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.

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a noble speech in favor of free expression at Georgetown University one year ago. A few boycotts and media outrages later, and now he has gone so far as letting his platform censor the president of…

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Big Tech purged conservative commentators’ posts after they began to discuss a scandalous New York Post report about Hunter Biden. This was the last straw for those skeptical about reining in Big Tech.

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Twitter, following Facebook’s lead, is now suppressing a New York Post story. These actions seem designed to aid the Democratic Party and former Vice President Joe Biden just weeks before the presidential election on November 3, 2020. 

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Facebook executives have claimed they are restricting content to prevent “civil unrest.” But Facebook has repeatedly censored or banned groups on the right while allowing reportedly violent Antifa factions and left-wing militia organizations. CEO…

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Facebook has been cracking down on conspiracy theorists while allowing groups that organize and share content in apparent conflict with Facebook’s policies. That means QAnon is gone but Antifa is still allowed.

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President Donald Trump continues to confound academics as they try to explain possible correlations between Google searches and electoral victory. The conclusion? It’s all up for grabs! Psychology Today’s report concluded that Trump is once again…

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Trump-haters from all walks of life wasted no time in celebrating his COVID-19 diagnosis, and Twitter has allowed their sadistic rhetoric to flourish. 

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Big Tech tyrants were given fair warning, and now it’s time for them to face the music, as four of tech’s CEOs have been called to give testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee.

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Facebook has declared in no uncertain terms that public concern over voter fraud will not be tolerated — which simply means the platform plans to censor President Donald Trump and conservatives more. Facebook officials appear to be anticipating a…

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Fancy a palm reading? You don't need a fortune teller to explain how Big Tech is inching its way toward futuristic dystopia. An Amazon blog presented “Amazon One,” a new technology that can quickly identify users by scanning their hands, on…

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If you think Facebook has been censorious of President Donald Trump already, the Biden campaign just showed that if it got its way, Trump's voice and conservative speech in general would be outright obliterated.

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Facebook has made multiple anti-conservative policy decisions in recent months, but reported leaks indicate the platform’s far-left employees could make the platform even worse.

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The rise of Facebook’s infamous and overwhelmingly liberal Oversight Board is reportedly nigh. “Facebook’s long-delayed oversight board, which will have power to overrule Mark Zuckerberg on what content to censor, will launch next month ahead of…

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The CEOs of four major Big Tech companies have been given an ultimatum: testify in the Senate or face the music. “The Senate Commerce Committee plans to subpoena the CEOs of Google, Facebook and Twitter to testify at an Oct. 1 hearing about the…

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Big Tech’s reckoning may have finally arrived. The White House hosted a roundtable announcing the overhaul of Section 230, a change which has massive implications for Big Tech and online speech. No more “bad faith” moderation! The Department of…

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Prepared to give up your liberty for the sake of “public peace, health, or safety”? A new California bill would criminalize the spread of election misinformation — even on social media. Americans can be prosecuted for their private messages on…

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After years of blaming President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory on Russia, even liberal media outlets are starting to admit that China is attempting to meddle in our elections.

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Twitter seems to allow the Chinese government to spread propaganda, and now the communist nation can apparently make brazen threats against political enemies at its leisure too. Global Times, which has been labeled by Twitter as “China state-…

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Facebook allowed leftist organizations to post the purported private address of a conservative senator in order to organize protests and harass. The posting was a violation of its rules. “Protesters on Monday gathered outside South Carolina…

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Big Tech is famous for censoring conservative speech, even as it allows leftist organizations to post the purported private address of a conservative senator in order to organize protests and intimidate.