Free Speech

Corinne Weaver | November 7, 2018

Facebook seems to be fine with human rights violations in South Sudan occuring on its platform.

In South Sudan, according to Voice of America News, an online auction was being held for marriage rights to a 16 year old girl. South Sudan…

Corinne Weaver | November 6, 2018

Silicon Valley and the tech world are decidedly left-wing. But the echo chamber they’ve created carries over into tech journalism.

The executive editor of popular tech magazine The Verge is no different. On November 6, Dieter Bohn…

Alexander Hall | November 5, 2018

Facebook wants to be militant about removing “hate speech.” However, it keeps deleting the wrong content.

The site removed a rabbi’s harrowing account of harassment by Rev. Louis Farrakhan supporters, only to say later…

Corinne Weaver | November 5, 2018

In the midterm cycle, Facebook is used as a platform for political ads paid for by different candidates. But while Democrats flourish on Facebook, Republican ads are blocked for “sensational content.”

On November 5, a day…

Corinne Weaver | November 5, 2018

Twitter has proven that it stands by anti-Semitic figures, such as Rev. Louis Farrakhan, by allowing them to stay while suspending other accounts.

So it should come as no surprise that the trending algorithms marked the phrase “kill…

Corinne Weaver | November 2, 2018

Twitter is abuzz with political ads for the midterms. Just the right, er left, kind of ads though.

Bloomberg released a study on November 2 that found the top spenders on Twitter ads in the midterm campaign. Only three  out of the…

Corinne Weaver | November 2, 2018

Even though 56 percent of America is pro-life, Facebook still deems pro-life ads as unacceptable for its platform.

The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List has had ads deleted from its Facebook page a total of six times, according to the Daily…

Corinne Weaver | November 1, 2018

Google does not seem to want to change for the sake of its users.

According to an October 31 Bloomberg article, Google filed a statement with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in response to a lawsuit challenge by conservative outlet…

Corinne Weaver | October 31, 2018

Outlets censoring the right’s political ads and then saying that they are neutral is the definition of hypocrisy.

This, however, seems to be at least part of Google’s approach to the midterms. On October 30, the search engine…

Corinne Weaver | October 30, 2018

The battle between PragerU and YouTube just escalated — big time.

YouTube initially marked PragerU’s new video, featuring Fox News host Tucker Carlson, as “dangerous or derogatory content.” The ruling was taken…

Corinne Weaver | October 30, 2018

Pro-life media is under attack by another tech company.

LifeSiteNews, a pro-life news outlet, has been attacked by left-wing activists so much that its web-hosting company is threatening to take it down. On October 27, the website…

Corinne Weaver | October 29, 2018

It’s getting more and more difficult to provide competition to social media companies, especially if they want to provide free speech, too.

Just ask Gab.ai, a social media site that was founded as a response to Twitter banned…

Corinne Weaver | October 26, 2018

President Donald Trump took on the social media outlet that he dominates, slamming Twitter Friday. His regular tweeting has been a huge boost to the site, but he accused it of removing followers and limiting the growth of his account.

On…

Corinne Weaver | October 25, 2018

The anti-conservative hate group, Southern Poverty Law Center, wants to censor people it disagrees with and it’s asking the top social media companies to help.

On Thursday, October 25, the liberal organization announced that it had…

Corinne Weaver | October 25, 2018

Liberal activist organizations seem to have plenty of leverage with social media and tech companies these days.

According to a letter sent from Breitbart’s attorney to lefty group Sleeping Giants, Google must have taken the liberal…

Corinne Weaver | October 24, 2018

Tech CEOs were right, they do hire liberal staffers.

Proof of that can be found in the donation receipts left behind by staff at Google, Facebook and Twitter. According to Federal Election Commission filings, analyzed by Fox News,…

Corinne Weaver | October 23, 2018

Anti-semitism gets a free pass on Twitter, but conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and company do not.

On October 22, Twitter suspended 18 accounts that were affiliated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Infowars, in a follow up move to…

Corinne Weaver | October 23, 2018

In the past year leading up to the midterm elections, political ads on social media have been critical. No one understands this more than the Democrats.

Between May 7 to October 16, according to the Atlantic, Facebook political spending…

Corinne Weaver | October 19, 2018

Citing facts is now considered hate speech, according to Twitter.

LifeSiteNews, a pro-life conservative news outlet, was locked out of its Twitter account on October 18 after Twitter found an article posted four years ago violated its…

Corinne Weaver | October 19, 2018

Anti-semitism is bad. This is something everyone can agree on. Except for Twitter.

On October 18, Facebook removed a video of Rev. Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, referring to Jewish people as “termites” from…