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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Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) raked Big Tech over the coals, saying there’s no more denying what can be plainly seen: “Big Tech is out to get conservatives. That’s not a suspicion. That's not a hunch. That's a fact.” Jordan slammed Amazon CEO…

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Twitter can pretend that niche articles about the popularity of socialism are trending, meanwhile a comedian can tweet a poo emoji and a famous puppet to get more traction. “One of the way [sic] Twitter manipulates us is with bogus trends,” Rubin…

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Tomorrow’s hearing looks like regulation judgment day for the CEO’s of four of America’s largest tech companies. This Wednesday, the CEO’s of four major Big Tech companies, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar…

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Even in an election year as divided and chaotic as 2020, millions of Americans can seem to agree that Big Tech has too much power. An overwhelming majority of Americans are skeptical over Big Tech’s unchecked power, a Pew Research Center (Pew)…

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A Florida man sent death threats to a respected conservative organization on social media, and while the government took them seriously, Facebook moderators reportedly did not. Facebook claims to protect its users from being targeted for their…

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Don’t doubt that Wikipedia is liberal. Fierce debate erupted among Wikipedia moderators about whether Fox News could even be used as a credible source in Wikipedia entries. It ended by being a source that could only be used with proper warnings…

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Facebook wants to stop its computer algorithms from being biased. But only when it comes to racial issues, not politics. Facebook is “creating new teams dedicated to studying and addressing potential racial bias on its core platform and Instagram…

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Twitter declares war on QAnon conspiracy theorists! Thousands of Pro-Trump accounts have been purged as Twitter targets conspiracy theorists on the right while ignoring radicals on the left. “We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement…

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Talk about living down to expectations. Google gave a measly mea culpa after several conservative websites were delisted from its general search and appeared to have been blacklisted. The massive search engine company claimed that a technical…

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Congressional Representative Jody Hice (R-GA) and 18 fellow House Republicans sent a scorching letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey criticizing the hack that erupted across the platform in mid-July. Hice and his colleagues wrote,“While I believe the…

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After making a video criticizing diversity politics pandering in Big Tech, a Facebook worker was not only fired, but booted from the platform that formerly employed him. Ex-Google and now ex-Facebook engineer Patrick Shyu is well known for his…

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Mail-in voting has become controversial this election — except at Facebook. The social media site loves mail-in voting so much, it’s promoting it on every politician’s post about … mail-in voting. So when President Donald Trump warns how mail-in…

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken heat from liberals in the media and Big Tech for not doing enough to undermine the president, but his weaponization of COVID-19 is damning. Zuckerberg blasted Trump during an interview with National…

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Twitter was rocked by a massive “security incident” yesterday, and in its wake purported blacklisting tools may have been exposed. Big Tech’s infamous lack of transparency has outraged leaders on both sides of politics, but the  incident appears…

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After years of Russiagate conspiracy mongering, CNN is furious at Twitter for not doing more to censor President Donald Trump’s concerns about the risks of mass mail-in voting. CNN praised how Twitter has fact-checked Trump’s tweets, but declared…

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A former Wikipedia editor blasted Wikipedia for not being neutral, and slammed the platform for a multi-year scorched-earth campaign against popular conservative talk radio host Mark Levin. A massive exposé accusing Wikipedia of having biased…

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Instagram users attach “stickers” to label their story videos with humorous text, but even Instagram went too far on its own. It has removed the “MUTE WHITE PEOPLE” sticker after conservative journalists and Donald Trump Jr. torched the company…

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Cancel culture has come for the foods in your pantry. After the CEO of Goya Foods risked controversy to express his support for President Donald Trump, Twitter has mysteriously censored two images of Goya Foods. MRC Latino’s official Twitter…

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Think Facebook is trigger-happy with censorship? Imagine how bad it would be if it caved to the left’s censorship demands! The Democratic National Committee (DNC) slammed Facebook in a memo for “unkept promises” leading up to a meeting between…

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Twitter censored author James Lindsay the day after he discussed Cancel Culture with podcast host Joe Rogan. Lindsay, who calls himself the “Leading expert on Wokeness,” was temporarily suspended from Twitter after discussing cancel culture on…