PolitiFact Double-Blasts Blackburn as 'False' in Defense of Ketanji

March 23rd, 2022 3:40 PM

The Democrat-backing “fact checkers” of PolitiFact jumped to the defense of Ketanji Brown Jackson by slapping conservative Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee with two negative verdicts on Tuesday. Four Democrats in the Senate haven't received a single PolitiFact "check."

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CNN Trashes GOP Senator for 'Humiliating' Court-Skipping Judicial Pick

January 14th, 2022 1:54 PM

On Wednesday night in the Cuomo-is-gone hour, CNN fill-in host Laura Coates was trashing conservative Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) for questioning Biden judicial pick Andre Mathis for not only having traffic tickets – but for repeatedly failing to appear in court for them. A judge who refuses to appear in court? Who would nominate someone with a political glass chin like this?

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Sens. Cruz, Blackburn, Sullivan RIP TikTok for Ties to Communist China

October 26th, 2021 5:10 PM

The U.S. Senate hearing on SnapChat, TikTok, and YouTube today made one thing very clear: TikTok does not appear to want to give straight answers about its connection to China. But U.S. Senators took the Big Tech platform to the mat.

Too Toxic for Teens? Blackburn, Blumenthal Having Hearing on Instagram

September 29th, 2021 12:28 PM

U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) will be convening a bipartisan hearing to investigate recent allegations that Facebook has hidden its own research showing its Instagram platform is toxic for teens.

WSJ: Big Tech Platforms Are Addictive, Toxic for Teen Girls, Minors

September 16th, 2021 11:18 AM

Several Big Tech companies reportedly know their social media sites are toxic for minors, and the sites may even perpetuate that toxicity.

Blackburn, Blumenthal, Klobuchar UNLEASH App Store Competition Bill

August 12th, 2021 1:12 PM

Big Tech’s greatest enemy may be bipartisan legislation, as politicians from both sides of the aisle unite to introduce the Open App Markets Act.

Sen. Blackburn BASHES Big Tech for COVID Origin Theory Censorship

May 26th, 2021 12:04 PM

Throughout the pandemic, Big Tech censored mountains of claims that COVID-19 may have originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Now, however, new evidence has made the laboratory origin claim a more widely accepted theory. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released a statement condemning Big Tech for censoring Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan’s comments about the potential origin of COVID-19…

Blackburn Exposes NBA for Looking Other Way on China’s Atrocities

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March 8th, 2021 12:27 PM

The National Basketball Association just swallowed its tongue on China’s atrocities in order to restore a major revenue stream. U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) pressured the league to defend its new broadcast agreement with the ruthless communist nation’s state-run TV.

WATCH Blackburn BLAST Big Tech at CPAC: ‘We Are Going to Fight Back’

March 1st, 2021 4:16 PM

The left has doubled down in its battle against free speech online, but one prominent senator has called for conservatives to “fight back” against Big Tech tyranny. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) called out Big Tech for silencing conservatives while keeping close ties with China in her Feb. 26 speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

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CNN's Keilar Fumes at Republicans: Past the ‘Point of No Return’

December 15th, 2020 9:20 PM

It may be called CNN Newsroom, but if CNN hosts spend nearly every show launching nasty tirades against Republicans, is it really still, “news?”  Afternoon host Brianna Keilar opened her 1:00 p.m. Eastern hour show on Thursday by singling out Republican senators who have not called Joe Biden, “President-Elect” in the past 24 hours, after the Electoral College made Biden’s win official…

Sen. Blackburn SKEWERS Zuckerberg for Running ‘Amok’ with Censorship

November 17th, 2020 5:25 PM

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) put Facebook on blast over its government-mandated  censorship in other countries in a Nov. 17 hearing. The hearing, entitled “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election,” featured testimony from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Blackburn brought up multiple examples of Facebook running “amok” with censorship.…

Sens. Lee, Cruz, Hawley, Blackburn BASH Big Tech Censorship at Hearing

November 17th, 2020 4:26 PM

Senate Republicans were not taking any excuses about censorship of conservatives from two Big Tech CEOs who appeared before the Senate once again. The Nov. 17 hearing, entitled “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election,” featured testimony from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Senate GOP Set for Round 2 Fighting with Dorsey, Zuckerberg

November 16th, 2020 3:51 PM

GOP senators are ready to go on the attack against two Big Tech CEOs at a Senate hearing tomorrow about how online censorship influenced the election.

 

The hearing, entitled “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election,” will feature testimony from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Senate Republicans are ready for round two.…

Wicker, Cruz, Thune SLAM Big Tech CEOs for Online Censorship

October 28th, 2020 3:10 PM

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey of making a "false" statement "under oath" at a hearing on Big Tech censorship. The senator complained that Dorsey said the bombshell “@nypost story alleging Biden’s CCP corruption” could be tweeted. “Still blocked,” tweeted Cruz. The fallout was the perfect top to a contentious hearing. Senate Republicans had been itching to confront…