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Alexander Hall | August 10, 2020

Twitter now attaches warning labels to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s account but not the Iranian ayatollah. Twitter has begun to add the labels to state-affiliated media and government officials from five major nations.…

Alexander Hall | August 6, 2020

President Donald Trump has been censored by Big Tech for commenting on COVID-19. Facebook and Twitter obliterated a video of Trump speaking on Fox News about the coronavirus’s effects on children, both claiming the content violated their…

Alexa Moutevelis | August 5, 2020

Both Twitter and Facebook acted quickly Wednesday night to remove a video of President Trump speaking on Fox News about the coronavirus’ effects on children. The social media sites said the content violated their policies on COVID-19…

Alexander Hall | August 5, 2020

An app researcher may have revealed a Twitter tool that would allow moderators to debate over what is, or isn’t misinformation. Jane Manchun Wong has posted a screenshot of what appears to be an unreleased Twitter tool that allows moderators…

Alexander Hall | August 5, 2020

A campaign ad for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden took a snippet from President Donald Trump wildly out of context.

Corinne Weaver | August 3, 2020

Twitter has allowed numerous videos of the Black Lives Matter protests and even Antifa riots on its platform. But a video about the Students for Life chalking a sidewalk gets slapped with a label for “potentially sensitive content.”

Joseph Vazquez | July 31, 2020

Parler CEO John Matze slammed his Big Tech competitors following a congressional antitrust hearing, and said his site is doing its part to defend freedom of speech. In an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Matze gave his…

NB Staff | July 30, 2020

On Thursday’s Evening Edit, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell excoriated Big Tech a day after a House subcommittee hearing on the matter, telling the Fox Business Network’s Jackie DeAngelis that these “monster corporations…

Alexander Hall | July 30, 2020

It takes a special kind of chutzpah to tell the Israeli parliament that calls for Israel’s destruction are more acceptable than Trump’s tweets. “A Twitter spokeswoman has defended the company’s decision to block and restrict tweets from…

Corinne Weaver | July 29, 2020

Big Tech companies claim to represent American values, but their business practices say otherwise.  The CEOs of these companies declared that they were American, but then had to deal with numerous examples that undermined that patriotic…

Alexander Hall | July 29, 2020

Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) raked Big Tech over the coals, saying there’s no more denying what can be plainly seen: “Big Tech is out to get conservatives. That’s not a suspicion. That's not a hunch. That's a fact.” Jordan slammed…

NB Staff | July 29, 2020

Four prominent Big Tech CEOs are set to appear before a congressional subcommittee today, and we demand answers! The CEOs of four of America’s largest Big Tech companies, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar…

Alexander Hall | July 28, 2020

Twitter can pretend that niche articles about the popularity of socialism are trending, meanwhile a comedian can tweet a poo emoji and a famous puppet to get more traction. “One of the way [sic] Twitter manipulates us is with bogus trends,”…

Corinne Weaver | July 28, 2020

No one in the media or in tech companies bats an eye when football players kneel during the national anthem as a protest. But when a football player tries to offer an inspirational message of faith, Twitter censors it as “potentially sensitive…

Corinne Weaver | July 28, 2020

Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube all worked in concert to mass censor material from President Donald Trump, his son, Donald Trump Jr., and a Facebook event hosted by the Tea Party Patriots that involved doctors discussing COVID-19. Yet these tech…

Alexander Hall | July 27, 2020

Even in an election year as divided and chaotic as 2020, millions of Americans can seem to agree that Big Tech has too much power. An overwhelming majority of Americans are skeptical over Big Tech’s unchecked power, a Pew Research Center (…

Corinne Weaver | July 23, 2020

Twitter has been suspending accounts that prominently display the Star of David in their profiles. Yet the company refuses to remove anti-Semitic material and prominent anti-Semites from its platform.

Alexander Hall | July 22, 2020

Twitter declares war on QAnon conspiracy theorists! Thousands of Pro-Trump accounts have been purged as Twitter targets conspiracy theorists on the right while ignoring radicals on the left. “We’ve been clear that we will take strong…

Alexander Hall | July 21, 2020

Congressional Representative Jody Hice (R-GA) and 18 fellow House Republicans sent a scorching letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey criticizing the hack that erupted across the platform in mid-July. Hice and his colleagues wrote,“While I…

Alexander Hall | July 16, 2020

Twitter was rocked by a massive “security incident” yesterday, and in its wake purported blacklisting tools may have been exposed. Big Tech’s infamous lack of transparency has outraged leaders on both sides of politics, but the  incident…