Censorship

Alexander Hall | September 10, 2020

Conservative journalists who post videos of riots are the problem, not the riots. That’s the word from a professor at Harvard Kennedy’s prominent Shorenstein Center. 

Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change…

Kayla Sargent | September 10, 2020

As if we needed more proof that Facebook is overrun by leftists, one of the platform’s engineers just quit because the company was — wait for it — not leftist enough. 

Facebook engineer Ashok Chandwaney left the company on Tuesday…

Kayla Sargent | September 9, 2020

Several prominent Republican senators have introduced legislation designed to turn up the pressure on Big Tech. 

Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced The Online Freedom and Viewpoint…

Kayla Sargent | September 8, 2020

Twitter censors edited videos that the right tweets on the platform, but Twitter allowed a “deceptively edited” video of Trump to go viral.

Twitter came under fire for its hesitancy to remove a “deceptively edited” video of President…

Kayla Sargent | September 4, 2020

Oh, how the mighty may fall. For years, Google has expanded into a massive tech empire, but it now finds itself in the midst of an antitrust case in the United States.

Attorney General William Barr is reportedly planning to bring an…

Kayla Sargent | September 3, 2020

With tensions on the rise over the Black Lives Matter movement, many people have taken to social media platforms like Facebook to express their opinions. This issue has caused strife even among Facebook employees. 

On Tuesday,…

Kayla Sargent | September 2, 2020

Once in a blue moon, Twitter actually targets the left. Twitter urged Democratic House candidate Elizabeth Hernandez to remove a tweet on September 1 that the platform claimed violated its policies. 

Hernandez is running against…

Kayla Sargent | August 31, 2020

Twitter has, once again, bowed to pressure from the left to silence conservatives. 

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) reportedly removed a video from his Twitter account on Sunday after the platform flagged the video as having…

Kayla Sargent | August 28, 2020

Leftist organizations are suing President Donald Trump over his recent executive order to investigate Big Tech censorship in an effort to protect the First Amendment rights of Americans.

Several voting advocacy groups, including Rock the…

Kayla Sargent | August 27, 2020

After Apple snuck COVID-19 contract tracing software onto its iPhone updates in May, the company is now at least pretending to care about user privacy.  

One feature of Apple’s iOS 14 update, originally announced in June, is…

Kayla Sargent | August 26, 2020

Google doesn’t seem to understand privacy. Perhaps its employees need to Google it.

A recent lawsuit against Google included emails from employees claiming that the company’s privacy settings are so complicated, even its own engineers don…

Kayla Sargent | August 26, 2020

When faced with the choice earlier this year, YouTube chose to censor more content on its platform during its second quarter than it had in any previous quarter.

YouTube reported that it removed twice as many videos in its second quarter…

Kayla Sargent | August 25, 2020

Several Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee took a big step in holding Amazon accountable for discriminating against conservatives.

Republicans on the House Committee on the Judiciary sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos…

Kayla Sargent | August 24, 2020

TikTok is reeling after two executive orders have threatened the Chinese-owned apps existence in the U.S. Now it has decided to take to the U.S. courts.

Today, TikTok filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government after President Donald…

Kayla Sargent | August 24, 2020

Months before the presidential election, Facebook has already made plans to crack down on President Donald Trump’s posts in case he attempts to use the platform to contest the election’s legitimacy.

An August 21 New York Times article…

Kayla Sargent | August 21, 2020

Despite recent news that the social media platform Reddit would allow President Donald Trump’s campaign to run ads on the platform, the company still squashes free speech on the platform.

Reddit has banned nearly 7,000 subreddits since…

Kayla Sargent | August 20, 2020

A recent Pew Research Center (Pew) study found that most Americans are, at least to some extent, concerned about online censorship and the ability of social media companies to handle misinformation. 

The Pew study, published on…

Kayla Sargent | August 20, 2020

In their campaigns to censor opposing viewpoints, Facebook has blocked and Twitter has provided warning labels to the Plandemic: Indoctrination video.

NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny tweeted on August 18, “Facebook not allowing users to…

Kayla Sargent | August 19, 2020

With only a few months left before the presidential election, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg claimed that the platform is prepared to remove posts from President Donald Trump to fight what the platform has deemed misinformation…

Heather Moon | August 18, 2020

Bill Mitchell, host of a popular online radio show “YourVoice America,” equated Twitter with “the Devil” and said his ban from the site was a “pure political hit job.”

Mitchell noted that news of his permanent Twitter ban quickly became a…