Censorship

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…

Kayla Sargent | September 10, 2020

As if we needed more proof that Facebook is overrun by leftists, one of the platform’s engineers just quit because the company was — wait for it — not leftist enough. Facebook engineer Ashok Chandwaney left the company on Tuesday morning,…

Kayla Sargent | September 9, 2020

Several prominent Republican senators have introduced legislation designed to turn up the pressure on Big Tech. Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced The Online Freedom and Viewpoint…

Kayla Sargent | September 8, 2020

Twitter censors edited videos that the right tweets on the platform, but Twitter allowed a “deceptively edited” video of Trump to go viral. Twitter came under fire for its hesitancy to remove a “deceptively edited” video of President Donald…

Kayla Sargent | September 4, 2020

Oh, how the mighty may fall. For years, Google has expanded into a massive tech empire, but it now finds itself in the midst of an antitrust case in the United States.

Attorney General William Barr is reportedly planning to bring an…