Free Speech

Jeffrey Clark | June 17, 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk defended free speech online and fielded questions from Twitter employees, according to a leaked video call.

Catherine Salgado | June 17, 2022

House Republicans on Monday introduced a bill to stop Big Tech from allowing Chinese Communist Party senior officials to have accounts on American social media platforms. The “China Social Media Reciprocity Act” would prevent certain…

Paiten Iselin | June 16, 2022

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said that the White House national climate advisor’s recent comments urging Big Tech to combat so-called disinformation represent the Biden administration’s latest effort to “control” and “chill” speech.

Catherine Salgado | June 16, 2022

The Biden White House will announce the launch of a task force today supposedly to help prevent online abuse, including so-called “gendered disinformation.” Is this a Disinformation Governance Board 2.0 in disguise?

Autumn Johnson | June 15, 2022

Big Tech platforms agreed to provide data to the European Union to fight “disinformation” online.

 

Brian Bradley | June 15, 2022

Twenty-seven Senate Republicans led by Sen. John Thune (R-SD) on Wednesday introduced legislation that would ban email providers from using algorithms that mark certain political campaign emails as spam.

Catherine Salgado | June 15, 2022

RAND Corp. used U.S. government funding to publish research in a report that concluded independent social media platforms are “extreme” and “offensive,” while major social media platforms don’t have any political prejudice.

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | June 15, 2022

It’s Episode 42 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Etsy and PayPal reportedly censored Quilette Managing Editor Colin Wright’s organization, Reality’s Last Stand.

Catherine Salgado | June 15, 2022

Comedian and late night host John Oliver slammed Amazon’s and Google’s antitrust practices on his show and urged antitrust reform.

Catherine Salgado | June 14, 2022

President Joe Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas gave Congress “apparently misleading” testimony about the Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board, according to a group of Republican senators

Catherine Salgado | June 14, 2022

Libs of TikTok published presumable screenshots of Twitter employees accusing the conservative account of “targeted violence” and urging that the platform ban the account.

Paiten Iselin | June 14, 2022

Here we go again! White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy said “we need the tech companies to really jump in” to combat so-called disinformation and misinformation.

Autumn Johnson | June 14, 2022

Google offered to allow ads from rival companies to settle an antitrust investigation.

 

Autumn Johnson | June 13, 2022

A Google engineer claimed an artificial intelligence bot that belonged to the company came to life.  

Catherine Salgado | June 13, 2022

Google sponsored a disturbing LGBTQ+ “Pride” and drag event in Austin, Texas, which was billed as “family-friendly,” according to the Rainbow on the Creek web page.

Autumn Johnson | June 12, 2022

Journalists at The New York Times targeted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to push back against online censorship.

 

Catherine Salgado | June 10, 2022

Former President -- and author of the 2013 PolitiFact Lie of the Year -- Barack Obama did not miss the opportunity at the 2022 Copenhagen Democracy Summit to call for more censorship, asserting we must “detoxify our discourse.”

Catherine Salgado | June 10, 2022

Twitter’s allowance of terrorist-supporting, anti-Semitic content on its platform is so glaring, even leftist The Atlantic bashed the platform for refusing to deal with the issue.

Craig Bannister | June 10, 2022

DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas’ previous testimony about his department’s planned Disinformation Government Board are “completely contradicted” by newly-obtained DHS documents, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told a Senate hearing on Thursday.

Catherine Salgado | June 9, 2022

Twitter seems all for dragging kids into perversion. Just ask Libs of TikTok.  Twitter locked the popular Libs of TikTok after the account condemned drag shows for children.