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 given far more private information to companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Spotify than previously thought. The New York Times reviewed over 270 pages of internal reports detailing but a fraction of Facebook’s deals and partnerships.
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Google is apparently abandoning its attempt to create a search engine for the Chinese market -- an effort that both tarnished its public image and caused massive internal conflict. The communist Chinese government wanted a search engine that would…
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Facebook is more concerned about protecting Palestinians from hate speech than about hosting terrorist propaganda on its site.
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Online media platforms are slowly taking away the ability for conservative-leaning creatives to have an income. Now, some social media stars are talking about a solution.
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Liberal journalists have been throwing wild accusations at Facebook for enabling “fake news,” foreign interference, and “conspiracy theories.” Now even its own fact checkers are upset.
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Liberal media companies from tech to culture blogs have united to deny conservative claims and to argue Big Tech bias is “fake news.” The comments came in response to the Capitol Hill questioning of Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The comments came in…
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Republicans hit back hard at Google bias yesterday on Capitol Hill. Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before Congress and tried to defend his company’s reputation against accusations of bias, censorship, and spying on Americans. Reps. Jim Jordan (R…
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YouTube wants to celebrate its political bias. A whole year’s worth. This annual YouTube Rewind, once praised as a homage to YouTube’s most influential creators, memes, and music, has become a left-wing politicized fiasco.
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While the replacement for NAFTA may have many improvements, it also erases the one key law that would protect conservative voices from being censored online.
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The liberal media may be outraged by Facebook’s opposition research on George Soros, but the company’s board of directors is not. They defended Facebook’s decision as “entirely appropriate” following the billionaire’s attacks on the social media…
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Libertarian TV personality and former ABC reporter John Stossel says Youtube placed age restrictions on a video he published about socialism. The restrictions have since been undone, but the fact they occurred is part of a trend that has many…
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Facebook has been criticized in congressional hearings for the practice of “shadowbanning,” allowing conservatives to publish right-wing content, but subtly preventing users from actually seeing it.
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While this popular commentator is not calling for Twitter’s ban, he muses that humans as a whole would be better served doing anything else. Glenn Reynolds, known by most as Instapundit, has been a part of the political blogosphere since the…
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New York’s State Senate is considering a bill that will allow the government to investigate a citizen’s social media and search engine history before the sale of a handgun.
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Twitter stocks dropped Thursday in the wake of new transgender censorship policies and pressure over banned accounts — including a boycott by Fox News. The stock saw a tiny boost in its share price to finish out the week. Bloomberg attributed the…
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With concerns about tech bias dominating the news cycle, Google wants to remove its information panel from search engine results. The Knowledge Panel, generated primarily by crowd-sourced information website Wikipedia, is often the first thing users…
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai is heading to Congress to answer accusations his company censors conservatives, as well as respond to reports that the firm will create a censored search just for China.
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Twitter’s CEO has some explaining to do over its double standard about how conservatives and liberals are treated. On November 26, Meghan McCain’s husband Ben Domenech accused Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey of lying under oath.
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Only months after its CEO claimed Twitter “does not take sides,” Twitter unveiled a policy that bans people for disagreeing with trans ideology. A statement as simple as “women aren’t men” can now be a policy violation, as even a liberal feminist…
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The news media have figured out a way to fight the big social media companies — they want Congress to let them “collude against Google and Facebook,” according to Buzzfeed News.
