Alexander Hall works as a Staff Writer for the Free Speech America division of NewsBusters at the Media Research Center. He is also the host of TechShark, a show featuring weekly tech/politics stories, a joint project of MRC Free Speech America and MRCTV. Before his current position, he graduated from Saint Mary’s College of California with a bachelor’s degree in Communications.
Alexander Hall
MRC Free Speech America Staff Writer
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May 29, 2019
Big Tech companies say Iranian hackers used social media to interfere with the American 2018 midterm election. A group of anonymous hackers infiltrated social media sites in April 2018 to influence the midterm elections. According to prominent…
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May 28, 2019
Journalists freaked out over a slowed-down video that made Nancy Pelosi look silly and have sparked a debate over what videos should and shouldn’t be permitted online. The result was a pile-on with the media calling for speech to be silenced,…
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May 28, 2019
A documentary about the migration crisis in Europe went viral despite YouTube restricting it within 24 hours of its release. YouTuber and filmmaker Lauren Southern released the #Borderless documentary on May 24. The film centers on the crisis of…
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May 24, 2019
Do as I say, not as I do. The censorious ideas pushed by popular Twitter #Resistance twins have come back to bite them. Activists Ed and Brian Krassenstein were permanently suspended from Twitter May 23. The Daily Beast reported the liberal…
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May 23, 2019
Palmer Luckey’s firing proves that even the most talented of tech wizards can be purged for wrongthink. The founder of Oculus and a former Facebook employee, Luckey joked in a May 22 CNBC interview about his 2017 firing: “I gave $10…
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May 22, 2019
Rising conservative star to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) scorched social media as a waste of time as well as an “addictive drug.” Hawley blasted social media as a blight on American society in a May 22 opinion piece for USA Today.…
