Free Speech Alliance (FSA)

YouTube applied its so-called “medical misinformation” policy more broadly than ever when the platform removed and then later restored content criticizing laws allowing 11-year-olds to be vaccinated without parental consent.

The Facebook Oversight Board is once again changing how it operates. The pseudo-regulatory body has decided to take up a case entailing not only the removal, but also the reinstatement, of a pro-Hamas post originating from the verified page of state-controlled media outlet Al Jazeera. Hamas has been on the official State Department list of “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” since the Bill…

In light of Facebook banning former President Donald Trump from its platform for at least two years, allowing China to promote genocidal propaganda on its platform raises serious questions about Facebook’s priorities. Experts in the fields of tech policy, human rights and the Uyghur genocide slammed the social media giant for allowing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to push propaganda on its…

Tech platforms have cracked down tightly on the former president, banishing his presence from their networks. In Big Tech’s latest act of silencing Trump, the unverified account purporting to be CBN News Chief Political Analyst David Brody said YouTube deleted his interview with the former president.

Conservative lawmakers condemned Facebook for censoring former President Donald Trump while simultaneously allowing the Chinese Communist Party to post propaganda freely on its platform.

Facebook and multinational biopharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc. announced that they would be teaming up to work with other companies and organizations, including the Chinese propaganda-pushing World Health Organization (WHO), to research and promote how online platforms can best challenge and shutdown vaccine hesitancy skeptics.

Facebook has had no reservations about censoring conservative accounts. Yet, it allows accounts of state-controlled propaganda outlets from the genocidal regime of China to flourish. Forty accounts on Facebook, amassing over 751 million followers, are managed by Chinese state-controlled media outlets. For comparison, 751 million is over six times (6.39x) more followers than…

An Israeli legal scholar complained that YouTube twice censored his interview about Israel’s strikes against the terror group Hamas. Then YouTube gave conflicting accounts about why it censored him. The scholar said the takedown notice YouTube emailed him stated that a "team" of reviewers "think" the video violated the platform's guidelines. Yet, YouTube said in a public statement that its…

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, admitted he doesn’t know much about the First Amendment, but that didn’t stop him from calling it “bonkers” and blaming social media platforms for trying to “redefine what free speech means.” The Duke of Sussex criticized the commercialization of media, and the unfettered protections the First Amendment provides them, on an episode of actor Dax Shepard’s podcast “…

Newly hired PragerU Personality Amala Ekpunobi said that TikTok permanently banned her from its platform immediately after two back-to-back politically motivated suspensions.

The Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon told Fox News he was considering taking legal action against The New York Times after it labeled the satirical news site “misinformation.”

Facebook has penalized The Babylon Bee after the site posted a story making fun of leftist rioters and looters. This was the latest run-in with Facebook for the Christian satire site. 

More than 40 organizations have signed a pledge to reject money from Big Tech organizations like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and others. In a separate statement, MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell stated, "We are sending this pledge to all conservative organizations and leaders and urging them to sign it. We must act together to end Silicon Valley’s corrupt grip over…

Parler isn’t the only free-speech-friendly tech company facing backlash from the riot at the U.S. Capitol. A new tech startup created by former Republican candidate for Congress Elizabeth Heng, called “The New Internet,” has also been targeted. Heng said that fundraising platform GoFundMe removed her fundraiser for her new free-speech-focused tech startup.