Facebook and Instagram censored conservatives for their American energy independence statements even though fact-checkers disagreed on essential facts underlying the censored posts.
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May 23, 2022
Facebook censored then later restored Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-TN) post saying “[b]iological men have no place in women's sports." The platform removed Blackburn’s post for violating its alleged hate speech policy. “Big Tech is censoring…
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May 17, 2022
Facebook shrouded one of Brigitte Gabriel’s posts with a phony fact-check warning. Did the platform’s algorithm fail again?
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May 12, 2022
On the heels of a small victory for pro-life Americans, it’s worth a reminder that at least one Big Tech executive backed abortion with a bundle of cash. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg infamously donated $1 million to Planned Parenthood’s abortion…
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May 12, 2022
Big Tech worked tirelessly to silence pro-life voices, but the censorship can’t stop the Supreme Court from overturning bad precedent. A grievous Supreme Court document leak indicated that the court may overturn Roe v. Wade. Big Tech and the…
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May 6, 2022
Missouri and Louisiana filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration Thursday for allegedly colluding with Big Tech companies. Fox News reported that the lawsuit claimed that the Biden administration “pressured and colluded” with…
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May 5, 2022
A leftist group posted home addresses of six right-leaning Supreme Court justices but hasn’t been restricted by any major social media sites. The doxxing attack appears to violate several site policies such as harassment and sharing content that…
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April 30, 2022
Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen said she was “cautiously optimistic” about Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Haugen alleged last year that Facebook prioritized its own profits over public safety and encouraged content moderation in her…
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April 30, 2022
Facebook "whistleblower" Frances Haugen said the United States should be more like Europe when it comes to social media.
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April 27, 2022
It’s Episode 35 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about a recent MRC study that found 646 cases of censorship that covered criticism of President Joe Biden over the past two years.
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April 26, 2022
Seventy-one percent of global executives say that the metaverse will be good for businesses, according to a new survey. Several of the biggest names in both business and woke politics are rushing to stake their virtual claim in the metaverse.
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April 21, 2022
A new report alleged that Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Meta, used her position to pressure a tabloid to drop an article about her then-boyfriend. At the time, Sandberg dated Bobby Kotick, the CEO of Activision. Activision Blizzard is a video-game…
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April 21, 2022
Big Tech’s campaign to protect President Joe Biden and his agenda has continued unabated. The Media Research Center found more than 640 examples of bans, deleted content and other speech restrictions placed on those who criticized Biden on social…
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April 20, 2022
Twitter and Facebook worked in lockstep to restrict the flow of the Hunter Biden laptop story just before the 2020 presidential election. These platforms stifled the spread of that story at the same time that Big Media did, as MRC research found…
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April 19, 2022
The hypocrisy of Facebook’s fact-checking partners knows no bounds. In an act of discrimination against the Media Research Center, a Meta platform fact-checking partner threw a fit after MRC’s video division, MRCTV, dared to write about a video…
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April 12, 2022
“I am close to a First Amendment absolutist,” former president Barack Obama said, even as he called misinformation potentially “fatal” and suggested “modifications” to online anonymity. The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg…
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April 7, 2022
It seems like terrible public relations for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to publicly refer to himself as the Dark Lord of Mordor while running one of the internet’s largest censorship operations. Zuckerberg joined The Tim Ferriss Show on March 24 to…
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April 1, 2022
Big Tech censors: We know what we’re doing. Their algorithms: April Fools! It’s a tall task for Big Tech companies to justify mashing the censorship button on conservative speech when the systems they use to do their dirty work are so stupid that…
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March 30, 2022
Big Tech faced yet another blow from the Department of Justice. Originally reported by The Wall Street Journal, the DOJ sent letters to members of the congressional judiciary committees and asked them to support an antitrust bill that prevented…
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March 29, 2022
In a Tuesday appearance on the Fox Business Network’s The Evening Edit, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell called out the liberal Big Tech companies and media for their “censorship” of the Hunter Biden laptop story that has recently…
