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Autumn Johnson | August 18, 2021

"Why Trump's banned and the Taliban aren't: they play by the rules." Such was the absurd comment tweeted by Technology Policy Editor of The Washington Post Mark Seibel. Facebook has issued a blanket ban on the Taliban, but…

Alexander Hall | August 18, 2021

Twitter is experimenting with an idea to manipulate willing users into acting as the platform’s censorship police in a new effort to crack down on online speech.

Michael Morris | August 17, 2021

Big Tech tyranny knows no bounds. Big Tech companies have gone so far as to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for their employees, but now apparently even that isn’t enough. Some of those employees are being required to show proof.

Gabriela Pariseau | August 17, 2021

Members of Facebook’s Oversight Board revealed that the board prefers to operate under the guideposts of globalism and so-called consistency — not American values enumerated in the First Amendment.

Autumn Johnson | August 15, 2021

A purported Taliban spokesman still has an active Twitter account, despite the platform suspended former President Donald Trump for “hateful” and “violent” content.

Alec Schemmel | August 11, 2021

Four school board meetings, collectively from Connecticut, Illinois and Washington, were removed from YouTube within an eight-day period last month for violating the platform’s “COVID-19 medical misinformation policy.” Big Tech’s censorship…

Autumn Johnson | August 7, 2021

Erickson was commenting on a post about the suspension of conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey, who had been suspended days before for the same violation.

Autumn Johnson | August 6, 2021

Twitter has temporarily restricted the account of Liz Harrington, chief spokeswoman to former President Donald Trump (who is also a former MRC intern and former CNS News reporter). Twitter said the account was restricted because it contained “…

Autumn Johnson | August 5, 2021

Blaze Media’s Allie Beth Stuckey was locked out of her Twitter account on Thursday after she tweeted that Olympian Laurel Hubbard is “still a man.”

Gabriela Pariseau | August 4, 2021

Twitter announced that it is teaming up with liberal news and fact-checking sites The Associated Press (AP) and Reuters to censor content by adding what the platform is calling “reliable context” to trending news.

Kayla Sargent | July 29, 2021

Big Tech companies are using the new Delta variant of COVID-19 to implement Orwellian policies for employees before they can go back to work. Companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google are taking steps to force their employees to get…

NB Staff | July 26, 2021

Big Tech’s Online Freedom grade actually got worse in the second quarter of 2021, despite an appalling first quarter report card with a grade of “F.” Facebook led the plunge to yet another “F” for the industry intent on censoring conservative…

Gabriela Pariseau | July 23, 2021

YouTube applied its so-called “medical misinformation” policy more broadly than ever when the platform removed and then later restored content criticizing laws allowing 11-year-olds to be vaccinated without parental consent.

Autumn Johnson | July 22, 2021

Senate Democrats introduced a bill on Thursday that would make Facebook liable for “misinformation” about the global pandemic. The Health Misinformation Act, introduced by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), would use the…

NB Staff | July 22, 2021

Over 40 conservative leaders have signed on to an open letter led by Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell in calling on the federal government to cease its collusion with Big Tech. The open letter was first published as a Fox News…

Kayla Sargent | July 22, 2021

In its most recent display of absurdity, Twitter has suspended the Nation of Islam, but not for its history of racism against white people or anti-Semitism. Twitter suspended the Nation of Islam’s account reportedly after it criticized COVID…

Craig Bannister | July 21, 2021

Regardless of political party or platform, governments and social media giants cannot be trusted to decide what’s true or false or what speech should be allowed, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) warns. Last Thursday, White House…

Autumn Johnson | July 18, 2021

A pro-Trump legal group is investigating the Biden administration’s coordination with Big Tech companies.

 

Heather Moon | July 14, 2021

Philanthropy Roundtable board member Vivek Ramaswamy blasted Big Tech for its unconstitutional censorship in a Fox News appearance. He argued that the government was using private companies as a backdoor to do what it could not do legally in an…

Kayla Sargent | July 14, 2021

Big Tech’s war against conservative voices has reached new heights. But MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack team has exposed the left’s  online censorship by amassing 2,500 individual cases to hold Big Tech accountable. 

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