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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Members of the class-action lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump are looking for stories from other social media users who have had their content censored by Big Tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

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President Biden took aim at Big Tech in his latest executive order on Friday. Or at least that's what they said. The sweeping executive order says it cracks down on Big Tech’s anti-competitive practices. The order includes 72 actions and…

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Thirty-six states and Washington D.C. have sued Google over alleged antitrust violations in the Android app store. The California federal court case challenges a recently expanded Google policy that forces app developers to pay a 30 percent…

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One America News Network launched its own social media platform on July 4.

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Facebook has censored search results displaying a #revolution hashtag.

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YouTube has suspended Right Side Broadcasting Network and removed the news site’s videos of former President Donald Trump’s rallies. YouTube took down the videos because the footage allegedly violated the platform’s Community Guidelines,…

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Former Trump advisor Jason Miller will launch a new social media platform designed to “declare independence” from Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. “GETTR,” which Miller says evolved from “getting together,” will launch on…

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A federal court judge dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust complaint against Facebook on Monday.

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Former President Donald Trump has joined YouTube alternative Rumble.

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Former TikTok employees have disclosed that the popular social media platform is largely controlled by its Chinese parent company.

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A video channel dedicated to highlighting human rights violations in China has been blocked by YouTube.

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Former Congressman Denver Riggleman and Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, argue that hate speech “precedent” should be used to ban extremism online.

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Twitter continues to allow users to spread the false narrative that Saturday night’s Pride parade car crash in Florida was an assassination attempt on Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

 

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Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, was inexplicably suspended from Twitter on Friday.

 

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A book review discussing the irreversible damage of gender dysphoria in children was removed after backlash.

 

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Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg admitted that the tech giant’s “fact-checkers” employed to weed out “fake news” from the platform could be biased.

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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has been suspended from YouTube for seven days after he posted content promoting experimental treatments for COVID-19.

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Brent Bozell, founder and president of the Media Research Center, is praising a measure by House Republicans to amend Section 230.

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Retail giant eBay is censoring the resale of six Dr. Seuss books deemed “offensive” after the publisher announced the books will no longer be published.

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Twitter is being made fun of on its own platform after the Big Tech giant called for an “open” internet.