Censorship Project
Leftist Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Social Media Order
Leftist organizations are suing President Donald Trump over his recent executive order to investigate Big Tech censorship in an effort to protect the First Amendment rights of Americans.
Several voting advocacy groups, including Rock the Vote, Voto Latino, and Common Cause, along…
Dems 48%, Republicans 49% Want Candidates Tougher on Big Tech: Survey
Even amidst national strife, Americans seem united in their distrust of Big Tech. “48 percent of Democrats and 49 percent of Republicans now want candidates to be more critical of the [Big Tech] industry — 6- and 5-point jumps, respectively, from last year,” Morning Consult reported August 26. One difference existing between the two sides, however, is how highly the issue is ranked among their…
GoFundMe Cancels Funding for Alleged Kenosha Shooter: Report
The teenager who was charged with shooting rioters while defending stores in Kenosha has reportedly been shafted from gathering donations on GoFundMe, but other organizations have stepped up. “A legal team says it will defend Kyle Rittenhouse, charged in the fatal shooting during protests in Kenosha this week, and has set up a fund for the 17-year-old's legal fees,” the Milwaukee Journal…
Apple Update Requires Apps to Get Permission to Track Users
After Apple snuck COVID-19 contract tracing software onto its iPhone updates in May, the company is now at least pretending to care about user privacy.
One feature of Apple’s iOS 14 update, originally announced in June, is intended to help protect…
WHO Stalks Your Conversations in ‘Social Listening’ Program
In the latest dystopian story in the year of COVID-19, the World Health Organization is now monitoring conversations to have machines understand how to manipulate public conversation. “The World Health Organization is collaborating with an analytics company to scan people’s social media conversations for ‘coronavirus misinformation;’ something the WHO calls ‘social listening,’” Reclaim The Net…
Republican Convention Speakers BASH Big Tech Censorship
Republican National Convention (RNC) speakers have not been afraid to call out Big Tech for its role in censoring conservatives. Speakers like Charlie Kirk, Nick Sandmann and Tiffany and Melania Trump have stressed the importance of maintaining American freedoms, and have called out Big Tech companies to do so over the first three nights of the RNC.
WHAT?: Twitter Approves BLM Activist’s Threats Against Police
Twitter censors President Donald Trump for declaring he will enforce law and order, but issuing an ultimatum to randomly threaten police officers is A-OK with Twitter moderators. “A Twitter spokesman says activist and accused fraudster Shaun King’s threat to name Kenosha, Wisc., police officers is ‘not in violation’ of its rules — including its ban on ‘a threat of harm against an identifiable…
Report: Google Engineers Confused by Platform's Privacy Settings
Google doesn’t seem to understand privacy. Perhaps its employees need to Google it. A recent lawsuit against Google included emails from employees claiming that the company’s privacy settings are so complicated, even its own engineers don’t fully understand them.
Big Tech on Notice: Melania, Tiffany Trump Blast Social Media Tyranny
First Lady Melania Trump and the president’s youngest daughter Tiffany Trump blasted Big Tech during their speeches at the Republican National Convention. Many members of the Trump family have given the 2020 Republican National Convention a personal touch. They used it as an opportunity to defend their family patriarch’s presidency while raking the far-left over the coals.
YouTube AI Censors Twice as Many Videos in Second Quarter
When faced with the choice earlier this year, YouTube chose to censor more content on its platform during its second quarter than it had in any previous quarter.
YouTube reported that it removed twice as many videos in its second quarter than its first after sending its content moderators home during the COVID-19 shutdowns earlier this year in its…
Report: Activision Removes Tiananmen Square from Cold War Game Trailer
Activision apparently never read its own tagline “KNOW YOUR HISTORY OR BE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT.” The company edited its new video game, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War to cater to ommunist China. Activision quietly replaced the game trailer with one far shorter. The new one noticeably omitted footage from the famous Tiananmen Square crackdown by the communist Chinese government, which…
House Judiciary Committee Republicans Call Out Amazon for Using SPLC
Several Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee took a big step in holding Amazon accountable for discriminating against conservatives.
Republicans on the House Committee on the Judiciary…
Pew: 73% of Dems Approve of Social Media ‘Fact-Checking’ Politicians
A recent study found that Americans are divided strongly along party lines over whether Big Tech companies are worthy to fact-check politicians. Seventy-three percent of Democrats said they “strongly or somewhat approve” of Big Tech “labeling posts on their platforms from elected officials as inaccurate or misleading,” while “71% of Republicans say they at least somewhat disapprove,” Pew…
TikTok Filing Complaint that Challenges Trump EO Banning App in US
TikTok is reeling after two executive orders have threatened the Chinese-owned apps existence in the U.S. Now it has decided to take to the U.S. courts.
Today, TikTok filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government after President Donald Trump…
