Free Speech

Three pro-American organizations flayed an NBC News report last week that called for censorship of text messages in one of the latest leftist rallying cries against so-called “disinformation.”

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, claimed to have accidentally allowed Republican and Democrat firms to dip into each other’s target audiences for political ads. 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld Texas's “free speech” law on Friday.

Shortly after Biden said MAGA Republicans represent a threatening “extremism,” the Biden White House heralded that leftist Big Tech companies, in “coordination” with the administration, will be rolling out new tools and policies to combat so-called violent “extremism” online. In other words, more censorship.

All aboard the censorship train! Today’s destinations: YouTube and Eventbrite. On this week’s episode of CensorTrack with Paiten, we looked at YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s attempt to portray her platform as a haven for free speech. We also examined Eventbrite’s censorship of a Daily Wire documentary watch party.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday that he signed a bill that will radically change how social media companies are required to disclose certain policies.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and two other Republican House lawmakers on Tuesday demanded the Biden White House hand over its correspondence allegedly pressuring Big Tech to increase online censorship.

What is the Department of Homeland Security doing online in the wake of the death of its failed Disinformation Governance Board? It’s trying to resurrect its remains and make something worse.

Despite contentious legal battles, Twitter’s shareholders approved Elon Musk’s deal to purchase the platform for $44 billion.

As another 9/11 anniversary came and went, Facebook censored 9/11 photos rather than what appeared to be an embarrassing suicide joke from President Joe Biden. Even Facebook had to admit its mistake. 

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard allegations of foreign governments meddling in U.S. industry. 

Twitter may have employed at least three foreign intelligence agents and kept Chinese Communist Party-linked advertising accounts on the platform despite employee objections, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said during a hearing of the…

YouTube’s CEO said she wants free speech on her platform. The only problem is that she qualified it.

Twitter reportedly paid a whistleblower $7 million for his silence on company operations. Bloomberg News reported Thursday that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is citing the payment to bolster his claims that Twitter misled him and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the deal to purchase the platform for $44 billion.

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company did not purchase Twitter because of “bots” on the platform. On Thursday, the New York Post reported that Iger told attendees at the Vox Code Conference that “hate speech” and “bots” were large factors in the decision not to purchase the platform.