Free Speech

The oligarchs on Facebook’s oversight board released their first annual report, shedding light on the company’s bloated censorship operation.

The Meta Oversight Board’s annual report revealed it received “more than a million appeals” on…

t’s Episode 43 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Savanah Hernandez said that Big Tech baselessly and repeatedly censored her social media accounts.

Savanah Hernandez is a political commentator who regularly takes to…

Eight House Republicans on Tuesday joined their Senate counterparts in proposing legislation aimed at curbing left-wing political bias in email services’ spam filters. 

The House bill, like its Senate companion, would require email…

A new report suggested China exploited Google search results to spread its false narrative about COVID-19.

The Washington Examiner detailed a report that China manipulated Google search results to hide the country’s mishandling of the…

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, faced a lawsuit after it was revealed the company used a tracking tool to obtain patient health information.

Reclaim the Net reported that the plaintiff, a patient who used the healthcare portal in…

The Center for Countering Digital Hate, which previously classified Media Research Center as one of the “Toxic Ten” of alleged climate misinformation, is now trying to pressure Google to suppress pro-life websites.

The U.K.- and U.S.-…

Twitter’s Board of Directors told the platform's shareholders to accept the world’s richest man’s $44 billion takeover deal, according to a new government filing.

The filing specifically told shareholders that it “unanimously recommends…

“Is TikTok destroying civilization?” Elon Musk tweeted June 17. “Or perhaps social media in general.” Hyperbole? Perhaps, but maybe not considering new revelations about TikTok’s reported data sharing with China.

BuzzFeed News reported…

U.S. lawmakers urged Google to “fix” abortion searches.

Reuters reported that Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) were among 14 senators and seven House lawmakers -- all Democrats -- who signed the letter to…

A new report suggested Facebook received sensitive medical information from hospital websites.

The Markup tested 100 hospital websites and on 33 of them discovered a tracking tool called “Meta Pixel” that collected patients’ sensitive…

YouTube has shown time and time again that it won’t allow users to post about Jan. 6 or the 2020 election unless they outright deny claims of potential fraud or vote-counting errors. The Congressional January 6 Committee is no exception.

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Fox News host Sean Hannity slammed the White House’s new task force to address online abuse and “disinformation,” noting that even the White House doesn’t seem to know what the board will do.

Hannity bashed the Biden White House’s new…

House Republicans on Monday introduced a bill to stop Big Tech from allowing Chinese Communist Party senior officials to have accounts on American social media platforms.

The “China Social Media Reciprocity Act” would prevent certain…

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said that the White House national climate advisor’s recent comments urging Big Tech to combat so-called disinformation represent the Biden administration’s latest effort to “control” and “chill” speech.

Jordan’s…

The Biden White House will announce the launch of a task force today supposedly to help prevent online abuse, including so-called “gendered disinformation.” Is this a Disinformation Governance Board 2.0 in disguise?

Much like the…

Big Tech platforms agreed to provide data to the European Union to fight “disinformation” online.

Financial Times reported that Meta, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft provided data to individual EU countries, giving the bloc more control…

Twenty-seven Senate Republicans led by Sen. John Thune (R-SD) on Wednesday introduced legislation that would ban email providers from using algorithms that mark certain political campaign emails as spam.

Fox News Digital noted that…

RAND Corp. used U.S. government funding to publish research in a report that concluded independent social media platforms are “extreme” and “offensive,” while major social media platforms don’t have any political prejudice.

RAND Corp.’s…

It’s Episode 42 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Etsy and PayPal reportedly censored Quilette Managing Editor Colin Wright’s organization, Reality’s Last Stand.

Wright is an evolutionary biologist, writer and speaker…

Comedian and late night host John Oliver slammed Amazon’s and Google’s antitrust practices on his show and urged antitrust reform.

HBO’s Last Week Tonight host John Oliver took aim at Google’s and Amazon’s anticompetitive practices on…