Instagram Bans Ads for Children’s Book By Senator Marsha Blackburn

Heather Moon
July 17th, 2020 10:07 AM

We have to think of the children … and then ban their books, apparently. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and daughter Mary Morgan Ketchel’s new children’s book has been hindered yet again by Instagram, which banned ads for the book. 

 

Rep. Jim Jordan Accuses Democrats of Excluding GOP from Tech Hearing

Alexander Hall
July 8th, 2020 5:23 PM

A major hearing approaches with Big Tech CEO’s Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai in the hot seat. Republicans claim they were not invited. "We hope that this incident was simply a misunderstanding and not an intentional Democrat effort to exclude Republicans and then misrepresent our views to the companies," House Judiciary Committee ranking member Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote…

 

NY Times Writer Equates Black Lives Matter Criticism With Racism

Clay Waters
June 20th, 2020 11:30 AM

New York Times technology writer Kevin Roose made the front of Saturday’s Business section with “Platforms Denounce Racism That Thrives There.” But Roose’s definition of “racism” seems to mean, “criticizes Black Lives Matter activists.” Roose first made a name for himself at the paper with an elaborate, panicky Sunday front-page expose, “The Making of a YouTube Radical – How the Site’…

 

Dan Bongino Partners with Free Speech Platform ‘Parler’

Alexander Hall
June 16th, 2020 5:38 PM

Popular conservative YouTube host Dan Bongino has one answer to the problem of Big Tech censorship. He has partnered with the free speech platform Parler and taken an ownership stake in the firm. Bongino declared on the June 16 episode of The Dan Bongino Show that this platform is “the social media alternative to the tech tyrants which have declared war against conservatism, liberty,…

 

Snap Defends Restricting Trump Content, May Call Down Hawley Smackdown

Alexander Hall
June 12th, 2020 4:07 PM

Snap leadership’s decision to stop President Donald Trump from being able to promote himself on the Snapchat platform may be just the ripe first target for Sen. Josh Hawley’s proposed legislation. “We’re well within our First Amendment rights to decide what shows up,” Snap CEO Evan Spiegel explained to CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” Spiegel then cited that the First Amendment is written to “protect…

 
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MRC's Bozell: Zuckerberg Can't Give in to ‘Social Media Brown Shirts’

NB Staff
June 2nd, 2020 7:13 PM

Appearing early Tuesday evening on the Fox Business Network’s Evening Edit, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell urged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remain strong and refuse to give into the “social media brown shirts” at his company, which have demanded censorship of President Trump. In contrast, Bozell noted that his employees haven’t made the…

 
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CBS Claims Trump’s Twitter Feud Just a Distraction from Virus Deaths

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 28th, 2020 9:06 PM
While downplaying Silicon Valley’s documented censorship of conservatives, Thursday’s CBS Evening News accused President Trump of picking a fight with Twitter because it was a distraction from the coronavirus death toll, which surpassed 100,000 earlier in the week. Yet, White House correspondent Ben Tracy couldn’t even bring himself to say that it was conservatives who were accusing Twitter of…
 

Bozell: Trump Is Right to Fight Back Against Social Media Censorship

NB Staff
May 28th, 2020 2:59 PM
Media Research Center (MRC) President Brent Bozell issued the following statement on Thursday about Donald Trump calling out social media platforms for censoring conservatives. Bozell stated, “President Trump is right. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech firms are guilty of censoring conservatives and their protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act should be reviewed.”
 
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CBS/NBC Scoff at Trump v. Twitter, Skip Fact-Checker's Hatred of Trump

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 27th, 2020 9:23 PM
While Twitter targeted President Trump with fact-checks, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News scoffed at his understandably angry reaction on Wednesday. While they were amused by him fuming at his favorite social media platform, neither of them cared to report how Twitter’s in-house fact-checker was an anti-Trump activist who had leveled many false accusations against the President,…
 

NYT's Lerer Admits ‘Red-Pill’ Ignorance, Lets Lorenz Rant About Nazis

Clay Waters
May 21st, 2020 8:45 AM

It’s embarrassing enough for the New York Times’ Lisa Lerer, who covers "campaigns, elections and political power,” to publicly admit she has no idea what “red-pill” signifies. A reference was recently tweeted by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is fighting California’s coronavirus restrictions on business, and Lerer was on it. She turned over the descriptive responsibilities to…

 

NYT Enthuses Over 'Occupy Democrats': Immigrant Twins vs Trump Machine

Clay Waters
May 19th, 2020 4:09 PM
New York Times reporter Nick Corasaniti celebrated the creators of the Facebook page Occupy Democrats in a big profile on Tuesday, “Immigrant Twin Brothers Battle Trump Machine on Facebook.” It was a friendly chat: "Meet Rafael and Omar Rivero, the co-founders of Occupy Democrats, the social media mavens of the left who are quickly emerging as a counterweight to the dominance of right-wing online…
 

CNN's Tapper Insists He Wasn’t Calling Trump ‘Insane’ With Retweet

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 7th, 2020 12:06 PM
Jake Tapper, host of CNN’s The Lead and State of the Union, had to respond to serious scrutiny about his journalistic credibility and judgment Tuesday morning after this author and others called him out for retweeting an unsubstantiated allegation that President Trump was “100% insane.” In his weak defense, Tapper played the dishonest “RTs do not nec. = agreement” card. The retweet had since been…
 
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U.S. Press Disgusted Trump Grilled Hong Kong Reporter on China Ties

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 7th, 2020 12:11 AM
At Monday’s coronavirus press conference, President Trump sparred with a female reporter from the Hong Kong-based news outlet, Phoenix TV. Following her question that portrayed China as heroes coming to the aid of the United States, the President pressed her on who she worked for and whether they were in league with the communist regime. This drew outcry from American reporters such as PBS White…
 

MRC VP Dan Gainor Calls Out WaPo Story Accusing Facebook

NB Staff
February 24th, 2020 12:18 PM
Dan Gainor, Media Research Center (MRC) Vice President of TechWatch, issued the following statement Monday in response to a recent article from The Washington Post that claimed Facebook has “titled rightward” to avoid “Republican wrath.”