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August 20, 2021
On Friday night, Twitter decided that, without warning, it would temporarily suspend Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. According to a screenshot from Pushaw, the ban will last 12 hours.
Pushaw was…
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August 18, 2021
"Why Trump's banned and the Taliban aren't: they play by the rules." Such was the absurd comment tweeted by Technology Policy Editor of The Washington Post Mark Seibel.
Facebook has issued a blanket ban on the Taliban, but…
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August 14, 2021
Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies says Google altered its news algorithm to directly target former President Donald Trump.
Vorhies was a senior software engineer at YouTube and Google. He left after discovering the companies censored conservatives…
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August 5, 2021
Blaze Media’s Allie Beth Stuckey was locked out of her Twitter account on Thursday after she tweeted that Olympian Laurel Hubbard is “still a man.”
Hubbard, a New Zealand weightlifter, is a transgender woman who competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics…
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July 18, 2021
A pro-Trump legal group is investigating the Biden administration’s coordination with Big Tech companies.
America First Legal, which is run by former Trump administration officials, filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on Friday.
The…
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June 20, 2021
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.
In an op-ed for Newsweek, the two criticize Gab, a social media platform that…
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June 13, 2021
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.
Facebook reportedly uses 80 different organizations across the world to flag misinformation.
The…
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June 11, 2021
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has been suspended from YouTube for seven days after he posted content promoting experimental treatments for COVID-19.
The senator led two Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearings on the…
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June 6, 2021
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.
Random House Books for Young Readers pulled “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “…
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June 5, 2021
Twitter is being made fun of on its own platform after the Big Tech giant called for an “open” internet.
“We are deeply concerned by the blocking of Twitter in Nigeria. Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern…