Censorship

Kayla Sargent | September 30, 2020

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has been preparing to potentially take down Google’s empire, and it’s nearing the finish line. The DOJ is expected to bring an antitrust lawsuit against Google next week, and “is currently urging state…

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 postpone…

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” for the…

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’…

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…

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 online.…

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…

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, according…

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…

Kayla Sargent | September 21, 2020

It is fairly common for Twitter to censor or flag conservative content it deems offensive. Now, the platform has decided that a video discussing Christian love and truth constitutes sensitive material.

Twitter placed an interstitial, or…

Joseph Vazquez | 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…

Kayla Sargent | September 18, 2020

It’s no secret that Twitter skews sharply to the left. A recent job change by a top employee of the platform shows why.

Alec Schemmel | September 17, 2020

American’s rights online have been trampled by major tech companies who have leveraged favorable government policy to suppress or censor user’s content without fear it will come back to hurt them.

Kayla Sargent | September 17, 2020

It's no secret that Americans have a complicated relationship with Big Tech, and a recent study from FleishmanHillard highlights just how complicated this relationship can be. FleishmanHillard, a St. Louis-based marketing agency and public…

Kayla Sargent | September 16, 2020

Google testified in an antitrust hearing before the Senate yesterday, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears to be gearing up to crack down on Facebook. The Wall Street Journal reported that the FTC is preparing “a possible antitrust…

Kayla Sargent, Alexander Hall | September 15, 2020

Google has long tried to hide its anti-conservative bias, but today, Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) were not having it. Big Tech representatives faced off with the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy…

Alexander Hall | September 15, 2020

Only some experts are allowed to comment, apparently. That much was made clear when YouTube censored White House presidential advisor and Dr. Scott Atlas, M.D, for going against the World Health Organization’s narrative. “YouTube has yanked…

Kayla Sargent | September 14, 2020

Although Netflix streaming service has a "Big Pedo Problem,' most recently with the film Cuties, it appears as though Facebook is refusing to allow despicable content on its platform. Facebook allegedly removed a clip from the Netflix…

Kayla Sargent | September 11, 2020

Big Tech’s reign of terror may soon come to an end, and today, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) further explained how. Blackburn held an informal discussion via Zoom to discuss The Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act, which she introduced…

Alexander Hall | September 10, 2020

Conservative journalists who post videos of riots are the problem, not the riots. That’s the word from a professor at Harvard Kennedy’s prominent Shorenstein Center. Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project…