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 |

Twitter labelled a meme parodying CNN coverage as “manipulated media” after it had been shared by President Donald Trump. Now a lawsuit is targeting the meme’s creator and Trump himself.

Alexander Hall |

Liberals and Big Tech supporters are panicking about a new potential FCC Commissioner who is reportedly a hawk about online censorship.

Alexander Hall |

World-famous podcast host Joe Rogan moved his massively popular and free talk show exclusively to the Spotify platform, and some of its staff members have been triggered ever since. “In a Spotify all-hands company meeting on Wednesday, Spotify…

Alexander Hall |

Twitter proved — again — that it still can’t take a joke. This time the platform labelled a President Donald Trump tweet parody of former Vice President Joe Biden “Manipulated media.” Biden played “Despacito” at a mid-September rally to pander to…

Alexander Hall |

News organizations can’t even question China’s involvement in the Novel Coronavirus without being censored. A Fox News article about Dr. Li-Meng Yan’s claims that China intentionally released the COVID-19 virus has been censored by Facebook with…

Kayla Sargent, Alexander Hall |

Google has long tried to hide its anti-conservative bias, but today, Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) were not having it. Big Tech representatives faced off with the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and…

Alexander Hall |

Only some experts are allowed to comment, apparently. That much was made clear when YouTube censored White House presidential advisor and Dr. Scott Atlas, M.D, for going against the World Health Organization’s narrative. “YouTube has yanked down…

Alexander Hall |

Google appears to be in for a reckoning as a bipartisan alliance of states has joined to target the Big Tech platform for antitrust. “About a dozen states, mostly led by Republicans, are expected to join the Justice Department’s upcoming…

Alexander Hall |

Two Big Tech giants have attached warning labels and filters to posts by President Donald Trump about the election. Facebook and Twitter placed warning labels on but did not remove Trump’s posts urging North Carolina residents to show up to…

Alexander Hall |

Liberal journalists are terrified that conservatives are going to copy the left’s success using video games as political tools. The Biden-Harris campaign has been using the popular vide game Animal Crossing: New Horizons to spread campaign…

Alexander Hall |

Concerned about voter fraud hacking the election? Twitter says tough luck to those who want to discuss their concerns on its platform. Especially the President of the United States. “We will label or remove false or misleading information…

Alexander Hall |

Conservative journalists who post videos of riots are the problem, not the riots. That’s the word from a professor at Harvard Kennedy’s prominent Shorenstein Center. Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at…

Alexander Hall |

Facebook vowed to crack down on political violence and election interference, but the result is far less than advertised. The platform allows Antifa organizations to organize and share content in apparent conflict with Facebook’s official…

Alexander Hall |

The U.S. House candidate for Georgia’s 14th district appears to have been locked out of her Twitter account after posting about potential voter fraud in her home state. Founder and Co-Chairman of Students for Trump Ryan Fournier accused Twitter…

Alexander Hall |

After years of Twitter flagging or removing parody videos from conservatives, President Donald Trump called out the platform for allowing a photoshopped image of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to remain on the platform.Trump…

Alexander Hall |

Facebook labelled a post by President Donald Trump for teaching Americans how to avoid voter fraud in the 2020 election. President Trump warned American voters about “the massive number of Unsolicited & Solicited Ballots that will be sent to…

Alexander Hall |

The Canadian radical organization Adbusters is attempting to interfere in the U.S. election by organizing a "siege" of the White House. Facebook, which regularly acts against foreign election interference has still done nothing to stop it.…

Alexander Hall |

Congressman Roger Marshall M.D. (R-KS), a licensed physician, was censored for discussing CDC information about COVID-19. “A Facebook post published on Sunday afternoon by U.S. Congressman Roger Marshall, M.D. discussing updated COVID-19 death…

Alexander Hall |

The Amazon Halo’s extremely thorough features put some tech commentators on edge. Amazon’s Halo surpasses Apple Watch and Fitbit with features “that have never been seen in a mainstream wearable device, including one that tracks a user’s…

Alexander Hall |

Facebook declared it would remove any content that might bring legal controversy or government regulation to the platform. Facebook has announced new Terms of Service. The platform’s new rules will allow it to “remove or restrict access to your…