Big Tech’s major changes seem to have been made with a Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden presidency in mind. Four major firms have made a grand total of 26 policy changes since the start of 2020, aimed explicitly at election-related content.…
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October 26, 2020
The presidential campaigns have entered the final stretch, and the future of Section 230, antitrust and Big Tech remains uncertain.
A win by democratic nominee Joe Biden could potentially “kill” the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust…
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October 19, 2020
Social media can often appear to be an echo chamber, especially to those closely following election events. But a recent survey suggests that Big Tech is shifting users’ political views.
A study from the Pew Research Center…
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October 19, 2020
Big Tech has caused serious damage to President Donald Trump’s ability to be heard on social media.
Twitter and Facebook have censored the president’s social media accounts and the accounts belonging to his re-election campaign at least…
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September 28, 2020
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on new downloads of the TikTok app, but thankfully, only temporarily.
Last night, District Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S District Court for the District of Columbia agreed to…
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September 24, 2020
The CEOs of four major Big Tech companies have been given an ultimatum: testify in the Senate or face the music.
“The Senate Commerce Committee plans to subpoena the CEOs of Google, Facebook and Twitter to testify at an Oct. 1 hearing…
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September 23, 2020
President Donald Trump isn’t finished with his fight against Big Tech censorship.
Trump is planning to meet with several Republican state attorneys general today to urge them to investigate Big Tech censorship of conservatives…
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August 20, 2020
A recent Pew Research Center (Pew) study found that most Americans are, at least to some extent, concerned about online censorship and the ability of social media companies to handle misinformation.
The Pew study, published on…
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August 19, 2020
The GOP welcomed the “most-banned woman” with open arms as its candidate for the 21st Congressional District House seat in Florida. But tech companies seem reluctant to budge on their bans of Laura Loomer.
Loomer’s opponent,…
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August 7, 2020
President Donald Trump’s WeChat executive order shows the war on Chinese subterfuge is bigger than just TikTok.
Trump issued two different executive orders on Thursday evening: The “Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok…
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July 29, 2020
Big Tech companies claim to represent American values, but their business practices say otherwise.
The CEOs declared that they were American companies, then had to deal with numerous examples that undermined that patriotic claim. Before a…
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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 political clout.
An overwhelming majority of Americans are skeptical over Big Tech’s unchecked power, a Pew…
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July 17, 2020
We have to think of the children … and then ban their books, apparently.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and daughter Mary Morgan Ketchel’s new children’s book has been hindered yet again by Instagram, which banned ads for the book. …
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July 8, 2020
A major hearing approaches with Big Tech CEO’s Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai in the hot seat. Republicans claim they were not invited.
"We hope that this incident was simply a misunderstanding and not an…
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June 16, 2020
Popular conservative podcast and YouTube host Dan Bongino has one answer to the problem of Big Tech censorship. He has partnered with the free speech platform Parler and taken an ownership stake in the firm.
Bongino declared on the …
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June 12, 2020
Snap leadership’s decision to stop President Donald Trump from being able to promote himself on the Snapchat platform may be just the ripe first target for Sen. Josh Hawley’s proposed legislation.
“We’re well within our First Amendment…
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June 2, 2020
Appearing early Tuesday evening on the Fox Business Network’s Evening Edit, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell urged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remain strong and refuse to give in to the “social media brown shirts” at…
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December 17, 2019
The 2020 election is going to be fought online and the left has decided to create its own fact-check unit.
The Democratic National Committee started a “counter-disinformation unit” to “serve[] as a knowledge base and…
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November 21, 2019
A Twitter account that had been previously retweeted by President Trump was censored by the platform.
Breaking News Live News had tweeted a story about Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, on Nov. 20. Two hours later…
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October 3, 2019
One of the news social media apps is copying the strategies of big name sites — censorship.
TikTok, a wildly popular app that is managed by a sinister moderation system, is censoring posts about President Donald Trump, Christianity and…
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