By Autumn Johnson ~ According to new reporting from The Wall Street Journal, the Facebook Oversight Board is calling for more transparency from the platform. The Board made the recommendation in response to The Journal’s critical reporting of the Big Tech giant and the affect Instagram has on young women and girls. As part of their […]
By P.J. Gladnick ~ Censorship? The press says: Hey, no problem! You might expect (in sane times) the press would be in favor of more freedom of speech. Instead, Politico is not only uncritically covering social media justifications for censorship, they also appear unfazed about the government getting into the Big Brother act as well. This was the message promulgated by “tech lobbying and […]
By Alexander Hall ~ Facebook reportedly has a specific set of elite users who don’t have to follow the same censorship rules applied to average users. There’s a club of elites who don’t have to follow the same rules, and Facebook has reportedly hidden it until now. “A program known as XCheck has given millions […]
By Autumn Johnson ~ According a Politico scoop on Thursday, a top Democratic staffer is reportedly leaving his job at the Senate Commerce Committee to work at Facebook. “John Branscome, the top Democratic staffer on the Senate Commerce Committee, is leaving for Facebook,” tweeted Politico tech reporter Emily Birnbaum. “He’ll work on FB’s federal policy team […]
By Autumn Johnson ~ The Liberty Justice Center has filed a lawsuit accusing Facebook, Twitter, and the Biden administration of colluding to censor COVID-19 “misinformation.” The Liberty Justice Center filed the lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California on behalf of a social media influencer Justin Hart. Hart alleges […]
By Alexander Hall ~ House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) warned that “a Republican majority will not forget” Big Tech and telecommunication companies that “violate federal law” and surrender the information of private citizens in response to Democrat pressure. The Democrat-led January 6th commission hit Big Tech with a giant fishing expedition for private private […]
By Autumn Johnson ~ Leftist journalists appear to be setting their sights on Facebook after the platform allegedly shelved a controversial report from 2021’s first-quarter. Facebook was accused of deliberately hiding its first-quarter report from the public, apparently after finding that its top story of the quarter centered on COVID “misinformation.” The story in question […]
By Tim Graham ~ Fox News media reporter Brian Flood reports PBS superstar filmmaker Ken Burns is swaggering around again and dropping bombs on Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, suggested he’s an “enemy of the state” who should be in jail. Didn’t liberals hate this kind of “enemy of the people” talk, or is that just […]
By Tim Graham ~ One of the most curious things about America is how many of our most celebrated billionaires sound like socialists. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett love talking about how more and more of their wealth should be taxed. Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post, enabling it to wage relentless war on the […]
By Alexander Hall ~ Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) raked Big Tech companies over the coals for being a hazard to America. DeSantis scorched Big Tech companies during a Sunday Morning Futures interview. “When they’re censoring things about some of the most important issues that we’ve ever addressed — how COVID started, whether lockdowns work —- […]
By Alexander Hall ~ So-called experts advising Big Tech are experiencing a crisis of credibility as the once-condemned laboratory leak theory rises in popularity. Big Tech’s initiative that Americans must listen to the experts has sounded more ridiculous and ill-informed by the day. RedState Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar reported in a June 11 blog: […]
By Alexander Hall ~ Congressmen raked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the coals for his communications with disgraced medical official Dr. Anthony Fauci. Congressmen are now coming after Big Tech, and the humiliation of the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Dr. Fauci was only the beginning of woes for […]
By Douglas Blair ~ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill on targeting social media platforms, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, for their repeated and aggressive suppression of conservative speech. The legislation would fine social media companies if they deplatform candidates for state office during election season, as well as make it easier for private citizens to sue tech giants. DeSantis has […]
By Autumn Johnson ~ 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,” “If I Ran the Zoo,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond […]
By Douglas Blair ~ In a social engineering move that seems straight out of the pages of George Orwell, Google recently introduced an update to its Google Docs platform that encourages users to use more “inclusive” language. Inclusive language advocates argue that words like “he” and “she” are transphobic, or that phrases like “blind date” […]
By Alexander Hall ~ A crowdsourced army of censorship nags will now be able to mark up tweets with rateable fact-checks. Censorship? Too severe. Twitter calls it “adding helpful context” now. As if Twitter weren’t annoying enough, the platform has rolled out a new feature to give select users the power to fact-check other people’s […]
By Alexander Hall ~ The left has begun to gather a massive coalition of volunteers to combat so-called misinformation online as the 2022 midterm elections approach. “‘The Truth Brigade’ now has thousands of volunteers who are using their personal social media accounts to dispel purported falsehoods from right-wing influencers and promote their own messages,” The […]
By Alexander Hall ~ FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr declared that the burden of supporting the communications infrastructure should no longer be reliant on a telephone service model developed back in 1996: “We should start requiring Big Tech to pay its fair share.” “Big Tech has been enjoying a free ride on our internet infrastructure while […]
By Alexander Hall ~ Apparently, America’s real war is within, according to Defense Department official and race hustler Bishop Garrison. He was tagged to lead a new program to spy on soldiers for “concerning behaviors” online. “The [m]ilitary plans to surveil troops’ personal social media accounts for extremist keywords, per internal briefing I obtained,” The […]
By Alexander Hall ~ In an interview with The Guardian on Thursday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called to regulate Big Tech and censor more content in the name of saving “democracy” from the horror of free speech. Clinton also spoke about the need to overhaul Big Tech and explained her view that Big Tech companies […]
By Kay C. James (President of The Heritage Foundation) ~ Facebook’s Oversight Board decided to uphold Facebook’s and Instagram’s suspension of former President Donald Trump from their platforms Wednesday. This decision is the wrong one, and one that all Americans, regardless of political affiliation, should be concerned about. However, the Oversight Board was entirely appropriate to […]
By Alexander Hall ~ Turning Point USA Founder and President Charlie Kirk issued a grim warning that conservatives need to revolutionize their strategy against Big Tech in an age where woke corporations dominate American life. The official TPUSA account tweeted “Mega Corporations Have An Absolutely RIDICULOUS Amount Of Power In America!” on April 21 alongside […]
By Alexander Hall ~ Facebook whistleblower Cassandra Spencer wrote an exposé about the platform with damning claims of anti-conservative meddling. The whistleblower who had contracted at Facebook had her life turned upside down after exposing Big Tech bias against conservatives at Facebook. Her tell-all book, “Impact: How I Went behind Enemy Lines in Our Struggle […]
By Alexander Hall ~ Russia has decided to fight back against Silicon Valley, suing five companies to force removal of posts supporting anti-Putin protests. This is part of a tidal wave of opposition to Big Tech around the world. Big Tech has allowed civil discord to run rampant if it targets entities liberals want destroyed. […]
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