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During yesterday’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on social media censorship, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) argued that conservatives are not censored on social media, because far-left Media Matters says they aren’t.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News that Big Tech’s political censorship amounted to election interference, offering her comments on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Senator Mike Lee (R-AZ) asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing why it took the social media platform two weeks to correct the bogus censorship of a pro-life advertisement correctly calling out Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) pro-abortion stances.

During a hearing today before the Committee on the Judiciary, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the “Stop The Steal” group was censored in order to prevent “violence or civil unrest.”

The popular newsletter mailing service Mailchimp has reportedly suspended the account of the Northern Virginia Tea Party alleging that the group engaged in spreading “potentially harmful misinformation.” The company had previously blacklisted the Women for America First group when it organized its March for Trump.

French president Emmanuel Macron has complained that the mainstream media appear to be “legitimising” a spate of radical Islamic terror attacks against his country by claiming it is “racist and Islamophobic”.

The overwhelming majority of the British public is in favour of criminalising the dissemination of ‘fake news’ about vaccines, as the left-wing Labour Party has come out in favour of further speech restrictions in the UK under the pretext of

A sloppily worded hate crime bill in Scotland could undermine free speech and unfairly stigmatize people of faith, the Christian Institute has warned.

The Law Commission has proposed changes to hate crime laws in Britain that would see Charlie Hebdo style caricatures of the Islamic prophet banned, in what is being described as “the Scottish Hate Crime Bill on steroids”.

Danish anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan was arrested in Paris this week and deported after trying to burn the Quran in front of the Arc de Triomphe.

Social media website Twitter recently congratulated itself for curbing the spread of misinformation on its platform — by slowing the spread of all information on its platform. Based on Twitter’s changes to its platform, total retweets, one of the primary way ideas spread quickly between users, are down 20 percent.

During a recent staff meeting, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told his employees that Joe Biden “is going to be our next president.”

A recent report from the New York Times analyzes Twitter’s moderation of the platform during the 2020 Presidential election, noting that 34 percent of tweets from President Donald Trump were marked as “disputed” by the platform since election day in an effort to lessen their viral spread across the platform.

Over the past 24 hours, Facebook and Twitter have labeled posts by President Trump at least 25 times for various reasons. In one case, Facebook labeled the President’s post of his Veterans Day proclamation with the note “Joe Biden is the projected winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election.”

Twitter has censored links to StopTheSteal.us, a website coordinating grassroots events in defense of election integrity around the country, particularly in swing states where the results of the election are still disputed.

Social media website Twitter labeled posts and retweets by President Donald Trump eight times in just the last 24 hours.

Facebook has announced plans to crack down on groups that spread what it considers misinformation on its platform, introducing new “probationary periods” for groups that regularly violate rules.

A Dutch teacher in the city of Rotterdam was allegedly forced to go into hiding after receiving threats when he posted a picture of a cartoon mocking jihadists.

Twitter has suspended multiple accounts for Angel Families, those whose loved ones were killed by illegal aliens, days after the November 3 presidential election. 

Twitter censored Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) post about historical voter fraud by claiming the information is either “disputed” or “misleading.” After it was pointed out that Paul was quoting directly from the biography of Kentucky democrat Ed Pritchard, the platform removed its censorship.

A member of Facebook’s oversight board, also known as the “Facebook Supreme Court,” said that a loss for President Donald Trump would bring an end to a “wave of hate and intolerance” across the world.

Tech giant Facebook laid out its censorship plan on Thursday, stating it would begin demoting content that its “systems predict may be misinformation” relating to election fraud.

The sad reality is that there are already legal ways for partisan actors to interfere with the election — not just through illegal fraud.

A recent report states that half of President Donald Trump’s posts since election day have been flagged as misinformation by Facebook and Twitter and censored on each platform.

Twitter went on another censorship blitz today, targeting the account of President Trump and numerous conservative journalists and commentators as concerns and disputes about incoming election results continued to mount.

A recent analysis of Twitter’s censorship of President Trump’s tweets reveals how the social media site dramatically cut the President’s engagement rate on election night. The analysis shows that Trump’s post before it was censored “was shared or replied to about 827 times a minute. After it was labeled, that dropped to 151 times a minute, according to the E.I.P. analysis.”

President Donald Trump, addressing the uncertain election results early Wednesday morning, reminded the nation that he had predicted a contested result since Democrats had begun urging states to send mail-in ballots to millions of voters.

Twitter has censored another prominent conservative as part of its so-called election integrity efforts, this time author and secularist campaigner Pamela Geller.

Google has suppressed Breitbart News stories about Joe Biden all the way through to election day, despite it being reported on over five months ago.

Twitter censored a video from the Philadelphia GOP that shows someone depositing what appears to be multiple ballots into a curbside dropbox, as well as a follow-up tweet from the same account reporting alleged irregular activity at polling locations in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania.

Authorities in Hong Kong arrested a filmmaker on Tuesday in relation to her production of a recent TV documentary that detailed how pro-China mobs brutally attacked civilians during a peaceful anti-communist protest last year.

Twitter has censored a recent post by President Donald Trump, marking it as “disputed” and stating that it might be “misleading about an election.”

In the run-up to the 2020 Election, Google search has suppressed Breitbart News articles so severely that the following incredible situation now exists: Breitbart articles are often more easily found (if findable at all) on obscure, suspect websites that have stolen Breitbart’s content in violation of Breitbart’s copyrights.

Facebook has restricted the page of radio host, bestselling author, and Fox News star Mark Levin, just one day before the presidential election.

Twitter has announced an updated “civic integrity policy,” including an example of “warning labels” it will place on the tweets of elected officials.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told analysts on a recent conference call with analysts that he believes there could be “civil unrest” across the country following the presidential election.