Corinne Weaver formerly worked as an Assistant Editor for the Media Research Center. Her coverage on tech censorship, media bias, and pro-life issues have been cited by many in the conservative movement. Corinne’s work has been featured in Fox News, The Guardian, LifeSiteNews, Live Action, LifeNews, and The Federalist. Before her current position, Corinne graduated from Christendom College with bachelor’s degrees in English and History.
Corinne Weaver
Assistant Editor
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Amazon has decided to quietly crack down on books it deems offensive. But the company’s enforcement of standards seems lopsided at best. The New York Times reported that third-party booksellers on Amazon have been forbidden from selling copies of…
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Twitter bans accounts for transphobia and won’t allow pro-life organizations to run ads on its platform. But a cartoon encouraging terrorism is apparently allowed to spread.
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President Donald Trump tweeted an edited video that showed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi repeatedly tearing up the State of the Union speech, with other clips of the president’s successes pieced in the video. Democrats were outraged. “The latest…
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Do YouTube’s hate speech policies try to protect even demonic entities? A video produced by The Catholic Talk Show entitled, “7 Secrets Catholic Exorcists Want You to Know,” was deleted by YouTube for violating hate speech rules. A video produced by…
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President Donald Trump’s presence on Twitter receives almost countless mentions in the media. Imagine what that’s done to Twitter’s notoriety. The social media platform Twitter has gone up in market value significantly since Trump’s election in 2016…
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Disinformation is the new buzzword for the left to push for more censorship on Twitter. While results from the Iowa Caucus are still being counted, journalists from the left want tweets from the right taken down. “Trump campaign folks are…
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The Chinese social media app TikTok, which has become one of the most popular apps for youth in the United States, has banned pro-life group Live Action. The organization’s founder, Lila Rose, tweeted on Jan. 31, 2020, “TikTok has just BANNED &…
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Two conservative outlets have complained that their livestreams of the Senate impeachment trial have been taken down—for no apparent reason. Judicial Watch’s president, Tom Fitton, noted that the organization’s livestream of the impeachment trial…
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Even Facebook admits the 2016 Trump campaign benefited from the platform. But the liberal media try to interpret the use of a tool as something sinister. State-funded PBS thinks both President Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin worked to use…
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Leading journalists and editors around the world have some advice for social media companies: there needs to be more censorship. In a 2020 report released by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 233 people from 32 countries, including…
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Only Hollywood can so fantastically misunderstand a free speech policy and protest its existence. Actor Mark Hamill (Star Wars) announced on Twitter that he was deleting his Facebook account in order to take a stand against the policies that the…
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The media and Democrats want to limit Facebook ads before the 2020 election. But Facebook refused to cave in to their demands. In a Jan. 9 blog post published by Facebook Director of Product Management Rob Leathern, the company argued that “we don’t…
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Popular blogging forum Tumblr wants its users to beware of fake news online. The company, owned by WordPress company Automattic, launched a campaign called World Wide What. The company, owned by WordPress company Automattic, launched a campaign…
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The liberal media is sitting up and taking notice of what conservatives are doing -- and they aren’t happy about it. The New York Times published a write-up about PragerU, a conservative video site founded by Dennis Prager, on Jan. 4, 2020.
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Apps collect data about their users. What happens when a foreign government owns that data? The U.S. military did not want to find out. According to an NBC News report, the Defense Information Systems Agency advised employees to avoid using the app…
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The 2020 election is going to be fought online and the left has decided to create its own fact-check unit. The Democratic National Committee started a “counter-disinformation unit” to “serve[] as a knowledge base and intelligence unit” for the party.
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Facebook announced a new policy to label state-funded media on its platform. Qatar-backed outlet Al Jazeera has a problem with that. In a letter sent by the media outlet’s lawyers to Facebook’s Vice President Jennifer Gillian Newstead and Head of…
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Ex-founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger’s Twitter followers reported that they couldn’t see the tweets he had put out about a social media strike. “Who wants me to organize mass tryouts of decentralized social media networks?” Sanger tweeted on Dec. 2.
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“Journalists play a critical role in our society: keep the world honest and balanced. They are true servants of the people,” said Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a tweet from 2015. But it seems only certain kinds of journalists “play a critical role” on…
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One of the four constitutional scholars who testified at the impeachment hearings on Dec. 3 played an instrumental role in the building of Facebook’s Oversight Board. Noah Feldman, professor at Harvard Law School and director of the Julis-Rabinowitz…
