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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” for…
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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? Don’t…
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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 Google…
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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 iDrama Lab…
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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 been cited in…
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March 2, 2020
Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey is not popular with a wealthy investor, who is allegedly seeking to make changes at the company.
Elliott Management Corp., an investment company run by prominent Republican billionaire Paul Singer, has taken a stake…
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March 3, 2020
Facebook covers posts and news stories that have been fact-checked and found false. While this policy has affected conservative media outlets, it hasn’t appeared to affect the liberal media as much.
Until now.
A Politico post about the…
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July 23, 2008
The economy is now so bad people are spending more of their limited amounts of money on therapy, according to the July 23 USA Today.
“Requests for therapists increased 15% to 20% in the past three months,” Marilyn Elias reported on the…
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July 18, 2008
So apparently tomatoes are not the cause of the recent salmonella outbreak, according to the Food and Drug Administration. But the announcement did not come until after a widespread – and largely media-driven – “red scare” that cost the…
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July 17, 2008
The broadcast networks have created what amounts to their very own tax on gasoline. The “tax,” on average about 32 cents, gets applied when news shows use images to go with stories about the “whopping” price of gasoline. That amount is equal to…
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