship crusade against the Media Research Center.
The first MRC TikTok video was Feb. 26, 2021. The…
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The Canadian government ruthlessly cracked down on peaceful protesters demonstrating against the government’s draconian COVID-19 mandates. And the powers that be are unfreezing the accounts of some organizers, participants and donors now that…
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NewsGuard has reaffirmed its perfect rating of BuzzFeed News, even though the outlet continues to host the bogus Steele dossier on its website.
In an email to MRC, NewsGuard General Manager Matt Skibinski justified his company’s perfect “…
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Former President Donald Trump’s Big Tech alternative platform Truth Social has gone online.
Truth Social has met the ambitious President’s Day headline and is currently the #1 most popular app in the Social Media category on Apple’s app…
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Several prominent state politicians in New York blocked followers on social media.
New York State Sen. Julia Salazar, Councilmen Rafael Salamanca Jr., and Ari Kagan are some of the elected officials who blocked followers, even…
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A new report suggested that TikTok can bypass privacy protections to share data with ByteDance, its Chinese parent company.
TheWrap exclusively reported that TikTok was not deterred from privacy protections offered by Apple and Google.…
