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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Google has an infamous history of censoring conservatives, and now it has claimed that it will bring fact-checking to Google images. Google will soon start fact-checking photos and videos in an effort to ensure that people "have access to…

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The news media have spent four years screaming about allegations that Russians hacked the 2016 election. Fast forward to 2020 and people are now using the Chinese app TikTok to sabotage President Donald Trump’s election rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. …

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Twitter has censored British conservative commentator Katie Hopkins for reportedly mocking a threat of violence by one of her detractors. Twitter, being Twitter, decided she was the dangerous one. Hopkins “received a permanent ban from Twitter…

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YouTube censored a formerly transgender person who revealed the hazards of sex change operations and how they should not be pushed on children. YouTube removed a video from The Heritage Foundation’s YouTube channel, citing its “hate speech policy…

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Big Tech and the news media have once again revealed that liberals can’t take a joke. A video tweeted by Donald Trump parodying CNN coverage has been labelled by Twitter as manipulated media. President Donald Trump tweeted a Carpe Donktum video…

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Facebook declared Thursday that it would censor ads run by President Donald Trump's re-election campaign for breaching its policies on “organized hate.” The ads, which condemned Antifa rioters as "Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups," featured an…

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Twitter censorship may have met its match — Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). Cotton wrote the now-infamous New York Times opinion piece headlined, “Tom Cotton: Send In the Troops,” calling to restore order amidst the George Floyd riots on June 3. Cotton…

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Donald Trump, Jr. declared war on the world’s biggest search engine after it reportedly demonetized Zerohedge and The Federalist. “The GOP Senate needs to wake up & IMMEDIATELY subpoena & haul in the CEO of @Google for questioning,” Don,…

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Power players on the Hill and at the Department of Justice are mobilizing and rolling out unprecedented legislation and regulations to hold Big Tech accountable for its censorship of conservatives. The Justice Department is set to crack down…

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Popular conservative YouTube host Dan Bongino has one answer to the problem of Big Tech censorship. He has partnered with the free speech platform Parler and taken an ownership stake in the firm. Bongino declared on the June 16 episode of The Dan…

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A new report indicates that a vast majority of Americans distrust Big Tech, after years of infamous bias scandals. The liberal John S. and James L. Knight Foundation released a report “Free Expression, Harmful Speech and Censorship in a Digital…

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Big Tech companies, once seen as creating world-changing platforms that gave voice to the voiceless are actually beholden to government censorship — especially in China. The video-conference company Zoom reportedly “announced Thursday that it…

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Not one to leave all the activism to rioters vandalizing statues, Big Tech appears to be joining the removal of western icons. “Images of Winston Churchill failed to appear Sunday during Google searches for the former British prime minister—but…

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Twitter admits it wrongfully banned the site ZeroHedge, but its history of selective enforcement is still infamous. The COVID-19 virus’s origins, lethality, and cures have been hotly debated throughout 2020, to the point where social media…

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Snap leadership’s decision to stop President Donald Trump from being able to promote himself on the Snapchat platform may be just the ripe first target for Sen. Josh Hawley’s proposed legislation. “We’re well within our First Amendment rights to…

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Now that Microsoft has joined other Big Tech companies in refusing to help police, President Donald Trump has retweeted a call to have them barred from government contracts. Microsoft followed the lead of IBM and Amazon in vowing to stop…

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Facebook stood up for free speech against former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign’s petition calling for censorship. The Biden campaign posted an open letter to Facebook demanding the platform change its policies on free speech. The letter…

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Three Big Tech companies are the latest to join the fight against police by withholding their facial recognition technologies. IBM, Amazon and Microsoft have vowed to stop helping police with facial recognition. The rationale is that, “Facial…

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Senators sent an open letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai demanding action on President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship. The open letter summarized how Section 230 works, arguing that it, “shields social media platforms…

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SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to Amazon censorship by demanding the Big Tech’s monopoly be destroyed. “Musk tweeted that it is now ‘time to break up Amazon’ after the tech giant temporarily blocked the publication of a book” skeptical…