Liberal comedian Bill Maher defended InfoWars host Alex Jones on Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, arguing that self-described liberals should be in favor of free speech as it is a core American value.
“Social Media is totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won’t let that happen.”
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has urged citizens to defend free speech in the West after big tech firms allegedly coordinated to remove right wing voices, including Infowars and Tommy Robinson, from social media in a 12-hour period.
The Vatican waded into the raging debate on the use of online algorithms Saturday, warning the faithful that social media and online services can make use of their personal data for “manipulative purposes.”
The Norfolk Sheriff’s Office in Norfolk, Virginia, let loose on Monday, joining multiple law enforcement agencies in the U.S. taking the #LipSyncChallenge going viral on social media.
Tory Remainer Damian Collins, chairman of Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport committee, is pushing for a raft of levies and restrictions on social media to prevent the spread of so-called ‘fake news’.
UKIP has accused Twitter of “shadow banning” Gerard Batten, the party’s leader and the elected representative for London in the European Parliament.
LONDON (AP) – The British government should increase oversight of social media like Facebook and election campaigns, a parliamentary committee has recommended in a report on fake news, data misuse, and alleged interference by Russia.
Twitter’s stock has dropped by almost 19 percent in morning trading following the company’s report of a consistent quarter-over-quarter decline in monthly active users.
Left-wing technology news outlet Gizmodo appears to have finally noticed Twitter censorship, publishing an article Sunday which claimed the platform “may be demoting controversial accounts in search results.”
A large number of right-wing and conservative Twitter accounts, including Breitbart News journalists, have been tagged with a mysterious Twitter filter that appears to block their tweets from some searches. It is unclear what else the filter does.
Facebook’s guidelines for removing pages and content from the platform has been revealed.
A Florida man was arrested Monday for contacting his ex-girlfriend 200 times a day and threatening to kill her family, police said.
Democrats attempted to a derail a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday on social media censorship to discuss alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The House Judiciary Committee announced Friday that it will hold a hearing on July 17 regarding Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s censorship practices.
Twitter will purge “tens of millions” of “suspicious” accounts on Thursday, according to a report.
Twitter’s stock dropped more than eight percent on Monday following reports that the social network has been deleting over 1 million fake accounts per day.
Uganda imposed a “social media tax” on citizens beginning July 1, triggering protests from human rights groups throughout the week that the tax represented an attack on freedom of speech.
A Facebook bug allowed blocked users to send messages to accounts which had blocked them for eight days, before the bug was fixed.
Facebook has admitted to sharing the personal data of its users with 61 different companies.
Huntress Tess Thompson Talley is standing her ground while facing backlash for shooting a black giraffe on a recent hunt in Africa.
The #Walkaway movement that began with a popular Facebook video featuring a gay hairdresser in New York City explaining why he was leaving the Democratic Party has quickly morphed into a major force on social media and beyond.
Social media Master of the Universe Facebook has once again been accused of leaking users personal information via a quiz app over a period of at least two years.
According to a recent survey released by the Pew Research Center, the majority of both Republicans and Democrats believe that social media websites at least “somewhat” censor political views.
What kind of warped, debased person do you need to be to go around wishing cancer recurrence on someone recovering from cancer?
Twitter will penalize users for following its own suggestions, and for tweeting too often at accounts that don’t respond.
The anti-mass migration Generation Identity movement has been banned permanently from Facebook, after all of their official pages were deleted due to “extremist content.”
Twitter has remained silent over recent posts from Hollywood actor Peter Fonda which called for President Trump’s son Barron to be put in a cage with pedophiles, the children of ICE agents to be harassed, and United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen to be placed “naked” in a public cage where people can whip her.
Despite previous debates relating to privacy issues following 87 million Facebook users’ data allegedly being accessed without their direct consent, Facebook has chosen to further increase the platforms on which it displays ads to its users.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly shared nearly 20 tweets from “Russian trolls,” retweeting posts from an account which posed as an African-American woman multiple times.
Facebook is reportedly set to meet with GOP officials today to discuss the censorship of conservatives across social media platforms.
Elliot Schrage, the vice president of communications and public policy at Facebook, apologized for calling a woman “not nice,” which she claimed was an act of sexism, and announced his departure from the company.
Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown left Twitter this week following a series of memes created by members of the LGBT community which attempted to paint Brown as homophobic.
A man from Florida was arrested recently after threatening to “shoot up” Disney World in a Facebook group.
Sir Elton John called for a social media boycott last week, claiming companies “haven’t done anything” to combat “hate,” and declaring, “Sod your freedom of speech.”
