Pope Francis: Saint Paul Would Have Used ‘Email and Social Messaging’
Pope Francis warned of the dangers of misinformation on the Internet Saturday while extolling its contributions to modern communication.

Pope Francis warned of the dangers of misinformation on the Internet Saturday while extolling its contributions to modern communication.
Britain’s Socialist Workers Party (SWP) was censored from Facebook on Friday, as Silicon Valley tech giants turn their censorship apparatus upon the radical left in the U.S. and the UK.
During MSNBC’s Inauguration coverage on Wednesday, former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said that there are huge questions on “whether or not someone has to step in and regulate these platforms so that it’s not left to the CEO of
Britain’s leading left-wing newspaper The Guardian has published a list of Conservative MPs and prominent personalities who joined the social media platform Parler, which the newspaper claims is favoured by the “far-right” and “Trump supporters”.
Parler CEO John Matze says the social media platform will be back soon, adding that “free speech is essential, especially on social media.”
Poland’s government has unveiled a draft law to combat censorship on social media, creating a Freedom of Speech Board with the power to order tech firms to restore online accounts and posts deleted for lawful speech on pain of substantial fines.
The Prime Minister of Poland has vowed to “defend freedom of speech on the internet” and insisted “the owners of social media networks cannot operate above the law” after U.S. President Donald Trump and Parler were purged.
Insurance giant American International Group (AIG) canceled Boston Red Sox legend Curt Schilling solely because he is a conservative.
Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump on Friday, dramatically ushering in a new era of Big Tech speech control.
Yoweri Museveni, who has been “president” of Uganda for nearly 35 years, accused foreign social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook of attempting to “come and play around with our country” amid a presidential election campaign in remarks Tuesday following his ban on the sites.
China’s state-run Global Times declared in an article Sunday that President Donald Trump’s permanent removal from the social media outlet Twitter was proof “freedom of speech does have political and ethical boundaries” in its “true essence.”
Pro-democracy Hong Kongers are reportedly changing their Twitter avatars to signal support for outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump and protest Trump getting banned from the platform.
Merkel has criticised the banning of the Twitter account of U.S. President Trump, stating that she has concerns over freedom of expression.
The European Commissioner for the internal market described the storming the U.S. Congress as the “9/11 moment of social media” and has called for the United States to work alongside the EU to implement more restrictions on speech on the
“As I have been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me — and YOU,” Trump wrote.
A newly launched Hungarian social media network claims it wants to create a similar platform to Facebook, but without censorship.
Twitch has locked President Donald Trump’s account indefinitely following the riots that took place on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
A 12-year-old English girl plans to take legal action against the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, alleging that the app uses children’s data illegally.
High school student Mimi Groves of Leesburg, Virginia, was forced to withdraw from the University of Tennessee as a result of a smear campaign launched by one of her classmates. Groves was pressured to withdraw from the university after student Jimmy Galligan shared a three-second video from 2016 of Groves using a racial slur while singing along with a rap song.
The controversial Chinese communist ambassador to the United Kingdom, Liu Xiaoming, will stand down from his position, just a few months after his Twitter account ‘liked’ a foot fetish pornographic video. Liu Xiaoming will be replaced as the Chinese Communist
If former Vice President Joe Biden becomes president, Big Tech’s left-wing political censorship will worsen, forecasted Dave Rubin.
The Irish government has proposed making it a crime to share ‘hate’ comments on social media platforms even if someone else wrote of them.
A second judge has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Commerce Department from imposing restrictions on the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok, including a ban that was supposed to take place in early November.
The Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has reportedly begun an investigation and banned certain search terms linked to harmful pro-anorexia content. One expert explained that once a teenager has accessed eating disorder content, the platform floods their feed with the topic, because “TikTok is essentially designed to show you what it thinks you want to see.”
In a recent article, Wired notes that as many social media platforms copy features from each other, they are all essentially become the same platform. Copying features is an effort to “juice engagement,” but the platforms lose their unique personality in the process.
A California community banded together to save a kitten stuck 60 feet high in a cypress tree over the weekend after the kitten climbed up the tree and could not get down.
Sharyl Attkisson said big tech companies and news media create an “artificial reality” of political narratives through censorship.
An MRC poll of Joe Biden voters shows that the media not covering significant stories led to the former vice president’s apparent win.
On Friday’s edition of “The McLaughlin Group Extra,” The Daily Beast’s Eleanor Clift stated that social media platforms crack down on conservatives more than people on the left because people on the left “don’t, for the most part, spread lies
More than one-third of social media users believe President Trump should be “permanently” banned from platforms for spreading what the tech giants consider to be election “misinformation,” according to a Morning Consult survey released this week.