Free Speech

Two-thirds of U.S. adults don’t trust Big Tech and three-fourths say Facebook, in particular, makes American society worse, a new CNN poll finds.

The United States government is warning against rules the European Union has drafted that could risk companies’ intellectual property and trade secrets.

Haven’t we been down this road before? Axios has unveiled a project in partnership with Google Trends to analyze “which political issues voters are searching for in each congressional district.”

The Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief and conservative commentator Ben Shapiro warned the augmented/virtual reality metaverse project by Facebook, or “Meta" has dire implications for American life.

Twitter’s algorithms may be amplifying the very controversial content that the platform and pro-censorship users are trying to limit. A new report indicates that angry Twitter users may ironically be amplifying tweets by dunking on them. New York University researchers reportedly examined Twitter content from members of the U.S. Congress and discovered how angry users targeting content they…

The leftist U.K.-based Center for Countering Digital Hate just launched a broadside attack against nine conservative digital outlets with its “Toxic Ten” report. The report aimed to silence entire outlets for writing stories that don’t follow the leftist climate policy narrative.

Conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair said Instagram removed a video she posted of Kenosha teenager on trial Kyle Rittenhouse crying during his harrowing time on the witness stand. St. Clair said her video on Instagram was among the videos censored. “Instagram removed the video I posted of Kyle Rittenhouse crying,” St. Clair explained in a Nov. 10 tweet.

While users may still dislike YouTube videos, their ability to see a public count of how many internet users dislike versus like a video will be obliterated. YouTube is reportedly stripping its platform of this ability, however, and it is doing so in the name of protecting creators’ feelings: “To reduce targeted dislike attacks & their impact on creators (esp on smaller creators), you’ll…

YouTube appears to have censored a speech about COVID-19 vaccines by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA).

Meta (Facebook) is not the only tech company seeking to remake the world as a metaverse. Pokémon Go developer John Hanke recently suggested that augmented reality (AR) “is where the real metaverse is going to happen.”

It’s Episode Eleven of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about Big Tech’s overreach in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

Gigi Sohn, President Biden’s nominee to the Federal Communications Commission, has troubling biases against conservative media outlets. The Twitter account of Sohn promised to “fulfill [Biden’s] goal of ensuring that every household in the US has robust broadband Internet.” However, her true priorities may be much more troubling.

Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, is calling on Instagram to provide a dislike button on posts in an effort to promote kindness. Markle attended the “Minding the Gap” conference to promote paid sick and parental leave in the United States, despite the fact that she lives in a $14-million in California and is married to a prince. She also discussed vitriol online.

Congress and Big Tech are still battling it out over which will have more control over the online speech of Americans. A new bipartisan congressional bill would allow users to experience social media without the algorithms.