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Alexander Hall | May 14, 2019

An upcoming  documentary will explore five people who have been shut down and silenced on social media.

The official Twitter account @CensorshipMovie tweeted a trailer of the documentary May 12. The caption read: “Five high…

Corinne Weaver | May 10, 2019

Facebook banned Rev. Louis Farrakhan for his rampant anti-Semitism. So how come the video of him speaking about “Satanic Jews” is still live on the platform?

The leader of the Nation of Islam spoke in front of an audience at…

Alexander Hall | May 7, 2019

Recently deplatformed activist Laura Loomer showed up to Facebook’s lobby on May 3, skewering the company for showing solidarity for everybody but Jewish and Christian people.

A poster, possibly handmade by a local worker, hangs in…

Corinne Weaver | May 6, 2019

CNN is ready to push Big Tech into banning President Donald Trump -- as a “dangerous” person.

Facebook and Instagram banned six individuals and all links to conspiracy website InfoWars as “dangerous” last week. Trump retweeted tweets from…

Corinne Weaver | May 3, 2019

Facebook has a way of labelling and categorizing ideologies and individuals that it has banned. But how does it view other groups it hasn’t banished?

On May 2, Facebook banned Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam,…

Alexander Hall | May 3, 2019

Instagram and its parent company Facebook have purged several what it called “extremist” figures ranging from controversial Jewish activist Laura Loomer to anti-Semitic hate preacher Rev. Louis Farrakhan. 

In the latest…

Corinne Weaver | May 3, 2019

Social media has been consistently banning people based on liberal complaints. But when it bans someone championed by liberal Hollywood and the Democrats, suddenly everyone becomes a free-speech advocate.

After Minister Louis Farrakhan…

Corinne Weaver | April 29, 2019

Facebook seems to struggle with the concept of transparency, especially when it comes to how it goes about banning and censoring content.

The mystery was somewhat illuminated when a journalist from the The Telegraph (U.K.)was allowed to…

Corinne Weaver | April 25, 2019

Apparently it’s easier to just pay fines than it is to make active changes to a site’s privacy policies — when your Big Tech company is big enough.

In the last quarter, Facebook pulled in more than $15 billion in revenue…

Corinne Weaver | April 25, 2019

Facebook is subtly trying to discredit conservative media as “conspiracy theories” and it’s using Wikipedia to do it.

The company’s latest policy update, “Expanding Our Fact-Checking Program,” included…

Alexander Hall | April 24, 2019

One way to fight Big Tech tyranny might be a new Texas bill that aims to stop companies from discriminating against conservative viewpoints. 

The bill by Republican state Sen. Bryan Hughes would prevent Big Tech companies from…

Corinne Weaver | April 23, 2019

Election manipulation is something the media have typically associated with Russians. But one liberal billionaire funnelled 56 times more money into manipulating content to win elections than the Russians.

News for Democracy, a political…

Corinne Weaver | April 22, 2019

Social media platforms have pledged to rid their sites of “hate” and “terrorism.” But after the horrific bombing in Sri Lanka that killed nearly 300 Christians on Easter, they have remained strangely silent.

Corinne Weaver | April 19, 2019

Social media platforms and Big Tech companies have been slowly working to censor content on their platforms more efficiently.

Emma Llanso, Director of Free Expression at the Center for Democracy and Technology, wrote in an op-ed for Wired…

Alexander Hall | April 19, 2019

Social media companies are going to have to come up with a solution for privacy scandals. Otherwise, the government will do it for them and their bosses won’t like it.

On Thursday, two sources told NBC News that regulators are…

Corinne Weaver | April 18, 2019

Ideological diversity is crucial when it comes to building a well-balanced fact-checking team. But the left won’t accept anyone who isn’t on their side.

Facebook’s controversial fact-checking program announced on April…

Corinne Weaver | April 16, 2019

Data gathered from millions of individual users was apparently handed out as gifts at Facebook.

In a new leak published by NBC, it was determined that Facebook did not sell data to third-party companies or advertisers. Instead, that data…

Alexander Hall | April 12, 2019

Google has joined other tech companies in trying to explain its bias against the pro-life film, Unplanned. 

Unplanned is the story of Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson, experienced a profound change of heart after…

Alexander Hall | April 12, 2019

At the Senate Judiciary hearing on April 10, Republican senators went beyond establishing the liberal biases of Silicon Valley social media giants, and questioned the very idea of “hate speech.” Senator Ted Cruz proclaimed not only…

Corinne Weaver | April 11, 2019

Facebook has struggled with the concept of freedom of expression for some time now. But now the platform is interested in ignoring it more openly. In fact, the platform has been “reducing the spread of problematic content that does not…