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Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Monday that he would “break ties” with WhatsApp, effectively declaring it illegal.

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis ordered the state’s Department of Financial Services to halt contracts with groups involved in news censorship or blacklisting activities, including media censor NewsGuard.

The Foundation for Freedom Online reports that the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) members, which have been accused of censoring online speech and attempting to silence media outlets including Breitbart News, have received billions in federal contracts.

Meta’s AI assistant and Google’s search autocomplete feature have come under scrutiny for providing inaccurate information related to the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. While Google claims it is trying to improve its feature, Meta has a different excuse for covering up the assassination attempt — its AI was “hallucinating.” 

Facebook has acknowledged an alleged “mistake” in censoring an iconic image of former President Donald Trump following the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, sparking renewed debate over social media content moderation practices. Meta labeled the famous photo as an “altered image,” only later admitting it was a “mistake.”

A 76-year-old pro-life activist from Florida has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging the tech giant violated state law by abruptly shutting down her account without warning or allowing her to save her data.

Renowned legal expert Johnathan Turley has sounded the alarm on the potential threats to free speech posed by media rating systems, particularly focusing on the operations of NewsGuard.

Soon after former president Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania, Chinese consumers went wild for T-shirts bearing the now-iconic photo of a bloodied Trump rising up from the stage and raising his fist beneath an American flag.

PragerU CEO Marissa Streit and Mike Benz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom and a former State Department official, recently discussed NewsGuard, a for-profit company that is running a mass blacklisting campaign working with corporations and advertisers to strangle conservative media

PragerU slammed NewsGuard, a for-profit company that is running a mass blacklisting campaign working with corporations and advertisers to strangle conservative media. PragerU is shining a light on its sly and “insidious” practices aimed at driving conservative media outlets “out of business.” The nonprofit founded by Dennis Prager has launched an X/Twitter takeover with the hashtag #EndBigTechCensorship to expose NewsGuard’s practices.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) engineered some post-Independence Day fireworks by securing appearances from two executives whose companies are allegedly colluding to silence conservative voices in violation of antitrust laws.

The socialist dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, claimed that the Chinese social media platform TikTok “censored” his account.

A new study by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab reveals that Microsoft’s Bing translation service in China employs stricter censorship measures than its Chinese counterparts, raising concerns about the tech giant’s operations in the country.

Social media companies like Facebook are free to continue censoring conservatives according to a divided Supreme Court, over a vigorous conservative dissent.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced on Friday as part of his “Amazon Files” release that the Biden administration pressured Amazon to censor “children’s books, books for parents, and books critical of big pharma.”

Stranger Things star Matthew Modine expressed puzzlement on X this week after learning the phrase “Born to Kill” had been removed from the main menu poster for Stanley Kubrick’s classic war film “Full Metal Jacket” on Amazon.

The Stanford Internet Observatory, a research center studying “online misinformation” and a prominent part of what Stephen Miller calls the “censorship-industrial complex,” is on the brink of shutting down due to mounting political and legal pressures, as well as dwindling staff and funding.

Taiwan held various public events on Tuesday to observe the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Mike Flanagan, who spent the better part of a decade producing movies for Hollywood’s top studio, says it is “actively hostile to the idea of physical media.”

Writer and actor Stephen Merchant is blasting the left for policing jokes.

Anti-regime activists in Iran reportedly received calls from “desperate” officials urging them to mourn President Ebrahim Raisi.

The Israeli rap duo “Ness and Stilla” has reportedly been denied a visa to perform in Miami, Florida, over false accusations that their hit song, “Harbu Darbu,” promotes “genocide” by backing Israel’s war against terror.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram warned against tagging former Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson in a “happy birthday” post on Thursday, saying the popular journalist has been known to violate “Community Guidelines.”

George Soros is funding groups pushing Big Tech to “juice their censorship operations before the 2024 U.S. presidential election.”

Elon Musk’s social media platform X/Twitter won a court reprieve on Monday in a fight against the Australian government’s censorship of videos of a stabbing inside a Sydney church.

A Hong Kong court approved the Communist-controlled government’s effort to ban “Glory to Hong Kong,” the anthem of the 2019 protests.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is accusing Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta of election interference, claiming the social media giant censored the film, Who Is Bobby Kennedy? on Facebook and Instagram.

Americans For Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) has withdrawn support for Elon Musk’s X/Twitter after the platform censored its ad promoting a new website and forum section aimed at documenting noncitizen and illegal migrant voters.

The 2023 edition of the State Department’s annual human rights report blasts China for repression, torture, and genocide.

Democrats are sneaking online censorship of “hate speech” into the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) under the guise of “protecting kids” – and many Republicans on capitol hill appear to be on board.

London’s Metropolitan Police arrested an Iranian activist again on Wednesday for carrying a sign saying that Hamas are “terrorists”.

The failure of cancel culture to shut down the NatCon conference in Brussels is a “watershed moment” for free of speech, Nigel Farage said.

Brussels mayor who ordered police shut down a conservative conference exceeded his authority and a late-night court ruled it will go ahead.

A French MEP, who was blocked from entering a conservative conference in Brussels, told Breitbart News that it is becoming “scary” in Europe.

Twitter reportedly told Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes on Monday that it would not challenge his censorship demands.

Brazilian “anti-fake news crusader” Alexandre de Moraes has opened an inquiry into Elon Musk and Twitter for defying censorship orders.