Censorship Project
California Bill to Criminalize Misinformation About Elections: Report
Prepared to give up your liberty for the sake of “public peace, health, or safety”? A new California bill would criminalize the spread of election misinformation — even on social media. Americans can be prosecuted for their private messages on social media platforms if they contain misinformation, according to new legislation. Senate Bill 739 declared that “A person is guilty of a misdemeanor…
YouTube Restricts More Content Without Transparency Through AI
YouTube has modified its policies and will begin using machine-learning to automatically apply age-restrictions. This will require users to verify their age before viewing flagged content and has also changed how that content is identified. Furthermore, when viewers discover age-restricted content on third-party websites, they will now be required to login to YouTube and verify their age…
Trump to Urge State Attorneys General to Fight Big Tech Censorship
President Donald Trump isn’t finished with his fight against Big Tech censorship. Trump is planning to meet with several Republican state attorneys general today to urge them to investigate Big Tech censorship of conservatives online.
NYT Admits Facebook Wrestling with Chinese Election Hackers
After years of blaming President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory on Russia, even liberal media outlets are starting to admit that China is attempting to meddle in our elections.
Facebook Preparing to Censor Election Night Posts: Financial Times
Facebook is too willing to censor political content from the right, but now, the site is preparing to restrict even more content on election night.
In a recent interview with Financial Times, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s…
Twitter Allows Chinese Media to Threaten Taiwanese Leader
Twitter seems to allow the Chinese government to spread propaganda, and now the communist nation can apparently make brazen threats against political enemies at its leisure too. Global Times, which has been labeled by Twitter as “China state-affiliated media,” has been accused of issuing a direct threat against a Taiwanese politician via Twitter. India Today Foreign…
Facebook Allows Event to Harass Sen. Graham, Then Allows Group to Stay
Facebook allowed leftist organizations to post the purported private address of a conservative senator in order to organize protests and harass. The posting was a violation of its rules. “Protesters on Monday gathered outside South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham's house to ‘wake him up’ over his push to quickly replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away Friday,” …
WashPost: DOJ Moves Closer to Bringing Antitrust Case Against Google
The Department of Justice (DOJ) may now be one step closer to bringing down Google’s massive empire. The DOJ is expected to brief state attorneys general on plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google as early as this week, according to sources cited in The Washington Post.
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s WeChat Ban at Eleventh Hour
Just hours before President Donald Trump’s executive order banning the WeChat app was to go into effect, a federal judge blocked it.
On Sunday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler temporarily blocked Trump’s ban of the Chinese-owned messaging app, citing a…
Twitter, Facebook Let Leftists Post Senator’s Purported Address
Big Tech is famous for censoring conservative speech, even as it allows leftist organizations to post the purported private address of a conservative senator in order to organize protests and intimidate.
YouTube Found AI System Over-Censored, Brings Back Humans
YouTube said it would revert back to using more human moderators to police speech across its platform after automation censored too much. The slated changes came after YouTube admitted to removing “the most videos we've ever removed in a single quarter.”
Twitter Censors Tim Tebow Video About Christian Truth and Love
It is fairly common for Twitter to censor or flag conservative content it deems offensive. Now, the platform has decided that a video discussing Christian love and truth constitutes sensitive material.
Twitter placed an interstitial, or filter, on a video that former NFL quarterback and Christian icon Tim…
Trump, Carpe Donktum Sued for Parody Meme: Report
Twitter labelled a meme parodying CNN coverage as “manipulated media” after it had been shared by President Donald Trump. Now a lawsuit is targeting the meme’s creator and Trump himself.
Facebook, Google Partner with Liberal Org for 2020 Election Strategy
Big Tech giant Facebook informed the Media Research Center that it would be partnering with the nonpartisan digital encyclopedia Ballotpedia and the radical left-wing organization Democracy Works to help formulate the online platform’s 2020 election strategy.
