Free Speech

Craig Bannister |

“That is the farthest thing from the truth,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declared Wednesday, when Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said that the government’s new Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) will decide, and tell Americans, what constitutes…

Alexander Hall |

Former President Donald Trump condemned the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board in an interview with CBN News. Trump soundly scorched the new government board for its parallels with Soviet Russia.

Catherine Salgado |

Tesla CEO and tech billionaire Elon Musk will serve as temporary CEO for Twitter after his deal to buy the platform closes, according to CNBC.

Alexander Hall |

Twenty-six organizations signed a letter warning that the Twitter takeover by Tesla founder and free speech advocate Elon Musk will ruin the platform.

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg |

It’s Episode 36 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about Amazon employee and customer temper tantrums that led to the censorship of two books — one about child self-acceptance and the other about biology. 

 

Joseph Vazquez |

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows ignored a damning new report alleging the U.S. government tracked millions of Americans to ensure compliance with the draconian COVID-19 lockdown orders.

Autumn Johnson |

Twitter announced it is testing a new feature that allowed a user to share his or her tweets with a specific number of people. “Twitter Circle” allowed users to restrict tweets to 150 specific people or less as a group.

Jeffrey Clark |

A bit of foreshadowing, perhaps? Big Tech behemoth Amazon reportedly announced it would dole out big money to reimburse employees who travel for treatments including abortions. The news dropped just one day before Politico shared  a leaked U.S.…

Catherine Salgado |

Bill Gates took to Twitter to claim that the reversal of Roe v. Wade would “set us back 50 years.” The tweet came during a huge controversy over a leaked U.S. Supreme Court document revealing that SCOTUS will vote to repeal the decision that…

Alexander Hall |

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey actually slammed  Twitter censorship, acknowledging that the platform has made mistakes in the past.

Joseph Vazquez |

It’s a cold day in hell when a leftist outlet like The Atlantic admits free speech online is actually a good thing. Atlantic contributing writer Jeffrey Rosen published a May 2 piece praising Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s view of Twitter and free speech…

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell tried to get himself out of Twitter jail on Monday, but it didn’t go so well.

Autumn Johnson |

A federal judge ruled that a journalist’s lawsuit against Twitter can proceed. Alex Berenson, an independent journalist, sued Twitter after he said the platform suspended him for his tweets on the COVID-19 vaccine.

Autumn Johnson |

A new report suggested that the FBI searched through the data of Americans millions of times last year–all without a warrant. The Wall Street Journal on April 29 reported that “as many as 3.4 million searches” of data occurred.

Autumn Johnson |

Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen said she was “cautiously optimistic” about Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Haugen alleged last year that Facebook prioritized its own profits over public safety and encouraged content moderation in her…

Autumn Johnson |

Facebook "whistleblower" Frances Haugen said the United States should be more like Europe when it comes to social media.

Autumn Johnson |

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) discussed social media regulations on MSNBC.

 

Craig Bannister |

Americans largely think Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter will make it better, and that they’ll use it more often, now that the free-speech billionaire has purchased the giant social media platform.

Alexander Hall |

Fox News host Tucker Carlson torched Disinformation Governance Board leader Nina Jankowicz for leading the United States into an Orwellian nightmare. 

Catherine Salgado |

“It’s a censorship organization.” Tucker Carlson slammed the Pentagon’s $750,000 contract with leftist ratings firm NewsGuard on his Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight. Carlson reported on the outlandish contract between Biden’s Pentagon and…