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MSN Doubles Down on Sidelining Right-Leaning Political Coverage

Luis Cornelio
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Apple News+ Subscription Is as Inadequate and Biased as You’d Expect

Heather Moon and Michael Morris

Victory! Missouri v. Biden Case Citing MRC Secures Free Speech

Gabriela Pariseau

MRC President Calls for Investigation of Apple News in Letter to FTC

Gabriela Pariseau
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87% Left-Leaning: Yahoo News Favors Left, Pushes Radical Sites in Feb.

Heather Moon and Dan Schneider
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How Did Big Four News Apps Respond to Schumer’s DHS Shutdown? Erasure

Luis Cornelio
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Big Four News Apps IGNORE Levin’s Bombshell Steve Witkoff Interview

Luis Cornelio

Google News Nearly Shuts Out Right-Leaning Stories in February—Only 2%

Gabriela Pariseau
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MSN Chokes Right Political Coverage; Study: 68-2 Imbalance Favors Left

Luis Cornelio

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Twitter Considers Banning All White Supremacists

Twitter has gathered a group of academics to help decide the fate of free speech on its platform. Twitter, the platform that bans people for tweeting “learn to code” at journalists, is considering cracking down on offensive “white supremacists.” Vice’s Motherboard wrote that that Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's head of Trust and Safety, legal and public policy made multiple public comments on the…

Alexander Hall

Facebook, Twitter Used to Spread Pro-Iran Messages During Midterms

Big Tech companies say Iranian hackers used social media to interfere with the American 2018 midterm election. A group of anonymous hackers infiltrated social media sites in April 2018 to influence the midterm elections. According to prominent public cybersecurity firm FireEye’s report these fake accounts had a very clear mission to spread “anti-Saudi, anti-Israeli, and pro-Palestinian themes.” …
Alexander Hall

Journalists Demand Social Media Censor Pelosi Video

Journalists freaked out over a slowed-down video that made Nancy Pelosi look silly and have sparked a debate over what videos should and shouldn’t be permitted online. The result was a pile-on with the media calling for speech to be silenced, New York Times opinion columnist Farhad Manjoo asked his Twitter followers who felt strongly about the issue “what specific policy are you saying FB should…
Alexander Hall and Corinne Weaver

YouTube Censors #Borderless Documentary on EU Migrant Crisis

A documentary about the migration crisis in Europe went viral despite YouTube restricting it within 24 hours of its release. YouTuber and filmmaker Lauren Southern released the #Borderless documentary on May 24. The film centers on the crisis of “massive demographic changes” to Europe as millions fled from hotbeds of terror, violence, war or political unrest in the Middle-East and Africa after…
Alexander Hall

Anti-Trump Krassensteins Suspended from Twitter

Do as I say, not as I do. The censorious ideas pushed by popular Twitter #Resistance twins have come back to bite them. Activists Ed and Brian Krassenstein were permanently suspended from Twitter May 23. The Daily Beast reported the liberal Twitter stars had allegedly been banned for “[breaking] the site’s rules about operating fake accounts and purchasing fake interactions with their accounts.”
Alexander Hall

Big Tech Hearing: Facebook Admits ‘Everyone Has Some Bias’

Facebook, Google, and Twitter are ready to admit that everyone is biased, including their own employees. At a May 22, hearing in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, representatives from the major tech companies were grilled about algorithms and shadowbanning. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) doubled down on the topic of algorithms, asking if the people who created the algorithms were…
Corinne Weaver

Tech Innovator Hints Facebook Booted Him for Pro-Trump Donation

Palmer Luckey’s firing proves that even the most talented of tech wizards can be purged for wrongthink. The founder of Oculus and a former Facebook employee, Luckey joked in a May 22 CNBC interview about his 2017 firing: “I gave $10,000 to a pro-Trump group, and I think that’s something to do with it.”
Alexander Hall

Sen. Hawley: Social Media Companies are ‘Parasites’

Rising conservative star to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) scorched social media as a waste of time as well as an “addictive drug.” Hawley blasted social media as a blight on American society in a May 22 opinion piece for USA Today. He accused Big Tech companies of creating a business model based on addiction, saying that they develop “new schemes to hijack their users’ neural circuitry.” 
Alexander Hall

Twitter Co-Founder Slams ‘Destructive,’ ‘Powerful’ Fox News

Twitter is built with an apocalyptic attitude toward conservatives and conservative media. The company’s co-founder Ev Williams told CNN Business in a May 22 interview that he believed that Twitter was not destructive towards the political landscape in the U.S.
Corinne Weaver

Conservative Engineer Exposes Google’s Liberal Outrage Culture

Google prides itself on creating a “safe,” politically “nonpartisan” and “inclusive” workplace… for everybody but conservatives, according to one Google engineer. Conservative Google software engineer Mike Wacker published a scathing May 21 tell-all on Medium describing the liberal insanity he encounters on a daily basis. “If left unchecked,” he wrote, “these outrage mobs will hunt down any…
Alexander Hall

Battling on Big Tech: Democrats Outspend Trump 5-to-1 Online

While Democrats ironically call for Facebook to be broken up, one would never know from looking at their campaign receipts. In the course of 22 days, Democrats running for president have outspent Trump on social media ads by 5-to-1.  
Corinne Weaver

Trump Defends Free Speech, Liberal Media Condemn Him

Both The New York Times and Washington Post blasted the free speech position taken by President Donald Trump last week. World leaders, led by New Zealand, united around the Christchurch Call to demand stronger internet censorship. This followed the deadly Christchurch terror attack that killed 51 Muslims. President Trump not only refused to sign on, but established a censorship reporting hotline…
Alexander Hall

Study Claims Trump and GOP Tweets Cause Hate Crimes

The academic elite behind the prevalent philosophy in tech censorship is ready to blame the GOP for pretty much everything. A study produced by three Iowa State University and University of Kansas professors has studied the link between political rhetoric and white nationalist hate crimes.  
Corinne Weaver

Burger King Accused of Tweeting for Violence Against Conservatives

Having it your way at Burger King might well include urging violence against conservatives, according to critics of the company. The fast food company’s UK Twitter account has been tied to attacks on conservative political figures. There has been a recent epidemic of conservative British politicians being repeatedly doused by protestors’ milkshakes.
Alexander Hall