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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Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Chris Rufo was unverified by Twitter and reportedly targeted by a “Government-backed attack” after he allegedly exposed Critical Race Theory policies at Google.

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Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has touted privacy as a core feature, but a damning report indicated that user conversations may not be so secure. WhatsApp has treated privacy as a signature feature for users to join, but a report from…

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Apparently even the highest ranking members of a company can be purged for condemning the murder of the unborn. Tripwire Interactive said that its CEO “has stepped down” after his purported Twitter account caused outrage by making a pro-life…

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The Department of Commerce will shut down the entire Investigations and Threat Management Service division after even the liberal Washington Post condemned the outlandish government overreach. Americans were spied on for criticizing the census,…

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Twitter reportedly suspended the campaign press account belonging to Hillbilly Elegy author and Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance (R).

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Amazon Web Services is preparing to remove even more content that violates its rules. The company infamously deplatformed the entire Parler social media platform earlier in 2021 and could now apply those same rules to other companies.

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In an attempt to land a knockout punch on Big Tech’s chin, the Texas Senate and House have passed a new bill that awaits Governor Greg Abbott’s (R) signature. The bill’s goal: to stop platforms from censoring users over their viewpoints.

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) warned that "a Republican majority will not forget" Big Tech and telecommunication companies that “violate federal law” and surrender the information of private citizens in response to Democrat pressure…

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Retired General Michael Flynn received a letter from Chase Bank explaining that doing business with his household was a “reputational risk to our company.”

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed former New York Times journalist and author Alex Berenson after Twitter “suspended” his account for alleged misinformation. He urged Berenson to take legal action, and suggested it would be a great…

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The Jan. 6th Select Committee established by Democrats to investigate the Jan. 6 riot recently demanded Big Tech provide information about private Americans and politicians.

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Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Webber released a takedown of California Governor Gavin Newsom. YouTube predictably responded by covering it in warnings.

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On Thursday afternoon, former Secretary of Defense Chief of Staff Kash Patel torched Twitter for hosting the Taliban, following horrific terror attacks on American troops in Afghanistan. Just the latest proof of how the social media site allows…

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Podcast host Joe Rogan made a lucrative deal to move his podcast to Spotify, but the real price appears to be his reported loss of influence. Liberals have recently expressed apparent joy over the possibility that fewer people may be listening to…

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Ohio State Representative Al Cutrona (R-OH) declared in a new statement that Big Tech “‘should not have the power to dictate what they deem as acceptable speech, that's exactly why we have the First Amendment and why I'm introducing this…

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Former President Donald Trump has demanded access to mainstream social media platforms once again. Trump made political engagement via social media an art, and he’s pushing for a grand reentrance onto the mainstream platforms. “Former President…

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U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy nagged social media companies for not doing more to censor so-called misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Infamous liberal ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt may have joined Squawk Box to condemn the Taliban’s presence on social media, but the show’s co-anchor Joe Kernen raked him over the coals for advocating censorship of Americans at home.

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Left-wing author of “Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism” Jillian C. York condemned former President Donald Trump for fomenting unrest in the past, but expressed wariness over Facebook’s ban of the infamous…

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Twitter is experimenting with an idea to manipulate willing users into acting as the platform’s censorship police in a new effort to crack down on online speech.