Censorship Project

Several prominent Republican senators have introduced legislation designed to turn up the pressure on Big Tech. Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced The Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act, on September 8. The Act aims to amend Section 230…

Facebook is taking a contradictory stance: it supposedly is pro-free speech, but is banning political ads the week before the election. CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently appeared on the Sept. 8 episode of Axios on HBO to explain all of the platform’s new policy decisions and to discuss “disinformation.”

Twitter isn’t just more favorable to the left — it’s wildly more supportive. The company’s trend-setting Twitter Moments account gave massively more favorable attention to the Democrat National Convention over the Republican convention. 

During the RNC and the DNC conventions,…

The U.S. House candidate for Georgia’s 14th district appears to have been locked out of her Twitter account after posting about potential voter fraud in her home state. Founder and Co-Chairman of Students for Trump Ryan Fournier accused Twitter of censoring a congressional candidate. “BREAKING: Twitter has locked Georgia 14’s next Congresswoman @mtgreenee out of her account!” Fournier wrote on…

Twitter censors edited videos that the right tweets on the platform, but Twitter allowed a “deceptively edited” video of Trump to go viral. Twitter came under fire for its hesitancy to remove a “deceptively edited” video of President Donald Trump from the platform. The video reportedly depicted him as “lost and disoriented,” according to The Daily Wire.

After years of Twitter flagging or removing parody videos from conservatives, President Donald Trump called out the platform for allowing a photoshopped image of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to remain on the platform.Trump blasted Twitter for hypocritically allowing a photoshopped image of McConnell in Russian military regalia as “Moscow Mitch” on September 8. Trump asked: “…

Oh, how the mighty may fall. For years, Google has expanded into a massive tech empire, but it now finds itself in the midst of an antitrust case in the United States.

Attorney General William Barr is reportedly planning to bring an antitrust case against Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google and YouTube, as early as this month,…

Facebook labelled a post by President Donald Trump for teaching Americans how to avoid voter fraud in the 2020 election. President Trump warned American voters about “the massive number of Unsolicited & Solicited Ballots that will be sent to potential Voters for the upcoming 2020 Election,” in a September 3 post. Facebook responded with a label that linked to the platform’s Voter…

With tensions on the rise over the Black Lives Matter movement, many people have taken to social media platforms like Facebook to express their opinions. This issue has caused strife even among Facebook employees. On September 1, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to step in regarding controversy over a post made by an employee on Facebook’s internal message board, according to The Daily Beast…

The Canadian radical organization Adbusters is attempting to interfere in the U.S. election by organizing a "siege" of the White House. Facebook, which regularly acts against foreign election interference has still done nothing to stop it. Liberals panic about “election interference” from Russia, which funded some anti-Clinton Facebook ads in 2016. This is a similar example of outside…

Once in a blue moon, Twitter actually targets the left. Twitter urged Democratic House candidate Elizabeth Hernandez to remove a tweet on September 1 that the platform claimed violated its policies.

Congressman Roger Marshall M.D. (R-KS), a licensed physician, was censored for discussing CDC information about COVID-19. “A Facebook post published on Sunday afternoon by U.S. Congressman Roger Marshall, M.D. discussing updated COVID-19 death data released by the CDC was removed Monday night by Facebook without notice or explanation,” KNSS reported September 1.  Marshall explained later on…

The United States holds that an individual charged for a crime is innocent until proven guilty. But Facebook, along with a handful of other tech companies, has decided that it is more capable of casting judgment than the U.S. court system.

The Amazon Halo’s extremely thorough features put some tech commentators on edge. Amazon’s Halo surpasses Apple Watch and Fitbit with features “that have never been seen in a mainstream wearable device, including one that tracks a user’s emotional state by listening to the tone of their voice, and another that provides a three-dimensional rendering of their body,” CNBC reported August 27.