Political Bias

NPR issued a hasty rebuke Tuesday to senior business editor Uri Berliner after he took the broadcaster to task over its lack of diverse views and opinions bookended by left-wing bias.

Richard Tice alleged that political pressure — possibly from the government — was behind the “unprecedented” debanking of Reform UK.

Nigel Farage’s former Brexit Party, which has been rebranded after the departure from the EU as the Reform Party, had its bank account closed.

“We always knew that Silicon Valley would pull out all the stops to obstruct and interfere with President Trump getting his message through to voters,” wrote Trump 2020 Campaign Manager Brad Parscale.

A survey finds one in five left-leaning bosses “will not hire” job candidates who are supporters of President Donald Trump.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) challenged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Thursday to address political censorship on his platforms and open up Facebook to increased competition. Zuckerberg declined.

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) highlighted Breitbart News while telling Google CEO Sundar Pichai that the company’s search engine “overly [uses] conservative news organizations” in its news feeds, offering his remarks in a Tuesday House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Facebook has issued a lengthy denial of reports that its news curation team discriminates against conservative news stories in its “trending news” feature, which is supposed to provide users with a list of the most popular news stories across the social network.

Rumours that Twitter has begun ‘shadowbanning’ politically inconvenient users have been confirmed by a source inside the company, who spoke exclusively to Breitbart Tech. His claim was corroborated by a senior editor at a major publisher.

This is the second in a two-part series on how to navigate the confusing set of rules and norms that govern Twitter, a platform that is plummeting to its doom faster than an obese lemming.

Twitter is notoriously opaque about why it punishes its users. Often, suspended users will get a message informing them they have been banned for violating the site’s terms of service, without being told specifically what they did. Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos has yet to be told why his “verified” status was removed.

Last week, Breitbart Tech brought you news of an extraordinary explusion of a Wikipedia editor, who was banned for alleged off-site “harassment,” despite the fact that no evidence of such behaviour was presented to the public.

Political bias at Twitter appears to be getting worse, not better. Yesterday, actor and political firebrand Adam Baldwin had his account locked over a tweet that did not appear to break any of Twitter’s terms of service.