Censorship Project

Alexander Hall | September 28, 2020

Facebook has made multiple anti-conservative policy decisions in recent months, but reported leaks indicate the platform’s far-left employees could make the platform even worse.

“Employees want him to take a harder line against the Trump…

Kayla Sargent | September 28, 2020

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on new downloads of the TikTok app, but thankfully, only temporarily. 

Last night, District Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S District Court for the District of Columbia agreed to…

Heather Moon | September 25, 2020

If President Donald Trump says he will enforce law and order, that’s abusive behavior. But if Twitter users call to burn down the city of Louisville, that’s fine. 

Twitter saw no rule violation in the calls to burn down the city of…

Kayla Sargent | September 25, 2020

No matter how much content Facebook censors, the left always seems to want the platform to censor more.  

Facebook is preparing to launch its new Facebook Oversight Board, which CEO Mark Zuckerburg described as a “Supreme Court…

Alexander Hall | September 25, 2020

The rise of Facebook’s infamous and overwhelmingly liberal Oversight Board is reportedly nigh.

“Facebook’s long-delayed oversight board, which will have power to overrule Mark Zuckerberg on what content to censor, will launch next month…

Alexander Hall | September 24, 2020

The CEOs of four major Big Tech companies have been given an ultimatum: testify in the Senate or face the music.

“The Senate Commerce Committee plans to subpoena the CEOs of Google, Facebook and Twitter to testify at an Oct. 1 hearing…

Kayla Sargent | September 24, 2020

Amidst calls for Section 230 reform and antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook, a House subcommittee hearing today explored the relationship between Big Tech’s lack of accountability and the radicalization of their respective platforms’…

Alexander Hall | September 24, 2020

Big Tech’s reckoning may have finally arrived. The White House hosted a roundtable calling for the overhaul of Section 230, a change which has massive implications for Big Tech and online speech. 

No more “bad faith” moderation! The…

Kayla Sargent | September 23, 2020

Regardless of your stance on vaccination, hiding information about anti-vaccine groups and content probably doesn’t help anyone. 

ZDNet, an Australian news website, reported that Facebook is attempting to hide what it deems “vaccine…

Alexander Hall | September 23, 2020

Prepared to give up your liberty for the sake of “public peace, health, or safety”? A new California bill would criminalize the spread of election misinformation — even on social media.

Americans can be prosecuted for their private…

Alec Schemmel | September 23, 2020

Just days after YouTube told the Financial Times it would rely less on automated systems and more on humans to moderate content, the platform made policy changes that do the exact opposite. 

Changes to the platform’s age-restriction…

Kayla Sargent | September 23, 2020

President Donald Trump isn’t finished with his fight against Big Tech censorship. 

Trump is planning to meet with several Republican state attorneys general today to urge them to investigate Big Tech censorship of conservatives…

Alexander Hall | September 23, 2020

After years of blaming President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory on Russia, even liberal media outlets are starting to admit that China is attempting to meddle in our elections.

Facebook is now at war with Chinese influence on the U.S.…

Kayla Sargent | September 22, 2020

Facebook is too willing to censor political content from the right, but now, the site is preparing to restrict even more content on election night. 

In a recent interview with Financial Times, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s head of global…

Alexander Hall | September 22, 2020

Twitter seems to allow the Chinese government to spread propaganda, and now the communist nation can apparently make brazen threats against political enemies at its leisure too.

Global Times, which has been labeled by Twitter as “China…

Alexander Hall | September 22, 2020

Facebook allowed leftist organizations to post the purported private address of a conservative senator in order to organize protests and harass. The posting was a violation of its rules.

“Protesters on Monday gathered outside South…

Kayla Sargent | September 22, 2020

The Department of Justice (DOJ) may now be one step closer to bringing down Google’s massive empire. 

The DOJ is expected to brief state attorneys general on plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google as early as this week,…

Kayla Sargent | September 21, 2020

Just hours before President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the WeChat app was to go into effect, a federal judge blocked it.

On Sunday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler temporarily blocked Trump’s ban of the Chinese-owned…

Alexander Hall | September 21, 2020

Big Tech is famous for censoring conservative speech, even as it allows leftist organizations to post the purported private address of a conservative senator in order to organize protests and intimidate.

“Protesters on Monday gathered…

Alec Schemmel | September 21, 2020

YouTube said it would revert back to using more human moderators to police speech across its platform after automation censored too much. The slated changes came after YouTube admitted to removing “the most videos we've ever removed in a single…