Twitter Locks, Reinstates Grenell Account Over Voter Fraud Tweet

October 9th, 2020 2:14 PM

Twitter has been losing its mind over allegations of mail-in voter fraud over the last few weeks. But now, the platform is going to the extreme. Twitter locked the account of former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell on October 8 after he tweeted a picture of two ballots sent to his friend’s parents — both of whom passed…

YouTube Removes Channel Run by Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan

October 8th, 2020 4:26 PM

After announcing in 2019 that YouTube would remove videos and channels promoting white supremacy and other bigoted ideologies, it has finally decided to remove the Nation of Islam from its platform over a year later. On Oct. 2, the group’s YouTube channel was removed for hate speech.

Facebook Adds More Restrictions to Election Day Ads

October 8th, 2020 2:44 PM

Facebook has continued to change its rules about Election Day ads. Now, the platform plans to restrict all political ads as soon as the polls close. The platform reportedly “now plans to prohibit all political and issue-based advertising after the polls close on Nov. 3 for an undetermined length of time,”

Levin: Future Censorship Efforts by Facebook ‘Will Not Be Tolerated'

October 8th, 2020 1:57 PM

“What chance do average Americans have for free speech” if Big Tech platforms like Facebook blatantly censor conservative commentator and Constitutional Scholar Mark Levin, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked Thursday, prompting Levin to agree and vow that future censorship “will not be tolerated.”

House Antitrust Report Takes a Swing Against Big Tech

October 7th, 2020 3:59 PM

Congress has finally begun to take action against Big Tech’s reign of terror, this time, with a focus on antitrust. 

The House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law released its antitrust report late Tuesday, which…

Facebook Shuts Down QAnon — Continues to Allow Dangerous Antifa Pages

October 7th, 2020 3:25 PM

Facebook has been cracking down on conspiracy theorists while allowing groups that organize and share content in apparent conflict with Facebook’s policies. That means QAnon is gone but Antifa is still allowed.

Facebook Censors, Twitter Flags Yet Another Trump Post About COVID-19

October 6th, 2020 4:04 PM

Facebook and Twitter have, unsurprisingly, bowed once again to pressure from the left. Today, Facebook removed, and Twitter placed an interstitial, or filter, on a post from President Donald Trump in which he stated that COVID-19 is less lethal “in most populations” than the “Flu.”

Academics Bewildered by Trump’s Domination of Google Results

October 6th, 2020 3:57 PM

President Donald Trump continues to confound academics as they try to explain possible correlations between Google searches and electoral victory. The conclusion? It’s all up for grabs! Psychology Today’s report concluded that Trump is once again the chaos candidate. The article’s main observation suggested: “The polls might be way off, again.” In past elections, there has been a…

House GOP Pushes New Section 230 Bill to Promote Free Speech Online

October 6th, 2020 3:38 PM

Let’s face it, 2020 has not been a banner year for most of us, and for Big Tech, things are heating up by the week. Tech companies are on the ropes between pending antitrust lawsuits, congressional investigations, and now, yet another bill that would reform Section 230. The Protect Speech Act, introduced by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)  on October 2, is aimed at reforming Section 230 of the…

Twitter Allows Hollywood C-Listers to Encourage Doxxing on Platform

October 6th, 2020 10:07 AM

Twitter imposes a lot of rules that decide what content is allowed on its platform, but its rule against doxxing is apparently not important enough to enforce. Actors Tom Arnold and Billy Baldwin both appear to have violated Twitter policy with regard to doxxing in recent posts on the platform.

Twitter Allows at Least 10 Violative Tweets after Trump Tests Positive

October 5th, 2020 5:22 PM

Trump-haters from all walks of life wasted no time in celebrating his COVID-19 diagnosis, and Twitter has allowed their sadistic rhetoric to flourish. 

Oxford Goes After NewsBusters, Daily Wire for ‘Junk News’ about Biden

October 5th, 2020 2:04 PM

Misinformation is apparently whatever someone disagrees with. This seems to be true when it comes to Oxford University. In the briefing published on Oct. 5, 2020, the institute slammed nine pieces written and published in American conservative outlets such as NewsBusters, The Daily Caller, The Heritage Foundation’s The Daily Signal, BizPac Review, The Daily Wire and The Blaze.

No Surprise! Big Tech Among Top Contributors to Biden, Not Trump

October 2nd, 2020 2:47 PM

Big Tech companies appear to be pulling for a former Vice President Joe Biden victory in November. 

“Joining Amazon, Alphabet's Google and Microsoft are among the top five contributors to Joe Biden's candidate campaign committee in the 2020 cycle, according to data from OpenSecrets, a website which tracks money in politics and campaign finance records,” noted Reuters.

Twitter Flags Accurate Election Statements as ‘Misinformation’

October 2nd, 2020 10:09 AM

Twitter’s attempts to “protect the civic conversation” have gone too far. Leading into the election this year, Twitter has taken multiple steps to “root out voting misinformation designed to suppress participation in the November elections,” as an Associated Press story early this year put it.