The Facebook Oversight Board is calling for more transparency from the platform, according to new reporting from Axios. The Board made the recommendation in response to The Wall Street Journal's critical reporting of the Big Tech giant and…
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Facebook admitted that data it shared with researchers in February 2020 was severely flawed. The result discredited any study relating to so-called “misinformation,” alleged radicalization or political polarization that used the Facebook…
Big Tech overwhelmingly censors Republican members of Congress by a rate of 53-to-1 compared to congressional Democrats.
That censorship has hit Republican Senators Rand Paul (KY) and Ron Johnson (WI), Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) and other…
Facebook criticized The Wall Street Journal after it conducted a deep-dive investigation into the platform and some of its practices.
Nick Clegg, the Vice President of Global Affairs at Facebook, said the The Journal deliberately…
In a twist of irony, head of Instagram Adam Mosseri warned about the “risk” of social media “censorship” in an attempt to defend his platform from articles critical of censorious Facebook.
Mosseri joined Recode Media Host Peter Kafka’s…
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Rapper Nicki Minaj claimed to have been penalized by Twitter after she posted tweets expressing skepticism over COVID-19 vaccinations and apparent agreement with Fox News host…
Several Big Tech companies reportedly know their social media sites are toxic for minors, and the sites may even perpetuate that toxicity.
The Wall Street Journal wrote that TikTok and Facebook-owned Instagram are creating a toxic…
It’s Week Three of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about Big Tech’s refusal to accept anything that goes against their approved COVID-19 narrative.
Web Superstar Joe Rogan posted an Instagram…
Americans have become quite suspicious of Big Tech’s influence. A recent survey reported on by Breitbart News revealed that three-quarters of American citizens believe that Big Tech companies avoid regulation by using their power to influence…
Facebook reportedly has a specific set of elite users who don't have to follow the same censorship rules applied to average users.
There’s a club of elites who don't have to follow the same rules, and Facebook has reportedly hidden…
A top Democratic staffer is reportedly leaving his job at the Senate Commerce Committee to work at Facebook, according a Politico scoop on Thursday.
“John Branscome, the top Democratic staffer on the Senate Commerce Committee, is…
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro made a bold move, marking one up for free speech in his nation. The embattled president signed a provisional measure that will make it illegal for Big Tech to arbitrarily remove legal social media content.
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Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has touted privacy as a core feature, but a damning report indicated that user conversations may not be so secure.
WhatsApp has treated privacy as a signature feature for users to join, but a…
It’s Week Two of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about Big Tech’s apparent discomfort showcasing anything pro-military.
Big Tech has been busy censoring conservatives while the world is in uproar over…
It’s Week One of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about Shana Chappell whose heroic son was killed in Afghanistan on August 26th. Her heartfelt lament on Instagram regarding her son’s death granted her a…
Facebook announced on its blog that it will expand testing efforts to reduce political and news content in its News Feed. Media Research Center President Brent Bozell said that the change will “disproportionately” affect conservatives.
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Facebook is reportedly creating an election commission to weigh in on political affairs across the globe, according to The New York Times.
The commission is expected to be announced just in time for the 2022 midterm elections in the…
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…
Even after years of liberal media and politicians calling for the censorship of online speech, a plurality of Americans still say the government should not intervene — even at the cost of some false information slipping through.
A new…
Leftist journalists appear to be setting their sights on Facebook after the platform allegedly shelved a controversial report from 2021’s first-quarter.
Facebook was accused of deliberately hiding its first-quarter report from the public…