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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Facebook has been recording audio clips of its users and paying contractors to copy what they say. According to Bloomberg, the employees, “who are not told where the audio was recorded or how it was obtained” are merely told to transcribe it. The…
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A lawsuit against Facebook has ended in a loss for the massive social media platform. Reuters reported that a federal court ruled against Facebook, declaring that it illegally collected and stored biometric data of users without their consent. Shawn…
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The left has no problem with hiding behind activist teenagers, but will scapegoat a right-wing one if she criticizes them. YouTube, Google’s sister company, deplatformed a 14-year-old conservative girl after she made a video criticizing Pride Month…
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A hashtag calling for violence against Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has gone viral on Twitter. Trump 2020 Deputy Director of Communications Matt Wolking tweeted a screenshot that the #MassacreMoscowMitch hashtag was highlighted by…
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Good news! After being exposed, Apple claims its contractors will stop listening in on your intimate moments, at least for a while. According to The Verge, “Apple has said that it will temporarily suspend its practice of using human contractors to…
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Instagram has gone to war with meme pages. The reason why is unclear. “Instagram seems to have purged most of the top meme accounts on the platform,” according to Insider. Reports indicate that pages with hundreds of thousands to millions of…
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The Big Tech company millions of Americans use as their gateway to the internet has proven time and time again that it’s not open to conservative thought. Quillette host Jonathan Kay interviewed former Google engineer Mike Wacker on July 4, about…
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A pro-life news website was booted from the Apple News platform without clear explanation on July 31. LifeSiteNews Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief John-Henry Westen contacted the Media Research Center’s Free Speech Alliance coalition requesting “help…
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According to a Michigan-based survey to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, user satisfaction with Facebook is dropping rapidly. As the study reported, “ACSI results show a dramatic loss in user satisfaction with Facebook, and the site…
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A first generation Korean-American chef was banned by Reddit moderators for featuring his beagle snooping behind some Korean barbecue. The expert chef, who goes by “Turtleramen” on Imgur, posted a thread titled “How my dog got me banned from Reddit'…
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U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell tweeted on July 30 asking why Twitter allows the “terrorist organization” Hamas to use its platform. He asked: “Why is @Twitter allowing a terrorist organization to use its platform?” before demanding…
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America’s favorite Border Patrol officer, Kiara Cervantes -- hailed as the ICE Bae' -- has called for a boycott against Instagram after the Big Tech giant deplatformed her. Apparently, Instagram allows multiple accounts that pretend to be her while…
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Conservatives have learned the hard way that liberals use culture to change people’s politics. Now the left is talking about how to change minds with hidden messages in video games. The latest episode of The Guardian’s tech news podcast “Chips with…
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Democrats who have tried to gaslight conservatives about politically motivated, Big Tech censorship will have a hard time explaining this — a lawsuit by one of their own. Presidential contender and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is suing…
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Twitter will stop at nothing to block conservative content, no matter the source. Gay, black, conservative commentator Benji Irby complained that, “Twitter suspended my account indefinitely for no apparent reason on Monday, July 22nd, 2019 after…
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The reckoning may be coming for Big Tech companies from the Department of Justice. The U.S. Department of Justice launched a massive antitrust investigation of Big Tech and whether they engage in anti-competitive behavior on Tuesday July 23. The…
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Liberal journalists want to abolish the 2nd Amendment on all platforms, not just in reality. Video games correspondent Keith Stuart of The Guardian wrote an unintentionally hilarious opinion piece for Medium about how the game industry needs less…
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Add Germany to the list of foreign governments struggling with the lax privacy policies found in Big Tech companies. The state government of Hesse, Germany, has forbidden students by law from using Microsoft Office 365 over privacy concerns as of…
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Only a few days after BuzzFeed thought better of endangering his life by revealing his private information, Huffington Post appears ready to do it themselves.The pro-Trump YouTuber, who goes by the online name CarpeDonktum, revealed that Huffington…
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Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) roasted Google’s representative at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The hearing, “Google and Censorship through Search Engines,” featured numerous heavy hitters from both sides of the political aisle bludgeoning the…
