A Scottish YouTuber has been fined after being found guilty of being “grossly offensive” online for uploading a video of his girlfriend’s pug responding to “sieg heil” and “gas the Jews.”
In the…
Censorship
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April 20, 2018
A new poll by the Pew Research Center shows a majority of Americans do not believe the government should rein in the spread of fake news.
The Pew poll, which surveyed 4,734 American adults between Feb. 26-March 11, found that 58 percent…
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April 20, 2018
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A 19-year-old from Liverpool was reportedly found guilty of sending a “grossly offensive message” when she posted rap lyrics on her Instagram account. Prosecutors reportedly…
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April 19, 2018
A resident of the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn was reportedly banned from Facebook for 30 days for discussing the problem of black-on-Jewish crime in the area.
COLlive, a news site catering to the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish…
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April 18, 2018
With over 6 million subscribers, Philip DeFranco is one of the most prolific and popular YouTubers. The site’s lack of transparency when it comes to demonetization, however, is driving him and many other YouTubers away. DeFranco, like other…
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April 16, 2018
Executive Summary (Full Special Report can be found here.)
Like it or not, social media is the communication form of the future — not just in the U.S., but worldwide. Just Facebook and Twitter combined reach 1.8 billion people. More than…
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April 10, 2018
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ran smack into questions about the site’s neutrality during his testimony in front of members of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questioned Zuckerberg, asking if the site is a…
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March 26, 2018
Android users who installed Facebook’s Messenger app on their devices may have had their call and text histories logged for approximately two years, according to a report in Ars Technica.
Ars Technica reported that the issue…
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December 30, 2016
One liberal academic argued for censorship of politicians who dissent from liberal orthodoxy on climate change.
History professor at California State University, Sacramento Joseph A. Palermo argued President-Elect Donald Trump should not…
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November 28, 2016
The CEO of Reddit recently admitted he “abused” his power to alter comments in a pro-Donald Trump subreddit.
CEO Steve Huffman told The Washington Post on Nov. 25 he violated the company’s policies and altered…
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October 21, 2016
It isn’t just the news media censoring viewpoints on climate change anymore.
According to a WikiLeaks email, the left-wing website Think Progress took responsibility for getting a professor ousted from writing at Nate…
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March 7, 2016
Journalist and filmmaker Phelim McAleer said Facebook censored him after he challenged anti-drilling activists on his documentary’s social media site.
McAleer issued a press release on March 7, claiming Facebook suspended the…
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August 4, 2015
Gracing the cover of August’s Bloomberg Businessweek was a smiling, daisy-garlanded head of a billionaire tycoon that suggested he is a “feminist icon.”
That tycoon was the “Oracle of Omaha” and CEO…
