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Today's episode in journalistic kookiness comes from Andrew Feinberg, who writes for the "new" (not weekly) Newsweek and the Independent newspaper from London. Feinberg is proud of himself for comparing Pearl Harbor (U.S. death toll: 2,400) to June 1 protests in Lafayette Park across from the White House (death toll: zero). He pinned this on his Twitter page. 

After President Donald Trump called for “designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization,” a GOP congressman was censored for demanding the group be treated as such. Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) tweeted after days of violent riots: “Now that we clearly see Antifa as terrorists, can we hunt them down like we do those in the Middle East?” Twitter placed an interstitial, or a filter, over the…

More than twice as many likely voters want social media platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, to allow free speech by users as want them to regulate what is posted, a new national survey by Rasmussen Reports reveals.

Let no crisis … or marketing opportunity go to waste? Big Tech and entertainment corporations across the country have declared solidarity for protestors as the country burns. Many of the household name companies that are a staple of modern American life have declared their support for protestors. Google, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and many other companies have made public statements…

As America burned for yet another night on Sunday, CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter continued to live tweet as the liberal media’s janitor, defending the profession that’s helped gaslight, encourage, and support rioters that have committed arson, looting, and destroying livelihoods. Instead, they offer excuses. On Sunday, he tried to fact-check former Daily Caller writer…

The brief arrest of a CNN news crew covering the mayhem in Minneapolis prompted New York Times media reporter James Poniewozik to melodramatically take on President Trump for his action against Twitter, in “A Live Look At Censorship, No Tweets Involved” in Saturday’s New York Times. The paper also reacted with alarm Thursday when conservatives criticized Twitter for its…

Twitter’s overreach has caused conservative leaders to declare an all-out political and legal response. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), sent an open letter to the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury on Friday to call for a criminal investigation into Twitter for violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and Executive Order 13876. Cruz quoted the wording of…

President Donald Trump hit back at Big Tech bias by signing an “Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship” in the Oval Office on Thursday. And he relied on information from the Media Research Center’s TechWatch to do it. Before Trump signed the executive order that interprets Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA), he showcased a blog by NewsBusters MRC TechWatch…

After fact-checking President Donald Trump by using statements from CNN and The Washington Post, Twitter fired another salvo at Trump again over a tweet about the Minneapolis riots.