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Twitter has verified the account of recent New York Times editorial board hire Sarah Jeong, despite the fact that her wide variety of racist posts remains on the platform.

Brad Parscale, the 2020 campaign manager for President Trump, criticized Silicon Valley’s “stifling” effect on free speech this week, declaring, “They must be stopped from turning the Internet into Big Brother.”

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey performed an interview with NBC News recently where he discussed the issues his platform faces surrounding “election security” and the presence of Infowars host Alex Jones on the website.

President Trump used the word “dog” to describe Omarosa Manigault- Newman on Monday, and now the fake news media are predictably claiming this is racist.

“When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!”

Conservative commentator Gavin Mcinnes appeared on Breitbart News Saturday this week to discuss his recent Twitter suspension and why it’s up to President Trump to stop social media censorship.

Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn attended a pedophilia-themed party, according to photographs surfacing on line.

CNN is continuing its effort to pressure Twitter into banning InfoWars, following the mass purge pushed by the news outlet this week.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey declared during his appearance on Sean Hannity’s radio show this week that Twitter sanctions users for their offline behavior too. This is nothing new — Breitbart News reported on the new rules in November 2017.

Dorsey promised more transparency over bans and suspensions, but continued to deny “shadowbanning” users.

The SEC has launched an inquiry after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted his desire to take his embattled electric vehicle company private.

A social media attorney named Bradley Shear is claiming that an applicant was questioned by a top college over his decision to follow Alex Jones on Twitter.

Last year, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai warned that it was Big Tech “edge providers,” such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook, are the real censorship threat, and not Internet Service Providers (ISPs) previously targeted under net neutrality.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended the company’s decision not to ban Alex Jones and Infowars’ accounts following a purge of Infowars accounts across Big Tech including Facebook, Spotify, Apple podcasts, and Microsoft’s LinkedIn. Dorsey says that Jones “hasn’t violated our rules,” and admitting “We’ve been terrible at explaining our decisions.”

Facebook has removed a video from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in which he advocates against interracial marriage.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has urged citizens to defend free speech in the West after big tech firms allegedly coordinated to remove right wing voices, including Infowars and Tommy Robinson, from social media in a 12-hour period.

Donald Trump Jr. warned conservatives on Tuesday that Democrat activists together with Silicon Vally tech companies would move against news websites like Breitbart News.

The mainstream media is attempting to pressure Twitter into banning InfoWars and Alex Jones after it successfully lobbied Facebook, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify into doing so.

Daniel McAdams, the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute, and Scott Horton, the editor of AntiWar.com have been suspended from Twitter.

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is calling on social media monopolies to “do more than take down one website,” meaning take down more websites on top of InfoWars.

“Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States,” President Trump wrote on Twitter. “I am asking for WORLD PEACE, nothing less!”

Former FCC Wireless Bureau Chief Fred Campbell told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Monday that “We the people should decide” whether Google, Facebook, and Twitter can censor and block content.

Radio host Alex Jones blasted Republicans Monday for their handling of congressional hearings on Internet censorship after Silicon Valley corporations banned Infowars from their platforms in a coordinated burst.

Dave Bautista is still raging over the firing of his Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn while still ignoring Gunn’s Huston Huddleston problem.

“The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it’s TRUE,” he wrote on Twitter.

The Sarah Jeong controversy has exposed Twitter’s bias as well as that of the New York Times.

The Vatican waded into the raging debate on the use of online algorithms Saturday, warning the faithful that social media and online services can make use of their personal data for “manipulative purposes.”

Jim Jordan told Breitbart News in an interview that social media giants “cannot say they’re an open platform” and then restrict free speech.

The New York Times has put in a lot of effort to retain an employee who apparently hates them.

Tech news site the Verge published an editorial piece recently defending New York Times tech writer Sarah Jeong’s racist tweets.

GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify in front of Congress on the topic of shadowbanning and censorship on social media.

Syria said late Thursday that its air defenses had destroyed an unspecified enemy target during an attempted an airstrike west of Damascus, as residents reported a series of loud explosions around the Syrian capital.

“It is the FAKE NEWS, which is a large percentage of the media, that is the enemy of the people!” he wrote on Twitter, referring to comments that his daughter Ivanka Trump made in an interview earlier in the day.

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of social media platform Twitter, stated in a recent interview that he understands why conservatives may be distrustful of Silicon Valley tech companies.

TEL AVIV – The Arab Twittersphere has been circulating images of “lucky” Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi from her release from an Israeli prison and noting that she is more “beautiful than when she went in,” showing no signs of mistreatment and has even gained a considerable amount of weight, while imprisoned Arab women in next door Syria are tortured, raped and starved.

President Donald Trump continued to attack billionaire Charles Koch for his critical assessment of his tariffs on foreign products.