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April 10, 2019
At the Senate Judiciary hearing on April 10, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) grilled Facebook and Twitter on their censorship policies, especially of conservative and pro-life content during the Senate Judiciary hearing on April 10.
He announced that in…
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April 11, 2019
Facebook has struggled with the concept of freedom of expression for some time now. But now the platform is interested in ignoring it more openly. In fact, the platform has been “reducing the spread of problematic content that does not violate…
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April 15, 2019
An organization that includes an offensive tweeter has no business petitioning to ban someone else from Twitter.
The Women’s March has launched a petition asking Twitter to ban President Donald Trump on March 13. The group reacted to the…
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April 16, 2019
Social media companies are not only censoring, but they are also adding a new item to the agenda: make sure no one mentions that it’s happening.
The TV company Starz asked Twitter to take down users’ tweets on a story that explained…
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April 16, 2019
Data gathered from millions of individual users was apparently handed out as gifts at Facebook.
In a new leak published by NBC, it was determined that Facebook did not sell data to third-party companies or advertisers. Instead, that data was shared…
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April 17, 2019
While Twitter might not be sure as to who is a Nazi and who isn’t, it thinks bots can help decide. And, like it or not, more censorship is on the horizon.
At a TED talk/interview given on April 16, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey spoke about healthy…
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April 18, 2019
Ideological diversity is crucial when it comes to building a well-balanced fact-checking team. But the left won’t accept anyone who isn’t on their side.
Facebook’s controversial fact-checking program announced on April 17 that it…
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April 18, 2019
Big Tech bias hits even at times of major news. After the Mueller Report was released April 18, journalists and pundits took to social media to analyze the findings. But no one would know there was “no evidence of Trump campaign ‘…
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April 19, 2019
Social media platforms and Big Tech companies have been slowly working to censor content on their platforms more efficiently.
Emma Llanso, Director of Free Expression at the Center for Democracy and Technology, wrote in an op-ed for Wired that the…
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April 22, 2019
Social media platforms have pledged to rid their sites of “hate” and “terrorism.” But after the horrific bombing in Sri Lanka that killed nearly 300 Christians on Easter, they have remained strangely silent.
Officials in Sri…