With the presidential election looming, the Department of Justice (DOJ) appears to be determined to strike Big Tech as soon as possible. The DOJ could file an antitrust lawsuit against Google in the coming weeks, and may force the company to sell…
2020 Presidential
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October 12, 2020
Yet another of President Donald Trump’s tweets has fallen victim to Twitter’s endless battle against information that the platform deems “misleading.” Twitter placed an interstitial, or filter, over the tweet, which stated, “A total and complete…
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October 8, 2020
Facebook has continued to change its rules about Election Day ads. Now, the platform plans to restrict all political ads as soon as the polls close. The platform reportedly “now plans to prohibit all political and issue-based advertising after…
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October 5, 2020
Misinformation is apparently whatever someone disagrees with. This seems to be true when it comes to Oxford University. In the briefing published on Oct. 5, 2020, the institute slammed nine pieces written and published in American conservative…
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October 2, 2020
Big Tech companies appear to be pulling for a former Vice President Joe Biden victory in November.
“Joining Amazon, Alphabet's Google and Microsoft are among the top five contributors to Joe Biden's candidate campaign committee in…
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October 2, 2020
Twitter’s attempts to “protect the civic conversation” have gone too far. Leading into the election this year, Twitter has taken multiple steps to “root out voting misinformation designed to suppress participation in the November elections…
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September 29, 2020
Have you ever disliked a candidate so much that you just assume that they will open the “door to unrest” and create a “constitutional crisis” on election night? Apparently, The New York Times has. The New York Times' Editorial Board in…
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September 21, 2020
Big Tech giant Facebook informed the Media Research Center that it would be partnering with the nonpartisan digital encyclopedia Ballotpedia and the radical left-wing organization Democracy Works to help formulate the online platform’s 2020…
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September 17, 2020
An ad that was part of the conservative PAC American Principles Project’s (APP PAC) $4 million campaign was labeled “missing context and could mislead people” by Facebook fact-checkers. NBC News wrote that the video, titled “Not Fair,” would…
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September 9, 2020
Facebook is taking a contradictory stance: it supposedly is pro-free speech, but is banning political ads the week before the election. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently appeared on the Sept. 8 episode of Axios on HBO to explain all of the platform’s…
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September 9, 2020
Twitter isn’t just more favorable to the left — it’s wildly more supportive. The company’s trend-setting Twitter Moments account gave massively more favorable attention to the Democrat National Convention over the Republican convention. …
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August 31, 2020
Twitter has, once again, bowed to pressure from the left to silence conservatives. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) reportedly removed a video from his Twitter account on Sunday after the platform flagged the video as having been “…
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August 31, 2020
Facebook claims it wants to promote racial equality by “elevating Black voices.” But if those voices promote conservative content, then Facebook does not want to elevate it.
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August 27, 2020
Republican National Convention (RNC) speakers have not been afraid to call out Big Tech for its role in censoring conservatives. Speakers like Charlie Kirk, Nick Sandmann and Tiffany and Melania Trump have stressed the importance of…
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August 21, 2020
Big Tech has allowed open season on President Donald Trump for years, but cracks down quickly on criticism of the Democratic presidential ticket. Conservative media analyst and author Mark Dice announced that “Facebook censored a viral meme…
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August 21, 2020
Facebook fact-checkers should be “non-partisan and transparent.” But they defended Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) 20 times to one over the course of 10 days. Since former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden selected Sen.…
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August 18, 2020
Former Vice President and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is a popular target on social media. But Big Tech companies have responded by deleting mocking posts and suspending critics. In the months leading up to the…
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August 13, 2020
Google has joined Facebook, who launched its new Voting Information Center campaign, in an apparent trend to register more U.S voters in preparation for the upcoming presidential election. The search giant released a similar campaign…
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August 13, 2020
Facebook has launched its own campaign to reach voters on its platform with less than twelve weeks until the U.S. presidential election. The platform announced last month that it would be rolling out the “largest voting information campaign…
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August 12, 2020
Immediately after Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his potential vice president, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg stated her support for Harris. “This is a huge moment for Black women and girls all…
