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Nov 09 2023
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Center and Left Media Outlets Ignore GOP Report on Federal Government’s 2020 ‘Censorship’ Efforts
This week, center and left-rated media outlets showed story choice bias by omission in their lack of coverage on a GOP-led Congressional committee report that claims government agencies, think tanks, Big Tech companies, and academics worked together to suppress views on social media — mostly those coming from conservatives — during COVID and before the 2020 election.
In late 2022, the
Andy GorelJan 21 2021
Analysis
Why Twitter’s “censorship” is not the same as China’s
Close your eyes and imagine a world where any social media post or account could be removed without explanation at the behest of a Trump administration. That’s censorship.
Twitter banning an account? That’s debatable.
When the company confirmed on Jan. 20 that it had locked the account of China’s embassy in the US due to a tweet defending Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang, many on
QuartzJul 02 2023
News
Musk's Tweet-Limiting Move Is To Prevent The Completion Of The "AI-Censorship-Death-Star"
Musk's Tweet-Limiting Move Is To Prevent The Completion Of The "AI-Censorship-Death-Star" Unless you've been hiding under a rock this weekend, you will know that Twitter CEO Elon Musk said Saturday that the social media platform will limit how many tweets users can read due to “extreme” levels of system manipulation and data scraping. Musk said in a statement that Twitter has applied the
ZeroHedgeSep 08 2023
News
Biden Administration Likely Violated First Amendment with Social-Media Censorship, Appeals Court Rules
National Review (News)Jan 11 2021
Opinion
Tech Censorship Is the Real Gift to Putin
Alexey Navalny, the opposition leader whom the Russian secret police nearly killed with military-grade poison last year, is worried about Twitter’s decision to shut down Donald Trump’s account. Navalny is no Trump fan; he is far to the left of the outgoing U.S. president. The reason he is worried is that the way U.S. tech has ganged up on Trump and his most radical supporters can lead to his
BloombergDec 07 2020
Analysis
Social media’s struggle with self-censorship
Within hours of the publication of a New York Post article on October 14th, Twitter users began receiving strange messages. If they tried to share the story—a dubious “exposé” of emails supposedly from the laptop of Hunter Biden, son of the Democratic presidential nominee—they were told that their tweet could not be sent, as the link had been identified as harmful. Many Facebook users were not
The EconomistSep 05 2023
News
Elon Musk Threatens Defamation Lawsuit Against Far Left ADL over Censorship Efforts
Elon Musk is fighting back against efforts by the left-wing Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to cut off ad revenue from X, formerly known as Twitter, threatening the infamous organization with a lawsuit and the disclosure of their communications with the company. “To clear our platform’s name on the matter of anti-Semitism, it looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against
Breitbart NewsApr 04 2024
News
Financial Flim-Flam Backs Imran Ahmed's Center For Countering Digital Hate
Authored by Paul Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle (subscribe here) The dark money that apparently birthed the censorship industry’s most critical “anti-disinformation” group, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), recently came to light in an investigation by The Telegraph, which uncovered £700,000 in undeclared donations to British Labour Party politico Morgan McSweeney. And
ZeroHedgeJul 20 2023
News
Jim Jordan calls Democrats the party of censorship after tense RFK Jr. hearing
House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) declared the Democratic Party the party of censorship after a tense hearing on Thursday. Jordan gave the Democrats that moniker after House Democrats had several contentious exchanges with Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a hearing focused on censorship. "They have
Washington ExaminerMay 03 2020
Analysis
YouTube’s Censorship of Dissenting Doctors Will Backfire
YouTube has been removing videos of a press briefing in which two doctors criticize the sweeping “shelter-at-home” edicts that governments have imposed throughout the world in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. One of the videos had over 5 million views before it was taken down.
The original videos were posted by an ABC news affiliate in Bakersfield, California. When the affiliate
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