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June 14, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) hit the campaign trail promoting “Democratic socialism” and claiming President Donald Trump supports “corporate socialism for the rich and powerful.”
CNBC anchor Joe Kernen demanded clear…
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June 17, 2019
Facebook is making a desperate attempt to push a Pollyanna philosophy on its users. This might backfire.
In a June 14 blog post, Facebook announced an update to its policy. “We’re always working to ensure that people’s time on…
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June 17, 2019
Tech platforms are wiping any evidence of the Project Veritas video exposing Pinterest censorship.
Twitter and YouTube have both taken down mentions of the Project Veritas Pinterest exposé in the past week since its release. Now, Reddit is…
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June 18, 2019
Facebook has long banned any use of cryptocurrency on its platform. Now all that has changed — because Facebook is doing it.
The company launched a subsidiary called Calibra on June 18, which will oversee Facebook’s new cryptocurrency,…
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June 19, 2019
Republicans in the Senate plan on striking a blow for online free speech — by eradicating censorship of conservatives online.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced a new bill June 19, meant to tackle the problem of tech monopolies and their…
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June 19, 2019
Multimedia journalists beware, if you create a video about a candidate’s proposal without any opposing perspectives, that’s not news and your video will look like blatant advertising.
That’s exactly what CNBC’s video about…
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June 20, 2019
Both sides of the political spectrum seem to misunderstand the damage online censorship does to the First Amendment.
After Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) announced a tech free speech bill on June 19 that would address the problem of ideological…
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June 20, 2019
One of the left’s favorite economic talking points is an obsession with income and “wealth inequality.”
In keeping with that trend, CNBC editor-at-large John Harwood offered five approaches to “fight” wealth inequality…
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June 20, 2019
President Donald Trump infuriated the left again on June 19, when he awarded supply-side economist Arthur Laffer the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The left’s reaction was predictably vicious. An MSNBC analyst called Laffer one of the most…
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June 21, 2019
Reddit is notorious for its overzealous moderators, but one wonders what William Shatner could have possibly done to get banned from a large group.
The social media platform, known as the “front page of the internet,” is home to several…