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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The Tiananmen Square massacre was an important event in the history of freedom, except at Microsoft. Bing, the global search engine owned by Microsoft, is not displaying search results for the famous “tank man” who challenged Chinese power.

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The Detectives’ Endowment Association slammed Amazon after merchandise reading ‘Blue Lives Murder’ was listed for sale on the website. This is only the latest example of Amazon selling hateful merchandise.

 

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A Big Tech trade group has filed a lawsuit over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ new free speech law, arguing that the law violates the First Amendment.

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Facebook has decided to resume political donations — excluding conservative Republican members of Congress like Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Josh Hawley, Rep. Jim Jordan, and Rep. Steve Scalise.

 

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A physician’s message about low pediatric deaths from COVID-19 was blocked from Facebook for violating “community standards on spam.”

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Notable upcoming books released by conservative authors have suddenly disappeared from Amazon’s search results.

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The summit dedicated to the controversial Christchurch Agreement announced that participating governments will use algorithms to monitor “extreme” speech.

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After being banned by Facebook and Twitter, former President Donald Trump is considering new platforms to share his content.

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The Biden administration signaled its intent to join an international agreement to stop “violent” extremism online.

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Twitter revealed the “tip jar” feature this week, enabling users to contribute to a small number of users. But the social media giant neglected to mention the sender’s address is revealed to the recipient.

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The Heritage Foundation has promised to no longer to accept financial support from Big Tech companies so long as the platforms suppress conservative viewpoints. Heritage previously rejected a $225,000 donation from Google and returned $150,000 it…

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After a controversial blog post banned “societal and political discussions” at Basecamp, roughly one-third of the company’s employees resigned. Basecamp is a web application development company. The backlash came after company CEO Jason Fried…

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A third-party fact-checker on Instagram labeled a quote from Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on racism in America as “missing context.”

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California pressured social media companies to censor posts about the 2020 presidential election, according to Judicial Watch. The conservative legal organization announced the news Tuesday after it obtained over 500 pages of documents.

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Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe filed a defamation lawsuit against CNN after an anchor purportedly made a false claim about Twitter’s decision to permanently suspend his account. 

 

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A fake tweet purportedly placing the Chicago Police Department in solidarity with Derek Chauvin — the former cop convicted of killing George Floyd — has been retweeted nearly 50,000 times, but Twitter has refused to take it down.

 

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Facebook has penalized The Babylon Bee after the site posted a story making fun of leftist rioters and looters. This was the latest run-in with Facebook for the Christian satire site. 

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Twitter refused to investigate an inflammatory tweet by LeBron James for potential violations after the NBA superstar threatened an Ohio police officer. James went after the officer who shot and killed a 16-year-old African-American girl who…

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The United States Postal Services has been quietly monitoring Americans’ social media posts, including posts about planned protests. At least some of that specifically targeted “right-leaning accounts.”

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Twitter is under fire for its double standards. The site featured an article that relied on hacked materials to out police officers who donated to a crowdfunding campaign. This is the same site that banned a Hunter Biden story for allegedly using…