Former President Donald Trump’s Big Tech alternative platform Truth Social has gone online.
Truth Social has met the ambitious President’s Day headline and is currently the #1 most popular app in the Social Media category on Apple’s app…
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February 20, 2022
Several prominent state politicians in New York blocked followers on social media.
New York State Sen. Julia Salazar, Councilmen Rafael Salamanca Jr., and Ari Kagan are some of the elected officials who blocked followers, even…
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February 20, 2022
A new report suggested that TikTok can bypass privacy protections to share data with ByteDance, its Chinese parent company.
TheWrap exclusively reported that TikTok was not deterred from privacy protections offered by Apple and Google.…
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February 19, 2022
AmazonSmile has removed Black Lives Matter from its charity list, according to the New York Post.
The platform’s Smile program donates a percentage of the cost of a user’s purchase to the charity of his or her choice. Popular examples…
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February 18, 2022
In the latest censorship effort to demonize self-defense tools, five Democratic Party senators are pressuring YouTube to remove “ghost gun” videos.
“Ghost guns are unserialized firearms that anyone can get their hands on—without a…
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February 18, 2022
If an establishment-challenging journalist receives a death threat, does Big Tech take the side of the victim or the victimizer? Journalist Andy Ngo said Twitter censored him with the claim that he violated the platform’s private information…
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February 17, 2022
Twitter aggressively suppressed the Hunter Biden corruption story. Now it has apparently decided against enforcing its “Distribution of hacked materials policy” as private information about GiveSendGo donors spread on the platform. This even…
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February 17, 2022
Canada’s all-out war on funding the peaceful protesters of the trucker convoy continues as government officials are now reportedly besieging cryptocurrency.
It’s easy to understand why people under Communist regimes hid their money…
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February 17, 2022
A small business owner was reportedly been threatened after her name was revealed by hackers in a data leak of donors to the Canadian “Freedom Convoy.”
Over 92,000 donor names were leaked from GiveSendGo following a massive hack. Credit…
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February 16, 2022
Twitter suspended the anonymous Defiant L’s account that exposed embarrassing liberal hypocrisy.
The Defiant L’s Twitter account is known for tweeting images of ridiculous tweets from famous liberals or headlines from liberal outlets that…
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February 16, 2022
A new bipartisan Senate bill reportedly aims to give parents more control over the time that their children spend online, but Congress may face a whole new world of safety and privacy concerns with the new metaverse.
Sens. Richard…
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February 16, 2022
Free speech advocates cautioned about giving the government and university researchers exclusive authority over social media data as lawmakers expect to soon consider a proposal to force new information disclosures from Big Tech.
A…
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February 16, 2022
One of the few right-wing power players in Big Tech is reportedly backing a dating app that will help conservatives find love amid a liberal culture.
Conservatives looking for love may have a new wingman. “Peter Thiel is injecting $…
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February 16, 2022
It’s Episode 25 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about a study that MRC’s Free Speech America team recently conducted. Results showed that from March 2020 to Feb. 2022, Big Tech censored more than 808 COVID-19-related posts.…
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February 15, 2022
Twitter has expanded its mode aimed at protecting user “safety.”
The platform introduced “Safety Mode” in September of last year and said its aim was to “limit unwelcome interactions on Twitter.”
The mode was initially only…
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February 15, 2022
Maybe there isn’t a misinformation crisis after all. Even lefty journalist Matthew Yglesias, a columnist at Bloomberg, wrote on his “Slow Boring” Substack blog that there is no “misinformation crisis” on the internet.
Yglesias wrote…
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February 15, 2022
Freedom advocates sounded the alarm as Canada announced potential financial penalties against Canadians trying to support protestors.
Commentators condemned Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland as she announced that banks and…
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February 15, 2022
A censor every hour to help liberal media tyrants keep power? If media outlet BuzzFeed gets its way, censorship could be more invasive in the metaverse even than on current social media platforms.
Meta’s (formerly Facebook’s) Horizon…
Texas AG Sues Facebook for Billion for ‘Deception, Lies and Brazen Abuses of Texans’ Privacy Rights’
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February 15, 2022
On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he has sued Facebook (now known as Meta) for illegally capturing and using the biometric data of millions of Texans and failing to destroy the collected data in a reasonable period of…
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February 14, 2022
Hackers reportedly shut down fundraising site GiveSendGo temporarily after the Canadian Freedom Convoy raised millions of dollars on the platform.
The site’s front page reportedly redirected to a mocking video from the movie Frozen…
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