U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell tweeted on July 30 asking why Twitter allows the “terrorist organization” Hamas to use its platform. He asked: “Why is @Twitter allowing a terrorist organization to use its platform?” before…
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July 26, 2019
Democrats are trying to buy their way to a presidential victory in 2020 on Facebook and Google. Priorities USA, a Democratic SuperPAC, announced that it was launching an advertising campaign that would repackage local news into Democratic…
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July 25, 2019
Twitter will stop at nothing to block conservative content, no matter the source. Gay, black, conservative commentator Benji Irby complained that, “Twitter suspended my account indefinitely for no apparent reason on Monday, July 22nd,…
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July 23, 2019
Facebook and Twitter are working together to squelch any conservative opinions about illegal aliens. Conservative writer and Breitbart contributor Warner Todd Huston wrote that he had been suspended from both social media platforms after…
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July 19, 2019
Elected officials are no longer allowed to tweet innocuous support for the United States Navy, if you believe Twitter. Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott met with Twitter officials on July 15 to discuss why his tweet about the U.S. Navy’s…
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July 15, 2019
Key Republican leaders have called for action from the FTC, accusing Big Tech companies of threatening democracy. Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri put Big Tech companies on notice by pressing the Federal Trade Commission via a…
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July 10, 2019
The Thursday Social Media Summit at the White House will rally supporters of free speech. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who plans to attend the summit, has commented that he is “concerned there are people who work at the major technology…
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July 10, 2019
Twitter has not only blocked the Rev. Louis Farrakhan from posting temporarily, it has also added more rules to its hate speech policies. The social media company announced a new update in a July 9 blog post that banned “dehumanizing…
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July 9, 2019
More than three-fourths of conservatives don’t trust Facebook. The social media has been battling controversy after controversy about restricting conservative content. This is part of the findings of a new poll, conducted by McLaughlin and…
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July 2, 2019
The platform that rapidly bans people for tweeting “learn to code” took its sweet time removing legitimate death threats. Egyptian actor Hesham Mansour, with an 800,000 following on Twitter, tweeted some hateful and dangerous…
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June 27, 2019
Twitter is launching a new program to flag tweets as offensive. And it’s No.1 target appears to be President Donald Trump. The company announced via its blog June 27 that it will mark the tweets of politicians who break its rules,…
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June 24, 2019
An Antifa-related activist group called “All Out DC” has been putting up posters with the personal information of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, as well as other free speech figures, in an effort to “Block the Alt-Right.” The group’s poster…
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June 20, 2019
In the wake of terror attacks, Big Tech companies are being taken to task over content policing. The June 26 hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee will feature testimonies from Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s parent company…
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June 12, 2019
Twitter suspended the account of investigative group Project Veritas after it exposed censorship at Pinterest against pro-lifers. According to the pro-life group Live Action, Pinterest “permanently suspended” its account on June 11…
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June 10, 2019
Democrats are threatening to regulate Big Tech. But they’re saying it while their pockets are stuffed with donations from these companies. The House Judiciary Committee announced it was having a hearing concerning “Online Platforms and…
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May 31, 2019
For liberal Twitter, “hateful conduct” can be any joke that makes conservatives smile. Radio host and blogger Erick Erickson was suspended on May 31 for cracking a joke about Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Elizabeth Warren…
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May 30, 2019
Twitter has gathered a group of academics to help decide the fate of free speech on its platform. Twitter, the platform that bans people for tweeting “learn to code” at journalists, is considering cracking down on offensive “white…
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May 29, 2019
Big Tech companies say Iranian hackers used social media to interfere with the American 2018 midterm election. A group of anonymous hackers infiltrated social media sites in April 2018 to influence the midterm elections. According to prominent…
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May 24, 2019
Do as I say, not as I do. The censorious ideas pushed by popular Twitter #Resistance twins have come back to bite them. Activists Ed and Brian Krassenstein were permanently suspended from Twitter May 23. The Daily Beast reported the liberal…
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May 22, 2019
Twitter is built with an apocalyptic attitude toward conservatives and conservative media. The company’s co-founder Ev Williams told CNN Business in a May 22 interview that he believed that Twitter was not destructive towards the political…
