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April 1, 2020
Third-party fact-checkers have the ability to cause pages on Facebook to be suppressed. These fact-checkers, who are paid by Facebook, are putting efforts into fact-checking satire and editorial cartoons. In other words — opinion.
Lone…
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April 3, 2020
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign released a video in March deceptively depicting President Donald Trump calling the coronavirus a “hoax.” Twitter refused to label or take the video down, in accordance…
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April 6, 2020
Twitter has been accused of shadowbanning prominent conservatives in the past. One conservative business owner says the company is still doing it — to him.
“Twitter seems to be restricting how many people can see my tweets!” wrote…
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April 8, 2020
Twitter automatically tags interests for accounts based on the user’s activity. However, it appears as if accounts are being flagged based on their interests. In at least one prominent user’s case, it may have caused his account to be…
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December 2, 2021
Meta removed over 160 Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to Hamas, a designated terrorist group, according to The Jerusalem Post.
The accounts were reportedly primarily operated in the Gaza Strip and targeted “Palestinian territories,”…
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December 4, 2021
In a scathing Twitter thread, the editor of The Daily Caller slammed Big Tech social media platforms for continuing to favor leftist viewpoints online.
Geoffrey Ingersoll, The Caller's editor-in-chief, tweeted no one…
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December 5, 2021
A new social network being created by former President Donald Trump reportedly said it has $1 billion lined up in capital.
Trump announced his plan to create a new social network after he was banned from Facebook and Twitter. The network is a…
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December 7, 2021
Less than a day before its CEO testifies in front of Congress, Instagram announced it will roll out new safety features for teenage users, hoping the changes will help make them "even safer" when using the social media platform.
Instagram CEO…
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December 8, 2021
Life360, an app designed to help parents track the movements of their children, reportedly sells customers’ locations to data brokers.
According to its website, Life360 is used by 31 million members. The company’s privacy policy states that it…
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December 10, 2021
According to a new study on algorithms by professors at German and Swiss universities, Google is the search engine with the most “conspiracy-free” search results.
The study -- which examined how algorithms filter “conspiratorial information” in…