Following a recent report from Project Veritas revealing insider info from Facebook whistleblowers relating to the company’s handling of vaccine discussion, James O’Keefe and his investigative team have now revealed that the company “filters” content that expresses vaccine skepticism based on values such as supporting liberty or personal religious beliefs.
A recent report from James O’Keefe and investigative journalism group Project Veritas claims that social media giant Facebook is working to actively censor vaccine concerns across its platform. Whistleblowers claim that content that might promote “vaccine hesitancy,” such as shocking but true news stories, are downranked and censored by the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe.
Apple has refused to remove negative ratings in its App Store for the Facebook app left by pro-Palestinian activists upset over censorship on the platform.
Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) is scrambling to save a bill that would allow big media companies like the New York Times and CNN to form a cartel to pressure tech companies for special treatment, after criticism of the bill from President Trump’s tech censorship experts, one of the two Republican FCC commissioners, House GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Jim Jordan, and staffers to fellow members of the House Freedom Caucus.
Facebook reportedly blocked promotion for a fundraising event aimed at supporting law enforcement, part of a Florida distillery’s wider efforts to support first responders, according to local news in Tampa.
Facebook has released its quarterly “community standards enforcement report.” In the data, the social network revealed that the prevalence of so-called hate speech on the platform last quarter was 0.05-0.06 percent — half of its prevalence in the third quarter of 2020.
Opposition politicians have questioned whether Berlin’s Social Democrat (SPD) Mayor Michael Müller abused his power after he triggered a police operation and search of the home of a woman who had criticised him on social media in actions later deemed unlawful.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), one of the most vocal critics of Big Tech in the Senate, is being targeted with political attack ads on Facebook — by a Facebook-backed dark money group.
The social media platform Parler returned to Apple’s App Store on Monday, making the app once again available on all iPhones, and has also revealed its new CEO, George Farmer.
Facebook’s “fact checkers” are “no better than trolls who pan political adversaries’ books on Amazon without bothering to read them,” writes physicist Steven E. Koonin in a stinging op-ed in Monday’s Wall Street Journal.
Apple has fired a recently hired Facebook veteran just hours after other employees began to circulate a petition calling for his firing. The Masters of the Universe have once again demonstrated that cancel culture rules in Silicon Valley.
The Internet Accountability Project conducted a poll in which 97 percent of independents and Republicans believe Facebook and Instagram should not have banned former President Donald Trump.
During a Friday appearance on FNC’s “Fox & Friends First,” Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita discussed his investigation into MSNBC’s Al Sharpton and others for participating in a 2019 October meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives about censoring users.
The United Kingdom has taken a step closer to CCP-style totalitarian censorship with its Online Safety Bill.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has purchased a 417-foot superyacht that is so massive it requires its own “support yacht” with a helipad that will follow Bezos’ new $500 million toy wherever it sails.
44 state attorneys general are urging Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg not to follow through with his company’s plan to develop a version of Instagram aimed at children under the age of 13. In a letter sent to Zuckerberg, the attorneys general note: “Further, Facebook has historically failed to protect the welfare of children on its platforms.”
Big Tech coordinates with the abortion industry to censor “pro-life voices,” Lila Rose, president of Live Action, said on Sunday.
A recent report from GLAAD has stated that Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter are all “effectively unsafe for LGBTQ users.”
According to a recent NBC News poll, the majority of Americans say that they use social media at least once a day and also believe that platforms like Facebook and Twitter are dividing the nation rather than bringing it together. 77 percent of conservatives believe social media platforms are dividing the country.
Coffee powerhouse Starbucks is said to be considering leaving social media giant Facebook over the “negative/insensitive, hate speech-related comments” the company receives on posts related to social justice issues.
Despite unified GOP opposition including from Leader Kevin McCarthy and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan, Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), at the bidding of establishment media and News Corp lobbyists, continues to push the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a Democrat-backed bill that would allow Big Media companies to form a cartel to pressure tech companies for more censorship and special favors.
Over the past year, Big Tech has greatly increased the rate of censorship online. Breitbart News has reported on these efforts extensively, here are five of the most serious acts of censorship by the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe.
During a Sunday interview with New York City WABC 770 AM radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) continued his push for the removal of special protections for social media giants under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Former federal judge and co-chair of Facebook’s oversight board Michael McConnell said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that former President Donald Trump’s ban results from his own actions.
Big Tech companies need to be broken up to end monopoly control and protect free markets, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said.
Texas Senate Bill 12, a proposed law aimed at limiting the power of Big Tech companies to censor users in the Lone Star State, has won praise from Prof. Adam Candeub, who was former President Donald Trump’s point man on tech censorship.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), the author of The Tyranny of Big Tech, told Breitbart News Daily on Friday that some Democrats “have really come to love” Big Tech’s political censorship while seeking to integrate technology firms’ control over information flow with government power.
According to an ongoing analysis of Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency feature, the vast majority of iPhone users are choosing to shut down app tracking cutting off many apps from accessing their personal data. According to user data, only 4 percent of iPhone users in America have enabled app tracking, which Facebook has begged the public to do to keep its platform “free of charge.”
Talk of former President Donald Trump has declined drastically on Facebook and Twitter, according to recent data. Conversations about Trump on Facebook and Twitter have declined by about 90 percent on both platforms since the former president was blacklisted by the Masters of the Universe. The data for Twitter does not include tweets and retweets from accounts that have been banned or deactivated.
Friday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) discussed her recent letter scolding Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allowing human smugglers and cartels to “openly” operate on the social media platform.
The privacy-focused messaging app Signal recently attempted to run an ad campaign on the Facebook-owned Instagram platform that highlighted the invasive data collection of big tech firms. According to Signal’s CEO, Facebook swiftly shut the campaign down.
Facebook has permanently banned LifeSiteNews, a popular pro-life news outlet, for publishing “false information about COVID-19 that could contribute to physical harm.”
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), who has been endorsed by Donald Trump in the Alabama Senate race, gave an exclusive interview to Breitbart News about the threat of tech censorship, comparing Silicon Valley’s suppression of speech to Communist China’s and urging the breakup of Big Tech companies.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said in an interview Wednesday that the Facebook oversight board’s decision to uphold the social media giant’s ban against former President Donald Trump proves the need to use antitrust against the company.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), in an interview with “The Washington Post Live” on Thursday, said former President Donald Trump was “truly a danger to democracy” because he spreads “lies.”
Failed U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed that Russian interference in the U.S. election in 2016 is now “beyond a doubt” and that Moscow was likely involved in the Brexit vote, too.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Late Night,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) applauded Facebook not reinstating former President Donald Trump’s account because “someone like him shouldn’t be allowed to make people believe lies.” Klobuchar said, “That was the right thing to
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reacted to Facebook’s review board deciding whether to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account by saying that Facebook is more powerful than the government and part of the way
LifeSite News, a major pro-life news website, reports that Facebook has permanently blacklisted its page over “false information about COVID-19” and “vaccine discouraging information.”
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that Facebook upheld its ban on former President Donald Trump because he was “pathologically” continuing to “endanger our democracy.”
