Free Speech

Alexander Hall |

Boy does this sound familiar. Facebook allowed far-left group Shut Down DC to send protestors to the doorstep of politicians and even buy advertising to spread the word.

Autumn Johnson |

A report from The Washington Post suggests Facebook purposefully prevents users from controlling their own feeds. The “News Feed” feature on Facebook is meant to show the user the most up-to-date posts from friends, family, public figures, and…

Autumn Johnson |

YouTube has once again temporarily suspended Senator Ron Johnson’s channel over so-called COVID-19 “misinformation.”

 

Catherine Salgado |

Who would you trust more for a medical opinion: LinkedIn or a cardiologist? Well, according to LinkedIn, you should trust it. The job networking platform reportedly removed an interview of cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra for discussing an alleged…

Craig Bannister |

Two-thirds of U.S. adults don’t trust Big Tech and three-fourths say Facebook, in particular, makes American society worse, a new CNN poll finds.

Autumn Johnson |

The United States government is warning against rules the European Union has drafted that could risk companies’ intellectual property and trade secrets.

Catherine Salgado |

Haven’t we been down this road before? Axios has unveiled a project in partnership with Google Trends to analyze “which political issues voters are searching for in each congressional district.”

Alexander Hall |

The Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief and conservative commentator Ben Shapiro warned the augmented/virtual reality metaverse project by Facebook, or “Meta" has dire implications for American life.

Catherine Salgado |

Twitter’s algorithms may be amplifying the very controversial content that the platform and pro-censorship users are trying to limit. A new report indicates that angry Twitter users may ironically be amplifying tweets by dunking on them. New York…

Heather Moon, Gabriela Pariseau |

The leftist U.K.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate just launched a broadside attack against nine conservative digital outlets with its “Toxic Ten” report. The report aimed to silence entire outlets for writing stories that don’t follow the…

Conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair said Instagram removed a video she posted of Kenosha teenager on trial Kyle Rittenhouse crying during his harrowing time on the witness stand. St. Clair said her video on Instagram was among the videos…

Alexander Hall |

While users may still dislike YouTube videos, their ability to see a public count of how many internet users dislike versus like a video will be obliterated. YouTube is reportedly stripping its platform of this ability, however, and it is doing…

Alexander Hall |

YouTube appears to have censored a speech about COVID-19 vaccines by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA).

Catherine Salgado |

Meta (Facebook) is not the only tech company seeking to remake the world as a metaverse. Pokémon Go developer John Hanke recently suggested that augmented reality (AR) “is where the real metaverse is going to happen.”

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg |

It’s Episode Eleven of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about Big Tech’s overreach in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

Autumn Johnson |

Gigi Sohn, President Biden’s nominee to the Federal Communications Commission, has troubling biases against conservative media outlets. The Twitter account of Sohn promised to “fulfill [Biden’s] goal of ensuring that every household in the US has…

Autumn Johnson |

Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, is calling on Instagram to provide a dislike button on posts in an effort to promote kindness. Markle attended the “Minding the Gap” conference to promote paid sick and parental leave in the United States,…

Catherine Salgado |

Congress and Big Tech are still battling it out over which will have more control over the online speech of Americans. A new bipartisan congressional bill would allow users to experience social media without the algorithms.

Alexander Hall |

Is Facebook put off by the word “penis” or merely a book that might embarrass a liberal politician? A former aide to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for free speech after Facebook reportedly banned ads for her book.

NB Staff |

Big Tech censorship was even worse in the third quarter of 2021. This was especially alarming considering the platforms didn’t have much farther to fall from their pathetic second quarter grades. Online Freedom on Google, Twitter and Facebook all…