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Corinne Weaver | January 7, 2019

Democrats have now spent twice as much as the Russians on fake ads on Facebook. But the media still thinks Russian meddling is the problem.

The New York Times released a story on January 7, detailing the Facebook pages created by “…

Corinne Weaver | January 4, 2019

Two giants are at war with each other. Who will survive the damage?

According to Byers Market, Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook leaders are upset, to say the least, with the New York Times coverage of their company. Over the past year,…

Corinne Weaver | December 7, 2018

European officials are not happy with Facebook. The platform has run afoul of their regulations one too many times.

In an interview with BBC, former head of British intelligence agency GCHQ Robert Hannigan expressed his concerns about the…

Corinne Weaver | December 4, 2018

Wikipedia is considered by many in the media to be “the Internet’s greatest store of knowledge.” But what happens when that knowledge is compromised?

The information library is under siege from hackers who radically…

Corinne Weaver | November 28, 2018

Twitter seems to be unprepared to deal with answering Congress’ questions, so instead it  backed off.

The platform caused an uproar on November 25 when it permanently banned conservative pundit and former Marine Jesse…

Corinne Weaver | November 27, 2018

Conservatives should just suck it up and accept their online punishments, according to Politico.

In an article criticizing the conservative backlash to Jesse Kelly’s ban on Twitter, Jack Shafer argued that there really wasn’t…

Corinne Weaver | November 19, 2018

Conservatives are having a difficult time trusting that social media companies will protect the First Amendment.

In a new poll released by Axios, the general sentiment towards big tech companies such as Google and Facebook was negative. A…

Corinne Weaver | November 19, 2018

The press isn’t arguing any more: Silicon Valley is allied with Democrats. And The New York Times is worried that alliance is crumbling.

Democrats scrambled to condemn the company after fallout from a Times hit piece that accused…

Alexander Hall | November 14, 2018

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has butted heads with other big tech CEOs over tax policy. Now he wants big tech regulated.

Benioff doubled down on his recent critique of Facebook being as dangerously addictive as cigarettes, suggesting that…

Alexander Hall | November 5, 2018

Facebook wants to be militant about removing “hate speech.” However, it keeps deleting the wrong content.

The site removed a rabbi’s harrowing account of harassment by Rev. Louis Farrakhan supporters, only to say later…

Corinne Weaver | November 5, 2018

In the midterm cycle, Facebook is used as a platform for political ads paid for by different candidates. But while Democrats flourish on Facebook, Republican ads are blocked for “sensational content.”

On November 5, a day…

Corinne Weaver | September 18, 2018

It’s hard to paint a positive picture of big tech companies, especially when it becomes apparent that they are manipulating users.

On September 19, The Creepy Line, a documentary on Facebook and Google, will premiere in Washington D…

NB Staff | September 4, 2018

RESTON, VA — On August 31, Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell sent individual letters to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC)…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | July 17, 2018

Liberal news sources appear to have a problem with more than just InfoWars: now they’re going after the Daily Caller.

According to The Wall Street Journal, during an off-the-record meeting with Facebook last week, editors from…

Gabriel Hays | June 13, 2018

An Israeli Minister has demanded that Twitter police the official Hamas and Hezbollah social media accounts for being “actively engaged in inciting and executing attacks against innocent civilians.”

Israel’s…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | June 8, 2018

This summer, Facebook is debuting its own slate of original programming, funded by the tech giant. Out of the seven original shows announced, five have clear left-wing agendas.

Deadline reports the first batch of shows are On Location…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | May 31, 2018

Google’s search results temporarily described the ideology of the California Republican Party as “Nazism” on Thursday. In a statement, a Google spokesperson told the Media Research Center the results were due to an act of…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | May 16, 2018

Facebook revealed there was a 56 percent increase in the number of posts removed for violating the site’s “hate speech” rule.

Facebook’s Community standards Enforcement Preliminary Report showed that between…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | April 10, 2018

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ran smack into questions about the site’s neutrality during his testimony in front of members of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questioned Zuckerberg, asking if the site is a…