Technology

Autumn Johnson | April 17, 2022

A journalist who contributed to Daily Pakistan called for the genocide of Jews on Twitter. In a since-deleted tweet, journalist Mian Dawood said that “Jews are the real threat to humanity on Earth.”

Dawood included several hashtags and…

Autumn Johnson | April 16, 2022

Twitter suspended the popular account again just hours after it was reinstated. The account posts videos of radical liberals on TikTok on its Twitter page. Twitter suspended the account again for “abuse and harassment.”

"Shortly…

Autumn Johnson | April 15, 2022

Twitter chose to implement a “poison pill” method in response to Elon Musk’s offer to buy the platform and make it private for $43 billion.

The platform’s board of directors issued a new “shareholder rights plan” in an effort to thwart…

Autumn Johnson | April 11, 2022

A social media platform allegedly censored an Air Force veteran for her posts on student loan debt.

Gretchen Smith is an Air Force veteran and founded Code of Vets, a nonprofit she created to honor her father who died at age 57 after…

Autumn Johnson | April 11, 2022

Twitter suspended Juanita Broaddrick after she questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines for COVID-19. Broaddrick accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978.

She stated on Twitter that pharmaceutical companies made…

Autumn Johnson | April 10, 2022

In an op-ed published Friday in The Washington Post, former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao slammed Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s investment in Twitter and, to put it mildly, his support and vision for free speech. Put simply, she called for…

Craig Bannister | April 6, 2022

It’s amazing how the narrative of media, Big Tech and Democrats on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal has changed, now that even biased, left-wing media are admitting the truth about it, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Tuesday at a House Judiciary…

Autumn Johnson | April 5, 2022

Research from N.C. State University indicated that Google’s anti-spam algorithm overwhelmingly labeled emails from right-wing candidates as “spam.” The paper, titled A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US…

Autumn Johnson | 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…

Autumn Johnson | March 29, 2022

A senior editor at The Federalist was locked out of his Twitter account over the weekend after he called Rachel Levine a man.

According to The Federalist, Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson tweeted that Levine “is in fact a man” and was…

Brian Bradley | March 28, 2022

Congress should target monopolies as it advances Big Tech legislation, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said last week. “If ninety percent of your searches go through one search engine, is that a monopoly?” McCarthy asked during an…

Craig Bannister | March 28, 2022

Recalling White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s revelation that the Biden Administration is working with Big Tech social media platforms to limit free speech, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) warned Friday of the threat to Americans’ First Amendment…

Autumn Johnson | March 27, 2022

A new law in the European Union would force Apple to allow sideloading and third-party app stores.

According to The Verge, Apple would be prevented from requiring users to download apps in its own app store under the Digital Markets Act (…

Autumn Johnson | March 27, 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he is giving “serious thought” to creating a new social media platform to rival Twitter.

“Would you consider building a new social media platform, @elonmusk?” an account asked on Saturday. “One that would consist…

Autumn Johnson | March 26, 2022

Podcaster Joe Rogan said that “woke” employees of Big Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter are “mentally ill.”

The New York Post reported that Rogan made the comment on his Spotify podcast during an interview with Antonio García…

Autumn Johnson | March 25, 2022

Tesla’s Elon Musk tweeted in support of free speech and questioned Twitter’s “adherence” to it.

Musk asked his followers to vote “yes” or “no” in a poll that asked users whether the platform supported free speech. “Free speech is…

Autumn Johnson | March 24, 2022

UPDATE: A YouTube spokesperson provided NewsBusters with the following statement after the removal:

“We removed content from the CPAC channel for violating our election integrity policy, which prohibits content that…

Autumn Johnson | March 24, 2022

Twitter censored The Federalist’s reporting and warned that links to the publication’s reporting “may be unsafe.”

According to The Federalist, Twitter displayed the following message to users who attempted to access the publication’s…

Autumn Johnson | March 23, 2022

The Department of Justice requested that Google be sanctioned in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit.

The basis of the suit was surrounded by the argument that Google was a monopoly. Reclaim The Net reported that the DOJ alleged in a pleading…

Autumn Johnson | March 20, 2022

The chief executive of a megafund dedicated to health care workers attacked Facebook for allowing “misinformation.”

Debby Blakey is chief executive of HESTA, a megafund worth $68 billion.

Blakey called for more regulation of the…