China

Alexander Hall | April 7, 2020

Move over, Russia. News outlets run by the Chinese government are waging the new information war on Facebook.

“Chinese state media is flooding Facebook and Instagram with undisclosed political adverts whitewashing its role in the…

Joseph Vazquez | April 3, 2020

Insufferable New York Times opinion columnist Thomas Friedman is exploiting the pandemic to spew climate change drivel at President Donald Trump.

In an op-ed headlined “With the Coronavirus, It’s Again Trump vs. Mother Nature…

Joseph Vazquez | March 30, 2020
The New York Times economist blowhard Paul Krugman seems to think communist China is more adept at handling the coronavirus pandemic than the United States.  

Krugman took advantage of the ongoing coronavirus issue to plaster a lazy,…

Joseph Vazquez | March 27, 2020

The liberal media seem to be ignoring coverage of communist China’s role in mishandling the coronavirus pandemic. But the media will sometimes praise China as a “global leader.”

Prominent Twitter conservative…

Alexander Hall | March 24, 2020

Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) and Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) signed a letter demanding that Twitter ban Chinese propaganda accounts.

The two Republicans sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey demanding Twitter ban Chinese…

Corinne Weaver | January 2, 2020

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…

Corinne Weaver | November 4, 2019

Two tech companies have allegedly declined to testify at a hearing held by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) about their dealings on China.

The hearing, held by the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, will focus on “How…

Corinne Weaver | October 21, 2019

TikTok, the viral Chinese app that may live on your high school student’s phone, serves another devious purpose. It is a propaganda tool for the Chinese government.

Australian human rights activist and Uyghur Muslim Arslan Hidayat…

Corinne Weaver | October 17, 2019

Facebook and its developers have been in the race to define and correct what the platform calls hate speech. But in a speech given to Georgetown University, CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggested a different direction for the company.

In his…

Corinne Weaver | October 10, 2019

Apple has no problem being woke, except when it might cost the company billions of dollars.

Apple removed an app, called HKmap.live, from the app store after it received criticism from the Chinese government. People’s Daily, the…

Alexander Hall | October 9, 2019
Video game industry legend Mark Kern disavowed Blizzard for kowtowing to Chinese censorship, encouraging gamers to “rise up” and “#BoycottBlizzard.”

Kern, who grew up in Asia, was involved in some of Blizzard…

Alexander Hall | October 8, 2019

Another American company bowed to Chinese censorship in order to protect their bottom line. 

Blizzard Entertainment found itself in the same hot water as the NBA about China. The computer gaming firm, famous for titles such as…

Alexander Hall | October 3, 2019

One of the news social media apps is copying the strategies of big name sites — censorship.

TikTok, a wildly popular app that is managed by a sinister moderation system, is censoring posts about President Donald Trump, Christianity and…

Alexander Hall | July 17, 2019

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) roasted Google’s representative at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. 

The hearing, “Google and Censorship through Search Engines,” featured numerous heavy hitters from both sides of…

Corinne Weaver | May 31, 2019

Tech companies have been strangely silent on the subject of Chinese censorship. But one reason for their silence might be the millions Chinese companies have invested in these platforms.

In a May 30 podcast with the Harvard Business…

Corinne Weaver | February 7, 2019

What happens when the front page of the internet is funded by the company that made the Great Firewall in China?

Reddit, the internet forum for communities, posts, and news, is currently fundraising to keep itself afloat, with a $300…

Alexander Hall | December 18, 2018

Google is apparently abandoning its attempt to create a search engine for the Chinese market -- an effort that both tarnished its public image and caused massive internal conflict.

The communist Chinese government wanted a search engine…

Alexander Hall | November 13, 2018

Google has been under fire for complying with foreign governments’ totalitarian policies.

In an New York Times interview, Google CEO Sundar Pichai tried to combat internal and external backlash against the company’s accomodations to China…

Sam Dorman | May 26, 2016

Former Reagan official David Stockman predicted that whoever was elected president in 2016 would “inherit a recession.”

Stockman, former Director of the Office of Management and Budget for President Ronald Reagan, said on May…