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.

Is Facebook put off by the word “penis” or merely a book that might embarrass a liberal politician? A former aide to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for free speech after Facebook reportedly banned ads for her book.

Big Tech censorship was even worse in the third quarter of 2021. This was especially alarming considering the platforms didn’t have much farther to fall from their pathetic second quarter grades. Online Freedom on Google, Twitter and Facebook all continued to decline. Once again, this quarter saw widespread censoring of conservative content.

Left-leaning populist YouTube celebrity Shoe0nHead called out Prostasia as a “tax exempted pedophile club” and shared purported screenshots calling out the website.

Big Tech better watch out! A new bipartisan Senate bill aimed at restricting tech companies’ “anticompetitive” acquisition abilities is getting attention from policymakers and experts alike. The new Senate bill introduced by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) would greatly limit the ability of Big Tech companies to acquire other tech companies. While the bill is being touted…

A new feature in Microsoft will provide employers with increased visibility on employee browsers. The feature is aimed at “insider risk management,” where employers are able to monitor online employee actions online. The compliance center will be compatible with Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.