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Chinese social media reportedly blew up Friday with posts gleefully celebrating the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, who annoyed the tyrants of Beijing with his staunch support for Taiwan.

A man hired as a coordinator for the D.C. Public Schools’ Office of Equity took to social media to demonize white people.

The number of America’s young people identifying as transgender has almost doubled recently, with citizens ages 13 to 25 accounting for a disproportionate number of that population, according to a new study.

Two weeks after one of China’s most popular social media personalities, “Lipstick King” Li Jiaqi, abruptly disappeared over a minor and probably unintentional defiance of Chinese Communist Party dogma, Beijing is cracking down on other livestreamers by publishing a list of “norms” they could be instantly sent to the digital gulag for violating.

The White House communications office continues struggling to get Biden’s message to the American people, the report notes.

Sweden’s Agency for Psychological Defence has launched a campaign warning Swedes about memes they say spread misleading information.

Ireland’s leftist president has decried the purchasing of social media companies by billionaires as a “form of dictatorship” on a TV station owned by the Irish state.

Critics have slammed a new European Commission plan to monitor private communications online in the name of protecting children from abuse.

China’s government-controlled social media outlet Weibo began censoring the official United Nations account and banning users from publishing comments by World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday – and reportedly censoring photos of top official – after Tedros called China’s coronavirus lockdown policy “unsustainable.”

The Attorneys General for Louisiana and Missouri have filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden for allegedly colluding with big tech social media companies to censor conservatives under the guise of combatting “misinformation.”

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized pushes to deal with social media disinformation for always focusing “on the producers, never the consumers, as if we’re all helpless, dumb blondes ready to believe anything” and said

British parliamentarians have summoned billionaire Elon Musk over his acquisition of Twitter and his plans to revive free speech.

From celebrities to lawmakers and run-of-the-mill leftists, the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft decision on Roe v. Wade lit up social media with wild accusations ranging from women dying to the reinstatement of slavery.

Hillary Clinton took to social media to weigh in on the leak of the draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision on  Roe v. Wade, which shows a majority of justices reject the idea abortion is a constitutional right.

A Flemish MEP has warned the EU “does not want free speech” after a European Commission official threatened Elon Musk over his takeover of Twitter.

We have three choices in dealing with Big Tech: like it the way it is, break it up, or fix it. Fixing it is the best course.

Elon Musk said Friday people on the far left had a deep dislike for others and themselves but added he was not a fan of the far right.

Barack Obama, in a speech on Thursday calling for more regulation of social media content, described himself as “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist” but immediately clarified that it does not apply to social media companies.

President Macron stated he is open to “dismantling” social media giants and proposed to end anonymity online as he campaigns for re-election.

A Canadian health ministry has apologised for sharing a link to a ‘foot fetish’ porn video instead of government COVID statistics.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) praised the possibility of Elon Musk taking over Twitter but argued that while someone with Musk’s resources can fix Twitter, “that’s the small fry,” because “You’ve

An automatic word monitor in a new Amazon worker chat app will ban a variety of words and phrases, such as “union,” “fairness,” “pay raise,” “slave labor,” and “master,” among other terms, according to internal documents obtained by the Intercept.

A recent study suggests that the negative impact of social media platforms varies for girls and boys based on their age. Girls are most negatively impacted between the ages of 11 and 13, while boys are most negatively impacted between 14 and 15 years old.

The British government has claimed they will give free speech a “trump card” status in an effort to combat woke cancel culture, despite the fact it is currently legislating to increase censorship online.

China’s state-run Global Times on Friday unleashed an editorial tirade against “badfaith [sic] actors fed by antagonistic Western media,” who have been running a “malicious smear campaign against China on Russia-Ukraine issues” by fiendishly translating the hideous things Chinese nationalist blowhards are saying on social media.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s newly hired press secretary Kirsten Allen posted questionable material on various social media accounts, which she did not delete during her Twitter purge before accepting the job.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a report recommending an increased focus on scanning the social media accounts of its employees in order to detect “extremism.”

Actor Alec Baldwin’s wife Hilaria Baldwin said over the weekend she is taking a break from social media. The move comes just weeks after her husband was hit with a wrongful death lawsuit.

Democrat first lady Jill Biden invited far-left former Facebook employee and fake ‘whistleblower’ Frances Haugen to attend the SOTU event.

Several Russian celebrities risked a potential exposure ban by state media this week through their public protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, Fortune magazine reported.

Online encyclopedia-turned information giant Wikipedia banned seven of its editors over their sympathy for a French presidential hopeful.

Legislation making its way through the Canadian Parliament would allow citizens to be taken to court and penalized if they are suspected of simply intending to post “hate speech” online.

Pope Francis has called on Christians to uproot evil from their lives this Lent, including the addiction to digital media that “impoverishes human relationships.”

Ireland’s parliament is currently considering a new media law that would push for the creation and dissemination of climate change propaganda.

Sir Nick Clegg, the discredited deputy prime minister turned Silicon Valley bigwig, has been promoted by Facebook’s parent company to a senior global position under the direct supervision of tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg.

Christopher Bedford is on the front lines fighting Big Tech and left-wing organizations’ online efforts to silence conservative voices.