American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said she’s happy that NewsGuard highly rates some news outlets that have been critical of her. And her group’s new partner was right by her side.

Live-streaming platform Twitch is reportedly instituting stricter bans on “misinformation,” including supposed COVID-19 “misinformation.”

TikTok is suspending new videos and livestreams from Russia, citing the Russian government’s new “fake news” laws. 

Snapchat launched a show aimed at challenging media that is “hostile” to transgender identity. The platform partnered with Pink News, a popular UK-based site for LGBT+ news, to host “Pure Trans Joy.”

Visa and Mastercard have both suspended operations in Russia as tensions escalated in the war with Ukraine. The effort was aims to crack down on Russia and encourage an end to the war.

Russia reportedly banned the BBC to stop the spread of so-called “misinformation” regarding its war against Ukraine. According to Reuters, Putin has complained that western media organizations have unfairly covered the conflict. Russia's communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, said it blocked the BBC, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Deutsche Welle, and other media…

In an interview Thursday with The New York Times, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy demanded Big Tech platforms turn over “misinformation” about COVID-19 by May 2, saying they “have the opportunity to be open and transparent with the American people about the misinformation on their platforms.

If tech giant Google succeeds in a new project, devices will not even need cameras to track a user’s every movement.

The infamous podcast host and mega free-speech advocate Joe Rogan interviewed former Islamist turned counter-extermism activist, Maajid Nawaz.

Twitter locked Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s (R-MO) personal Twitter account for a tweet denouncing transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports. Hartzler tweeted: “Women’s Sports are for Women, not men pretending to be women,” according to a screenshot tweeted by her campaign manager Michael Haufner.

The Media Research Center and more than 40 other conservative leaders warned governors about the left-wing bias of ratings firm NewsGuard. The joint letter, signed by MRC founder and President Brent Bozell and dozens of other free speech advocates, sounded the alarm both on NewsGuard’s leftist bias and the ratings firm’s dangerous and growing influence in the educational arena.

The YouTube oligarchs on Mount Censorlympus targeted one of its popular users An0maly for daring to post a clip of comments on masking by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). The video that sent the YouTube censors off showed DeSantis telling Middleton High School students at the University of South Florida: “You do not have to wear those masks.”

“‘Fact checking’ is just a euphemism for the Ministry of Truth. It is not about 'facts,'” journalist Kyle Becker tweeted about biased NewsGuard.

Conservative Partnership Institute’s senior director of policy, Rachel Bovard, said Big Tech has changed everything about us.