The Poynter Institute, which certifies third-party fact-checkers for the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe, has published a column accusing Facebook and Twitter of acting as “arbiters of truth” following the mass censorship of the New York Post’s recent article about Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
The Intercept co-founding editor Glenn Greenwald criticized Facebook and Twitter’s recent censorship of the New York Post’s bombshell article revealing Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden’s alleged meeting with executives of a Ukrainian energy firm. According to Greenwald, “In sum, the two Silicon Valley giants, with little explanation, united to prevent the sharing and dissemination of this article.”
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) protested social media giants Facebook and Twitter for their handling of the bombshell New York Post report about Hunter Biden, son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, out a day earlier, which both Facebook and Twitter have tried to suppress.
Just days after a similar move by Facebook, Twitter has said it will remove all posts that deny the Holocaust — which the platform says violates its policy against spreading hateful content.
Twitter recently blocked links to a New York Post bombshell story about Biden family business dealings in Ukraine, labeling links to the Post’s story “unsafe” and claiming it lacked “authoritative information.”
House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Thursday that “it’s time to scrap” special protections for social media giants under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA).
President Donald Trump on Thursday condemned “Big Tech” companies like Facebook and Twitter for censoring the New York Post after they published embarrassing emails recovered from former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
Wikipedia has joined Twitter and Facebook in seeking to suppress revelations from the New York Post about Hunter Biden allegedly securing a meeting between his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and a high-level adviser to Ukrainian energy company Burisma where the younger Biden served as a board member and which faced serious corruption allegations. Editors recently deemed the Post an “unreliable source” on Wikipedia and cited this as a reason to exclude mention of the story.
New Zealand and global media are convinced New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will romp to re-election this weekend, based on public approval for her response to the Wuhan coronavirus.
Following the publication of the New York Post’s bombshell story about the Biden family’s business dealings in Ukraine, Facebook and Twitter worked hard to suppress the story across their platforms. The censorship comes just weeks after executives from both firms joined the Biden transition team.
Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), who is running in a close contest in Georgia’s upcoming special election on Nov 3, attacked Facebook and Twitter over their decision to censor a bombshell New York Post story about the Biden family’s alleged ties to the Ukrainian corporation Burisma on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump on Thursday reacted to Twitter’s efforts to suppress the New York Post bombshell report about the Biden family’s shady business dealings in Ukraine.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Wednesday called for lawmakers to reject big tech PAC money to ensure that Congress can hold America’s largest technology companies accountable.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced Thursday morning that the Senate Judiciary Committee would subpoena Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to explain his company’s decision to suppress news about Hunter Biden and suspend the accounts of those sharing it. “Twitter is actively
Conservative commentator Jack Posobiec was locked out of his Twitter account on Wednesday evening after he shared a meme based on the bombshell New York Post report about Joe and Hunter Biden that was widely censored by Facebook and Twitter throughout the day.
Left-wing populists, who, along with right-wing populists, have long warned of tech corporations’ monopoly over social media, say voters are witnessing the “unaccountable power” of Silicon Valley’s elites three weeks out from the November 3 presidential election.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-) called out Facebook and Twitter for their efforts to suppress a New York Post article that alleged Hunter Biden “facilitated” a meeting between his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, and a Ukrainian gas company.
Josh Hawley called for an FEC investigation into Twitter and Facebook’s censorship of a bombshell New York Post story. Hawley charged that the social media companies’ censorship could amount to an in-kind contribution to the Joe Biden campaign.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding to know why the social media giant throttled a New York Post article that alleged Hunter Biden “facilitated” a meeting between a Ukrainian gas company and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Facebook has reduced the distribution of a New York Post story containing bombshell information indicating that — contrary to his previous denials — Joe Biden allegedly did meet with an adviser to the board of Burisma while he was vice president, arranged by his son Hunter, who was then working as a lobbyist for the company.
Social media giant Facebook recently announced that it will expand its hate speech policies to ban any content that “denies or distorts the Holocaust.”
Facebook on Monday announced that it was finally banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust.
Facebook has reportedly disabled the account of former U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant John “Tig” Tiegen, one of the men who helped defend the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in 2012, now a conservative activist and public speaker.
Many employees at Silicon Valley tech companies have recently moved to cheaper locales to work remotely amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Big Tech has responded by slashing salaries using “cost-of-living” reductions, increasing tensions between the Masters of the Universe and their highly-touted employees. One tech CEO in the midwest called Silicon Valley’s salary cuts “hypocritical.”
Rock band Pearl Jam has registered as a political advertiser on Facebook, spending more than $17,000 on Facebook ads as part of a get out the vote campaign for the upcoming presidential election, The New York Times revealed. The move comes as Pearl Jam members, including frontman Eddie Vedder, help promote the Biden campaign and efforts to push vote by mail.
Cambridge Analytica, a data firm linked to “Russia collusion” conspiracy theories involving the Brexit movement and President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, did not, in fact, collude with Russia or misuse Facebook data.
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) announced on Wednesday it has “seized 92 domain names that were unlawfully used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to engage in a global disinformation campaign.”
Tech giant Facebook has announced that it plans to stop running political ads immediately after the election on November 3. The company claims the move is necessary “to reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse.”
Sen. Ted Cuz (R-TX) described technology companies’ political censorship as today’s greatest threat to free speech and democracy.
Facebook Chief Revenue Officer David Fischer claimed this week that the company’s revenue model is “under assault” after Apple announced changes that will limit the data that companies like Facebook can collect from smartphone users. The new feature, which will be built into a future update of iOS, will offer users the option to block tracking when opening an application.
Social media giant Facebook recently announced that it would ban all accounts related to the QAnon theory across both its main platform and Instagram.
A recent report from top Democratic Congressional lawmakers has determined that tech giants such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google engage in anti-competitive behavior. According to the report, “To put it simply, companies that once were scrappy, underdog startups that challenged the status quo have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons.”
A recent report from Wired magazine states that almost 95 percent of donations from employees at Silicon Valley tech giants went to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Donations to Biden from the employees of Big Tech companies have been double those to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Facebook has reportedly reduced the distribution of another major conservative figure’s page. Today’s victim: bestselling conservative author and radio host Mark Levin, host of Life, Liberty & Levin on the Fox News Channel.
Facebook’s lawyers claimed in a recent document reviewed by the Wall Street Journal that a government breakup of Facebook from Instagram and WhatsApp would defy the law, cost billions of dollars, and harm consumers. According to the report, the document states: “A ‘breakup’ of Facebook is thus a complete nonstarter.”
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will restore our nation’s sanity, humanity, and global leadership,” a Biden supporter says in a Facebook video. “America will really be great again when Trump is purged from our lives.”
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has reportedly hired Facebook executive Jessica Hertz to his transition team as its general counsel to oversee ethical issues.
Facebook has reportedly removed a recent ad from the Trump campaign, claiming that the ad features factually incorrect information about refugees and the coronavirus pandemic.
Snapchat has helped more than 1 million people register to vote in November’s elections, with 65 percent of them being under 25 years old.
Social media giant Facebook has announced plans to reject political ads that attempt to link topics such as mail-in voting to allegations of voting fraud.