Censorship Project

Google has finally decided to lift its ban on political ads, just in time for the Georgia runoff elections. The search engine paused new political ads since Election Day for fear of misinformation, but it has now apparently decided to reinstate these ads just under a month before Georgia voters will decide which party will control the United States Senate.
 

Facebook has received a couple of early Christmas presents this season. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a coalition of states and territories have gifted the Big Tech giant two lumps of coal in the form of antitrust lawsuits.

The “Break Up Big Tech Act,” if enacted, would remove key protections from companies who engage in biased censorship.

YouTube has long past been done pretending to be neutral. But now the internet’s biggest video platform has proclaimed that there will be no questioning of the 2020 election going forward. 
 

In a huge win for victims of sexual exploitation and their families, Pornhub has changed several of its rules. All it took was a scathing New York Times report and the threat of a federal investigation.

Several of the new site rules, as described by its help center, were actually suggested by Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. “[A]side from limiting immunity so that companies are…

A new FCC member who terrifies Big Tech liberals has been confirmed in the eleventh hour of President Donald Trump’s first term.

With the results of the 2020 election still being contested in several states, the need to uphold election integrity is incredibly important. With few other options, voting jurisdictions found help from organizations, including to one that censorious Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated $350 million.

Counties all across the nation found themselves underfunded and unprepared for what…

Conservatives have long bemoaned the lack of viewpoint diversity in the discussion surrounding COVID-19, but for one Wall Street Journal columnist, the issue is personal.  Former New York Times reporter and author Alex Berenson claimed in a recent article for The Wall Street Journal that Amazon “has twice tried to suppress” several booklets that he wrote about COVID-19.…

Censoring the New York Post’s Biden bombshell was just the beginning. Now National File's Editor-in-Chief said Facebook is censoring its outlet.

Pornhub has long attempted to hide its exploitive content, but this content’s time online may be quickly coming to a close. Several prominent Republican senators have called for an investigation into PornHub following a recent New York Times investigation revealing that the website is “infested” with videos depicting brutal rapes and assaults, even including some victims who are…

Facebook fact-checker PolitiFact produced eight fact-checks that either used or relied on World Health Organization (WHO) numbers that have proven to be untrue. A new report from CNN shows that communist China was lying about how many of its citizens had contracted COVID-19 and how many deaths resulted from it.

Although the presidential election was more than a month ago now, Facebook is continuing to crack down on what it has decided is misinformation about the election. A Facebook fact-checker marked an article that Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) posted on December 4 as “Partly False Information” for the apparent sin of calling the results of the 2020 election into question. 

The Senate Commerce Committee voted to advance the nomination of a man who, if elected commissioner, could protect free speech on the internet. 
 

A fact-checking website may not even be able to properly check the facts in its own articles when the facts don’t line up with its narrative. FactCheck.org, which  partners with Facebook to fact-check articles and social media posts, has not corrected a January article that provides incorrect information regarding the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in China.