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Corinne Weaver | September 18, 2018

It’s hard to paint a positive picture of big tech companies, especially when it becomes apparent that they are manipulating users.

On September 19, The Creepy Line, a documentary on Facebook and Google, will premiere in Washington D…

Corinne Weaver | September 12, 2018

The media don’t  care about online censorship -- unless it happens to them.

The liberal site ThinkProgress cried foul after it was fact checked for a story it posted on Facebook involving Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.…

Gabriel Hays | September 5, 2018

During Wednesday’s Senate hearing concerning foreign influence on social media platforms, Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey stated that his goal in combating the proliferation of fake or misleading accounts was to amplify the voices of…

Corinne Weaver | September 5, 2018

It’s worth asking big tech companies whether they practice core American values on a global scale.

In the Sept. 5, Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on social media, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) asked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and…

NB Staff | September 4, 2018

RESTON, VA — On August 31, Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell sent individual letters to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC)…

Gabriel Hays | August 29, 2018

MRC Vice President of Business and Culture Dan Gainor recently appeared on the Fox Business Network’s After the Bell to discuss President Donald Trump’s concerns about conservative censorship online and to call for "fairness…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 27, 2018

Facebook has announced its new incoming chief marketing officer, Antonio Lucio. Lucio will be replacing Gary Briggs who, in January, said he would be leaving after four and a half years to pursue advisory work--and to help the Democrats in the…

Gabriel Hays | August 24, 2018

Editor’s note: Story contains profanity.

Comedian Bill Maher donated $1 million to Senate Democrats to try to help them retake a majority as a result of the midterm elections this November.

Maher, an aggressive…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 21, 2018

Facebook has reportedly been ranking users on their “trustworthiness” by giving them a score between zero and one, according to a report in The Washington Post.

A Facebook product manager, Tessa Lyons, explained to The…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 13, 2018

On Friday, Facebook announced a new policy that will require Facebook Pages with large U.S.-based audiences to go through an authentication process. According to Facebook, this will help crack down on fake accounts.

As Facebook explained…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | August 10, 2018

Facebook is ironically blocking links from people who try to share the website CodeIsFreeSpeech.com, as the site contains links to blueprints for 3D printed guns.

After a long legal battle, the U.S. Department of State settled with…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | July 30, 2018

InfoWars founder Alex Jones is currently in the midst of a 30-day Facebook suspension for allegedly violating the site’s rules against “bullying” and “hate speech.” It has even resulted in surprising support from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Jones…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | July 18, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently been trying to strike a balance between cracking down on fake news, hoaxes, and hate speech and allowing a diversity of opinions on the site. In a recent interview with Recode, Zuckerberg took one of his…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | July 18, 2018

President Trump’s team appears to be bucking the mainstream media for positive publicity and, instead, is relying on Facebook advertisements. A study shows that from May until June, Trump and his political action committee have reportedly…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | July 17, 2018

Liberal news sources appear to have a problem with more than just InfoWars: now they’re going after the Daily Caller.

According to The Wall Street Journal, during an off-the-record meeting with Facebook last week, editors from…

Corinne Weaver | July 17, 2018

Even congressmen can’t get calls for assassination deleted from Facebook — unless they bring them up at a congressional hearing.

During the House Judiciary Committee hearing on “Examining the Content Filtering Practices…

Gabriel Hays | July 17, 2018

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, came out swinging at the House Judiciary hearing about censoring conservatives. He criticized Facebook’s eagerness to address Democrat questions about Russian use of the platform, but less so about GOP inquiries…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | July 3, 2018

If you’re looking for yet another reason to be grateful to live in the United States of America this Fourth of July, look no further than Uganda, which just introduced a tax on social media.

According to the BBC, Uganda’s tax…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | July 2, 2018

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who reportedly made $500 million from to his 2 percent stake in the company, has been recently campaigning on a platform of guaranteed basic income at the expense of the 1 percent.

In February 2018,…

Ashley Rae Goldenberg | June 29, 2018

A new study released by the Pew Research Center shows that a majority of Americans believe it is likely that social media sites censor political views. A majority of both Democrats and Republicans believe social media sites censor political…