Free Speech

Facebook has shut down two of the Michigan shutdown protest groups. “Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine” and “Michigan United for Liberty” were Facebook groups created as a result of the Michigan lockdowns. According to The Center Square, Facebook indicated that both groups were found to have “violated the platform[’s] Community Standards,” and were shut down.

After years of Big Tech being in the spotlight for anti-conservative bias, Google appears to have cut back its far-left diversity and inclusion programs. “Google has significantly rolled back its diversity and inclusion initiatives in an apparent effort to avoid being perceived as anti-conservative,” eight current and former employees told NBC News in a May 13 article. One example of a program…

Move over Russia. China is waging a massive disinformation war in an attempt to destabilize the United States by scapegoating it for spreading the COVID-19 virus. “An army of bot accounts linked to an alleged Chinese government-backed propaganda campaign is spreading disinformation on social media about coronavirus and other topics, including an exiled businessman, according to a London-based…

Facebook’s new Oversight Board has been criticized as too liberal and too international to decide on American content. The current structure of the board ensures that. Fifteen of the 20 board members are from outside the United States. Facebook has committed to having only one member from the U.S. on five-person panels ruling on American content restrictions. That means 80 percent could well be…

Facebook unleashed an artificial intelligence program to scour users’ posts for “hate speech” and “misinformation.” “Facebook on Monday released a new report detailing how it uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human fact-checkers and moderators to enforce its community standards,” The Verge reported. Facebook’s Community Standards Enforcement Report was then followed up by company…

Out of the first 20 members on Facebook’s new Oversight Board, only two are on the right. Michael McConnell, one of those two, told the Media Research Center in an exclusive interview not to expect many more conservatives from the next 20 members. “If what you’re looking for is politically conservative people, my guess is that you may get one or two more, but you’re not going to be getting more…

Twitter is now slapping labels and warnings on content to let users know what they are and aren’t allowed to post about the COVID-19 crisis. “Starting today, we’re introducing new labels and warning messages that will provide additional context and information on some Tweets containing disputed or misleading information related to COVID-19,” Twitter announced in a blog.

As U.S. lawmakers close in on Big Tech with antitrust investigations, Facebook is striking back by aiding the launch of a powerful tech lobby. “Facebook is working behind the scenes to help launch a new political advocacy group that would combat U.S. lawmakers and regulators trying to rein in the tech industry,” The Washington Post wrote in its May 12 coverage. This advocacy group, called…

In an exclusive interview with the Media Research Center, newly appointed Facebook Oversight Co-Chairman Michael McConnell, said he would like to "audit" Facebook's controversial fact-checkers.

A member of the new Facebook Oversight Board has been found to be “partial toward the Muslim Brotherhood.” Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni activist and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, stated in a 2013 TV interview with BBC Arabic, that she supported the Muslim Brotherhood.

Twitter exposed liberals for sharing a deceptively edited video of Vice President Mike Pence. Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and Matt McDermott shared a video claiming that Pence had been caught on a hot mic delivering empty boxes of personal protective equipment (PPE) for a hospital. Vice President of Whitman Insight Strategies Matt McDermott shared the video to Twitter and claimed that Pence had…

Nine fact-checkers, selected by the liberal, Soros-funded Poynter Institute, control what news stories are suppressed on Facebook. For LifeNews.com, this means that stories that label Planned Parenthood as an “abortion business” are singled out and fact-checked by liberal outlets like USA Today.

A powerful left-wing nonprofit network published a letter from health care professionals calling for mass censorship to fight “misinformation.” Nonprofit activist platform Avaaz released the letter from “doctors, nurses and health experts from around the world” to sound the alarm about a “global infodemic, with viral misinformation on social media threatening lives around the world.” Avaaz has…