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When Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen came on as a guest of leftist, pro-censorship New York Times podcast host Kara Swisher’s show, Haugen had one core question related to Facebook’s “misinformation” efforts: “Will they go far enough?”

A conservative media personality says Facebook censored her positive holiday video. Brigitte Gabriel, a New York Times bestselling author and Founder and President of ACT for America, posted a video on Facebook about the importance of staying positive for the holidays.

Facebook allegedly censored a video from a Chinese whistleblower detailing the origins of COVID.

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.

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.

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.

Joe Scarborough was back on his anti-social-media hobbyhorse again on today's Morning Joe. He and the panel were reacting to items in the news: the testimony of Instagram's CEO yesterday before a Senate committee, and an advisory from the Surgeon General warning about a mental health crisis among young people. Scarborough's solution was to hold social media companies like Instagram liable for…

MRC’s CensorTrack found 100 examples of Big Tech censoring content and users who affirm only two genders or recognize biological gender differences over the last 11 months. That’s an average of about two censorship incidents a week.

An editor of a conservative publication slammed Big Tech social media platforms for continuing to favor leftist viewpoints online.

Meta removed over 160 Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to Hamas, a designated terrorist group, according to The Jerusalem Post. The accounts reportedly were primarily operated in the Gaza Strip and targeted “Palestinian territories,” according to The Post. The outlet further noted that “[t]he accounts primarily posted news stories, cartoons and memes in Arabic about…

I've reported how Facebook censors me. Now I've learned that they also censor environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, statistician Bjorn Lomborg and former New York Times columnist John Tierney. Facebook's “fact-checkers” claim we spread “misinformation.” In my new video, Tierney argues that the “people guilty of spreading misinformation are Facebook and its fact-checkers.” He's right…

Facebook has reversed its crackdown of searches related to Kyle Rittenhouse now that he has been found not guilty. During a national wave of riots in the summer of 2020, teenager Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people in Kenosha, Wis., in self-defense. Meta’s subsidiary platforms Facebook and Instagram ruthlessly impeded conservatives from sharing stories in favor of Rittenhouse or even being able…

It’s Episode Fourteen of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about satire sites, funny memes and tweeting jokes … all of which Big Tech censored.

Joy Behar says she “loves” the First Amendment, but she doesn’t love it enough to leave it alone. On Tuesday’s The View, Behar declared that she wanted to see freedom of speech “tweaked” to get rid of speech she doesn’t like. The 2nd Amendment deserves a modern updating as well, according to the liberal host.