Rep. Jordan SCORCHES Big Tech for Censoring Conservatives
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) raked Big Tech over the coals, saying there’s no more denying what can be plainly seen: “Big Tech is out to get conservatives. That’s not a suspicion. That's not a hunch. That's a fact.” Jordan slammed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for being openly biased against conservatives and for trying to…
Rubin Slams ‘Bogus’ Trends List, Upstages Twitter with Alf, Poop Emoji
Twitter can pretend that niche articles about the popularity of socialism are trending, meanwhile a comedian can tweet a poo emoji and a famous puppet to get more traction. “One of the way [sic] Twitter manipulates us is with bogus trends,” Rubin Report talk show host and comedian Dave Rubin observed via Twitter. Rubin shared screenshots showing that Twitter was artificially pushing a minor…
Twitter Censors Tebow’s Witness to Faith as ‘Potentially Sensitive’
No one in the media or in tech companies bats an eye when football players kneel during the national anthem as a protest. But when a football player tries to offer an inspirational message of faith, Twitter censors it as “potentially sensitive content.”
MRC’s Bozell Blasts Big Tech ‘Gestapo’ for Censoring Trump, Trump Jr.
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube all worked in concert to mass censor material from President Donald Trump, his son, Donald Trump Jr., and a Facebook event hosted by the Tea Party Patriots that involved doctors discussing COVID-19. Yet these tech companies are about to be grilled in Congress on July 29 at an antitrust hearing.
Big Tech CEOs Could Face Regulation Judgment Day at Antitrust Hearing
Tomorrow’s hearing looks like regulation judgment day for the CEO’s of four of America’s largest tech companies. This Wednesday, the CEO’s of four major Big Tech companies, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the House Committee on the Judiciary’s Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law…
Most Americans Say Big Tech Has Too Much Political Clout—They’re Right
Even in an election year as divided and chaotic as 2020, millions of Americans can seem to agree that Big Tech has too much power. An overwhelming majority of Americans are skeptical over Big Tech’s unchecked power, a Pew Research Center (Pew) study has found. In addition, about half of Americans surveyed also believe the government should do more to regulate them. “Overall, 72% of U.S. adults…
Report: AFA Told that Threats on Facebook Were Not Policy Violation
A Florida man sent death threats to a respected conservative organization on social media, and while the government took them seriously, Facebook moderators reportedly did not. Facebook claims to protect its users from being targeted for their protected characteristics such as race or religion. But the American Family Association (AFA) says the social media giant took no action when its staff…
Bozell, Conservative Leaders Demand Answers From Google CEO
RESTON, Va. -- On Monday, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell and the MRC's Free Speech Alliance released an open letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai ahead of Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee and the Antitrust Subcommittee hearing featuring Pichai, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Soros-Funded Wikipedia Warns Editors Against Citing Fox News as Source
Don’t doubt that Wikipedia is liberal. Fierce debate erupted among Wikipedia moderators about whether Fox News could even be used as a credible source in Wikipedia entries. It ended by being a source that could only be used with proper warnings in place. Wikipedia labels itself as the internet’s encyclopedia. Like so many other internet institutions, it seems to have been co-opted by left-wing…
Facebook Shuts Down Page for Largest ‘Back the Blue’ Rally
Events supporting Black Lives Matter are allowed to stay up on Facebook. But not events that support the police force. According to Law Enforcement Today national spokesperson Kyle Reyes, the page for the Long Island “Back the Blue” rally scheduled to take place on July 25 was taken down on Facebook.
Facebook Eager to Investigate Itself for Racial Bias
Facebook wants to stop its computer algorithms from being biased. But only when it comes to racial issues, not politics. Facebook is “creating new teams dedicated to studying and addressing potential racial bias on its core platform and Instagram unit, in a departure from the company’s prior reluctance to explore the way its products affect different minority groups,” The Wall Street…
Anti-Semitic Twitter Labels Star of David as ‘Hateful Imagery’
Twitter has been suspending accounts that prominently display the Star of David in their profiles. Yet the company refuses to remove anti-Semitic material and prominent anti-Semites from its platform.
Twitter Purges Thousands of QAnon Accounts, Keeps Antifa
Twitter declares war on QAnon conspiracy theorists! Thousands of Pro-Trump accounts have been purged as Twitter targets conspiracy theorists on the right while ignoring radicals on the left. “We’ve been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm,” Twitter declared in a July 21 post. It specified that “this week we are taking…
Lame! Google Apologizes After New ‘Bug’ Blacklists Conservative Sites
Talk about living down to expectations. Google gave a measly mea culpa after several conservative websites were delisted from its general search and appeared to have been blacklisted. The massive search engine company claimed that a technical issue prevented many high profile conservative websites from being reached via Google. Google said the problem was merely a bug in the system.…
