Free Speech

Catherine Salgado | November 11, 2021

Twitter’s algorithms may be amplifying the very controversial content that the platform and pro-censorship users are trying to limit.

A new report indicates that angry Twitter users may ironically be amplifying tweets by dunking on them.…

Heather Moon, Gabriela Pariseau | November 11, 2021

The leftist U.K.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate just launched a broadside attack against nine conservative digital outlets with its “Toxic Ten” report. The report aimed to silence entire outlets for writing stories that don’t follow the…

Conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair said Instagram removed a video she posted of Kenosha teenager on trial Kyle Rittenhouse crying during his harrowing time on the witness stand.

Big Tech and the media have gone to great lengths to…

Alexander Hall | November 10, 2021

While users may still dislike YouTube videos, their ability to see a public count of how many internet users dislike versus like a video will be obliterated.

One of the few joys about being a conservative on liberal Big Tech platforms is…

Alexander Hall | November 10, 2021

YouTube appears to have censored a speech about COVID-19 vaccines by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA)....and it touted the effectiveness of American COVID-19 vaccinations.

Are any mere statements from the right about COVID-19 tripping…

Catherine Salgado | November 10, 2021

Meta (Facebook) is not the only tech company seeking to remake the world as a metaverse. Pokémon Go developer John Hanke recently suggested that augmented reality (AR) “is where the real metaverse is going to happen.”

Founder and CEO of…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | November 10, 2021

It’s Episode Eleven of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about Big Tech’s overreach in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was charged with first-degree murder after he shot three men…

Autumn Johnson | November 9, 2021

Gigi Sohn, President Biden’s nominee to the Federal Communications Commission, appears to have troubling biases against conservative media outlets. The Twitter account of Sohn promised to “fulfill [Biden’s] goal of ensuring that every household…

Autumn Johnson | November 9, 2021

Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, is calling on Instagram to provide a dislike button on posts in an effort to promote kindness. Markle attended the “Minding the Gap” conference to promote paid sick and parental leave in the United States,…

Catherine Salgado | November 9, 2021

Congress and Big Tech are still battling it out over which will have more control over the online speech of Americans. A new bipartisan congressional bill would allow users to experience social media without the algorithms.

The “Filter…

Alexander Hall | November 9, 2021

Is Facebook put off by the word “penis” or merely a book that might embarrass a liberal politician? A former aide to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for free speech after Facebook reportedly banned ads for her book.

Facebook…

NB Staff | November 9, 2021

Big Tech censorship was even worse in the third quarter of 2021. This was especially alarming considering the platforms didn’t have much farther to fall from their pathetic second quarter grades. Online Freedom on Google, Twitter and Facebook all…

Alexander Hall | November 8, 2021

Left-leaning populist YouTube celebrity Shoe0nHead called out Prostasia as a “tax exempted pedophile club” and shared purported screenshots calling out the website. 

Amazon censors conservative organizations, but allows groups that,…

Catherine Salgado | November 8, 2021

Big Tech better watch out! A new bipartisan Senate bill aimed at restricting tech companies’ “anticompetitive” acquisition abilities is getting attention from policymakers and experts alike.

The new Senate bill introduced by Senators Amy…

Autumn Johnson | November 7, 2021

A new feature in Microsoft will provide employers with increased visibility on employee browsers.

The feature is aimed at “insider risk management,” where employers are able to monitor online employee actions online. The compliance center…

Autumn Johnson | November 7, 2021

A study from researchers at Facebook suggests addiction to the app is only growing.

The Daily Mail reports that researchers found that 1 in 8 of the platform’s 2.9 billion users is addicted to the app, displaying troubling behaviors that…

Autumn Johnson | November 6, 2021

Congressman Jim Banks is back on Twitter after he deleted a tweet that went against the platform’s Terms of Service.

On October 19, Banks tweeted about Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman who recently became the first transgender four-…

Alexander Hall | November 5, 2021

Microsoft opened an event by apologizing to indiginous tribes of America on whose land their offices are built. No word on whether Bill Gates wants to actually return them. 

Microsoft hosted Microsoft Ignite 2021 in a Nov. 2…

Catherine Salgado | November 5, 2021

It’s called “Big” Tech for a reason, and tech companies are looking to expand even more, this time into the field of health care. 

Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. is making the latest Big Tech foray into the health care…

Alexander Hall | November 4, 2021

Microsoft unveiled more than just the future of identity-proofing when its presenters opened the Microsoft Into Focus: Security video presentation with arbitrary statements about their appearance and identity.

The future once looked like…