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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced on Friday that he plans to sign a bill into law that would prohibit social media companies from censoring Texans’ viewpoints online, adding that censorship is “not going to be tolerated in Texas.”

Twitter failed to provide requested data and documentation to assist a House Judiciary Committee investigation into the size, competitiveness, and role of social media companies, according to a letter sent to CEO Jack Dorsey by Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Ken Buck (R-CO).

Only someone as stupid and entitled as TV actor Alec Baldwin would think it was a good idea to mock Gillian Anderson “switching accents” after his whiter-than-white wife ran around for years pretending to be Spanish.

Colin Kahl, nominated for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, described Republicans as “the party of ethnic cleansing” on Twitter. His Senate confirmation hearing is set for Thursday.

Social media giant Twitter announced this week that it will begin labeling tweets that share “misleading information” about the coronavirus vaccine and will implement a strike system for repeat offenders of the “misinformation policy.”

Conservative influencer Rogan O’Handley — known as DC Draino — was permanently banned from Twitter on Friday. A Twitter spokesperson told Breitbart News that O’Handley’s account “was permanently suspended for repeated violations of its civic integrity policy.”

The principal of Cordova High School in Memphis, Tennessee, is suing his school district and its superintendent for suspending him after he taught students about big tech censorship in the wake of the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter Thursday afternoon for an indictment of “robotic dogs” used to aid police visibility on crime scenes.

Microsoft has teamed up with a number of tech and media companies to create a system of tracing content around the internet that could destroy online privacy and anonymity, radically transforming the nature of the web.

Social media platform Twitter announced on Tuesday it has banned 373 accounts linked to the governments of Russia, Iran, and Armenia for violating various policies and “undermining faith in the NATO alliance and its stability.”

Left-wing model Chrissy Teigen asked President Joe Biden to unfollow her from his @POTUS Twitter account so she could “flourish.” She got her wish, after implying that she couldn’t post her usual profanity-laced tweets while being followed by Biden on Twitter. 

Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro has spent months promoting Carvativir, his “miraculous” droplets that, according to him, neutralize the Chinese Coronavirus in its entirety.

The Biden administration is working with Facebook, Google, and Twitter to target “COVID misinformation” and overcome “vaccine hesitancy,” according to senior officials in the administration who spoke to Reuters.

Twitter added a false description to a trending topic about Donald Trump Jr., repeating the incorrect claim from progressives and mainstream media reporters that he claimed the governor of Texas is a Democrat.

Trump spoke about Twitter in an interview with Greg Kelly on Newsmax TV. He said that he grew frustrated with Twitter after the election for flagging and restricting his posts.

After the Wednesday passing of talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh, blue check leftists took to Twitter to bash and mock the conservative icon while rejoicing over his death, including using the hashtag #RestInPiss.

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether or not to hear a case brought by Laura Loomer and Freedom Watch against Google, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, alleging that the Masters of the Universe have been discriminating on the basis of viewpoint and coordinating with each other in an anticompetitive manner.

Social media platform Parler is expected to be back online Monday after being offline for over a month following Amazon Web Services (AWS) booting the site off the internet.

The official Twitter account of Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian followed an explicit homosexual porn account, Breitbart News can confirm.

National Rally leader Marine Le Pen and MEP Gilbert Collard were in court this week as prosecutors demand a 5,000 euro fine against the two for posting pictures of Islamic State atrocities on Twitter in 2015.

Beginning next week, Twitter plans to label government-run Twitter accounts as well as the personal accounts of heads of state as part of the latest expansion of its policy on government-affiliated accounts. The company claims its goal is “a more informed experience on Twitter.”

Indian government ministers are flocking to an Indian-made Twitter rival named Koo after the U.S.-based Twitter upset New Delhi by failing to comply with an order to ban certain accounts this week.

Twitter says that disgraced Lincoln Project cofounder John Weaver did not violate its rules on unwanted sexual advances when he allegedly used the platform’s direct messaging system to sexually proposition young men.

Social media platform Twitter has locked the accounts of both Project Veritas and James O’Keefe following a recent report relating to Facebook’s VP of Integrity, Guy Rosen. The platform claims the report violates its policy on “posting private information,” and as a result, both O’Keefe’s personal account and the official account of Project Veritas have been locked, preventing them from posting.

The hashtag #CancelDisneyPlus became a top trend late Wednesday on Twitter after Lucasfilm fired actress Gina Carano from the cast of the popular Disney Plus-Star Wars spinoff series “The Mandalorian.” Her firing came after Carano shared a social media post that critics say downplayed the experience of Jews during the Holocaust.

Twitter’s blacklisting of Donald Trump is permanent, even if he returns to political office, according to a statement from a top Twitter executive.

MSNBC published an op-ed Tuesday comparing Adolf Hitler’s ability to speak and sway others at his 1924 trial (for an attempted coup) with former President Donald Trump speaking at his impeachment trial, claiming that “there are inherent risks in giving Trump a megaphone to spread his inanities now that he’s out of office and has been deplatformed from Twitter.”

Twitter claims it suspended the account of Rep. Devin Nunes (R- CA) on Tuesday in “error” after Nunes allegedly failed to complete the social media platform’s anti-spam filter. His account was restored shortly after.

Twitter said on Wednesday it would not fully comply with an Indian government order to suspend hundreds of accounts accused by New Delhi of spreading misinformation and inciting violence in the nation’s ongoing farmers’ protests. It made the statement after blocking over 500 accounts last week.

Conservative lawmakers in Brazil have introduced at least three bills to limit the ability of social media companies to censor the nation’s political commentators, the nation’s O Globo newspaper revealed Wednesday.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), who serves as the chair of the House Oversight Committee, wrote a letter to Parler COO Jeffrey Wernickon Monday demanding that the social media platform reveal its investors and creditors.

Scottish police have charged a man for writing an “offensive tweet” about Sir Captain Tom Moore, following his death. The arrest has sparked a row over the increasingly restrictive limits on freedom of speech in the British home nation. In

Twitter permanently banned the founder and editor-in-chief of the Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, on Saturday for violating the platform’s “civic integrity policy.” The move came shortly after the site temporarily suspended Gateway Pundit reporter Cassandra Fairbanks.

Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, revealed on Saturday that the former president is considering launching his own social media platform in the not-too-distant future.

CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Jonathan Greenblatt told Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) that a term like “globalists” is “white supremacist” language, and that the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe have not done enough to stifle free speech on the internet.

The Twitter social media platform flagged a Sunday tweet about “LGBT deviants” from Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu as “hateful,” but did not delete the tweet or suspend Soylu’s account.