Free Speech

NB Staff | July 27, 2020

RESTON, Va. -- On Monday, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell and the MRC's Free Speech Alliance released an open letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai ahead of Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee and the Antitrust…

Alexander Hall | July 24, 2020

Don’t doubt that Wikipedia is liberal. Fierce debate erupted among Wikipedia moderators about whether Fox News could even be used as a credible source in Wikipedia entries. It ended by being a source that could only be used with proper warnings…

Corinne Weaver | July 24, 2020

Events supporting Black Lives Matter are allowed to stay up on Facebook. But not events that support the police force. According to Law Enforcement Today national spokesperson Kyle Reyes, the page for the Long Island “Back the Blue” rally…

Joseph Vazquez | July 24, 2020

The Cato Institute’s recently released a survey showing that the majority of Americans feel they have to self-censor their political views because they might offend people, even lose their jobs. 

Alexander Hall | July 23, 2020

Facebook wants to stop its computer algorithms from being biased. But only when it comes to racial issues, not politics. Facebook is “creating new teams dedicated to studying and addressing potential racial bias on its core platform and…

Corinne Weaver | July 23, 2020

Twitter has been suspending accounts that prominently display the Star of David in their profiles. Yet the company refuses to remove anti-Semitic material and prominent anti-Semites from its platform.

Alexander Hall | July 22, 2020

Twitter declares war on QAnon conspiracy theorists! Thousands of Pro-Trump accounts have been purged as Twitter targets conspiracy theorists on the right while ignoring radicals on the left. “We’ve been clear that we will take strong…

Alexander Hall | July 22, 2020

Talk about living down to expectations. Google gave a measly mea culpa after several conservative websites were delisted from its general search and appeared to have been blacklisted. The massive search engine company claimed that a…

Alexander Hall | July 21, 2020

Congressional Representative Jody Hice (R-GA) and 18 fellow House Republicans sent a scorching letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey criticizing the hack that erupted across the platform in mid-July. Hice and his colleagues wrote,“While I…

Heather Moon | July 21, 2020

The outcome of Facebook’s outlandish new policy promoting mail-in voting was easy to predict. The company announced a plan Friday that encourages mail-in voting so much that even if a post criticizes the concept, Facebook links it to mail-in…

Alexander Hall | July 21, 2020

After making a video criticizing diversity politics pandering in Big Tech, a Facebook worker was not only fired, but booted from the platform that formerly employed him. Ex-Google and now ex-Facebook engineer Patrick Shyu is well known for his…

Corinne Weaver | July 21, 2020

Google users wouldn’t know that conservative websites like NewsBusters, The Daily Wire, and Breitbart exist if they consulted an organic search result on the platform today. 

 

Alexander Hall | July 20, 2020

Mail-in voting has become controversial this election — except at Facebook. The social media site loves mail-in voting so much, it’s promoting it on every politician’s post about … mail-in voting. So when President Donald Trump warns how mail-in…

Corinne Weaver | July 20, 2020

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has openly denied working with President Donald Trump, in order to appease the liberal media. Zuckerberg told co-founder Mike Allen that “There's no deal of any kind,” in statements made to Axios.

Alexander Hall | July 17, 2020

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken heat from liberals in the media and Big Tech for not doing enough to undermine the president, but his weaponization of COVID-19 is damning. Zuckerberg blasted Trump during an interview with National…

Heather Moon | July 17, 2020

We have to think of the children … and then ban their books, apparently. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and daughter Mary Morgan Ketchel’s new children’s book has been hindered yet again by Instagram, which banned ads for the book. 

Alexander Hall | July 16, 2020

Twitter was rocked by a massive “security incident” yesterday, and in its wake purported blacklisting tools may have been exposed. Big Tech’s infamous lack of transparency has outraged leaders on both sides of politics, but the  incident…

Alexander Hall | July 15, 2020

After years of Russiagate conspiracy mongering, CNN is furious at Twitter for not doing more to censor President Donald Trump’s concerns about the risks of mass mail-in voting. CNN praised how Twitter has fact-checked Trump’s tweets, but declared…

Corinne Weaver | July 15, 2020

Facebook, and Silicon Valley, are both “extremely left-leaning,” according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. So it should come as no surprise that while progressive employees are given the chance to succeed, those who disagree with them are set up…

Alexander Hall | July 14, 2020

A former Wikipedia editor blasted Wikipedia for not being neutral, and slammed the platform for a multi-year scorched-earth campaign against popular conservative talk radio host Mark Levin. A massive exposé accusing Wikipedia of having…