Alexander Hall
MRC Free Speech America Staff Writer

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 | 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…

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…

Alexander Hall | 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…

Alexander Hall | 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…

Alexander Hall | 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…

Alexander Hall | 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…