Censorship Project

Donald Trump, Jr. declared war on the world’s biggest search engine after it reportedly demonetized Zerohedge and The Federalist. “The GOP Senate needs to wake up & IMMEDIATELY subpoena & haul in the CEO of @Google for questioning,” Don, Jr. tweeted on June 16. He condemned Google as an “out of control monopoly, with a leftwing political agenda, engaging in a clear campaign to silence…

Power players on the Hill and at the Department of Justice are mobilizing and rolling out unprecedented legislation and regulations to hold Big Tech accountable for its censorship of conservatives. The Justice Department is set to crack down today on the Section 230 protections, which have been used by Big Tech companies as a shield from lawsuits. This is being done “in an effort to make tech…

Facebook launched a new program to incentivize its users in America to vote in the 2020 election. It announced that the platform plans to help 4 million people go out and vote. The move comes amidst massive internal and external pressure on the company to restrict or censor content from President Donald Trump. So far, Facebook has not agreed.

A new report indicates that a vast majority of Americans distrust Big Tech, after years of infamous bias scandals. The liberal John S. and James L. Knight Foundation released a report “Free Expression, Harmful Speech and Censorship in a Digital World.” The results were an indictment of Big Tech and how liberal bias has become a household issue. “More than 8 in 10 Americans (84%) say they do…

Big Tech companies, once seen as creating world-changing platforms that gave voice to the voiceless are actually beholden to government censorship — especially in China. The video-conference company Zoom reportedly “announced Thursday that it would help the Beijing government crack down on activists within that country, and would only draw the line at blocking users outside of mainland China…

Not one to leave all the activism to rioters vandalizing statues, Big Tech appears to be joining the removal of western icons. “Images of Winston Churchill failed to appear Sunday during Google searches for the former British prime minister—but the tech giant says it was not on purpose,” Fox News summarized in a June 14 article. This comes after multiple riots had broken out in countries…

Twitter admits it wrongfully banned the site ZeroHedge, but its history of selective enforcement is still infamous. The COVID-19 virus’s origins, lethality, and cures have been hotly debated throughout 2020, to the point where social media platforms have heavily restricted many users’ posts. As a rare exception, one website has been reinstated after users thought it was gone forever. “133 days…

YouTube users are reporting that any comments they make about violence at Black Lives Matter protests seem to disappear just seconds after they are posted. According to Reclaim the Net, a free speech tech website, using the phrase “Black Lives Matter violence” in a YouTube comment results in the instant removal of that comment.

Snap leadership’s decision to stop President Donald Trump from being able to promote himself on the Snapchat platform may be just the ripe first target for Sen. Josh Hawley’s proposed legislation. “We’re well within our First Amendment rights to decide what shows up,” Snap CEO Evan Spiegel explained to CNBC’s “Power Lunch.” Spiegel then cited that the First Amendment is written to “protect…

Now that Microsoft has joined other Big Tech companies in refusing to help police, President Donald Trump has retweeted a call to have them barred from government contracts. Microsoft followed the lead of IBM and Amazon in vowing to stop supplying police with facial recognition technology.  An emailed letter from 250 Microsoft employees may also have forced their leadership’s hand. Since then…

Facebook stood up for free speech against former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign’s petition calling for censorship. The Biden campaign posted an open letter to Facebook demanding the platform change its policies on free speech. The letter urged the Big Tech  company to “use its platform to improve American democracy rather than as a tool to spread disinformation that undermines our…

Three Big Tech companies are the latest to join the fight against police by withholding their facial recognition technologies. IBM, Amazon and Microsoft have vowed to stop helping police with facial recognition. The rationale is that, “Facial recognition technologies have been criticized for exhibiting built-in racial and ethnic biases and misidentifying African Americans and other people of…

The movement that spurns capitalism seems to embrace it if it serves its own purposes. Amazon, Etsy, and Google all have sellers who are taking advantage of the current political situation on their platforms.

Facebook’s third party fact-checkers, selected by the liberal Poynter Institute, have officially labeled World Health Organization’s (WHO) statement about asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 as “misleading.” Ironically, in April, Facebook used the WHO to disprove myths about COVID-19.