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May 10, 2021
“These companies have too much power,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) said Monday, calling for Congress to break the stranglehold giant platforms like Facebook and Twitter have on social media freedom of speech.
Powerful social media platforms are…
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May 25, 2021
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who in 2019 retweeted a post by actor Tom Arnold justifying a brutal attack that left Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) with five broken ribs in 2017, has yet to tweet about this week’s anonymous threat to “finish” the job Paul’s…
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June 18, 2021
On Thursday, a coalition of 26 conservative organizations and activists released a letter to Congress, warning that antitrust bills targeting Big Tech platforms being pushed by Democrats “would give unelected Biden bureaucrats sweeping new power to…
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July 21, 2021
Regardless of political party or platform, governments and social media giants cannot be trusted to decide what’s true or false or what speech should be allowed, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) warns.
Last Thursday, White House Press…
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November 12, 2021
Two-thirds of U.S. adults don’t trust Big Tech and three-fourths say Facebook, in particular, makes American society worse, a new CNN poll finds.
The national survey of 1,004 adults (18 and over), conducted November 1-4, 2021 by SSRS, finds that…
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November 30, 2021
Twitter’s new CEO Parag Agrawal has said that the social media platform’s content censorship should not be restricted by the First Amendment and that Twitter should “focus less on thinking about free speech.”
In a Nov. 18, 2020 interview with MIT…
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March 3, 2023
On Monday, President Joe Biden vowed to veto a joint resolution working its way through Congress this week that would nullify the administration’s recent rule allowing retirement and pension fund managers to choose investments based on…
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March 14, 2023
A “Climate Modifier” bonus for top executives is among the tactics being used to advance the Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals, the bank revealed Monday, announcing the publication of its 2022 Climate…
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March 21, 2023
While powerful asset managers, such as BlackRock, are pressuring companies to cater to liberal environmental, social and governance (ESG) agendas, a new analysis finds that companies that aren’t influenced by politics outperform those that are.
In…
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March 21, 2023
On Monday, President Joe Biden issued his first presidential veto, in objection to a bipartisan Congressional joint resolution nullifying his administration’s rule freeing asset managers to invest their clients’ retirement savings in political…