Free Speech

In a major reversal, Elon Musk rejected a seat on Twitter’s board of directors. The move caused some people to theorize that Musk may have a completely different strategy for reforming the company, one that doesn’t involve the company’s board.

A Big Tech social media platform allegedly censored an Air Force veteran for her posts on student loan debt. Gretchen Smith is an Air Force veteran and founded Code of Vets, a non-profit she created to honor her father who died at 57 after struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. Smith shared her inspiring story on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Juanita Broaddrick was suspended from Twitter after she questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines for COVID-19. Broaddrick accused former President Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978.

In an op-ed published online Friday in The Washington Post, former Reddit CEO Ellen K. Pao slammed Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s investment in Twitter and, to put it mildly, his support and vision for free speech. Put simply, she called for Democracy Dying in Darkness.

A podcast host for The New York Times insisted that Twitter doesn’t censor people. "They have content moderation." Kara Swisher, who hosts the publication’s “Sway” podcast, was a guest on MSNBC’s Morning Joe where she discussed content moderation.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk joining Twitter’s board of directors and buying a 9.2% stake in the behemoth social media is a victory for freedom of speech, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says.

Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, explained why the satire site’s account was still locked. Twitter locked the account after The Bee posted that Rachel Levine was the site’s “Man of the Year.” Levine is a biological male that is being presented as a "transgender woman."

To block or not to block—Twitter has already answered that question. Twitter’s “Safety Mode” “autoblock” feature prevented users not only from commenting on a politician’s tweets, but even from seeing those tweets—specifically, for the @TeamPelosi account.

It seems like terrible public relations for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to publicly refer to himself as the Dark Lord of Mordor while running one of the internet’s largest censorship operations. Zuckerberg joined The Tim Ferriss Show on March 24 to discuss his management style. After praising Zuckerberg as having “a lot of founder-driven control,” Ferris asked Zuckerberg about his “15-year…

It’s amazing how the narrative of media, Big Tech and Democrats on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal has changed, now that even biased, left-wing media are admitting the truth about it, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Tuesday at a House Judiciary Committee meeting.

It’s Episode 32 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Big Tech and the left push a so-called “Trust the Science” narrative but censor content that includes scientific facts.

Research from N.C. State University indicated that Google’s anti-spam algorithm overwhelmingly labeled emails from right-wing candidates as “spam.” The paper, titled A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020, said Google was biased against the Right, while Microsoft’s Outlook and Yahoo leaned right.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk is now not only the biggest Twitter shareholder, but he is joining the social media company’s board, a move that set the platform’s users a chirping. 

Could pro-free speech changes to censorship-heavy Twitter be on the way? Tech billionaire Elon Musk is now not only the biggest Twitter shareholder, he is joining the social media company’s board. The Tesla CEO and Big Tech censorship critic reportedly became Twitter’s largest shareholder this week.