YouTube AI Censors Twice as Many Videos in Second Quarter

August 26th, 2020 3:03 PM

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

August 26th, 2020 12:43 PM

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

August 25th, 2020 3:36 PM

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

August 25th, 2020 1:49 PM

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

August 24th, 2020 4:57 PM

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…

NYT: Facebook Prepares for Possible Crackdown on Trump after Election

August 24th, 2020 1:17 PM

Months before the presidential election, Facebook has already made plans to crack down on President Donald Trump’s posts in case he attempts to use the platform to contest the election’s legitimacy.


An August 21…

Twitter Filters Trump Mail-in Voting Tweet for ‘Election Integrity’

August 24th, 2020 11:02 AM

It happened again. This time, Twitter undermined the president for expressing concern over voter fraud. President Donald Trump wrote an August 23 tweet criticizing “Mail Drop Boxes” as a “voter security disaster.” Twitter responded by placing an interstitial, or filter, over Trump’s tweet. The interstitial declared that Trump’s post expressing concern over potential voter fraud “violated the…

Facebook Censors Mark Dice’s Meme Mocking Kamala Harris

August 21st, 2020 3:24 PM

Big Tech has allowed open season on President Donald Trump for years, but cracks down quickly on criticism of the Democratic presidential ticket. Conservative media analyst and author Mark Dice announced that “Facebook censored a viral meme I posted last week about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris” in a Facebook post yesterday.

Reddit Censored Nearly 7,000 Subreddits for ‘Hate’

August 21st, 2020 2:43 PM

Despite recent news that the social media platform Reddit would allow President Donald Trump’s campaign to run ads on the platform, the company still squashes free speech on the platform.

Reddit has banned nearly 7,000 subreddits since enacting its new…

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OBSESSED: Facebook Fact-Checkers Defend Kamala 60 Times in 10 Days

August 21st, 2020 11:26 AM

Facebook fact-checkers should be “non-partisan and transparent.” But they defended Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) 20 times to one over the course of 10 days. Since former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden selected Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate, fact-checkers have fallen over themselves to defend her.

 

Leftist Journalists, Organizations Furious Over Recent Facebook Purge

August 20th, 2020 4:19 PM

Facebook’s latest bans include a purge of some Antifa accounts, which the left quickly defended. Leftist organizations and journalists themselves have covered for the banned groups, gaslighting that they are not tied to violence. A joint statement was issued from It’s Going Down and CrimethInc, both of whom are associated with radical-left community organizing. They lamented how Facebook…

Pew: 73% of Americans Think Social Media Sites Censor Political Views

August 20th, 2020 3:58 PM

A recent Pew Research Center (Pew) study found that most Americans are, at least to some extent, concerned about online censorship and the ability of social media companies to handle misinformation. 

The Pew study, published on August 19, found that 73…

Report: Facebook Blocks, Twitter Warns About Plandemic Sequel Video

August 20th, 2020 11:49 AM

In their campaigns to censor opposing viewpoints, Facebook has blocked and Twitter has provided warning labels to the Plandemic: Indoctrination video. NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny tweeted on August 18, “Facebook not allowing users to post new plandemic link.” 

Twitter CEO Dorsey Caught Following Anti-Trump Radical Doxxer

August 19th, 2020 5:17 PM

Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey has been caught following a pro-Antifa radical activist who specializes in doxxing people Gorcenski has accused of being far-right. Just this week Gorcesnki was targeting a pro-Trump boat parade. “A notorious Antifa doxxer was soliciting the public for identifying information of those who participated in the peaceful ‘Trump Boat Parades’ that took place across several…