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Big Media and Big Tech Threaten Democracy—Again

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Google Tries, Fails to Rebut MRC’s Tech Giant-Platner Special Report

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Inside Apple and Google’s Failed Attempt to Effectively Shield Platner

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Big 4 News Apps Couldn’t Bring Themselves to Celebrate America’s 250th

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FIFA Tourists Expected Worst. Apple News Gaslights, Hides Good US News

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Google News Turns America's 250 Milestone into Negative Onslaught

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Twitter Briefly Suspends ‘El Bloombito’ Parody of Michael Bloomberg

Parody accounts on Twitter are supposed to be protected under the platform’s terms of service. But the company seems to forget this fact on a regular basis. A parody account of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, @ElBloombito, was briefly suspended on Nov. 22.
Corinne Weaver

Obama Blasts ‘Chinese-Style’ Censorship, Stands for Free Speech Online

Countering the liberal media call to censor conservatives, the former president came out swinging against Chinese-style censorship on Big Tech platforms and took a stand for free speech online. “At a high-dollar fundraiser on Thursday” former President Barack Obama attempted to bridge the gap and ease the tensions between rising Democratic Party leaders and Big Tech companies, particularly amidst…
Alexander Hall

Report: Trump Hosted Zuckerberg for Dinner in October

Facebook has become more open to some policies that the right has fought for. “President Donald Trump hosted a previously undisclosed dinner with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook board member Peter Thiel at the White House in October,” Facebook reportedly told NBC News yesterday. A Facebook spokesman told NBC News,“As is normal for a CEO of a major U.S. company, Mark accepted an…
Alexander Hall

Google Restricts Political Ad Options to Align with Media ‘Practices’

Liberals complain about Big Tech platforms that allow for free and unfettered speech in political advertising. It seems as though some of these companies are listening. Google announced on Nov. 20 that it was restricting microtargeting on election ads on the platform.
Corinne Weaver

Twitter Suspends Account After Tweets About Hunter Biden’s Activities

A Twitter account that had been previously retweeted by President Trump was censored by the platform. Breaking News Live News had tweeted a story about Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, on Nov. 20.  
Corinne Weaver

Facebook VP Defends Including Breitbart in ‘News’ Tab

Facebook has taken heat for supporting free speech and for including Breitbart in its “News” tab, and now its VP of global marketing solutions is making a stand. Yesterday, Gizmodo wrote its not-so-objective commentary that “Facebook recently announced that white supremacist propaganda site Breitbart would be considered a ‘high quality’ news source on its platform, leading to complaints that…
Alexander Hall

Snapchat Challenging Facebook’s Political Ad Free Speech Stance?

In what could be perceived as a subtle barb at Facebook, and perhaps even Twitter too, Snapchat declared its commitment to battling “misinformation” with the upcoming election in mind. “We subject all advertising to review, including political advertising,” the Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said on Monday, according to CNBC. He continued, adding, “I think what we try to do is create a place for political…
Alexander Hall

Violence? Google Lists Trump, Cruz, Trump Jr. as ‘Punchable Faces’

In this era of civility, Google’s search algorithms are doing their part in keeping the peace. Google Images, the section of Google Search where users can look for images, suggests images with any phrase or word typed in the box. With the query, “punchable face,” several images crop up immediately.
Corinne Weaver

Dems Hope to Make Google Sing on Patient Data in ‘Project Nightingale’

Millions of Americans’ medical data was reportedly shared with Google, and even liberals are calling foul. Democratic leaders, including House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) have all condemned a business arrangement between Google and Ascension, the leaders “asking for more information…
Alexander Hall

Gaslighting for Google, Editor Trashes WSJ’s Exposé of Search Bias

It’s all just a conspiracy! News Editor trashes The Wall Street Journal for its exposure of Google’s biased practices. Search Engine Land's News Editor Barry Schwartz wrote an article “Misquoted and misunderstood: Why we, the search community, don’t believe the WSJ about Google search” in an attempt to dismiss The Wall Street Journal’s damning exposé.
Alexander Hall

Twitter Suspends Yovanovitch Critics When BuzzFeed Calls Them ‘Bots'

Twitter appears to be doing all it can to protect those participating in the impeachment inquiry from public criticism. Liberal news outlet BuzzFeed noted that the phrase “I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch” was trending on the morning of Nov. 15.
Corinne Weaver

Twitter Bans Political Ads, But Makes Exceptions for ‘Cause-Based Ads’

Twitter has banned political ads -- except for some “cause-based” ads it still thinks are important. After Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that all political ads were to be banned from the platform, both the left and the right were concerned about their ads.
Corinne Weaver

Investigation Finds Google ‘Blacklists’ Sites from Results

Google makes many claims about its search engine. The results are not curated, they are not manipulated, and there is no blacklist of sites, says the company. However, none of these statements are true, according to an extensive investigation from The Wall Street Journal.
Corinne Weaver

Facebook Removed 11.4M Pieces of ‘Hate Speech’ in Six Months

Facebook released a “report” on Wednesday, which is anything but transparent concerning its censorship and deplatforming of millions. “The company said it removed more than 3.2 billion fake accounts between April and September,” and it also “removed 11.4 million pieces of hate speech” during the same six-month period the previous year.
Alexander Hall