Censorship Project

Orwellian! DHS May Tap Private Companies to Spy on Americans: Report
The potential alliance between the Department of Homeland Security and private companies to spy on Americans has reportedly stoked skepticism across the country ranging from privacy advocates to even government employees.

Purported Taliban Spokesman Has Active Twitter Account, Trump Doesn't
A purported Taliban spokesman still has an active Twitter account, despite the platform suspended former President Donald Trump for “hateful” and “violent” content.

Google Rewrote News Algorithm to Target Trump
Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies says Google altered its news algorithm to directly target former President Donald Trump. Vorhis was a senior software engineer at YouTube and Google. He…

CENSORED! Grabien Founder Says YouTube Demonetized Company’s Account
Demonetization, the act of prohibiting channels from profiting off their videos, is one of YouTube’s censorship tools used against creators. Grabien Founder and Editor Tom Elliott “suspected this was coming.” Elliott said the company, which provides a suite of tools for newsmakers and curates its own original content, had its YouTube channel demonetized.

GROWING! Rumble Welcomes Gabbard, Greenwald, Other Thought Leaders
The new free speech-oriented video-sharing platform said it has experienced massive growth in recent months. “In just the past year, Rumble has experienced over a 25-fold increase in viewership – with no indication of slowing,” the platform said. Rumble’s primary audience has been users considered right wing, but the platform’s welcoming of a broader diversity of voices could bring even more…

Blackburn, Blumenthal, Klobuchar UNLEASH App Store Competition Bill
Big Tech’s greatest enemy may be bipartisan legislation, as politicians from both sides of the aisle unite to introduce the Open App Markets Act.
Constitutional End Run? Biden Admin Pressures Facebook to Censor
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…

Don’t Mess With Texas: Cruz Torches PolitiFact for Absurd Fact-Check
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) roasted PolitiFact after the Facebook fact-checker tried to pretend it knew more about Texas law than Cruz did. Cruz reportedly proclaimed that there was “clear legal authority” to arrest Democratic legislators who fled Texas to avoid passing an election integrity bill. PolitiFact tried to correct the sitting senator and disgraced itself in the process. The fact-checker…

15 Times Big Tech Censored Local Government Meetings, Officials
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.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Facts: Social Media Turns Lies into Truth
Fact-checking doesn’t rely on facts. It often pushes a liberal narrative on everything from abortion to the coronavirus. PolitiFact and other so-called fact-checkers have a history of fact-checking factually true statements that don't suit liberal narratives.

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

Conservative Radio Personality Erick Erickson Suspended From Twitter
Erickson was commenting on a post about the suspension of conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey, who had been suspended days before for the same violation.

Twitter ‘Temporarily Restricts’ Account of Trump's Chief Spokeswoman
Twitter has temporarily restricted the account of Liz Harrington, chief spokeswoman to former President Donald Trump (who is also a former MRC intern and former CNS News reporter). Twitter said the account was restricted because it contained “some unusual activity” and asks users if they “still want to view it.” Harrington had recently repeated Trump’s allegations of voter fraud online, the…