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December 1, 2021
It’s Episode Fourteen of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about satire sites, funny memes and tweeting jokes … all of which Big Tech censored.
The Babylon Bee is a satirical news site whose slogan is “Fake News…
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December 1, 2021
The Heritage Foundation technology policy research fellow Kara Frederick in congressional hearing testimony cited Media Research Center ground-breaking analysis on the political impacts of Big Tech’s censorship, including how Big Tech stole the 2020…
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December 2, 2021
A government-controlled news outlet threatens another country with becoming “cannon fodder.” A ruler hurls insults at another nation and demands that allies sever all ties with that nation. A government official accuses another country of bringing “…
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December 3, 2021
You might say Twitter had a heart attack after the American Heart Association (AHA) published a study abstract about the dangers of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Twitter reportedly attached an “unsafe” label to an American Heart Association link.
The…
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December 6, 2021
“As it turns out, remembering the politically inconvenient is a risky thing. To help others to remember is even more dangerous.” Leftist WIRED published these words as part of a report on Chinese online censorship. The irony is that WIRED condemned…
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December 7, 2021
Apparently history is too dangerous to teach children. YouTube has censored a Young America’s Foundation (YAF) video about “Victims of Socialism,” restricting the video on the grounds that it is not “suitable” for kids.
YAF said it was notified by…
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December 8, 2021
It’s Episode Fifteen of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, Big Tech showed their desire to protect the leftist narrative at all costs — even if that means censoring information that could benefit public health.
The…
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December 8, 2021
Snap CTO Bobby Murphy is the latest tech executive who announced he is all in on augmented reality (AR), which is a key piece in how some envision the metaverse. Murphy said Snap is developing its own AR Spectacles and hoping to have applications to…
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December 9, 2021
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) repeatedly praised U.K. regulation of social media platforms and called for the U.S. to adopt the U.K. model at a Dec. 8 Senate hearing on Instagram. Both the U.K. government and Blumenthal tend to support…
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December 10, 2021
Meta is doubling down on its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to detect alleged “harmful content,” even though AI algorithms have been shown to be biased or error-prone in censoring content.
Censorship and moderation AI is really “machine…