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After a controversial blog post banned “societal and political discussions” at Basecamp, roughly one-third of the company’s employees resigned. Basecamp is a web application development company. The backlash came after company CEO Jason Fried announced that the company would take a more autocratic approach to political discussions online.

A third-party fact-checker on Instagram labeled a quote from Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on racism in America as “missing context.”

What ever happened to laughter being the best medicine? Big Tech’s ever-vigilant information watchdogs have no sense of humor and consistently attack any and all information they disagree with. The Babylon Bee has been on the censorship chopping block as of late but luckily, are not backing down.

California pressured social media companies to censor posts about the 2020 presidential election, according to Judicial Watch. The conservative legal organization announced the news Tuesday after it obtained over 500 pages of documents.

A fake tweet purportedly placing the Chicago Police Department in solidarity with Derek Chauvin — the former cop convicted of killing George Floyd — has been retweeted nearly 50,000 times, but Twitter has refused to take it down.

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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. 

Twitter refused to investigate an inflammatory tweet by LeBron James for potential violations after the NBA superstar threatened an Ohio police officer. James went after the officer who shot and killed a 16-year-old African-American girl who attacked another girl with a knife.

The United States Postal Services has been quietly monitoring Americans’ social media posts, including posts about planned protests. At least some of that specifically targeted “right-leaning accounts.”

Twitter is under fire for its double standards. The site featured an article that relied on hacked materials to out police officers who donated to a…

Justin Opinion, a popular YouTube channel that reviews guns, gears, and ammo, has been demonetized because YouTube deems the content “harmful.”

Axios Future Correspondent Brian Walsh, in a shocking takedown, upended the ideals of environmentalists that want to stall the economy to save the planet. Axios, not known for going against the progressive liberal policy grain, published an anti-‘degrowth’ piece headlined “How stalling growth hurts the planet.” In the piece, Walsh detailed how radical environmentalists have continued their…

Lefty Twitter users can still tweet that the suspected gunman in the Boulder, Colorado supermarket shootings is a "white Christian terrorist" – because Twitter doesn’t feel it violates their policy on misinformation.

“If you dropped this bulls**t at my front door, it would be considered a hate crime,” Black conservative Candace Owens replied Tuesday to a failed Democrat congressional candidate who tweeted an image representing a Klu Klux Klan (KKK) hood to her.

Only one in nine U.S. likely voters are very confident that social media censor questionable content in a fair and unbiased way, while nearly half have no trust at all that it will do so, a new Rasmussen survey finds.