Speaking at Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority event on Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recalled when a Twitter executive couldn’t answer whether a tweet with Mother Theresa’s quote “Abortion is profoundly anti-woman” was considered hate speech by the social media platform.
Social media platform Twitter has begun adding labels to tweets from certain verified accounts that break the site’s rules rather than deleting or removing them, which will affect tweets by President Donald Trump that Twitter decides are inappropriate for its platform. The site will also “deprioritize” labeled tweets, so fewer people will see them.
“This event will bring together digital leaders for a robust conversation on the opportunities and challenges of today’s online environment,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere said to Breitbart News.
Following leaked evidence of Google employees appearing to promote censorship of conservative figures, YouTube has claimed to have “no political bias,” to which Prager University replied, “see you in court!”
A top Google official asserted that “no employee” can manipulate search results based on his or her political beliefs when grilled by the top Republican on a House panel Wednesday about a recently unveiled video depicting bias against U.S. President Donald Trump and his supporters at the tech firm.
Actor and creator of Family Guy Seth MacFarlane floated a “National No Twitter Day” Tuesday evening, which could very well signal the growing concerns of the social justice charade embraced by Silicon Valley.
Headlined ‘Our carbon debt’, the short video tries to reposition the Industrial Revolution – the single greatest leap in living standards in the history of the world – as a terrible mistake for which we should now make amends.
NetChoice, a trade association representing many of America’s largest tech companies, will host an event Tuesday criticizing recent calls for regulating Section 230 of Communications Decency Act, which many conservatives believe allows large tech companies to censor without significant legal recourse.
In what is yet one more example of how the establishment media refuse to vet high-profile Democrats, the Washington Free Beacon reports that after contacting Coleman, she “deleted thousands of old tweets.”
Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA), a member of the House Freedom Caucus, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday that President Donald Trump and the Freedom Caucus continue to fight for the millions of forgotten men and women in Washinton, DC.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wednesday that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act grants massive benefits to Google, Facebook, and Twitter, allowing them to censor without significant legal recourse.
YouTube has deleted the channel of Spain’s populist Vox Party, in a move that will likely exacerbate claims that Google is actively suppressing dissemination of right-leaning or conservative content.
On-line platforms like Facebook and Twitter put Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Isaac Rochell in such a “funk,” that he recently started an initiative to convince people to take one day a week off from social media.
OJ Simpson has stirred the Twittersphere once again, this time with a tweet asking for advice filling out his fantasy football roster.
According to a Fox News poll, at least 50 percent want to see Trump impeached, and that number is higher compared to other polls on the same issue, including a CNN poll.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pushed back on Monday in a discussion about free speech with Washington Post tech reporter Tony Romm, who pressed Cruz about whether attacks on social media about people’s sexual orientation or ethnicity should be censored.
President Trump is considering live-tweeting during the June 26–27 Democrat debates, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a mild Twitter meltdown recently vowing to delete his account — which is still currently active, briefly changing his display name to “Daddy dot com.”
Hollywood actor and left-wing activist John Cusack claims a “bot” is to blame for sharing an anti-Semitic meme on Twitter Monday.
“Well, you know what? I’ll bet they do like it,” Trump replied. “They may tell you that, but I’ll bet they like it, you know?”
Twitter announced on Thursday it has shuttered some 4,800 accounts with ties to the government of Iran. The accounts were engaged in spreading disinformation and propaganda that “benefited the diplomatic and geostrategic views of the Iranian state.”
For the passive conservatives — those who prefer losing but remaining “principled” while the left does everything it takes to win, those who believe no hill is worth dying on — the battle for social media is over.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai said during a hearing Wednesday that the “greatest threat” to a free Internet is the “unregulated Silicon Valley tech giants.”
Social media platform Twitter has reportedly temporarily suspended the account of investigative journalism group Project Veritas following its publication of internal documents from Silicon Valley company Pinterest.
There is something very, very wrong with Ocasio-Crazy. This is not a smart or stable person, and her smug sense of entitlement is off the charts.
“I wish I would have thought of this,” Avenatti wrote on Twitter in response. “Oh Wait.”
The National Review has a new plan for social media users to fight back against censorship — deleting your account.
President Donald Trump urged Twitter on Sunday to allow banned conservative personalities to return to the social media platform.
Santa Clara County’s Superior Court judge said, “Sorry Google, you’re going to have to face these charges in court,” recalled Harmeet Dhillon.
In a series of tweets posted to its own platform, Twitter outlined a number of changes to its rules and policies. Users were skeptical that the company would enforce them fairly.
The newly-elected President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, used his first week in office to fire a host of government officials via Twitter, taking many within the country’s political establishment by surprise.
Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen claimed in a recent interview with left-wing Hollywood star Don Cheadle that U.S. democracy is “being disintegrated” under President Trump.
A recent report from MarketWatch claims that ahead of suspected antitrust investigations into Silicon Valley, tech giants may have to reveal to users how much their data is worth. User Data is the lifeblood of the Masters of the Universe, providing them with billions in profits based on targeted advertising.
YouTube has begun demonetizing any content deemed to “brush up” against its rules following complaints from Vox journalist Carlos Maza. The backlash by video creators and site users against the Google-owned platform, called #VoxAdpocalypse, became the top trend on Twitter.
A tweet posted on Monday by a verified Twitter user about running over a 7-year-old Trump supporter has garnered over 19,000 “retweets” and nearly 100,000 “likes.” The tweet has yet to be removed by the social media platform.
National pro-life leader Lila Rose announced that Twitter has again banned both of her accounts and that of her organization from all ads.
The University of Washington Tacoma is working on a tool that will seek out “hate speech” on social media.
“These accounts were not mass reported by the Chinese authorities – this was a routine action on our part” said Twitter.
Twitter has locked the account of conservative evangelical pundit Erick Erickson over a post mocking Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren for her false claims of significant Native American ancestry.
Twitter has suspended the account of Eoin Lenihan, a researcher who mapped out connections between mainstream journalists and the violent far-left Antifa movement on Twitter, following a mass-reporting campaign by left-wing activists.
