Censorship

Kayla Sargent | May 24, 2021

Facebook recently took the opportunity in a new report to brag about how much content it has censored.

The Big Tech company released its quarterly Community Standards Enforcement Report. Facebook VP of Integrity Guy Rosen noted in the…

Alexander Hall | May 24, 2021

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr declared that the burden of supporting the communications infrastructure should no longer be reliant on a telephone service model developed back in 1996: “We should start requiring Big Tech to pay its fair share.”…

Kayla Sargent | May 21, 2021

Some dating sites will now make it easier than ever for people to treat their COVID-19 vaccine like a personality trait.

The White House has turned to dating apps in an attempt to convince more people to take a COVID-19 vaccine. These…

Nick Kangadis | May 21, 2021

Conservative talk show host Steven Crowder announced on his brand-new Rumble channel that he and his lawyer Bill Richmond filed a lawsuit last Thursday against video platform giant YouTube for suspending his channel for two weeks for allegedly…

Alec Schemmel | May 20, 2021

An Israeli legal scholar complained that YouTube twice censored his interview about Israel’s strikes against the terror group Hamas. Then YouTube gave conflicting accounts about why it censored him.

Antonin Scalia Law School Professor…

Kayla Sargent | May 20, 2021

Free speech-oriented alternatives like Rumble have grown in popularity as Big Tech companies like YouTube have increasingly censored conservative voices. And Rumble’s newfound popularity has particularly attracted the attention of a couple…

Kayla Sargent | May 19, 2021

Facebook deplatformed a pro-Israel page with “75 million followers” after the page appeared to be the target of “anti-Semitic” attacks — flooding the page with one million comments that included photos of Hitler. 

Facebook shut down…

Kayla Sargent | May 18, 2021

NewsGuard has found a new way to discriminate against conservatives while pretending to fight against so-called “misinformation” online.

Liberal ratings firm NewsGuard has developed a service to “place ads on credible news sources.” Its…

NB Staff | May 18, 2021

On Tuesday morning, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell released an open letter to Facebook President Mark Zuckerberg about the site’s alleged neutrality. Bozell explained that recent statements by a member of the Board of Trustees for…

Kayla Sargent | May 17, 2021

As Americans scrambled to find gas, and as Israel fought to defend itself against terrorists, President Joe Biden quietly rescinded a free speech executive order from former President Donald Trump.

Biden rescinded Trump’s executive order…

Kayla Sargent | May 14, 2021

YouTube’s constant censorship of conservatives is probably not going anywhere, and neither is the platform’s denial of silencing right-wing opinions. 

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki appeared at the Poland-based Impact ‘21 conference and…

Alexander Hall | May 14, 2021

Facebook has rolled out a new pop-up to dissuade users from sharing so-called misinformation.

Facebook released yet another stopgap to prevent what could be seen by some as possible misinformation. “Starting today, we’re testing a way to…

Kayla Sargent | May 13, 2021

A Florida-based news outlet claimed that YouTube censored one of its videos, but YouTube simply told MRC Free Speech America that the video was “actually live” on the platform. 

The Floridian reported that YouTube censored its video…

Nick Kangadis | May 13, 2021

The “Big Tech” oligarchs will eventually come for you. After they censor and ban everyone they hate for whatever reason, they won’t stop and will go after whomever they deem is the next “offensive” entity.

YouTube has given conservative…

Kayla Sargent | May 12, 2021

Terrorist rockets continue to slam into the state of Israel. Yet on Twitter, Palestinians were encouraged to keep “[f]ighting this despotic regime” by the leader of the world’s biggest exporter of terror — Iran.

But Twitter removed former…

Alexander Hall | May 12, 2021

Instagram users looking to use made-up pronouns that sound like space aliens or magical creatures are in luck! The photo sharing platform rolled out a new function for users to switch to a wide variety of absurd gender pronouns.

Instagram…

Kayla Sargent | May 11, 2021

The National Association of Attorneys General had to urge Facebook to drop a potentially “harmful” project targeted at kids. Apparently, Facebook needs to be encouraged to protect children online. 

Attorneys general from 44 states…

Kayla Sargent | May 11, 2021

Nearly all major social media platforms banned former President Donald Trump in January after he called for “peace” following the Capitol riot. A new study from the Pew Research Center revealed just how controversial the bans were to the American…

Craig Bannister | May 10, 2021

“These companies have too much power,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) said Monday, calling for Congress to break the stranglehold giant platforms like Facebook and Twitter have on social media freedom of speech.

Powerful social media…

Kayla Sargent | May 10, 2021

A former Dow Jones CEO has decided to launch his own news media startup aimed at handling “misinformation” on social media. Because the world needed another one.

Former Dow Jones CEO William Lewis launched “The News Movement” to tackle…