Censorship Project

Kayla Sargent | August 27, 2020

After Apple snuck COVID-19 contract tracing software onto its iPhone updates in May, the company is now at least pretending to care about user privacy.  

One feature of Apple’s iOS 14 update, originally announced in June, is…

Alexander Hall | August 27, 2020

In the latest dystopian story in the year of COVID-19, the World Health Organization is now monitoring conversations to have machines understand how to manipulate public conversation. “The World Health Organization is collaborating with an…

Kayla Sargent | 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…

Alexander Hall | August 27, 2020

Twitter censors President Donald Trump for declaring he will enforce law and order, but issuing an ultimatum to randomly threaten police officers is A-OK with Twitter moderators. “A Twitter spokesman says activist and accused fraudster Shaun…

Kayla Sargent | August 26, 2020

Google doesn’t seem to understand privacy. Perhaps its employees need to Google it. A recent lawsuit against Google included emails from employees claiming that the company’s privacy settings are so complicated, even its own engineers don’t fully…

Alexander Hall | August 26, 2020

First Lady Melania Trump and the president’s youngest daughter Tiffany Trump blasted Big Tech during their speeches at the Republican National Convention. Many members of the Trump family have given the 2020 Republican National Convention a…

Kayla Sargent | August 26, 2020

When faced with the choice earlier this year, YouTube chose to censor more content on its platform during its second quarter than it had in any previous quarter.

YouTube reported that it removed twice as many videos in its second quarter…

Alexander Hall | August 26, 2020

Activision apparently never read its own tagline “KNOW YOUR HISTORY OR BE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT.” The company edited its new video game, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to cater to ommunist China. Activision quietly replaced the game trailer…

Kayla Sargent | August 25, 2020

Several Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee took a big step in holding Amazon accountable for discriminating against conservatives.

Republicans on the House Committee on the Judiciary sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff…

Alexander Hall | August 25, 2020

A recent study found that Americans are divided strongly along party lines over whether Big Tech companies are worthy to fact-check politicians. Seventy-three percent of Democrats said they “strongly or somewhat approve” of Big Tech “…

Kayla Sargent | August 24, 2020

TikTok is reeling after two executive orders have threatened the Chinese-owned apps existence in the U.S. Now it has decided to take to the U.S. courts.

Today, TikTok filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government after President Donald…

Kayla Sargent | August 24, 2020

Months before the presidential election, Facebook has already made plans to crack down on President Donald Trump’s posts in case he attempts to use the platform to contest the election’s legitimacy.

An August 21 New York Times article…

Alexander Hall | August 24, 2020

It happened again. This time, Twitter undermined the president for expressing concern over voter fraud. President Donald Trump wrote an August 23 tweet criticizing “Mail Drop Boxes” as a “voter security disaster.” Twitter responded by…

Alexander Hall | 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…

Kayla Sargent | August 21, 2020

Despite recent news that the social media platform Reddit would allow President Donald Trump’s campaign to run ads on the platform, the company still squashes free speech on the platform.

Reddit has banned nearly 7,000 subreddits since…

Corinne Weaver | 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.…

Alexander Hall | August 20, 2020

Facebook’s latest bans include a purge of some Antifa accounts, which the left quickly defended. Leftist organizations and journalists themselves have covered for the banned groups, gaslighting that they are not tied to violence. A joint…

Kayla Sargent | August 20, 2020

A recent Pew Research Center (Pew) study found that most Americans are, at least to some extent, concerned about online censorship and the ability of social media companies to handle misinformation. 

The Pew study, published on…

Kayla Sargent | August 20, 2020

In their campaigns to censor opposing viewpoints, Facebook has blocked and Twitter has provided warning labels to the Plandemic: Indoctrination video. NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny tweeted on August 18, “Facebook not allowing users to post…

Alexander Hall | August 19, 2020

Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey has been caught following a pro-Antifa radical activist who specializes in doxxing people Gorcenski has accused of being far-right. Just this week Gorcesnki was targeting a pro-Trump boat parade. “A notorious Antifa…