Autumn Johnson
Contributing Writer

Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats.

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Twitter announced on Tuesday that it would expand its privacy policy to include media posted of an individual without their consent.

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A scientist who routinely challenges the mainstream narrative on the COVID-19 pandemic said he was temporarily banned from Twitter.

 

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SendGrid has reportedly terminated an email account belonging to Revolver News.

 

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Wikipedia has asked its users to weigh in on the platform’s article discussing "Mass killings under Communist regimes."

 

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Days after GoFundMe tried to justify its Rittenhouse ban, the platform is under fire for allowing–and then deleting–a fundraiser for the suspect in the parade massacre.

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In the latest example of Big Tech censorship, Foundation of Economic Freedom Policy Correspondent Brad Polumbo accused TikTok of removing a pro-Rittenhouse video. TikTok's reasons? Not surprisingly, they appeared to be incredibly vague.

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GoFundMe bizarrely tried to defend its ban on fundraising for acquitted Kenosha, WI defendant Kyle Rittenhouse. The fundraising platform previously banned fundraisers dedicated to raising money to aid in Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense. But…

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Attorneys general from several states have decided to launch an investigation into the effects Instagram has on children who use the app.

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Nick Clegg, Vice President of Global Affairs at Meta, says the world needs a “global internet.”

 

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TikTok has settled a class-action suit alleging that the popular entertainment app violated user privacy. The lawsuit alleged that TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, “violated federal and state law by collecting and using, without…

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A report from The Washington Post suggests Facebook purposefully prevents users from controlling their own feeds. The “News Feed” feature on Facebook is meant to show the user the most up-to-date posts from friends, family, public figures, and…

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YouTube has once again temporarily suspended Senator Ron Johnson’s channel over so-called COVID-19 “misinformation.”

 

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The United States government is warning against rules the European Union has drafted that could risk companies’ intellectual property and trade secrets.

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Gigi Sohn, President Biden’s nominee to the Federal Communications Commission, has troubling biases against conservative media outlets. The Twitter account of Sohn promised to “fulfill [Biden’s] goal of ensuring that every household in the US has…

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Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, is calling on Instagram to provide a dislike button on posts in an effort to promote kindness. Markle attended the “Minding the Gap” conference to promote paid sick and parental leave in the United States,…

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A new feature in Microsoft will provide employers with increased visibility on employee browsers. The feature is aimed at “insider risk management,” where employers are able to monitor online employee actions online. The compliance center will be…

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A study from researchers at Facebook suggests addiction to the app is only growing.

 

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Congressman Jim Banks is back on Twitter after he deleted a tweet that went against the platform’s Terms of Service.

 

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A report suggests that The Washington Post is preparing an article criticizing the White Coat Waste Project, a group dedicated to ending cruel dog experiments. Journalist Glenn Greenwald detailed The Post’s reports on the animal rights advocacy…

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Twitter was criticized after it failed to remove tweets suggesting that Glenn Youngkin, the GOP nominee for Virginia Governor, had white supremacists at a rally.