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MRC Debuts Weekly Video Series Fighting Back Against Big Tech

August 23rd, 2021 1:00 PM

Welcome to CensorTrack with TR, a weekly video series about Big Tech censorship. The Media Research Center’s CensorTrack.org will publish the most prominent and worst cases of conservative censorship as well as document cases involving everyday Americans who were punished for challenging the Big Tech worldview.

Facebook Caves to WH Pressure, CENSORS So-Called COVID-19 Misinfo

August 19th, 2021 7:17 PM

Facebook is taking action after pressure from the White House. The Biden administration blamed the platform for the majority of coronavirus “misinformation.”

FTC Refiles Antitrust Lawsuit Against Facebook

August 19th, 2021 7:08 PM

The Federal Trade Commission has refiled its lawsuit against Facebook, arguing that the social media giant is a monopoly.


 

Facebook Censors 20M Posts for Misinfo, Leftist Media Demand More

August 19th, 2021 3:49 PM

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told CBS This Morning host Gayle King that his platform has removed over 18 million pieces of so-called “misinformation,” but King appeared to want more. She pressed Zuckerberg to reveal how many people view the content before it is taken down.

Taliban Banned on Facebook, Allowed on Twitter -- Trump Still Banned

August 18th, 2021 6:38 PM

"Why Trump's banned and the Taliban aren't: they play by the rules." Such was the absurd comment tweeted by Technology Policy Editor of The Washington Post Mark Seibel. Facebook has issued a blanket ban on the Taliban, but Twitter allows an account purportedly run by its spokesman -- for now.

TYRANNY! Big Tech Pushes Employees to Provide COVID Vax Proof: Report

August 17th, 2021 3:59 PM

Big Tech tyranny knows no bounds. Big Tech companies have gone so far as to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for their employees, but now apparently even that isn’t enough. Some of those employees are being required to show proof.

Facebook Seeks International Guidance on Recognizing Regimes

August 17th, 2021 3:28 PM

As the Taliban appears to have taken the mantle in returning to rule Afghanistan, Big Tech companies are grappling with how to handle the legitimacy of a radical Islamic regime.

ABSURD! Facebook Oversight Board Prefers Globalism to American Values

August 17th, 2021 12:14 PM

Members of Facebook’s Oversight Board revealed that the board prefers to operate under the guideposts of globalism and so-called consistency — not American values enumerated in the First Amendment.

Australian Publishers Accuse Facebook Of ‘Unfairly Taking’ Content

August 13th, 2021 5:59 PM

Three Australian publishers have accused Facebook of taking their content for its newly-launched news service without compensation.

Constitutional End Run? Biden Admin Pressures Facebook to Censor

August 12th, 2021 10:20 AM

President Joe Biden is at odds with the First Amendment. His administration has reportedly pressured Facebook for several months to censor Americans who post views contradicting the administration’s COVID-19 narrative. The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from restricting the right of Americans to freely express their beliefs. However, in an attempted end run around the…

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15 Times Big Tech Censored Local Government Meetings, Officials

August 11th, 2021 9:50 AM

Four school board meetings, collectively from Connecticut, Illinois and Washington, were removed from YouTube within an eight-day period last month for violating the platform’s “COVID-19 medical misinformation policy.” Big Tech’s censorship of local government meetings and public officials, whether restored following criticism or not, is a slippery slope that keeps getting steeper.

Mark Zuckerberg Funded Far-Left Candidates with DARK MONEY: Report

August 10th, 2021 11:19 AM

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly backed far-left candidates with “dark money” over the past few years, and the Capital Research Center said he went to great lengths to hide his donations from the public. 

INSANITY! PolitiFact Fact-Checks MRC for Using CDC Graphic

August 9th, 2021 4:56 PM

Facebook’s approved fact-checker PolitiFact rated a graphic from the Media Research Center as “FALSE,” even though the image merely shared a chart from the Center for Disease Control.

GOP States Suspicious Of Big Tech Election Office Donations

August 8th, 2021 6:44 PM

At least eight GOP-controlled states have passed bans on donations to election offices in order to deter Big Tech influence. Last year, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to election offices during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, after Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, conservative groups want to prevent that from happening again.