Facebook COO Donates $1 Million to Planned Parenthood Advocacy
June 28th, 2019 3:36 PM
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg doesn’t even pretend to be neutral. She donated $1 million to Planned Parenthood’s abortion advocacy to aid ‘marginalized,’ ‘women of color.’ HuffPost quoted Sandberg in a June 28 article, where she said “I think this is a very urgent moment where the rights and the choices and the basic health of the most vulnerable women — the women who have been marginalized,…
The Country of Facebook Prepares For A Supreme Court
June 27th, 2019 7:43 PM
Facebook, a country with a population of 2.38 billion, is building a “Supreme Court” to oversee them. The social media platform released a report in a June 27 blog post that detailed the results of its workshops and roundtables to construct an Oversight Board.
Twitter Creates New Rule to Limit Who Sees What Trump Says
June 27th, 2019 6:03 PM
Twitter is launching a new program to flag tweets as offensive. And it’s No.1 target appears to be President Donald Trump. The company announced via its blog June 27 that it will mark the tweets of politicians who break its rules, effective immediately. he firm has decided “there are certain cases where it may be in the public’s interest to have access to certain Tweets, even if they would…
Dems Accuse Facebook of Being ‘Grossly Unprepared’ for 2020 Election
June 27th, 2019 1:19 PM
Democratic leaders have not only accused social media of enabling misinformation, but speculated Big Tech companies profit from it. Politicians on both sides of the aisle raked social media over the coals at a June 26 hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee. Representatives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter testified over how social media companies handle misinformation, terror…
Reddit ‘Quarantines’ Conservative Group The_Donald
June 26th, 2019 7:41 PM
The front page of the internet is suppressing popular conservative voices — “without warning.” Reddit’s subreddit group, The_Donald, was given a “quarantine” by admins following liberal complaints about violence in the group’s content.
Crenshaw Roasts Big Tech at Homeland Security Hearing
June 26th, 2019 6:29 PM
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) warned Big Tech companies and his Democratic counterparts Wednesday that free speech is a fundamental value, and losing it will “tear us apart.” Crenshaw was commenting during the June 26 hearing (viewable at 1:33:20) before the House Homeland Security Committee. Representatives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter testified over how social media companies handle terror-…
GoFundMe Deplatforms Christian Athlete; Fans Back Him with $1.5 Mil
June 25th, 2019 4:58 PM
When the U.S.-based crowdfunding website GoFundMe booted Australian athlete Israel Folau, critics had no idea it would be the best thing they could do for him. Folau is a popular national figure both as an athlete and an outspoken Christian. He was fired from his profession and deplatformed when he used GoFundMe to rally funds for a legal case to take his job back. Christian Australians however,…
Google, YouTube Label Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson ‘Nazis’
June 25th, 2019 3:06 PM
A new revelation from Project Veritas has found that YouTube and Google labeled popular conservative commentators as “Nazis.” In a leaked document published on June 25, an email from a Google employee, Liam Hopkins, described Ben Shapiro, Dr. Jordan Peterson, and Dennis Prager as “nazis using dog whistles.”
Propaganda Machine? Wikipedia Enabling Armenian Genocide Denial
June 25th, 2019 11:25 AM
A recent exposé of a regional Wikipedia project revealed some troubling stories of propaganda and abuse — even denial of a genocide The Wikipedia branch in Azerbaijan, a small democratic Muslim country in the Middle East, allowed editors to write that the Armenian genocide was a “fraud.”
GoFundMe Creates Abortion Fundraiser for Planned Parenthood
June 24th, 2019 2:48 PM
A crowdfunding platform has joined the mass liberal panic over state abortion bans. GoFundMe, the for-profit site where users create donation funds, made its own campaign to raise money for abortion clinics. On June 21, the fund was launched with the promise that all the donations would be handed over to Planned Parenthood, National Network of Abortion Funds, and the American Civil Liberties…
Facebook Keeps Antifa Group That Doxed Tucker Carlson
June 24th, 2019 2:07 PM
An Antifa-related activist group called “All Out DC” has been putting up posters with the personal information of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, as well as other free speech figures, in an effort to “Block the Alt-Right.” The group’s poster announced an upcoming rally on July 6 along with Carlson’s face and personal information. The caption labeled him as a “racist with a huge following and…
Election Manipulation: Google Preps to ‘Prevent Next Trump Situation’
June 24th, 2019 1:32 PM
Project Veritas has released an insider leak story exposing Google for biased, manipulative practices. James O’Keefe’s whistleblower outlet posted a video of Google Responsible Innovation Head, Jen Gennai, in a June 24 report. The Google manager said that “breaking up Google” would not “prevent the next Trump situation.”
Microsoft’s Xbox : ‘Xbox Live Is Not a Free Speech Platform’
June 21st, 2019 1:27 PM
XBox has video game smack-talk in its crosshairs. In an interview with Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo, Xbox head Phil Spencer proclaimed that “Xbox Live is not a free speech platform.” He added that “It is not a place where anybody can come and say anything.” Spencer explained that his team is “working to ensure it’s a safe and inclusive environment.”
William Shatner Banned From Reddit Group, But Why?
June 21st, 2019 11:54 AM
Reddit is notorious for its overzealous moderators, but one wonders what William Shatner could have possibly done to get banned from a large group. The social media platform, known as the “front page of the internet,” is home to several thousand groups, in a beehive sort of fashion.
