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April 12, 2019
At the Senate Judiciary hearing on April 10, Republican senators went beyond establishing the liberal biases of Silicon Valley social media giants, and questioned the very idea of “hate speech.” Senator Ted Cruz proclaimed not only that…
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April 11, 2019
Facebook has struggled with the concept of freedom of expression for some time now. But now the platform is interested in ignoring it more openly. In fact, the platform has been “reducing the spread of problematic content that does not violate…
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April 10, 2019
At the Senate Judiciary hearing on April 10, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) grilled Facebook and Twitter on their censorship policies, especially of conservative and pro-life content during the Senate Judiciary hearing on April 10.
He announced that in…
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April 8, 2019
Another Senate hearing probing into the treatment of free speech at social media companies is scheduled to happen on April 10.
The hearing, “Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse,” will be headed by…
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April 2, 2019
Facebook has tried to filter out what it considers to be “fake news” in many different failed attempts. Now it wants to try again.
In an interview, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that he was interested in building a newsroom for…
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April 2, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s call for regulation wasn’t well received by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr.
Zuckerberg urged governments get involved navigating the issues of “harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data…
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April 1, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for government regulation to meet the challenges of “harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability,” in a Washington Post op-ed on March 30. In the piece, Zuckerberg stated that he…
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March 28, 2019
Social media companies are changing the definition of what counts as “hate speech” by the day.
In a new blog post, Facebook announced that it was “Standing Against Hate,” by increasing the amount of content that can result…
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March 22, 2019
Between censorship of conservatives and leaking private data to the world, social media companies are not really winning the trust and loyalty of their users. Now Facebook shot itself in the foot by mishandling millions of passwords.
In a blog post…
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March 20, 2019
Facebook punished a Pro-Life post by the Texas GOP because it supposedly was considered “clickbait.” Republicans are not convinced.
The Texas GOP Caucus on March 17 Sunday posted on Facebook about the “Texas Born Alive…