Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a decree Monday restricting the powers of social media companies to “arbitrarily remove” accounts, profiles, and content they deem unworthy of their platforms, Brazil’s Jornal da Cidade online newspaper reported.
While Twitter allows the Taliban to propagandize on its platform, the Big Tech giant has now temporarily suspended the account for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary for allegedly violating rules on “abusive behavior.”
Big Tech further tightened its grip around free speech this week when YouTube reportedly demonetized Grabien Media’s channel for sharing content unpopular with the company’s overlords.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told Breitbart News that demonstrably fake news MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow published against him earlier this year is putting him, his family, and his staff in danger from people who believe the inaccurate allegations.
Corporate and political elites use “fact-checker” organizations such as NewsGuard to undermine dissident news media outlets, explained Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and PragerU CEO Marissa Streit in a conversation about digital censorship streamed on Tuesday.
Patel is launching a legal “offense” trust to fight back against Big Tech and the establishment media and to help others facing defamation.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated that the department is working with tech companies “that are the platform for much of the disinformation that reaches the American public, how they can better use
Appearing recently on The Morning Ritual with Garret Lewis, Republican Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters warned that Big Tech companies’ expanding their cooperation on “counterterrorism” efforts targeting domestic right-wing organizations is “obviously a ploy to target Republicans.”
Silicon Valley tech giant Youtube has banned the centre-right Sky News Australia network from uploading video content.
Government-decreed lockdowns helped Big Tech gain trillions of dollars in valuation, said Carol Roth, author of The War on Small Business.
Many tech giants have found their plans for returning to work delayed as they demand that all employees are vaccinated and some reintroduce mask mandates. The mandates extend far beyond workers in Silicon Valley, as Netflix is mandating vaccines for actors in its productions as well.
Teeka Tiwari, editor of a financial newsletter from the Palm Beach Research Group — and advertising sponsor of Breitbart News — said Monday that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will likely become checks against central banks’ printing of money.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) reacted to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s claim that Facebook is both a public platform and a private company, stating, “You can’t have it both ways.”
Rev. Franklin Graham on Thursday praised Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) for remarks she made during an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, where she framed the culture war in the United States as a fight between Judeo-Christian values and Marxism. That, Graham said, is “absolutely right.”
Over the past year, big tech and big business have tanked their image with Republicans, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.
During Friday’s “MediaBuzz” podcast, FNC host Howard Kurtz reacted to the Biden administration pushing social media platforms to crack down on what it considers misinformation on coronavirus by pointing out that no one knows what the White House considers misinformation
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Ayman Mohyeldin Reports,” Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) stated that there need to be “tougher efforts made, whether it’s oversight, regulatory treatment to stop the spread of misinformation. Because I do agree that it is
The “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism” is being utilized as a “political weapon” to silence and “bludgeon” political opponents, according to Nicholas Giordano, a professor of political science.
Country music star John Rich of Big & Rich told Breitbart News this weekend that the “very liberal” majority of those in the country music industry have become “emboldened” in recent months to push woke leftist ideology publicly in contravention of the views of the majority of the country music audience. Rich said that the mere “threat of cancellation” keeps conservative-leaning artists from speaking out, arguing that it is actually a “step deeper than” cancel culture–ultimately creating a divide between the country music industry and the country music audience.
On Friday’s edition of the Fox Business Network’s “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) stated that President Joe Biden’s executive order on Big Tech is just a throwback to net neutrality and the government trying to
Appearing Thursday on Newsmax’s Wake up America, Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance expressed support for former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Big Tech giants, stating the time has come for conservatives to “push back against the censorship regime.”
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) argued that Section 230 needs to be reformed and that Congress needs to pass legislation to introduce competition into the tech marketplace to curb censorship and
“I would far rather people watch movies for free on YouTube than give another dime to either Amazon or Apple,” Quentin Tarantrino said.
Appearing Tuesday on Fox News Primetime, Ohio Republican U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance accused Google of “conspiring with” the Communist government of China.
Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday a class action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and Google in the Southern District of Florida to “order an immediate halt to social media companies, illegal, shameful censorship of the American people.”
J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, joined Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow for a wide-ranging interview Monday addressing the leftist frameworks of “critical race theory” and “white privilege,” growing consolidation of power within multinational corporations, and the political establishment’s neglect of working-class Americans.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday night released a “framework” he argued to House Republicans would help rein in Big Tech companies from engaging in censorship and silencing of conservatives.
Progressive feminist author and former Democrat adviser Dr. Naomi Wolf called the relationship between the DNC, the Biden administration, and big tech an “unholy marriage” aimed at silencing dissenting voices.
Chinese state media on Friday claimed the destruction of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily in Hong Kong was no different than American tech companies colluding to shut down the social media platform Parler.
Popular newsletter mailing service Mailchimp suspended on Thursday conservative satire website Babylon Bee and then quickly reversed its suspension.
The American Choice and Innovation Online Act and the Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act passed the committee stage yesterday night, with a vote of 24 to 20 in the House Judiciary Committee. The Big Tech bills are now cleared to proceed to a floor vote.
Despite almost two million Californians winning the petition drive to force Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom to compete in an expected fall recall election, he is raising more money than any of his challengers. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Newsom raised $16.5
Big Tech and news media companies toe the line of the Chinese Communist Party to protect access to China’s market of 1.4 billion subjects, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News on Tuesday.
A member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Yunusa Ahmad Abubakar, alleged on Wednesday that Nigeria banned Twitter last week in part because the jihadist organization Boko Haram “have been allowed to be tweeting.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) believes Dr. Anthony Fauci “should be excluded” from any investigation into the origins of the Chinese coronavirus and added that the White House medical adviser “shouldn’t be in part of government” because he has been “unwise, naive, and in all likelihood has been lying to us.”
Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) ordered all TV and radio stations in the country to “suspend the patronage of Twitter immediately” on Monday, three days after the West African nation suspended Twitter operations in the country “indefinitely.”
Larry Elder praised Alex Marlow’s Breaking the News as “a work of scholarship” and “a wonderful book” on Friday’s edition of his eponymous show.
Facebook should be sued for its political censorship related to the coronavirus and its origins in China, Charles Hurt said.
Twitter on Wednesday deleted a Tweet shared by the official account of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, claiming the statement — which concerned Nigeria’s 1967-1970 civil war — allegedly violated the U.S.-based company’s rules for acceptable postings.
Yair Netanyahu, son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been suspended from Twitter because he promoted a protest outside the home of a member of a rival party.
