Free Speech

Kayla Sargent | September 22, 2020

Facebook is too willing to censor political content from the right, but now, the site is preparing to restrict even more content on election night. 

In a recent interview with Financial Times, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s head of global…

Alexander Hall | September 22, 2020

Twitter seems to allow the Chinese government to spread propaganda, and now the communist nation can apparently make brazen threats against political enemies at its leisure too.

Global Times, which has been labeled by Twitter as “China…

Alexander Hall | September 22, 2020

Facebook allowed leftist organizations to post the purported private address of a conservative senator in order to organize protests and harass. The posting was a violation of its rules.

“Protesters on Monday gathered outside South…

Kayla Sargent | September 22, 2020

The Department of Justice (DOJ) may now be one step closer to bringing down Google’s massive empire. 

The DOJ is expected to brief state attorneys general on plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google as early as this week,…

Kayla Sargent | September 21, 2020

Just hours before President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the WeChat app was to go into effect, a federal judge blocked it.

On Sunday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler temporarily blocked Trump’s ban of the Chinese-owned…

Alexander Hall | September 21, 2020

Big Tech is famous for censoring conservative speech, even as it allows leftist organizations to post the purported private address of a conservative senator in order to organize protests and intimidate.

“Protesters on Monday gathered…

Alec Schemmel | September 21, 2020

YouTube said it would revert back to using more human moderators to police speech across its platform after automation censored too much. The slated changes came after YouTube admitted to removing “the most videos we've ever removed in a single…

Kayla Sargent | September 21, 2020

It is fairly common for Twitter to censor or flag conservative content it deems offensive. Now, the platform has decided that a video discussing Christian love and truth constitutes sensitive material.

Twitter placed an interstitial, or…

Alexander Hall | September 21, 2020

Twitter labelled a meme parodying CNN coverage as “manipulated media” after it had been shared by President Donald Trump. Now a lawsuit is targeting the meme’s creator and Trump himself.

The parents of toddlers featured in a Carpe Donktum…

Alec Schemmel | September 18, 2020

Facebook’s left-wing fact-checking network, masquerading as unbiased, censored yet another pro-Trump ad. The ad snarkily suggested that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “accidentally” told the truth in stating that Americans taxes would…

Alexander Hall | September 18, 2020

Liberals and Big Tech supporters are panicking about a new potential FCC Commissioner who is reportedly a hawk about online censorship.

President Donald Trump may nominate National Telecommunications and Information Administration (…

Kayla Sargent | September 18, 2020

It’s no secret that Twitter skews sharply to the left. A recent job change by a top employee of the platform shows why.

Carlos Monje, now the former public policy director for Twitter, left the company to join the transition team for…

Alec Schemmel | September 17, 2020

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MN) slammed Big Tech’s influence inside Congress on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight Wednesday evening. 

American’s rights online have been trampled by major tech companies who have leveraged favorable…

Alexander Hall | September 17, 2020

World-famous podcast host Joe Rogan moved his massively popular and free talk show exclusively to the Spotify platform, and some of its staff members have been triggered ever since. 

“In a Spotify all-hands company meeting on…

NB Staff | September 17, 2020

Online censorship of conservatives is out of control, and the Media Research Center is doing something about it. The MRC just launched #FreeSpeechAmerica, designed to push back against Big Tech’s abuse of power.

“Our position is that if…

Kayla Sargent | September 17, 2020

It’s no secret that Americans have a complicated relationship with Big Tech, and a recent study from FleishmanHillard highlights just how complicated this relationship can be.

FleishmanHillard, a St. Louis-based marketing agency and…

Alexander Hall | September 17, 2020

Twitter proved — again — that it still can’t take a joke. This time the platform labelled a President Donald Trump tweet parody of former Vice President Joe Biden “Manipulated media.”

Biden played “Despacito” at a mid-September rally to…

Corinne Weaver | September 17, 2020

An ad that was part of the conservative PAC American Principles Project’s (APP PAC) $4 million campaign was labeled “missing context and could mislead people” by Facebook fact-checkers. 

NBC News wrote that the video, titled “Not…

Alec Schemmel | September 16, 2020

Twitter is apparently censoring accounts that tweet in support of famous Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, while also making additional moves to diminish that support. 

The day before Rowling released her new book “Troubled Blood…

Kayla Sargent | September 16, 2020

Google testified in an antitrust hearing before the Senate yesterday, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears to be gearing up to crack down on Facebook. 

The Wall Street Journal reported that the FTC is preparing “a possible…