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Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) delivered an address Friday afternoon on the floor of the Senate in which she announced that she would be voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, and explained her reasons — and the left was not happy.

“The very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals only looking to make Senators look bad,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Don’t fall for it!”

Georgetown University Professor Christine Fair is tweeting again — after Twitter apparently flip-flopped on suspending her — following up her infamous tweet calling for GOP Senators to be killed and castrated with hot takes including the comparison of conservative media to terrorists.

Wired Sources, a popular conservative news aggregation account whose slogan is “They ignore it? We report it,” has been banned from Twitter.

A university report claims “Russian trolls” are responsible for the widespread negative reactions to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, despite admitting there is no evidence for this.

Georgetown Professor Christine Fair was suspended from Twitter on Tuesday after she tweeted that GOP senators deserve “slow miserable deaths” and their corpses castrated.

President Donald Trump may meet with top executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter in October, according to the White House.

“KillKavanaugh” is also featured prominently as search suggestions when users type “Ki” or even just “K.”

“Word is that Kanye West, who put on a MAGA hat after the show (despite being told ‘no’), was great,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “He’s leading the charge!”

A staffer working for Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum was fired for tweeting in favor of President Trump’s execution, and wearing a shirt labeling states that voted for Trump “Dumbf**kistan.”

The European Union has reportedly warned Facebook that it could face sanctions over its “misleading” terms and conditions.

A Canadian journalist associate of Tommy Robinson is under police investigation for filming the right-wing activist waving at fans from a window after his appearance in court this Thursday.

During a hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, lawyer Harmeet Dhillon got into a heated exchange with Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), in which Dhillon argued that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides special protections for social media platforms, should be revised to “strip that immunity from those companies, because they do not deserve it.”

Dating app Tinder has joined a growing list of Big Tech companies attempting to get users interested in the upcoming November Midterm elections.

Free speech social media platform Gab flew a banner over Twitter HQ this week calling on President Trump to investigate the company.

Twitter has refused to uphold its harassment rules against an Antifa account which encouraged harassment of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), after permanently blacklisting Infowars host Alex Jones last month based on the same rules.

“The Democrats are playing a high level CON GAME in their vicious effort to destroy a fine person,” Trump wrote.

Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Tuesday that given Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s rampant censorship practices, “something has to change,” and they are “going to look at this monopoly situation.”

According to a company blog post, Twitter is crafting updated harassment policies with the help of user input.

Big Tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are encouraging their users to register to vote before the United States midterm elections in November.

Attorney Michael Avenatti said his client might now not come forward against Brett Kavanaugh, and then locked his Twitter public profile from view.

The Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) plans to lobby D.C. lawmakers to take action against online censorship within the next month.

Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) urged social media giants to acknowledge their political biases in an op-ed for USA Today this week.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Actor James Woods has been locked out of his Twitter account over a tweet he sent out months ago that was found to be in violation of Twitter’s rules.

Conservative actor James Woods was locked out of Twitter on Friday for posting a two-month-old meme that Jack Dorsey’s social media platform believes “could impact an election.”

The White House has reportedly drafted an executive order that would open an antitrust investigation into the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe.

A fundraising campaign seeks to raise money to support the widow and orphaned children of Ari Fuld, the dual U.S.-Israeli citizen who was brutally murdered by a Palestinian terrorist on Sunday.

Twitter promoted a post advocating for female genital mutilation (FGM) this week, after building a history of blacklisting promoted ads from pro-lifers, before claiming it was an “error.”

Internet payment services giant PayPal has blacklisted Infowars from its platform for allegedly promoting “hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions.”

Despite major campaigns against “fake news” across Europe, a new study has revealed that fake news tweets made up a mere 0.01 percent of the 60 million tweets during the 2017 French presidential campaign.

French populist leader Marine Le Pen has rejected orders by a French court that she undergo a psychiatric evaluation in connection with her prosecution for tweeting out Islamic State executions. The Rassemblement National (RN) leader revealed on Twitter that he had been ordered

Nigel Farage has called for a Bill of Rights for social media users after tech giants were exposed for their bias against conservatives.

Kanye West shared a portion of a text exchange he had with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, posting a screenshot of the messages on his Instagram profile on Thursday.

Free speech social media platform Gab.ai has rebranded as Gab.com and aims to become a tech hub for “liberty-minded tech startups” that wish to avoid connections to leftist Silicon Valley groups.

A parliamentary committee in Singapore recommended on Thursday that their government hold technology firms such as Facebook and Twitter accountable for the spread of fake news on their platforms.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry will reportedly encourage Attorney General Jeff Sessions to break up Google, Facebook, and Twitter during a meeting next week.