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Federal Rule Would Clamp Down on Financial Blacklisting

The financial blacklisting of businesses and individuals for political reasons has increased dramatically over the past half-decade, but a new rule from the Office of Comptroller of the Currency may be about to change that.

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More Silicon Valley Insiders Added to Biden Transition Team

After an election year in which the tech giants repeatedly interfered in the election against President Donald Trump, Joe Biden is now rewarding Silicon Valley by appointing insiders to a range of roles in his transition team.

Joe Biden on Masks

Facebook Fact Checker ‘Fact Checks’ Critique of Itself

Facebook fact-checker “Lead Stories” took the social network’s system of “fact-checking” to farcical levels earlier this week when it “fact-checked” a critique of itself by the Federalist’s Molly Hemingway.

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YouTube Blacklists One America News Over Coronavirus Coverage

Google-owned YouTube has banned One America News Network (OAN) from posting new videos for a week, and demonetized its existing videos, alleging that the broadcasting network — a favorite of President Donald Trump — broke the platform’s coronavirus rules.

Google-owned Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki

Facebook Suppressed Breitbart, Promoted CNN, Following Election

Immediately following the November 2020 Election, Facebook suppressed what it considers “hyperpartisan” news pages, including Breitbart News, while promoting what it considers “authoritative” news pages such as CNN, according to the New York Times.

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Robert Epstein: Google Shifted a ‘Minimum’ of 6 Million Votes in 2020

Psychologist and search engine expert Dr. Robert Epstein appeared on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight yesterday to reveal his findings on Google’s search manipulation in the 2020 election, which Epstein claims could have shifted a minimum of six million votes in one direction.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - OCTOBER 29: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks to repo

Twitter Locks Out Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton

Twitter has locked Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton out of his account after he tweeted the results of a Danish study indicating that masks are ineffective at preventing the spread of coronavirus.

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Pentagon Advisory Board Fires Google VP Milo Medin

Google VP of Wireless Services Milo Medin has been fired from the Defense Innovation Board, a group of business leaders and academics created by the Obama administration in 2016 to advise the Department of Defense on technological innovation.

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Facebook Censorship Case Hits Supreme Court Docket

A tech censorship case that could have wide ramifications for the way the courts interpret Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has hit the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court, which will now decide whether or not to hear the case.

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Conservatives Funded by Big Tech Scramble to Defend Industry from Congress

As Big Tech’s acts of political censorship and election interference continue to escalate, and Republican senators pressure the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter, Silicon Valley’s paid defenders in the world of D.C. “conservative” and “libertarian” think tanks are scrambling to defend the industry.

Masters of the Universe

Dick Blumenthal Complains Facebook Not Censoring Breitbart News Enough

During a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee about tech censorship, Sen. Dick Blumenthal (D-CT) attacked the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook for not censoring enough conservative content, saying that the platforms had only taken “baby steps” to tackling “incendiary misinformation.”

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Pollsters Failed to Detect Trump Support from Educated Whites

The biggest group of “shy Trump voters” of the 2020 election — voters who concealed their intention from pollsters — was educated white voters working in white-collar jobs, according to a post-election analysis conducted by political scientist Eric Kaufman.

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