Censorship

Hate crimes are tragic. Now they are typically followed by calls for government crackdowns on speech.

In the wake of the attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a Rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, weekday morning CNN Newsroom co-host…

After taking a stand for free speech on several occasions, is Facebook now backsliding?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to take a pro-free speech stand and allowed political ads without fact-checking as early as October 2019, and…

YouTube took down more than 300 ads from President Donald Trump’s election campaign in what is only the latest example of the company fighting with the right.

CBS News reportedly “found that over 300 video ads were taken down…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey once said, “Journalists play a critical role in our society: keep the world honest and balanced. They are true servants of the people.”

This seems to only apply to journalists that lean left, however.…

Countering the liberal media call to censor conservatives, the former president came out swinging against Chinese-style censorship on Big Tech platforms and took a stand for free speech online.

“At a high-dollar fundraiser on…

Twitter appears to be doing all it can to protect those participating in the impeachment inquiry from public criticism.

Liberal news outlet BuzzFeed noted that the phrase “I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch”…

Accuse liberal billionaire George Soros of impropriety and you could be accused of anti-Semitism and be de-platformed. At least that’s what the Open Society Foundations is allegedly saying should happen to lawyer and Fox News guest Joe…

CNN can’t even tell people whether naming the whistleblower is illegal. But tech companies are now the judge and jury for the common user.

Facebook and YouTube announced that they would delete content that named the whistleblower…

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…

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…

Big tech has presented many problems for the legislators in Washington to tackle. One of those is regulation.

Many politicians on both sides of the aisle have discussed government regulation of Big Tech. Government regulation and amending…

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…

Facebook is standing by its new approach to political advertising, despite sharp criticism from the left.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign asked Facebook to remove President Trump’s ad on Oct. 8,…

Comedian Terrence K. Williams of “The Deplorables” comedy troupe, pleaded for help Friday amidst fears Twitter was targeting his account for his support of President Trump. A popular blue check conservative with over 600,000 followers…

Strange political times make for unexpected allies as Democratic primary candidates defend Trump’s right to have a platform on Twitter.

Democratic presidential nominee rivals Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii and Senator Elizabeth Warren…

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…

“The free press that the founders envisioned looked a lot more like” Reddit. It didn’t look like New York Times writers who misrepresent basic tenets of free speech and demand censorship to protect their friends from “online harassment.”

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After an Australian academic website called The Conversation tweeted “it’s time to ban climate denial” in the media, UC-Boulder Professor Roger Pielke, Jr., weighed in to show the consequences of such censorship.

Pielke…

 Fact-checkers have been given an enormous amount of authority over what news stays and what cannot be allowed to flourish on Facebook.

Pro-life organization Live Action found this out the hard way last week, after the platform was…

Facebook is having a hard time with transparency, even after paying for researchers to look at its data … with transparency. 

Philanthropies that agreed to fund studies about Facebook are even threatening to quit. Facebook had…