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.
Twitter Blacklists Mathematician Who Testified at Arizona Voter Fraud Hearing
Twitter on Tuesday rejected Canberra’s calls to remove a Beijing official’s gruesome tweet targeting Australian troops, choosing instead to stand with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy is a “vocal advocate of censorship and speech controls,” according to George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley, who wrote Monday that Darcy’s campaign to urge Twitter to label accounts as “disinformation” is part of a broader threat to free speech.
Laurence Fox is in trouble again. He enjoyed a lunch with friends, gave them hugs, then boasted about it on Twitter.
Tech news site Protocol published a profile recently of Christine Su, the senior product manager for conversational safety at Twitter. Su’s approach to the platform’s censorship will focus on “transformative and procedural justice.”
Friday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” radio host Dennis Prager ripped big tech companies like Twitter for their efforts to censor conservative voices on their platforms.
Twitter is blocking users from sharing links to lawyer Sidney Powell’s lawsuit relating to widespread voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election.
At a time when social media platforms boast of taking bold measures to suppress “hate speech” and “disinformation,” Catholic news website Crux reported on Monday that Twitter allowed thousands of tweets to be posted in Spain under the hashtag #FuegoAlClero, which means “Set Fire to the Clergy.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) submitted questions on Tuesday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey regarding their “coordinated censorship” and tracking of their users across the Internet.
Twitter reportedly plans to reopen its verification process in 2021 along with new guidelines for users seeking to be verified. Along with various benefits for the “blue check” user themselves, verification assures the general public that the account belongs to the person or brand it claims to represent. Twitter has refused to verify prominent conservatives such as James O’Keefe and Sidney Powell, leading to hoax accounts confusing the public.
Sharyl Attkisson said big tech companies and news media create an “artificial reality” of political narratives through censorship.
Twitter is taking its campaign of labeling tweets that the site believes contain “misinformation” about the 2020 election to the next level. Now the platform plans to send users warnings if they attempt to “like” labeled tweets.
Lawyer Sidney Powell was temporarily suspended from Twitter, with some alleging that she was suspended for linking to a news article relating to election interference. Although she has not posted since the suspension, she has retweeted others on Monday, indicating her account was likely locked for 12 hours by the social media Masters of the Universe.
Hollywood director Paul Feig is urging Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to suspend President Donald Trump from the social media platform, claiming that the president is “trying to tear this country apart.” But the Joe Biden-supporting filmmaker failed to cite any examples of the president violating Twitter rules that could lead to a suspension.
Twitter will transfer control of @POTUS, the official account of the President of the United States, to Joe Biden on January 20, regardless of whether President Donald Trump concedes the election.
Twitter has locked Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton out of his account after he tweeted the results of a Danish study indicating that masks are ineffective at preventing the spread of coronavirus.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) experienced a wave of criticism when she misspelled the Gospel of Matthew in a tweet on Wednesday.
Twitter has placed warning labels on 23 posts and retweets from President Donald Trump this week, each calling his posts “disputed,” continuing its repeated pattern of censorship since election day.
In response to the previous day’s Senate hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) slammed big tech companies for censoring conservatives on their platforms.
Rush Limbaugh defended Breitbart News from censorship by Big Tech and the Democrats on Wednesday, noting that Andrew Breitbart had expanded freedom of the press in America.
During yesterday’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on social media censorship, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) argued that conservatives are not censored on social media, because far-left Media Matters says they aren’t.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday praised Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) after the rising Republican Party star grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
After a wide-ranging set of questions that included Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency token and censorship in Vietnam, Marsha Blackburn finished her questioning with a fiery speech against the Big Tech Masters of the Universe and their power.
At the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Big Tech censorship today, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) confronted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with evidence of an internal tool used by the social network to coordinate censorship with Google and Twitter.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News that Big Tech’s political censorship amounted to election interference, offering her comments on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
In a hearing today before the Committee on the Judiciary, the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter faced harsh criticism over their censorship of the New York Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden stories.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, for suppressing discussion of voter fraud. The Texas senator also condemned Democrat senators for demanding more censorship from Big Tech.
Those of us paying attention can see exactly what’s happening to Parler and Substack. The corporate media are now looking to deplatform platforms that refuse to deplatform. Put another way, the corporate media are looking to blacklist and bully platforms that refuse to blacklist and bully.
Ahead of Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) emphasized the importance of holding the two social media giants “accountable” for the censorship of conservatives on their platforms. This comes as Twitter has been inserting a disclaimer on Trump’s tweets about the election, and Facebook has deleted pro-Trump groups fighting the election results.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday to explore censorship, suppression, and the 2020 election.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has appointed Richard Stengel, who advocates restrictions on free speech, to a key media post in his presidential transition team.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says he has been approached by a Facebook whistleblower who alleges coordination between Facebook, Google, and Twitter to suppress and censor their platforms.
As President Donald Trump continues to raise questions about the presidential election and the media’s election predictions, Facebook and Twitter have continued to label the President’s posts with”fact-checks” to lower their engagement and viral spread.
On Monday, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) previewed how the Senate Judiciary Committee will press social media CEOs Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg over their censorship efforts.
In a grim tweet on Sunday night, far-left actor Alec Baldwin called for President Donald Trump to be buried in a Nazi graveyard with a Swastika placed on his grave.
Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley hit back at Twitter on Friday for flagging her tweet about election fraud while ignoring one casting doubt on the Holocaust by Iran’s Ayatollah.
Free speech platform Gab has enjoyed a major boost in traffic this year, particularly surrounding the presidential election, and is set to reach over 55 million page views this month. Gab has doubled the number of people visiting the site every week, now visited by 8 million people from around the world.
As Twitter increases it’s fact-checking and labeling of posts across its platform, some users have begun mocking the site via parody posts examples. The fake tweets are part of a growing backlash against Twitter censorship that impacts not only President Donald Trump, but the broader conservative movement.
Social media website Twitter recently congratulated itself for curbing the spread of misinformation on its platform — by slowing the spread of all information on its platform. Based on Twitter’s changes to its platform, total retweets, one of the primary way ideas spread quickly between users, are down 20 percent.
