On Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed big tech media companies like Google, which he said control their power by controlling information. Cruz said Google is a “monopoly” and could be the most “powerful company on the face of the
Nearly every single candidate for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2020 criticized President Donald Trump’s tweet Sunday morning advising left-wing members of Congress to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
House Democrats called out the chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday for previously claiming an openly LGBT Native American congresswoman was enabling racism by not supporting a radical immigration bill.
Shortly before the White House summit on social media, Twitter crashed unexpectedly both in many areas of the United States and in other countries.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Tuesday he would support amending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to combat online sex trafficking. Section 230 allows for big tech companies to censor conservative and alternative voices without significant legal recourse.
Analysis by Axios and Newswhip found that right-wing media outpaces the left in coverage of the Democrat primaries.
A recent study found that nearly half of students are distracted by the use of smartphones and other technology in the classroom. Some students also said that it’s the teacher’s job to make the classroom more interesting, in order to deter them from using technology.
PARIS (AP) – French lawmakers have approved a measure that is intended to force search engines and social networks to take hate speech off the internet.
Mainland Chinese censors scuttled the premiere of a lavish new historical epic called The Eight Hundred on Wednesday, apparently because they felt it glorified the Chinese Nationalist Party, which would go on to establish the Republic of China after the events depicted in the film.
“This event will bring together digital leaders for a robust conversation on the opportunities and challenges of today’s online environment,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere said to Breitbart News.
A top Google official asserted that “no employee” can manipulate search results based on his or her political beliefs when grilled by the top Republican on a House panel Wednesday about a recently unveiled video depicting bias against U.S. President Donald Trump and his supporters at the tech firm.
Apple approved an important update to the Parler social media app last night following a delay of a week, which Parler attributes to the tech giant’s questioning of the platform’s free speech values.
During a phone interview on Tuesday’s “Mornings with Maria” on Fox Business Network, President Donald Trump discussed the bias found on social media in the wake of leaked Google documents showing bias against conservatives. Trump told host Maria Bartiromo that people
Popular knitting community website Ravelry has reportedly banned the support of President Donald Trump on its platform. The company says that President Trump promotes “open white supremacy,” and states that while users can support Trump, “you just can’t talk about it here.” Interestingly, Ravelry claims “We are definitely not banning conservative politics.”
The City of Philadelphia has taken 72 police officers off the streets over “offensive” social media posts they supposedly made.
On-line platforms like Facebook and Twitter put Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Isaac Rochell in such a “funk,” that he recently started an initiative to convince people to take one day a week off from social media.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a mild Twitter meltdown recently vowing to delete his account — which is still currently active, briefly changing his display name to “Daddy dot com.”
“Well, you know what? I’ll bet they do like it,” Trump replied. “They may tell you that, but I’ll bet they like it, you know?”
Twitter announced on Thursday it has shuttered some 4,800 accounts with ties to the government of Iran. The accounts were engaged in spreading disinformation and propaganda that “benefited the diplomatic and geostrategic views of the Iranian state.”
For the passive conservatives — those who prefer losing but remaining “principled” while the left does everything it takes to win, those who believe no hill is worth dying on — the battle for social media is over.
Chinese state media announced the latest Internet censorship campaign on Wednesday, describing it as a “rectification” program that combines the efforts of China’s cyberspace agency, information technology ministry, public security officials, and market regulators.
President Donald Trump praised the power of social media on Wednesday, employing it to criticize polling from the establishment media.
President Donald Trump urged Twitter on Sunday to allow banned conservative personalities to return to the social media platform.
In our polarized world, people surround themselves with like-minded people to avoid having to confront different ideas, Pope Francis told the faithful at Pentecost Mass on Sunday.
Santa Clara County’s Superior Court judge said, “Sorry Google, you’re going to have to face these charges in court,” recalled Harmeet Dhillon.
President Trump’s State Department will soon mandate that all foreign nationals seeking to enter the United States on a visa provide their social media accounts to screen out national security threats.
European Union elections victor Nigel Farage has hailed the arrival of social media as the agent of change which has facilitated the rise of the Brexit Party, which went from foundation to becoming the joint-largest political party in Europe in just 45 days.
Mark Levin described Silicon Valley’s dominant “progressive” ideology as hostile to America’s Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
The White House launched a new system Wednesday to collect stories about free speech censorship on social media. The news was released on Twitter and includes an online form requesting information.
A spokesperson for Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta denied rumors on Monday that he is missing, chastising Kenyatta’s social media followers for showing a lack of respect to the country’s leader.
