Censorship

The oligarchs on Facebook’s oversight board released their first annual report, shedding light on the company’s bloated censorship operation.

Eight House Republicans on Tuesday joined their Senate counterparts in proposing legislation aimed at curbing left-wing political bias in email services’ spam filters. 

The Center for Countering Digital Hate, which previously classified Media Research Center as one of the “Toxic Ten” of alleged climate misinformation, is now trying to pressure Google to suppress pro-life websites.

Twitter’s Board of Directors told the platform's shareholders to accept the world’s richest man’s $44 billion takeover deal, according to a new government filing.

Fox News host Sean Hannity slammed the White House’s new task force to address online abuse and “disinformation,” noting that even the White House doesn’t seem to know what the board will do.

After Fox’s Peter Doocy and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre got into an extended back-and-forth Thursday (with the latter showing her detachment from reality and reading comprehension), the New York Post’s Steven Nelson stumped her on a new administration initiative that sounds an awful like the failed Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) and restricted press access for…

The Biden White House will announce the launch of a task force today supposedly to help prevent online abuse, including so-called “gendered disinformation.” Is this a Disinformation Governance Board 2.0 in disguise?

RAND Corp. used U.S. government funding to publish research in a report that concluded independent social media platforms are “extreme” and “offensive,” while major social media platforms don’t have any political prejudice.

It’s Episode 42 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Etsy and PayPal reportedly censored Quilette Managing Editor Colin Wright’s organization, Reality’s Last Stand.

Comedian and late night host John Oliver slammed Amazon’s and Google’s antitrust practices on his show and urged antitrust reform.

President Joe Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas gave Congress “apparently misleading” testimony about the Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board, according to a group of Republican senators

Libs of TikTok published presumable screenshots of Twitter employees accusing the conservative account of “targeted violence” and urging that the platform ban the account.

Former President -- and author of the 2013 PolitiFact Lie of the Year -- Barack Obama did not miss the opportunity at the 2022 Copenhagen Democracy Summit to call for more censorship, asserting we must “detoxify our discourse.”

Twitter’s allowance of terrorist-supporting, anti-Semitic content on its platform is so glaring, even leftist The Atlantic bashed the platform for refusing to deal with the issue.