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Big Four News Apps Silence Detransitioner’s $2M Landmark Trial Verdict

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

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

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Big Four News Apps Erase Don Lemon’s Grand Jury Indictment

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

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Apple News Continues Rejection of Right-Leaning Outlets in January

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Americans Are Watching Two Different Movies as Media Bias Goes Digital

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

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AI Giants Whitewash, Lionize Anti-Ice Protester Alex Pretti

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Reddit CEO Says Platform Will Allow Pro-Trump Ads Ahead of Election

In a win for free speech, the popular social media platform Reddit is planning to encourage healthy conversation about the upcoming presidential election.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced that the platform will allow political ads, including ads from President Donald Trump’s campaign in a company all-hands meeting last week, attended and reported…

Kayla Sargent

The New York Times: Big Tech Getting Cozier with Biden Campaign

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s tech policy committee has come under fire even from The New York Times for having suspicious ties with Big Tech companies. The Times released a report criticizing how “his campaign and transition teams have welcomed allies of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple onto its staff and policy groups.” Biden’s campaign has “quietly…

Alexander Hall

TikTok to Sue Trump Admin, as Twitter Considers Buying Social Platform

TikTok is facing a ban from the United States unless it is sold from the Chinese-overseen company ByteDance to an American company, but some local Big Tech companies could prove just as tyrannical. Out of the frying pan and into the fire! Twitter has had “preliminary talks about a potential combination with TikTok, the popular video-sharing app that the Trump administration has declared a…

Alexander Hall

Facebook Censors Pro-Trump Super PAC 3 Months Before Election

 

Another one bites the dust. Facebook just restricted a pro-Trump super PAC with less than three months left before the presidential election. 

Facebook banned the Committee to Defend the President, a pro-Trump Super PAC, from running ads on the platform. The August 6 move was due to the committee’s alleged spread of “misinformation.”

Kayla Sargent

Twitter Labels Trump ‘Government Account’ — But Not Iran’s Ayatollah

Twitter now attaches warning labels to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s account but not the Iranian ayatollah. Twitter has begun to add the labels to state-affiliated media and government officials from five major nations. Accounts like White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s @PressSec account and President Trump’s  @POTUS account have both been labeled as a “US government…

Alexander Hall

Tech War with China? Trump Issues Executive Order to Ban WeChat App

President Donald Trump’s WeChat executive order shows the war on Chinese subterfuge is bigger than just TikTok. Trump issued two different executive orders on Thursday evening: The “Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok” placed a ban on TikTok from being used in the U.S., and the “Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat” placed a ban on WeChat.

Alexander Hall

Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Communist Chinese-Owned TikTok App

President Donald Trump’s administration warned that it was considering a ban on Chinese social media. And it delivered in a big way last evening. Trump signed an executive order Thursday night, “Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok,” banning transactions with communist Chinese-owned ByteDance Ltd. or its subsidiaries, including the TikTok app.

Kayla Sargent

Report: Biden Campaign Staff Told to Delete China-Owned TikTok App

Even the left is beginning to understand the danger of the Chinese-owned app TikTok after months of concern. 
Bloomberg news reported on July 27 that the Biden campaign sent a memo to staffers, telling them to delete the app from both their work and personal devices due to security and privacy concerns.

Kayla Sargent

Right, Left Clash in Reaction to Big Tech Censorship of Trump Video

President Donald Trump has been censored by Big Tech for commenting on COVID-19. Facebook and Twitter obliterated a video of Trump speaking on Fox News about the coronavirus’s effects on children, both claiming the content violated their respective policies on COVID-19 misinformation. Conservative leaders have responded that this is yet another case of Big Tech’s accelerated use of their power…

Alexander Hall

Facebook, Twitter Censor Fox News Video of Trump Talking Coronavirus

Both Twitter and Facebook acted quickly Wednesday night to remove a video of President Trump speaking on Fox News about the coronavirus’ effects on children. The social media sites said the content violated their policies on COVID-19 misinformation. On Wednesday morning, President Trump called into Fox & Friends and said “schools should open” because children are “almost” or “…

Alexa Moutevelis

Twitter Moderation Tool Exposed? Leak May Show Misinfo Vetting Process

An app researcher may have revealed a Twitter tool that would allow moderators to debate over what is, or isn’t misinformation. Jane Manchun Wong has posted a screenshot of what appears to be an unreleased Twitter tool that allows moderators to flag tweets that reportedly contain “misinformation,” and then vote on whether they are “misleading.”

Alexander Hall

Twitter Allows Biden Ad to Take Trump Out of Context

A campaign ad for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden took a snippet from President Donald Trump wildly out of context.

Alexander Hall

Your Opportunity: FCC Asks Citizens to Comment on Big Tech Censorship

Looking for your chance to vent your rage at Big Tech? The government is literally requesting the public to air their grievances in order to steer policy decisions. “The Federal Communications Commission will take public comment for 45 days on a petition filed by the Trump administration seeking new transparency rules in how social media companies moderate content, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said…

Alexander Hall

The Left, Media — And Now Google Too? — Are Out to Demonize Police

For years now, the progressive left and media have been quick to demonize the nation’s police officers, so it comes as no surprise that Big Tech is following the trend. A quick Google search of the word “demon” results in a dictionary definition of the term that will allow you to filter by the word “police.” Oxford Dictionary, which Google uses to supply definitions to users, mentions as its…

Kayla Sargent