Fox News on Wednesday cited a study that found the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has jailed almost 500 people since the beginning of 2020 for talking about the Wuhan coronavirus.
Bradley Smith, a law professor and former Republican Federal Election Commissioner, is set to serve on the board of a new advocacy group aimed at defending Big Tech companies from regulation. Smith previously ran the “Institute for Free Speech,” which similarly opposed the regulation of Silicon Valley giants
Facebook is facing another censorship showdown in court, based on a suit brought by the owner of a censored viral news page set to appear before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this June.
Joe Saladino, better known by his stage name Joey Salads, a YouTube comedian who recently ran in the Republican Congressional primary to represent Staten Island (NY-11), has been banned by Twitter.
Facebook is helping set up a new political advocacy group in D.C., called “American Edge,” hoping to dissuade lawmakers against regulating big tech companies, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Social media giant Twitter will soon begin labeling Chinese virus-related tweets that contain information the company judges to be ‘misinformation’ in an attempt to crack down on messaging not approved by the W.H.O. and other “authoritative sources.” Twitter will apply the labels to the tweets of world leaders, including President Donald Trump.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) newsletter People’s Daily on Monday demanded a controlling role for China’s Belt and Road News Network (BRNN) over all global media, ostensibly to counteract “racially discriminatory messages” from certain Western nations that refuse to stop asking questions about where the Wuhan coronavirus came from.
A coalition of 60 conservative organizations and publishers led by Media Research Center founder L. Brent Brozell III has called on Facebook to scrap its politically skewed “oversight board” if it is unable to provide an adequate balance of political viewpoints.
State-run China Daily on Wednesday censored an article co-signed by the European Union (EU) ambassador to China, Nicolas Chapuis, and the ambassadors of 27 EU member states.
YouTube is scrambling to shut down a 26-minute vignette of the upcoming documentary Plandemic, which examines the response of global governments to the Chinese virus, and alleges that special interests including vaccine producers have the most to gain from the worldwide crisis.
Brendan Carr, one of the four commissioners of the FCC, slammed Facebook’s Oversight Board — colloquially known as the “Facebook Supreme Court” — in a tweet yesterday evening.
Are you about to post a tweet containing “harmful” language? Don’t worry — Twitter is experimenting with a feature that will warn you ahead of time, so you don’t accidentally infect any users with your wrongthink.
Jair Renan Bolsonaro, the fourth-oldest son of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, was suspended from the Amazon-owned video streaming platform Twitch.tv last week after casting doubt on the severity of the Chinese virus pandemic.
The Democrats and their progressive allies in Silicon Valley and the mainstream media have spent the last two decades convincing themselves that they are the “party of science.” In their frantic panic to censor material related to the Chinese virus, we’re now seeing the dangerous outcome of that hubris.
Conservative firebrand and BLEXIT founder Candace Owens was suspended from Twitter on Saturday after tweeting that people in Michigan should open their businesses and “go to work” despite the draconian measures implemented by Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) in response to the Chinese virus.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused Hollywood of being “complicit in China’s censorship and propaganda in the name of bigger profits.” He has legislation that would prevent the Pentagon from working with film studios working to accommodate the censorious demands of the Chinese state.
An Alaska school board has decided to ban The Great Gatsby and other classic literary works over concerns that the books contain content that is “harmful” to students. Educators around the nation have criticized the decision, arguing that the decision amounts to censorship.
YouTube, the Google-owned video hosting giant, has introduced “fact check” labels next to videos as it ramps up censorship during the Chinese virus pandemic.
The editor-in-chief of the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) and one of his employees were arrested last week for publishing a cartoon on social media deemed “insulting” to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
YouTube has taken down a video of two doctors from Bakersfield, California, who held a press conference calling for the reopening of the country. According to the Google-owned video platform, the doctors “violated community guidelines.”
Joshua Disbrow, CEO of AYTU BioScience, the pharmaceutical company investigating UV light as a potential treatment for the Chinese virus, has condemned the partisan media narrative surrounding the treatment after big tech platforms censored videos and other posts about the treatment. Disbrow explains that the company posted to social about the treatment because of the need for “safe and accurate” information on platforms like Twitter and YouTube, only to be censored by the Masters of the Universe.
The far-left Atlantic Magazine is openly lobbying for the coronavirus pandemic to lead to more China-style speech censorship here in America.
Twitter and YouTube have censored AYTU BioScience, a publicly-traded Colorado-based pharmaceutical company, after it promoted ultraviolet (UV) light developed in conjunction with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as a potential treatment for the Chinese virus. Twitter later reversed its censorship, saying the company’s account was “mistakenly” caught in a spam filter.
Twitter is censoring another meme mocking Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, just a day after it blocked a satirical video about the candidate posted by President Donald Trump.
Facebook has agreed to censor “anti-state” posts in Vietnam after its local servers were taken offline earlier this year slowing traffic in the country to a crawl.
A whopping 77 percent of top colleges and universities funded by taxpayer dollars use a secret social media blacklist to censor the public, which the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) says is in violation of the First Amendment. The censored terms differ between universities but aren’t limited to controversial terms. For example, one New York community college censors words related to winter weather, like “snow” and “blizzard.”
Facebook is censoring users for organizing protests against states’ lockdowns, calling them “misinformation” about coronavirus.
Twitter purged a number of high-profile conservatives and members of the alternative media from its platform yesterday, including TPUSA’s Alex Lorusso (@ALX on Twitter), InfoWars host Owen Shroyer, and a range of other accounts linked to the alternative media organization.
The Chinese Communist Party bans and censors video games to keep Chinese players from discussing forbidden topics with foreigners.
Facebook has called for a federal judge in Miami to summarily dismiss a defamation case brought by Laura Loomer against the social network, arguing that its decision to ban her as a “dangerous individual” does not constitute defamation.
It will come as no surprise to Breitbart News readers that Facebook’s vaunted fact-checking system does not stop, or even appropriately label, fake, misleading claims from the left-wing media about President Donald Trump.
The Obama-linked nonprofit “Free Press,” which seeks to “change the media to transform democracy to realize a just society” has petitioned the FCC to pressure broadcasters into either not broadcasting President Trump’s public comments about the Chinese virus, or “fact checking” everything Trump says.
A recent survey revealed that an overwhelming 76% of leftist students believe that “offensive” jokes can be considered “hate speech.” The survey, which was conducted by College Pulse, asked students how they felt about a variety of issues surrounding the intersection of speech and comedy.
Dr. Ai Fen, director of emergency management at Wuhan Central Hospital and one of the first doctors to blow the whistle on the coronavirus epidemic at a time when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was desperate to conceal it, has reportedly vanished. She began speaking out against the CCP two weeks ago, beginning with an interview that was relentlessly suppressed by Chinese censors.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) published a press release about possible censorship by administrators at the University of California. Last week, the University of California cautioned students against the use of the term “Chinese virus.”
China-owned social media platform TikTok has recruited American professors to serve on its “content advisory council” to calm concerns that it engages in censorship at the behest of the Chinese government.
Earlier this week, a Facebook “bug” censored thousands of links to genuine news stories about the Wuhan coronavirus, incorrectly labeling them as “spam.”
YouTube, the video-sharing platform owned by Google, is just starting to relax a draconian policy of demonetizing videos related to the Wuhan coronavirus, which was today declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). The clampdown will remain in place for most channels.
New York Post journalist Jon Levine was locked out of his Twitter account earlier today and forced to delete several tweets in connection to his article exposing the ultra-wealthy background of socialist YouTuber Carlos Maza.
Wikipedia has deleted its ‘List of Scientists Who Disagree with the Scientific Consensus on Global Warming’.
