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David Bozell Tells Joe Concha: Apple News Could Be Deceiving Users

Catherine Mortensen
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In 100 Days Apple News Pushes Leftist Outlets Over Right: 1,379 to 1

Heather Moon and Michael Morris
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Big Four News Apps Erase Don Lemon’s Grand Jury Indictment

Luis Cornelio
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New Year, New Me? Google News Still Censoring Right: 67% L vs. 3% R

Luis Cornelio
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Apple News Continues Rejection of Right-Leaning Outlets in January

Heather Moon

Americans Are Watching Two Different Movies as Media Bias Goes Digital

Michael Morris
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15 to 2: MSN Recommends Leftist Outlets 7.5x More than Right-Leaning

Heather Moon
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AI Giants Whitewash, Lionize Anti-Ice Protester Alex Pretti

Tom Olohan
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Big Four News Apps’ Minn. ICE Coverage 86% Negative or Missing Context

Luis Cornelio

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Facebook Fact-Checker Won’t Acknowledge Possible Origins for COVID

Once again, one of Facebook’s fact-checkers has failed to acknowledge the facts — this time surrounding the origins of COVID-19. Now, even a leftist source has begun to concede that COVID-19 may have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. Contributor to New York Magazine’s “Intelligencer” Nicholson Baker questioned whether the virus was released either on accident or on purpose. 

Kayla Sargent

Top 10 Worst Cases of Big Tech Censorship in 2020

Online platforms got to use their favorite tool in 2020 before and even after the election: censorship.


 

Heather Moon

House Ethics Rules May Impose Penalty for Posting ‘Manipulated Media’

A proposed House of Representatives rule may take the idea of censoring so-called “misinformation” even further. The resolution containing the proposed rules of the 117th Congress could impose penalties for members of Congress and congressional employees for spreading “manipulated” content, including on social media.

Kayla Sargent

Twitter Censors Trump and Campaign 625 Times, Biden Still Left Alone

It may be a new year, but Twitter is still up to the same old tricks. Twitter never took a holiday break when it came to labeling President Donald Trump’s tweets and the tweets of his campaign, @TeamTrump.

Corinne Weaver

No More! Mark Levin Finalizes Departure from Facebook

Talk radio star Mark Levin told his social media audiences that he would be leaving Facebook. The announcements came after Levin had already hinted at boycotting the social media giant.

Alec Schemmel

Google Clamps Down on Research into ‘Sensitive Topics’

Google has secured a tight grip around the research done by its staff, according to internal communications and other information obtained by Reuters. A new “sensitive topics” review procedure has, in at least three cases, “…

Alec Schemmel

Top 3 Reasons Why the Right and Left Hate Facebook

Facebook tries to please everybody but can’t please anybody. 

Both left and right disagree on the issues of censorship on the platform and the Facebook Oversight Board, but many do agree on one thing: that Facebook should be broken up. 

Kayla Sargent

Twitter Censors Trump and Campaign 583 Times, Still Never Biden

Twitter’s censorship push against President Donald Trump and his campaign continued this week. The site labeled videos from One America News Network. It also labeled part of an address by Trump, and a tweet by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) featuring attorney Jesse Binnall’s Senate testimony about election fraud, among other tweets.

Heather Moon

Unsurprising: Amazon Hires Lobbyist Brother of Biden Advisor

Big Tech has been trying to get on the good side of former Vice President Joe Biden for months, and now, Amazon is trying its best to cozy up to the prospective Biden administration.

The online shopping giant has hired new lobbyist Jeff Ricchetti, the brother of close Biden adviser Steve Ricchetti, according to CNBC. 

Kayla Sargent

Team Biden Upset White House Twitter Accounts Would Start From Zero

The left is never happy. Likely president Joe Biden’s team is angry at Twitter because the site won’t transfer all of President Donald Trump’s official followers to Biden.

Dan Gainor

@POTUS Twitter Account to Start with No Followers

Former Vice President Joe Biden will reportedly have a long way to go to build up his Twitter presence, assuming, as currently projected, he takes over as president in January. Twitter has reportedly told the Biden team that the official @POTUS account will be reset to zero followers, and “Donald Trump’s followers will not carry over to the official Twitter accounts assigned to the new…

Kayla Sargent

New Polish Law Aims to Block Big Tech Censorship

It often feels as though Big Tech overlords are constantly censoring content they disagree with, leaving users scratching their heads as to why they were censored. But one nation is looking to change the way Big Tech can censor speech. Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro of Poland “announced a legal initiative on Thursday [Dec. 10]  aimed at enabling internet users to file complaints against the…

Kayla Sargent

Reuters Fact-Checker Has Not Updated Election Misinfo Claim

So-called “fact”-checking websites often jump at any chance they get to attempt to prove President Donald Trump wrong. But they aren’t so eager to fact-check themselves.

Reuters fact-checked a Nov. 19 tweet from President Donald Trump but has not corrected, or even addressed, the inaccuracies in its own article.

Kayla Sargent

Trial Date Set for DOJ Antitrust Case Against Google: Sept. 2023

Good things come to those who wait, but it looks like Americans will be waiting a long time before the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google goes to court.

The judge in the Department of Justice’s case against Google has set a tentative trial date, but the trial may still be years away, according to The Wall Street Journal. 

Kayla Sargent