Free Speech

Autumn Johnson |

Siri is reportedly getting a new voice.

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg |

It’s Episode 26 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated TikTok app has been on a censorship crusade against the Media Research Center.

Alexander Hall |

The Canadian government ruthlessly cracked down on peaceful protesters demonstrating against the government’s draconian COVID-19 mandates. And the powers that be are unfreezing the accounts of some organizers, participants and donors now that…

Brian Bradley |

NewsGuard has reaffirmed its perfect rating of BuzzFeed News, even though the outlet continues to host the bogus Steele dossier on its website.

Alexander Hall |

Former President Donald Trump’s Big Tech alternative platform Truth Social has gone online.

Autumn Johnson |

Several prominent state politicians in New York blocked followers on social media.

 

Autumn Johnson |

A new report suggested that TikTok can bypass privacy protections to share data with ByteDance, its Chinese parent company.

 

Autumn Johnson |

AmazonSmile has removed Black Lives Matter from its charity list, according to the New York Post.

 

Catherine Salgado |

In the latest censorship effort to demonize self-defense tools, five Democratic Party senators are pressuring YouTube to remove “ghost gun” videos.

Catherine Salgado |

If an establishment-challenging journalist receives a death threat, does Big Tech take the side of the victim or the victimizer? Journalist Andy Ngo said Twitter censored him with the claim that he violated the platform’s private information…

Catherine Salgado |

Twitter aggressively suppressed the Hunter Biden corruption story. Now it has apparently decided against enforcing its “Distribution of hacked materials policy” as private information about GiveSendGo donors spread on the platform. This even…

Alexander Hall |

Canada’s all-out war on funding the peaceful protesters of the trucker convoy continues as government officials are now reportedly besieging cryptocurrency. It’s easy to understand why people under Communist regimes hid their money under…

Autumn Johnson |

A small business owner was reportedly been threatened after her name was revealed by hackers in a data leak of donors to the Canadian “Freedom Convoy.”

 

Gabriela Pariseau |

Twitter suspended the anonymous Defiant L’s account that exposed embarrassing liberal hypocrisy. The Defiant L’s Twitter account is known for tweeting images of ridiculous tweets from famous liberals or headlines from liberal outlets that are…

Catherine Salgado |

A new bipartisan Senate bill reportedly aims to give parents more control over the time that their children spend online, but Congress may face a whole new world of safety and privacy concerns with the new metaverse.

Brian Bradley |

Free speech advocates cautioned about giving the government and university researchers exclusive authority over social media data as lawmakers expect to soon consider a proposal to force new information disclosures from Big Tech.

Alexander Hall |

One of the few right-wing power players in Big Tech is reportedly backing a dating app that will help conservatives find love amid a liberal culture.

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg |

It’s Episode 25 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about a study that MRC’s Free Speech America team recently conducted. Results showed that from March 2020 to Feb. 2022, Big Tech censored more than 808 COVID-19-related posts.

Autumn Johnson |

Twitter has expanded its mode aimed at protecting user “safety.” The platform introduced “Safety Mode” in September of last year and said its aim was to “limit unwelcome interactions on Twitter.”

Autumn Johnson |

Maybe there isn’t a misinformation crisis after all. Even lefty journalist Matthew Yglesias, a columnist at Bloomberg, wrote on his “Slow Boring” Substack blog that there is no “misinformation crisis” on the internet.