The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that YouTube may censor whomever it chooses, and is not bound by the First Amendment.
The ruling in Prager University v. Google dealt a blow to PragerU’s cause this past Wednesday,…
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February 27, 2020
Worried about the rise of socialism? The Big Tech oligarchs over at Twitter don’t appear to be.
Despite a Twitter rule which states that the platform will censor accounts for using “hateful symbol[s],” a Twitter…
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February 27, 2020
Twitter censored an account known for sharing videos from Wuhan showing scenes of a city on lockdown during the coronavirus.
Harry Chen PhD, whose now-suspended account had 35,000 followers and claimed to live in China on his bio, had…
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February 26, 2020
Prominent liberal Google critic Dr. Robert Epstein wrote an op-ed warning that Big Tech companies can rig the 2020 election and “make the Russians look like rank amateurs.”
“President Donald Trump can’t win the…
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February 26, 2020
Google in collaboration with Jigsaw is developing tools to measure subjective content online and rate it on a value scale. And scientists are taking it seriously.
A study done by eight academics from various universities together in the…
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February 26, 2020
A trillion-dollar company could be in trouble for copyright infringement, according to a lawsuit from tech company Oracle.
Oracle, a technology company known for its database management systems, has been embroiled in a legal battle with…
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February 26, 2020
For the second time, tech companies Apple and TikTok have declined to testify -- this time at a March 4 Senate hearing.
“This is a troubling pattern,” wrote Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Twitter. “What are they hiding?…
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February 25, 2020
A 19-year-old German woman is being hailed as the conservative response to climate change activist Greta Thunberg. She has condemned climate alarmism as a “despicably anti-human ideology,” and liberal journos are heated about it…
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February 25, 2020
Update: A Twitter spokesperson informed the MRC that the tweet had been censored in error. The filter has since been removed.
Twitter apparently considers direct quotes from Bernie Sanders about Castro and Cuba too “sensitive…
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February 25, 2020
Reddit will once again crack down on users and communities it considers undesirable.
Buried in Reddit’s 2019 Transparency Report was a concerning update to its policies. Users who consistently upvote “policy-breaking content…
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February 25, 2020
The First Amendment covers freedom of speech and freedom of religion. But what if someone’s religion does not allow homosexuality?
Facebook apparently deems that kind of speech to be “hate speech.” When the founder of…
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February 24, 2020
Can Bloomberg’s money hack the election? Twitter moderators would disagree.
Twitter reportedly suspended 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts this past Friday for engaging in “platform manipulation.” For all of former New York City…
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February 24, 2020
Google has bought its way into health care through fitness tracking. Is the European Union (E.U.) right to call foul?
Both U.S. and E.U. regulators are wary of Google’s $2.1 billion purchase of fitness tracking company Fitbit last…
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February 24, 2020
The liberal media sees working with President Donald Trump or Republicans as a black mark on one’s reputation. For The Washington Post, having a handful of Republican employees means that Facebook fears Trump and the GOP.
The result…
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February 21, 2020
About 300 Oracle employees have staged a virtual walkout over their founder and chairman’s support for President Donald Trump.
Oracle employees were outraged when they found out that Big Tech billionaire Larry Ellison was hosting a…
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February 21, 2020
Democrat candidate and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg tweeted a humorous video of his performance during the February 19 debate. Liberal journalists wanted the video taken down.
“There is no doubt that these videos are…
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February 21, 2020
An automated service will no longer label people as male or female, according to a report from Business Insider.
Google's Cloud Vision API, a “computer vision” product that has the ability to “[a]ssign labels to…
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February 20, 2020
A leaked demo revealed a new system that may change the way Twitter users get information on the platform.
NBC News reports Twitter confirmed a leaked demo of upcoming anti-“misinformation” features, reported NBC News. The…
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February 19, 2020
Facebook’s plans for regulating Big Tech have not met the expectations of some bigwigs in EU leadership.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg toured Brussels earlier this week, meeting with press and politicians and also publishing a white…
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February 19, 2020
In his introductory statement made to the Department of Justice Section 230 Workshop, Attorney General William Barr discussed the problems brought on by the rise of Big Tech.
“No longer are tech companies the underdog upstarts,…
