Free Speech

Corinne Weaver | August 31, 2018

Twitter jumps on conservative content at the first opportunity. But how long does it take for the platform to remove actual threatening posts? If the target is conservative, the answer is too long.

On August 30, shortly after a memorial…

Corinne Weaver | August 31, 2018

A new study about Google News shows that while everyone gets the same results, five liberal news organizations “alone” made up 49 percent of the total recommendations from the respective experiments. The five were The New York…

Corinne Weaver | August 30, 2018

Public officials are still calling into question the practices of social media tech companies.

Both Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey are set to testify in front of both the House and Senate next…

Corinne Weaver | August 30, 2018

While Facebook rushes to focus on hate speech in the United States, apparently it hasn’t analyzed accounts from war-torn places like Myanmar.

Until recently, military personnel from Myanmar were allowed to have accounts on Facebook…

Gabriel Hays | August 29, 2018

MRC Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor recently appeared on the Fox Business Network’s After the Bell to discuss President Donald Trump’s concerns about conservative censorship online and to call for "fairness…

Corinne Weaver | August 29, 2018

Google isn’t the only big tech company with internal issues.

Facebook apparently suffers from an internal ideological monopoly, where progressive thought reigns supreme. According to the New York Times, an employee published an memo…

Corinne Weaver | August 28, 2018

It turns out public relations actually mean something to a tech company.

After conservative outcry was sparked when NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch criticized Twitter for not suspending users who threatened her children, Twitter miraculously…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 28, 2018

The Trump administration is potentially considering taking action against Google for reportedly censoring conservatives, following a tweet by President Trump that accused Google of rigging its results against conservatives.

On Tuesday…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 27, 2018

Facebook has announced its new incoming chief marketing officer, Antonio Lucio. Lucio will be replacing Gary Briggs who, in January, said he would be leaving after four and a half years to pursue advisory work--and to help the Democrats in the…

Corinne Weaver | August 27, 2018

On social media, hate speech will be swiftly removed. Unless the victim is perceived to be on the wrong side of the conversation.

Conservative commentator, radio host, and NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch tweeted a screenshot of a comment she…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 22, 2018

The ACLU is seemingly concerned about social media censorship.

In his conversation with HuffPost, the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, Ben Wizner, drew parallels to how the situation might play out if…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 22, 2018

While speaking at a rally in West Virginia on Tuesday, President Trump claimed the administration will stand up and defend people who say they are censored on social media.

“We are protecting, again, religious liberty,” Trump…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 21, 2018

Facebook has reportedly been ranking users on their “trustworthiness” by giving them a score between zero and one, according to a report in The Washington Post.

A Facebook product manager, Tessa Lyons, explained to The…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 20, 2018

During an interview with CNN over the weekend, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that while Twitter employees may be more left-leaning, Twitter does not discriminate against users based on their political opinions.

In a clip of the…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 17, 2018

Not content with letting social media sites police content on their own, five Democratic U.S. Senators have sent letters to the heads of major tech companies urging them to “proactively” block users from accessing blueprints for 3-D…

Corinne Weaver | August 16, 2018

In its aim to be politically correct, Facebook has determined that criticizing an accused terrorist counts as hate speech.

According to Brigitte Gabriel, founder of Act for America, Facebook suspended her personal page for posting a…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 16, 2018

In response to the increasing criticism over his handling of the site, Twitter CEO Dorsey has conducted an array of interviews about Twitter’s future, which reportedly includes putting “alternative viewpoints” in users’…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 15, 2018

A little over a week after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey diverged from other tech giants by stating that Alex Jones would be held to the same standard as every other account, rather than succumbing Twitter succumbing to outside pressure to ban him,…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 15, 2018

On Tuesday, Twitter announced vague plans to crack down on accounts that have attempted to evade Twitter suspensions by creating new accounts.

In a tweet posted by Twitter Safety, the company said, “This week, we are suspending…

Corinne Weaver | August 14, 2018

In its overzealous policing of thought, Twitter has now picked a side on war and peace, apparently.

On August 13’s episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Peter Van Buren, a former State Department employee, told Carlson that he was…