Free Speech

Corinne Weaver | May 29, 2020

After fact-checking President Donald Trump by using statements from CNN and The Washington Post, Twitter fired another salvo at Trump again over a tweet about the Minneapolis riots.

Trump tweeted, “These THUGS are dishonoring the…

Alexander Hall | May 28, 2020

An executive order AND proposed legislation? Social media may be in for a reckoning.

“Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Wednesday separately announced they were both working on legislation to strip Twitter of…

NB Staff | May 28, 2020

President Donald Trump is right that social media companies have been targeting conservatives. Twitter, in particular, has been engaging in a relentless attack on the American political process by censoring conservatives.

Now that has…

Alexander Hall | May 28, 2020

Twitter’s choice to fact-check the president’s genuine concern over the hazards of mail-in voting appear to have been the last straw.

“President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order today that seeks to…

Alexander Hall | May 27, 2020

Twitter fact-checked President Donald Trump for suggesting that mail-in ballots could lead to voter fraud. When he responded by accusing the platform of foul play, liberal journalists from all corners of the internet came out of the woodwork to…

Alexander Hall | May 27, 2020

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel scorched Twitter’s fact-checking system for denying the possibility of voter fraud.

McDaniel roasted Twitter’s leadership in a tweet thread for fact-checking President Donald Trump’s…

Corinne Weaver | May 27, 2020

Twitter has long threatened to label certain tweets from President Donald Trump. Now it finally has used the liberal media to fact-check his tweets.

A tweet from the president that discussed mail-in ballots was labeled as an “…

Alexander Hall | May 27, 2020

In a time where traditional media are biased and unhinged and men’s magazines embrace feminism, The New York Times discovered that men are seeking their news elsewhere.

And millions have found it in former The Fear Factor host, mixed…

Alexander Hall | May 26, 2020

Twitter’s terms of service say the platform doesn’t need a reason to terminate users or meddle with user content, and it appears its warning was no bluff.

Josh LeKach’s show Wrong Opinion engages with anti-establishment and radically…

Corinne Weaver | May 26, 2020

YouTube is blocked in China by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). But that doesn’t seem to stop the censorship of criticism about the CCP.

According to Palmer Luckey, the founder of tech companies Oculus and Anduril, YouTube deleted…

Alexander Hall | May 23, 2020

Twitch tried to downplay concerns over an advisory board member who identifies as a deer and believes many gamers are “white supremacists.”

Twitch, the platform for watching internet celebrities broadcast as they play video…

Alexander Hall | May 22, 2020

What liberals can’t achieve with the ballot box, they can count on Big Tech mega donors to bring to life.

“Jack Dorsey, the billionaire CEO of Twitter and mobile-payment company Square, is giving $5 million to Humanity Forward…

Corinne Weaver | May 22, 2020

Facebook’s new Oversight Board promises to be committed to freedom of expression. But that principle might better reflect an international standard, rather than a First Amendment-based American one.

In an op-ed published by…

Alexander Hall | May 21, 2020

If you install updates on your phone without reading the details then you might get an unwanted surprise. The latest involves contact tracking technology.

Contact tracing technology, in theory, will notify users when they have entered the…

Alexander Hall | May 21, 2020

MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski has called for Twitter to deplatform a sitting president.

Brzezinski used both her show and her Twitter to demand that President Donald Trump be deplatformed. She even went so far as directly accusing him of…

Heather Moon | May 20, 2020

President Donald Trump retweeted a video on Saturday that was quickly deleted.

The video was a short clip from a speech that conservative Michelle Malkin gave decrying social media censorship of conservative voices.

Originally…

Alexander Hall | May 20, 2020

While clips will be available on his YouTube channel, world-famous podcast host Joe Rogan is moving his massively popular and free talk show exclusively to the Spotify platform.

“The Joe Rogan Experience, one of the most popular podcasts…

Corinne Weaver | May 19, 2020

A co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board admitted that conservatives had reason to believe that the Board was “loaded” with “people from the progressive side of the spectrum.”

Four members of the Facebook…

Alexander Hall | May 19, 2020

Facebook’s CEO has taken flak from both the left and the right for how he runs his platform, but Mark Zuckerberg appears to have set his sights on preventing China from corrupting the internet.

Zuckerberg warned in a livestream…

Corinne Weaver | May 19, 2020

The founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, has some harsh words for his old platform, which he said has changed from what he wanted it to be.

“Wikipedia no longer has an effective neutrality policy,” he wrote in his blog on May…