A recent survey by the Pew Research Center found that about 26 percent of adult Americans get most of their news from Google-owned YouTube. News viewership on the platform is split evenly between the channels of news organizations and independent news sources and commentators.
The Biden campaign is once again pressuring Facebook to increase its censorship against President Donald Trump, sending a three-page letter to the social network urging it to clamp down on warnings from the President and his allies about the potential for voter fraud in the coming election.
Google-owned YouTube has begun stepping up its fight against “misinformation” around the upcoming presidential election by adding information panels and links about candidates ahead of video search results. The Platform is focusing its efforts on the topic of mail-in voting.
Administrators at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, have refused to condemn a professor that said he is prepared to file a disciplinary report on freshman Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic student that found himself at the center of a national media scandal after an encounter with a Native American protester in Washington D.C. in January 2019.
The social media giants — Facebook, Google’s YouTube, and Twitter — have, under pressure from the advertising industry, agreed to a set of “common definitions” for allegedly “hateful” and “harmful” content and to “harmonize” reporting standards for such content across the industry.
“One of the things that I think we and other media need to start doing is preparing the American people that there’s nothing illegitimate about this election taking additional days, or even weeks to make sure that all of the votes are counted.”
Facebook announced this week that it may restrict certain aspects of its platform following November’s general election as part of a larger effort to limit social unrest. A spokesperson for Facebook suggested that executives including Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg may censor specific information if they believe it is likely to heighten political tensions following the election.
A report from RealClearPolitics has found that Google pushes conservative news sites far down in search results. The RealClearPolitics investigation confirms Breitbart News’ own reporting on Google’s suppression of the site in search results, illustrated by the nearly complete disappearance of Breitbart articles in the results for a search of “Joe Biden.”
Twitter’s public policy director, Carlos Monje, has reportedly left the social media firm to join the transition team for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
According to a recent report, employees at the music streaming service Spotify have been fighting over the inclusion of certain episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on the platform over claims that they are “transphobic.”
Twitter locked conservative activist CJ Pearson out of his account yesterday, forcing him to delete a tweet that the company says violated its “abuse and harassment” policies. The tweet attacked pedophiles.
Twitter has blacklisted the account of Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan, who claims that coronavirus was manufactured in a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
Conservative digital activists were smeared as behaving like “Russian trolls” by a recent article in the Washington Post. The writer also made sure to reach out to both Twitter and Facebook to get the teenage activists banned.
Facebook added a “fact check” label to an ad campaign highlighting Democrats support for biological men competing in women’s sports, part of a $4 million ad campaign in Michigan funded by the American Principles Project.
Big Tech platforms continue to censor conservatives for offering commentary on the Chinese coronavirus. The latest victim is the Hoover Institution, the Stanford University-based conservative think tank, which posted a video to YouTube of an interview with Hoover Senior Fellow Dr. Scott Atlas, who is now serving as an adviser to President Donald Trump on the coronavirus task force. The Google-owned platform censored the video as it “contradicts the World Health Organization or local health authorities’ medical information about COVID-19.”
Twitter has censored another tweet from President Donald Trump instructing voters in North Carolina on avoiding losing their votes to fraud.
Tech giant Google has promised to block certain autocomplete search suggestions ahead of the November election in an effort to fight “misinformation.”
Twitter is set to announce measures to censor President Donald Trump and others if they claim an “early victory” on election night, as Silicon Valley elites try to prepare the country for what they think will be a lengthy period of counting mail-in ballots, which are subject to tampering and fraud according to a Democrat whistleblower.
In a recent interview with Axios on HBO, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied the accusation that Facebook has become a “right-wing echo chamber.”
Nonprofit fundraising software company MobileCause terminated the contract of conservative Christian organization Family Research Council (FRC) just one hour prior to the group’s scheduled election event titled “Pray Vote Stand,” the group said.
Despite many troubling issues being raised around the country’s privacy laws, China has taken the initiative to release a “global standard for data security initiative” that it hopes will be adopted worldwide.
In a recent interview with Axios on HBO, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged the media to assure the public that there was “nothing illegitimate” about waiting days or even weeks to tabulate the results of the upcoming presidential election.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board argued this week that Facebook has inappropriately censored posts defending Kyle Rittenhouse, who allegedly killed two people and wounded another in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after being chased by rioters.
DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election features interviews from sources at Twitter, Facebook, and Google.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the co-chair of Facebook’s “Supreme Court,” has warned that an aggressive approach to regulating the company could infringe upon freedom of speech. Her comments stand in stark contrast to the company’s purge of conservatives and plan to blacklist legal comment that might cause “regulatory impacts.”
Bokhari: Everything You Post Online Will Be Scanned by ‘Hate Speech Algorithms’
Facebook has blacklisted the conservative group “Patriot Prayer,” as well as the group’s leader, Joey Gibson. The move by Facebook arrives in the wake of a Patriot Prayer member being murdered in Portland by an Antifa rioter. Facebook told a media outlet the purge is part of its “ongoing efforts to remove Violent Social Militias from our platform.”
Facebook has promised to block Australian news publishers from sharing news on its platform if a proposed law forcing Google and Facebook to pay media companies for monetizing their content is passed.
Twitter has locked the account of another member of the legal team of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year old who is facing murder charges after killing two members of a mob of rioters that attacked him in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
“Cancel culture” with increasingly enter more areas of life if unstopped, warned Breitbart News Senior Tech Reporter Allum Bokhari, author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election, offering his comments on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Social media giant Facebook has announced plans to ban new political ads for the week leading up to Election Day on November 3. Mark Zuckerberg announced the ban along with several other changes because he fears “there could be an increased risk of civil unrest across the country.”
Facebook is officially designating the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who allegedly killed two people in Kenosha after being mobbed and attacked by rioters, a “mass murder,” despite the fact that this has not been proven in court. Facebook confirmed that it would remove any posts that support Rittenhouse.
In a recent article, Wired magazine outlines how an ongoing investigation has revealed that Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s team successfully infiltrate Twitter’s platform to shut down anonymous critics within Saudi Arabia.
Lin Wood, attorney for Kyle Rittenhouse, threatened to “take Jack Dorsey’s ass down” after Twitter “incorrectly” locked his account for nine hours yesterday.
Florida State University student Jack Denton says that he was removed from the university’s student government organization over his Catholic faith. In a recently filed lawsuit, Denton and his attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom accuse the university of engaging in “unconstitutional retaliation” against him over his faith.
Twitter locked the account L. Lin Wood, the superstar defamation lawyer who successfully represented Richard Jewell and Nicholas Sandmann, the targets of media smears. Wood is now on the legal team for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year old facing murder charges in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
This week, Facebook announced that the platform will take down or censor content that is completely legal and within the rules but that the site believes could increase regulatory or legal risks for the social media giant worldwide.
Google’s search autocomplete feature fails to generate negative suggestions for the term “BLM,” in stark contrast to other search engines.
Gateway Pundit reporter Cassandra Fairbanks was recently suspended from Twitter for tweeting her support of Kyle Rittenhouse, who was recently arrested over the shooting of three rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In response, lawyers for Rittenouse warned Twitter that they intend to hold the platform “fully liable.”
Twitter locked the account of bestselling conservative author Ann Coulter over a tweet praising Kyle Rittenhouse, despite the fact that the platform initially informed her that her tweet did not violate the rules.
