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
MRC Free Speech America Staff Writer
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What liberals can’t achieve with the ballot box, they can count on Big Tech mega donors to bring to life. “Jack Dorsey, the billionaire CEO of Twitter and mobile-payment company Square, is giving $5 million to Humanity Forward” in order to “build…
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If you install updates on your phone without reading the details then you might get an unwanted surprise. The latest involves contact tracking technology. Contact tracing technology, in theory, will notify users when they have entered the presence…
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MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski has called for Twitter to deplatform a sitting president. Brzezinski used both her show and her Twitter to demand that President Donald Trump be deplatformed. She even went so far as directly accusing him of “libel” and…
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While clips will be available on his YouTube channel, world-famous podcast host Joe Rogan is moving his massively popular and free talk show exclusively to the Spotify platform. “The Joe Rogan Experience, one of the most popular podcasts in the…
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Facebook’s CEO has taken flak from both the left and the right for how he runs his platform, but Mark Zuckerberg appears to have set his sights on preventing China from corrupting the internet. Zuckerberg warned in a livestream discussion with an EU…
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If normal radical liberals in Big Tech weren’t bad enough, Twitch has named a transgender streamer who self-identifies as a deer to be on the platform’s “Safety Advisory Council.” Steph “FerociouslySteph” Loehr who is listed as a “Professional…
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The U.S. Justice Department and state attorneys general may file antitrust lawsuits against search giant Google, The Wall Street Journal reported. Attorney General William Barr, according to The Journal May 15, sees this probe against Alphabet…
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Liberal website ratings firm NewsGuard has expanded its partnership with Microsoft in order to spread “news literacy.” NewsGuard describes itself as a company that provides “credibility ratings” and detailed “Nutrition Labels” on news and…
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After years of Big Tech being in the spotlight for anti-conservative bias, Google appears to have cut back its far-left diversity and inclusion programs. “Google has significantly rolled back its diversity and inclusion initiatives in an apparent…
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Move over Russia. China is waging a massive disinformation war in an attempt to destabilize the United States by scapegoating it for spreading the COVID-19 virus. “An army of bot accounts linked to an alleged Chinese government-backed propaganda…
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Facebook unleashed an artificial intelligence program to scour users’ posts for “hate speech” and “misinformation.” “Facebook on Monday released a new report detailing how it uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human fact-checkers and…
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Twitter is now slapping labels and warnings on content to let users know what they are and aren’t allowed to post about the COVID-19 crisis. “Starting today, we’re introducing new labels and warning messages that will provide additional context and…
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As U.S. lawmakers close in on Big Tech with antitrust investigations, Facebook is striking back by aiding the launch of a powerful tech lobby. “Facebook is working behind the scenes to help launch a new political advocacy group that would combat U.S…
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Twitter exposed liberals for sharing a deceptively edited video of Vice President Mike Pence. Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and Matt McDermott shared a video claiming that Pence had been caught on a hot mic delivering empty boxes of personal…
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A powerful left-wing nonprofit network published a letter from health care professionals calling for mass censorship to fight “misinformation.” Nonprofit activist platform Avaaz released the letter from “doctors, nurses and health experts from…
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Facebook is paying out millions to local news outlets, and it is being especially generous to “diverse” communities. The company announced that “200 news organizations will receive nearly $16 million in grants through the Facebook Journalism Project…
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Facebook is partnering with Soros-funded Poynter’s “Mediawise” project and a progressive news outlet to teach youth how to process media. “ATTN:, the progressive social media-based news outlet aimed at millennials, is launching a video series on…
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Tumblr has launched its new witch-hunt style initiative to wipe out “hate speech” on the platform. Tumblr released a blog announcing its crackdown on offensive speech headlined “Updates to how we enforce our Community Guidelines on hate speech” on…
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Instead of arguing with people on Twitter, you may be getting nagged by the platform about your posts and what it suggests “could be harmful.” “When things get heated, you may say things you don't mean. To let you rethink a reply, we’re running a…
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The app so compromised by the Chinese government that it can’t be used by members of the U.S. military has now gone viral amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it’s planning on expanding into TV. TikTok, which is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese firm…
