Free Speech

Alexander Hall | December 7, 2020

The Senate Commerce Committee voted to advance the nomination of a man who, if elected commissioner, could protect free speech on the internet. 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) senior adviser Nathan…

Kayla Sargent | December 7, 2020

A fact-checking website may not even be able to properly check the facts in its own articles when the facts don’t line up with its narrative. 

FactCheck.org, which  partners with Facebook to fact-check articles and social media…

Corinne Weaver | December 7, 2020

Twitter’s war with President Donald Trump and the Trump campaign has claimed at least 100 more casualties in the form of labeled tweets.

Since Monday, Nov. 30, Twitter has slapped 111 labels on Trump’s tweets and the tweets from his…

Kayla Sargent | December 4, 2020

Facebook has, once again, decided to step up its censorship game.

The social media platform has reportedly decided that it will remove what it deems to be “false claims” about the COVID-19 vaccine that could be available around the world…

Alexander Hall | December 4, 2020

One America News Network (OAN) proclaimed that it will switch to Rumble, a free speech alternative to YouTube. 

OAN announced it has “decided to #MakeTheSwitch to #Rumble, where we can freely report the news without restrictions or…

Alexander Hall | December 3, 2020

Even The Washington Post has called out Facebook for its new racial double standards. 

Facebook “is overhauling its algorithms that detect hate speech and deprioritizing hateful comments against Whites, men and Americans,” The…

Alexander Hall | December 2, 2020

Twitter Safety is rolling out new dystopian policies to regulate the speech of its users.

Big Tech wants Americans to exchange their freedoms for false guarantees of “safety.” “Today, we’re expanding our hateful conduct policy to address…

Kayla Sargent | December 2, 2020

Facebook’s new censorship process has taken off, and the platform’s Oversight Board has released the first six cases it plans to review. 

The Facebook Oversight Board (The Board) does have a period for public comment for the posts…

Alexander Hall | December 2, 2020

President Donald Trump has thrown down the gauntlet: Take action on Section 230 or bring defense authorization to a screeching halt. 

The president threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act unless section 230 is…

Alexander Hall | December 1, 2020

Liberals and their media allies can’t wait for Big Tech to ban President Donald Trump forever.

CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy demanded that Big Tech work overtime to crack down on Trump’s speech in a CNN media newsletter, FoxNews.…

Alec Schemmel | December 1, 2020

The Babylon Bee, a Christian news satire site, has been repeatedly fact-checked by Facebook fact-checkers who don’t seem to understand satire. When The Bee created “Not the Bee,” a news blog focusing on real headlines, fact-checkers – again –…

Kayla Sargent | December 1, 2020

While Twitter eagerly slaps warnings and labels on tweets from President Donald Trump like there’s no tomorrow, the platform is still unwilling to take action against Chinese misinformation.

Twitter placed an interstitial, or filter, over…

Alexander Hall | December 1, 2020

One man’s potential nomination to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may change the future of the internet. 

President Donald Trump’s impact on the fight for free speech may be decided soon, as a Wednesday vote approaches on…

Heather Moon | November 30, 2020

Facebook’s latest faulty “fact check” shows how little regard the company has for facts or experts. 

Facebook added a USA Today “fact check” to a post of a Just Facts study that investigated non-citizens voting in battleground states…

Alec Schemmel | November 30, 2020

Conservative commentator Candace Owens fought back against Facebook’s left-wing fact-checker PolitiFact and won.

The fact-checker retracted a “false” rating it gave to a video posted by Owens on Nov. 12, and issued a correction admitting…

Alexander Hall | November 30, 2020

Just build your own platform, but wait, not like that! Liberal media and commentators condemn conservatives for abandoning censorious Big Tech platforms for Parler.

Conservatives launched an exodus to free speech platform Parler after…

Kayla Sargent | November 30, 2020

Twitter is all too eager to crack down on what it has deemed to be misinformation from President Donald Trump. Yet it appears all too willing to ignore obvious disinformation from a Chinese government account. 

Australian Prime…

Corinne Weaver | November 30, 2020

Twitter didn’t stop censorship for the Thanksgiving holiday. Algorithms were hard at work flagging and labeling tweets from President Donald Trump and his campaign. 

Twitter slapped labels on 63 Trump tweets since Nov. 23. When Trump…

Alexander Hall | November 25, 2020

YouTube is now attacking entire news channels such as One America News Network (OAN) for “misinformation.”

“YouTube has barred One America News Network from posting new videos for a week and stripped it of its ability to make money off…

Alexander Hall | November 24, 2020

Don’t touch that like button! Twitter has unveiled a new policy to display warnings when users like a labelled tweet. 

Twitter has outlined a wide range of updates to undermine conservative opposition amid the recent 2020…