China

Catherine Salgado |

A government-controlled news outlet threatens another country with becoming “cannon fodder.” A ruler hurls insults at another nation and demands that allies sever all ties with that nation. A government official accuses another country of…

Catherine Salgado |

The Walt Disney Co. is seeing red. Streaming platform Disney+ in Hong Kong reportedly removed an episode of The Simpsons that mocked Chinese propaganda about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Catherine Salgado |

Apparently Twitter’s guidelines about violence only apply to Donald Trump, not communist Chinese state-controlled news outlets. The Global Times threatened Taiwan and potential allies with becoming “cannon fodder” on Twitter, and Twitter has not…

Alec Schemmel |

Twitter’s decision to ban “the alleged dictator of America, Donald Trump,” from its platform is startling in light of how the platform has treated accounts run by actual dictatorships like the Taliban and the Chinese Communist Party. On Maria…

Alec Schemmel |

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) appeared to be very unhappy with China’s new stake in TikTok. He called on the Biden administration to “take immediate action” to block the platform and its parent company ByteDance from operating in the United States…

Alec Schemmel |

In light of Facebook banning former President Donald Trump from its platform for at least two years, allowing China to promote genocidal propaganda on its platform raises serious questions about Facebook’s priorities. Experts in the fields of…

Alec Schemmel |

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn bowed to China once again when it reportedly censored the profile of a Swedish writer to appease the Chinese Communist Party. LinkedIn is reportedly the only major Western social media company that operates freely in…

Alec Schemmel |

Conservative lawmakers condemned Facebook for censoring former President Donald Trump while simultaneously allowing the Chinese Communist Party to post propaganda freely on its platform.

Alexander Hall |

So-called experts advising Big Tech are experiencing a crisis of credibility as the once-condemned laboratory leak theory rises in popularity.

Alec Schemmel |

Facebook and multinational biopharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc. announced that they would be teaming up to work with other companies and organizations, including the Chinese propaganda-pushing World Health Organization (WHO), to…

Autumn Johnson |

The Tiananmen Square massacre was an important event in the history of freedom, except at Microsoft. Bing, the global search engine owned by Microsoft, is not displaying search results for the famous “tank man” who challenged Chinese power.

Joseph Vazquez |

So much for the facts. A U.K.-based fact-checking outlet financed by liberal billionaire George Soros tried as early as February 2020, to swat down the idea that COVID-19 had leaked from a laboratory in communist China.

Alec Schemmel |

Facebook has had no reservations about censoring conservative accounts. Yet, it allows accounts of state-controlled propaganda outlets from the genocidal regime of China to flourish. Forty accounts on Facebook, amassing over 751 million followers…

Alec Schemmel |

Facebook has vowed to keep users “Safe and Informed” about the coronavirus. In an effort to meet its authoritarian goal, it censored millions of posts. Facebook’s Vice President of Integrity Guy Rosen admitted to washing Facebook of coronavirus…

Kayla Sargent |

While Twitter loves censoring conservatives, the platform is often hesitant to take action against other world leaders. However, the platform has finally taken at least a little action against harmful propaganda from China. 

Kayla Sargent |

Twitter doesn’t hold foreign government accounts to the same standard as President Donald Trump, but the platform has reached a new low. 

Twitter patted itself on the back after suspending Trump for 12 hours for posting a video in which…

Alec Schemmel |

Google has secured a tight grip around the research done by its staff, according to internal communications and other information obtained by Reuters. A new “sensitive topics” review procedure has, in at least three cases, “requested authors…

Alec Schemmel |

Facebook fact-checker PolitiFact produced eight fact-checks that either used or relied on World Health Organization (WHO) numbers that have proven to be untrue. A new report from CNN shows that communist China was lying about how many of its…

Kayla Sargent |

A fact-checking website may not even be able to properly check the facts in its own articles when the facts don’t line up with its narrative. FactCheck.org, which  partners with Facebook to fact-check articles and social media posts, has not…

Kayla Sargent |

While Twitter eagerly slaps warnings and labels on tweets from President Donald Trump like there’s no tomorrow, the platform is still unwilling to take action against Chinese misinformation.