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The Trump-appointed Chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, has killed a last-minute effort to curb Big Tech censorship, saying there is insufficient time to take action.

Twitter erupted in calls for retribution on Wednesday, as accounts bearing the social network’s stamp of approval — the blue “verified” checkmark — called for Trump supporters to be shot. In a comment to Breitbart News, Twitter said, “we’ll continue

“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Twitter censored a video from President Donald Trump calling on protesters at the U.S. capitol building to peacefully disperse and go home. Twitter users were prevented from liking, retweeting, or replying to the tweet because of a “risk of violence.”

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently laid out his opposition to proposed cryptocurrency regulation, stating that it would create “perverse incentives for cryptocurrency customers to avoid regulated entities for cryptocurrency transactions.”

Twitter recently acquired the social broadcasting app Breaker as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to expand its audio features. Breaker, a podcast app, gained steam after becoming one of the first podcast platforms on which users could comment and follow their friends. Breaker’s functions will be incorporated into a product called Twitter Spaces.

The New York Times has been accused of spreading false information about the United Kingdom’s coronavirus vaccine guidelines, after publishing a reportedly misleading article and post on social media.

Hollywood star Debra Messing falsely alleged in a tweet that incumbent Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) flashed a “white power” hand sign for the camera during an October rally in Georgia.

Twitter censored a number of accounts ahead of the January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., including Arizona State Rep Mark Finchem (R), who is now drafting legislation to fine big tech companies that engage in censorship.

Throughout 2020 the world saw multiple major hacks and breaches of schools, governments, and private companies as more systems moved online and the world adapted to the coronavirus pandemic — here are five of the most notable hacks and breaches of 2020.

Tuesday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) warned Big Tech was making inroads into the incoming Biden administration, which he said could have policy repercussions given the tech companies spent big on the 2020 election cycle.

A Delaware computer repairman has filed a $500 million lawsuit against Twitter for alleged defamation in response to the repairman’s involvement with Hunter Biden’s laptop, which became the subject of bombshell stories published by the New York Post ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

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

Poland’s national conservative government has detailed a new law protecting free speech online against Big Tech censorship, backed by a new court and big fines.

If former Vice President Joe Biden becomes president, Big Tech’s left-wing political censorship will worsen, forecasted Dave Rubin.

This is the Euroweenies’ payback for Brexit. Britain is being punished for having made the ‘wrong’ decision in the EU referendum.

In an inflammatory tweet on Sunday, far-left actor Alec Baldwin proposed several violent acts of retribution that should await President Donald Trump “if he refuses to concede.”

The Irish government has proposed making it a crime to share ‘hate’ comments on social media platforms even if someone else wrote of them.

Former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is attacking conservative and anti-woke celebrities, demanding that social media giants step up censorship because these stars are tweeting “irrational and harmful opinions to millions.”

Ahead of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, social media site Twitter announced that it would be forcing users to quote tweet any tweets they attempted to retweet in an attempt to add an extra layer of “friction,” forcing users to question the content they shared. In practice, the change dampened virality and engagement for all posts to the platform. Now, Twitter has reversed these changes after the election.

ESPN analyst Domonique Foxworth is claiming that his recent comments in which he admitted to rooting against white Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen because Allen’s supporters are flag-waving dog lovers, were taken out of context.

The headline finding of this week’s report on press freedom in 2020 by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) was that more journalists have been imprisoned for their work than ever before, and China is the world’s worst jailer for the second year in a row. The report, and other material published by CPJ in conjunction with its release, invested a great deal of effort in blaming the dismal state of press freedom on President Donald Trump.

The FTC has ordered nine of the largest technology companies in the world to disclose data about their operations and business practices. Amazon, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, and Google parent company Alphabet are amongst the companies at the center of the FTC’s investigation.

Top Silicon Valley executives donated tens of thousands of dollars to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, often maxing out on the strict limits imposed upon personal political donations, according to an analysis by Fox News.

FCC commissioner Brandon Carr is urging the agency to take action to curb legal protections for Big Tech companies engaged in political censorship before President Donald Trump leaves office, outlining a plan to do so.

Left-wing Hollywood star Debra Messing is not only standing by the gay insult that she tweeted last week at President Donald Trump, she is now hoping for physical violence on the commander in chief.

Twitter temporarily blocked users from interacting with posts from President Donald Trump claiming the election was stolen over the weekend. Users were prevented from replying to the tweets or pressing the “like” button to indicate their approval.

During Sunday’s broadcast of New York WABC 770 AM radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz took aim at big tech companies like Twitter and Facebook for censoring users on their platforms.

While promising to crack down on election misinformation on its platform and labeling a large number of President Donald Trump’s posts, Twitter allowed misinformation about Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) to spread virally across its platform freely.

The media and Big Tech censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, falsely claiming it was Russian disinformation. Here are some major offenders.

A new poll reveals that 60% of Democrats want social media companies to do more to stop “misinformation,” while two-thirds of Republicans think that Big Tech is already doing too much.

The president of the New York Young Republicans club, Gavin Wax, was censored by Twitter for saying that members of the violent, far-left Antifa movement should be in jail while critiquing the attorney general for inaction on the issue.

Twitter has once again expanded its hate speech policies to “prohibit language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin.”

President Donald Trump slammed “certain Republican senators” for their “cold feet” on reforming Section 230, the law that allows Big Tech platforms to censor their users while suffering little in the way of legal consequences.

Breitbart News senior technology correspondent Allum Bokhari appeared on a special episode of the Jesse Kelly Show to discuss his book, DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey today demanding to know why the platform has failed to prevent the spread of Chinese communist propaganda across the service.