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BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti claimed Big Tech companies are having a “huge problem” controlling content on their platforms, and declared, “We can’t just police bad content, we have to produce good content,” during a speech at SXSW, Friday.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), a habitual critic of Trump on Twitter, explained that he had not known the purpose of Trump’s Alabama trip.

During a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stated that the social media platform was “probably way too aggressive” in banning conservatives.

The New York Times recently published an article highlighting the dramatic change in the attitude about Big Tech at CPAC, from being heavy sponsors of the conference last year to being attendees’ “boogeyman.”

Journalist Tim Pool’s questioning of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and executive Vijaya Gadde on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Tuesday, is what Dorsey’s congressional hearing should have been.

Harmeet Dhillon has brought cases against Google and Twitter on grounds of viewpoint discrimination.

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz questioned Sunday why an Atlantic reporter has not yet retracted a tweet about him despite it being debunked by a Politico reporter and an on-record statement by the Florida Governor.

Twitter is reportedly working on a new “hide tweet” feature, which will allow users to completely hide unwanted or critical replies made to their posts from the public.

“Do we want to have a country that is basically run from Silicon Valley, an economy that’s run from Silicon Valley, politics that’s run from Silicon Valley?”

Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point USA, described immigration as America’s “biggest issue” in a Thursday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Top executives from social media companies like Twitter and NowThis have been reportedly giving former Vice President Joe Biden advice on how to best use their platforms to appeal to young voters as Biden nears making a final decision about running for president.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Thursday that his committee will take a “long hard look” at social media censorship of conservative and alternative voices during a speech at CPAC. 

Twitter has been warning users from around the world, including conservative writer and commentator Michelle Malkin, that their posts on the platform violate Pakistan’s Sharia law, and that they “may wish to consult legal counsel.”

James O’Keefe invited insiders within Facebook, Google, and Twitter to become whistle-blowers and expose politically motivated censorship.

Facebook may just have stolen Twitter’s crown as the web’s shadiest shadowbanner.

Donald Trump Jr. appeared on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight, Tuesday, to warn that if America doesn’t fight back against Big Tech censorship now, it’ll never have the chance again.

The SEC has asked a federal judge to hold Tesla CEO Elon Musk in contempt over his recent production boasts, claiming the embattled CEO has “not made a diligent or good faith effort” to comply with the settlement he agreed to. 

Buzzfeed reporter Kate Aurthur deliberately smeared Tucker Carlson using a photo of the Fox News anchor with a “sex worker.”

Nathan Bernard, a verified user on Twitter, threatened to post revenge porn of conservative author Mike Cernovich online, Tuesday, before the threat was eventually removed.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has previously been in hot water with the SEC for his reckless social media posts, recently tweeted Tesla production guidance for 2019 before retracting the figures just hours later.

Lara Logan is trending on Twitter in the United States, after she gave an interview calling the news media biased, recommending Breitbart.

Journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post, and Bloomberg promoted a “completely fake” statistic “that doesn’t seem to exist” about sexism in technology this week.

Rock band R.E.M lodged a successful copyright claim against President Trump’s Twitter account, which led to Twitter removing a video mocking Democratic lawmakers and featuring the band’s hit song “Everybody Hurts.”

Twitter locked the account of writer and podcast host Luke Thompson after he sent a tweet questioning why the boyfriend of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appears to have an official house.gov email address.

The song “Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M. plays in the background.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was criticized this week after he boasted about Twitter’s “misgendering” ban while simultaneously claiming that users are not suspended for their political views.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is the most exciting user on the social network during an interview, Tuesday.

Twitter apologized on Tuesday after many conservatives on the platform reported that most of their posts’ likes and retweets were disappearing.

Chinese authorities detained a Twitter user for blaming Communist Party leader Xi Jinping for ‘exporting the evils of communism’ to Venezuela, a report from Radio Free Asia (RFA) revealed Tuesday.

Meghan Murphy, the founder of the radical feminist blog Feminist Current, has filed a lawsuit against Twitter after the social network blacklisted her in November for stating that men are not women.

This is the same media that call President Trump thin-skinned and accuse him of being a threat to the First Amendment.

Worse still, how do you miss something this gosh-darned wrong for 15 hours, which is the length of time Sotomayor’s fake news lived on?

Bloomingdale’s removed a shirt with the words “fake news” on it following an angry response from journalists on social media.

British police arrested a mother in front of her children for calling a trans activist a man in a Twitter argument, with a judge subsequently issuing an injunction banning her from referring to the person’s “former male identity”.

Republicans are thrilled at the prospect of their rivals embracing the Green New Deal, which promises to wipe out massive portions of the American economy, and the president is no exception.

What is this if not an admission she has been caught taking credit for other people’s ideas and words — which is the textbook definition of plagiarism.