Big Tech and social media platforms censored conservatives in 2021 with a ruthlessness and standardization never seen before. Silicon Valley Big Tech giants like Twitter and Facebook appear to have adopted an explicit policy to suppress conservative views and encourage the spread of leftist dogma, as several media reports have revealed.

Five strikes and you’re permanently banned. So sayeth the Twitter monarchs, who discreetly promulgated a new policy to muzzle users who spread so-called COVID-19 “misinformation.”

Censorship is bad, but the irony is rich when a liberal gaming outlet like Kotaku called gaming streamer Hasan Piker’s ban from Twitch for using the term “cracker” a “bizarre moderation decision.”

YouTube is not only censoring conservatives, but recently, it has reportedly become a platform for something perhaps just as sinister: Western influencers who paint positive pictures of Communist China, even repeating Chinese propaganda along the way.

YouTube censored an interview between world famous podcaster Joe Rogan and Consultant Cardiologist and Chief of the Division of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine Peter McCullough about the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s Episode Sixteen of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about how Big Tech censored a video lecture about the evils of socialism.

On Tuesday, the video platform Rumble announced that it was terminating its business relationships with the Unruly Group and Tremor International over its censorship of Fox News, podcast, and radio talk show host Dan Bongino.

Veteran Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth told Axios, “If your democracy can’t tolerate the speech of people, I’m not sure what kind of democracy it is … [Facebook is] a fundamentally democratic technology.” This is paradoxical considering how much Facebook has engaged in biased censorship in the past year.

A new analysis reveals the extraordinary left-wing bias of website ratings firm NewsGuard, which should concern every American given that it is expanding its reach into cable and broadcast TV news. Liberal outlets were rated 27 points higher on average than news organizations on the right.

A Hezbollah media outlet slammed “zionists” after a parody account seemingly got the outlet kicked off Twitter.

A recent Politico podcast detailed the importance of Twitter in the new age, but the platform has a history of amplifying some voices more than others.

Kyle Rittenhouse said his Instagram account was disabled again just days after his social media accounts were reinstated. Rittenhouse was acquitted of all criminal charges against him.

Meta is doubling down on its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to detect alleged “harmful content,” even though AI algorithms have been shown to be biased or error-prone in censoring content.

A leftist figurehead blatantly told lawmakers on Thursday that social media companies should treat woke elites and ordinary people differently. Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said social media companies should sanitize their platforms of “misinformation” and “hate speech” in testimony for a House Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing.