Censorship

Ryan Bomberger | May 13, 2019

Big Tech always preaches about treating people equally, but they never do. Funny how their “algorithms” never seem to suspend liberals’ accounts. The religion of Inclusion is a fraud. As I write this, my organization’s…

Alexander Hall | May 8, 2019

Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times on how Google has actually been aiming to protect user privacy. “[P]rivacy is for everyone — not just for the few,” he declared. His critics are not…

Matt Philbin | April 30, 2019

Social media companies appear to be tossing away their copies of SPLC’s bogus “hate map.” It took a while, but Facebook finally responded to the April 3 call from MRC President Brent Bozell and numerous other conservative…

Corinne Weaver | 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…

Corinne Weaver | April 1, 2019

Twitter has tried again to silence voices of the pro-life movement.

The page for the film Unplanned was suspended on Twitter on March 30 by mistake, if Twitter is to be believed. The account, which at the time had 40,000 followers, was…

Corinne Weaver | March 27, 2019

Tech companies rarely reach out to work with conservative organizations. When they do, news outlets savage both sides of the agreement.

Google recently partnered with the Heritage Foundation for its AI council on ethics. Heritage…

Corinne Weaver | March 20, 2019

“We’ve looked at the top social media companies. Twitter always ends up being the worst of the bunch,” MRC Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor said on Trish Regan Primetime on Fox Business on March 19.

Alexander Hall | March 5, 2019

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt spoke recently about how he has worked with Silicon Valley tech elites to crush speech he finds offensive.

In a February 26 panel hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, Greenblatt announced that he has…

Corinne Weaver | February 7, 2019

What happens when the front page of the internet is funded by the company that made the Great Firewall in China?

Reddit, the internet forum for communities, posts, and news, is currently fundraising to keep itself afloat, with a $300…

Gabriel Hays | December 28, 2018

Facebook’s massive hate speech policies were blasted by The New York Times Thursday. The Times detailed Facebook’s current hate-speech failsafe controls as essentially “a network of workers using a maze of Powerpoint slides…

Alexander Hall | December 18, 2018

Facebook is more concerned about protecting Palestinians from hate speech than about hosting terrorist propaganda on its site.

On December 16, Israeli PM Netanyahu’s son Yair was quickly suspended for 24 hours for ranting about…

Corinne Weaver | December 11, 2018

Google’s CEO came to the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Dec.11, but was unwilling to play 21 questions.

Five House representatives, from both political parties, asked CEO Sundar Pichai questions about Google’s…

Corinne Weaver | December 11, 2018

Google had a loud defender in the House Judiciary Committee — interestingly the company is also is his top donor.

During the House Judiciary Committee hearing where Google CEO Sundar Pichai was testifying, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY)…

Corinne Weaver | December 7, 2018

European officials are not happy with Facebook. The platform has run afoul of their regulations one too many times.

In an interview with BBC, former head of British intelligence agency GCHQ Robert Hannigan expressed his concerns about the…

Corinne Weaver | November 27, 2018

Conservatives should just suck it up and accept their online punishments, according to Politico.

In an article criticizing the conservative backlash to Jesse Kelly’s ban on Twitter, Jack Shafer argued that there really wasn’t…

Corinne Weaver | November 19, 2018

Conservatives are having a difficult time trusting that social media companies will protect the First Amendment.

In a new poll released by Axios, the general sentiment towards big tech companies such as Google and Facebook was negative. A…

Corinne Weaver | November 14, 2018

Censoring political opinions as “hate speech” has made its way to Instagram.

Mimi Hecht, a business owner on Instagram, posted several statements on her Instagram story after the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pennsylvania…

Alexander Hall | November 5, 2018

Facebook wants to be militant about removing “hate speech.” However, it keeps deleting the wrong content.

The site removed a rabbi’s harrowing account of harassment by Rev. Louis Farrakhan supporters, only to say later…

Corinne Weaver | November 5, 2018

In the midterm cycle, Facebook is used as a platform for political ads paid for by different candidates. But while Democrats flourish on Facebook, Republican ads are blocked for “sensational content.”

On November 5, a day…

Corinne Weaver | November 2, 2018

Even though 56 percent of America is pro-life, Facebook still deems pro-life ads as unacceptable for its platform.

The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List has had ads deleted from its Facebook page a total of six times, according to the Daily…