Illinois Democrats proposed a new bill that would allow police to examine social media history to decide whether people can buy guns. Conservatives at HotAir compared it to the pre-crime strategy deployed in the movie Minority Report.
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February 7, 2019
What happens when the front page of the internet is funded by the company that made the Great Firewall in China?
Reddit, the internet forum for communities, posts, and news, is currently fundraising to keep itself afloat, with a $300…
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February 7, 2019
Who knew that sharing a public fact about a liberal politician could count as bullying?
GOP spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany tweeted on February 6 that she had been blocked from her Instagram account. Why? Because of a post she had made…
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February 6, 2019
Censorship of conservatives isn’t limited to social media. Financial platforms are also guilty.
Right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer was banned from Paypal on January 4. “PayPal just banned me for no reason whatsoever,…
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February 6, 2019
A “bullying bounty? Social media platforms are now going to offer incentives to their employees to follow their company’s political agenda.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced to his company in a phone call in January that…
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February 5, 2019
After numerous liberal videos have been downvoted by millions, YouTube is considering tactics to combat “dislike mobs.”
Embarrassing cases such as YouTube’s famous 2018 Rewind and Gillette’s “anti-male” commercial have proved that the…
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February 5, 2019
Facebook once decided that partnering with a liberal fact-checker would help stop the spread of supposed “fake news.”
On February 1, fact-checking site Snopes announced that it was no longer interested in working with Facebook…
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February 4, 2019
Even Twitter’s CEO admits he can’t keep track of his company’s banning policy.
Jack Dorsey made a few damning admissions and omissions during his interview with radio host Joe Rogan on February 2. While Rogan has been heavily panned by…
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February 1, 2019
Foreign countries and governments that are at odds with the U.S. government will stop at nothing to influence elections.
In announcements made on January 31, Facebook and Twitter stated that several hundred pages and accounts linked to…
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January 31, 2019
The schools and studies that are shaping technology’s approach to fake news and censorship are biased in favor of the left.
A study released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology opened with the premise that readers should be…
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January 30, 2019
A Google executive sparked backlash from LGBT- supporting employees after using the term “family” in an internal presentation.
The Daily Caller exposed a 2017 incident where Google was in uproar over a “family…
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January 30, 2019
Want a job at Facebook? You’re a shoe-in if your resume includes having worked for liberal billionaire George Soros
According to Ars Technica, Facebook hired three people to analyze its privacy practices, which it mentioned on…
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January 29, 2019
Facebook has mentioned that enforcing policies against “hate speech” is one of its priorities.
In a new announcement released on Facebook’s blog, the platform stated that it was looking into creating a board to help…
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January 29, 2019
YouTube announced it is restricting more videos — including “borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways.” The platform has a bad history of policing content.
YouTube posted in its company…
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January 29, 2019
Left wing journalists once told working class Americans to “learn to code” and adapt to a globalized economy. Now those same journalists have been laid off, rumor has spread that users will be banned for tweeting the phrase back at…
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January 28, 2019
Left-wing academia attacks conservatives and conservative news for “fake news.” But their studies fall short of proving this theory.
A new study found that “fake news was most concentrated among conservative voters.…
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January 28, 2019
Facebook celebrates that it is “one of the best places to work for LGBTQ equality.” The company’s LGBTQ employment has jumped to eight percent in 2018, far higher than the 2017 Gallup Poll estimate that claims only 4.5 percent…
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January 25, 2019
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about content now, he talks a lot about restricting speech.
Zuckerberg wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal to explain the platform’s nebulous position on free speech. While he admitted…
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January 24, 2019
Yet another new Facebook content policy has hit the platform, enabling Facebook to censor even more pages than before.
Facebook updated its fake news policy on January 23, to include some more reasons to take down pages and groups. If a…
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January 23, 2019
A deleted Twitter account that originally posted the edited video of the Covington kids and Nathan Phillips is now under scrutiny and bears a number of suspicious earmarks.
Twitter has banned @2020fight, the account that tweeted the…
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