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August 2, 2021
Apple has removed a dating app from its App Store for violating its COVID policies.
Unjected, a dating app focused on partnering individuals who are opposed to getting the COVID vaccine, was removed from the store.
Shelby Thomson, the founder of…
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August 1, 2021
Sky News Australia is banned from uploading content to YouTube for seven days after the Big Tech giant accused the site of violating its medical misinformation policies.
YouTube said the news site posted videos denying the existence of COVID-19 and…
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July 30, 2021
Anjem Choudary's Facebook and Twitter accounts were permanently shut down after just five days of use.
Twitter said his account was suspended for “violating the rules” of the organization’s policies on violence and hate.
Described as a “hate…
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July 30, 2021
Canada’s Liberal government has introduced legislation aimed at targeting harmful content online.
If passed, the digital safety commissioner would oversee the censorship of child pornography, pro-terrorism content, hate speech, and other harmful…
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July 30, 2021
Congressional Democrats have accused social media app Nextdoor of not doing enough to eliminate misinformation about the COVID vaccine.
The news comes after prominent Democrats, particularly President Biden, targeted Facebook and YouTube after…
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July 24, 2021
Facebook will allow its users to post the phrase “death to Khamenei” for the next two weeks.
The social media giant had previously censored the phrase amid ongoing protests in Iran, saying the phrase violated its Terms of…
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July 22, 2021
Senate Democrats introduced a bill on Thursday that would make Facebook liable for “misinformation” about the global pandemic.
The Health Misinformation Act, introduced by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), would use the…
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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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July 17, 2021
Google will once again allow Zero Hedge, a financial website, to run ads after the site removed “derogatory” comments the tech giant took issue with.
Google removed the site’s ability to run Google ads in June. In a recent review of the site,…
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July 16, 2021
The Biden administration announced at a press briefing on Facebook Friday that it was working with Facebook to censor posts that contained “misinformation.”
The comments came after President Biden said misleading posts on Facebook were “…