Twitter is allowing its users to coordinate criminal behavior on the platform, with dozens of tweets identifying looting targets still on the platform despite the fact that the site was notified by concerned citizens.
A black federal officer, Patrick Underwood, was shot and killed in Oakland, California, Friday night as he attempted to keep the peace amid the violent riots sweeping California and the rest of the U.S.
Rioters lit fires at various locations in Washington, D.C., today, including near the White House, as violent unrest continued for the second day in the nation's capital in protests over the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis, MN, police officer.
American troops were spotted heading into Washington DC in military trucks around sunset earlier today. In a Facebook post, the National Guard confirmed it has been activated in the D.C.
Twitter has yet to "fact check" a tweet from former CNN contributor and progressive author Reza Aslan that accuses Trump supporters of being responsible the violence and looting that has broken out around the country.
Clashes with the police continued for a second day outside the White House, amid nationwide outbreaks of violence and looting, with one protester seen holding a sign bearing the slogan "The People Want Blood.
Violent protesters outside the White House Saturday morning forced at least two journalists, including a reporter for Breitbart News, to flee their coverage assignments, in one of the many incidents of violent unrest sweeping across the nation.
Twitter censored tweets from President Donald Trump and the White House, falsely alleging that they "glorified violence." But it has also allowed a tweet from a user claiming "violence IS the answer" to go viral, accumulating over 60,000 retweets over the course of nearly three days.
Twitter appeared to inadvertently admit that one of President Donald Trump's tweets, now censored by the platform, did not in fact violate the site's rules.
An official Twitter "moment" described the violent riots and looting that broke out in Minneapolis and other areas of the country with the muted term "heated protests," in an entry created by Twitter employees that appeared at the top of users' feeds.
After censoring President Donald Trump's personal account, Twitter has now censored the official account of the White House as well.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order today aimed at addressing social media censorship. Breitbart News has broken down the order into its key components, which include defining social media as the "modern public square," and potentially changing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the crucial legal protection enjoyed exclusively by the Big Tech Masters of the Universe.
Yesterday, Twitter took twelve hours to add a "manipulated media" label to viral tweets from verified celebrities that included a photo of a man who appeared to be the Minneapolis cop who killed George Floyd, wearing a hat saying "Make Whites Great Again.
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on social media censorship amid rapidly intensifying political bias from the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe.
Whistleblowers at Facebook have filed a complaint with the SEC alleging that the company was aware of illegal activity on its platform, yet failed to notify the proper authorities, according to a report in theWashington Post.
Twitter added a "fact check" label to President Donald Trump's tweets raising widely-held concerns with mail-in voting fraud earlier today, but it has failed to apply a similar standard to repeated falsehoods by elected Democrats, the mainstream media, and Joe Biden.
Twitter added a link to "get the facts" about mail-in ballots after President Trump tweeted out widely-held concerns about the potential for voter fraud. The Twitter-curated "moment" isfilled with mainstream media articles from CNN,Washington Post,and other outletscalling Trump a liar.
YouTube has said it is "looking into" an alleged "error" in its system after it censored the term "Wumao," a common description for online propagandists for the Chinese Communist Party.
Twitter issued a statement apologizing for tweets from President Donald Trump linking MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to the death of Lori Klausutis, a staffer who worked for Scarborough while he was a Republican congressman.
Twitter appears to have removed its blue "verified" checkmark from a number of users on the platform over the past few days, a purge that included Rudy Takala, a journalist for Mediaite who reported on former President Obama's abuse of government surveillance powers.
The Trump administration is considering setting up a panel to review cases of anti-conservative bias from major tech companies, according to a report in theWall Street Journal.
Facebook's Oversight Board, which will hear appeals on content removal and is packed with left-wing members, will herald a further shift away from a "a U.S. constitutional-law paradigm towards an international human rights approach" towards censorship and free speech.
#YouAintBlack and #JoeBidenIsARacist both became national trending hashtags on Twitter in the wake of the presumptive Democrat nominee's disastrous interview onThe Breakfast Club,in which he said blacks who consider supporting Donald Trump "ain't black.
Video game studio Naughty Dog, together with its parent company, Sony, has been flooding social media platforms with questionable copyright complaints aimed at censoring critics of their upcoming title, the widely mockedThe Last of Us 2.
Twitter has rolled out a new feature allowing users to disable replies to their tweets, enabling those who make unpopular remarks to minimize criticism.
Axios reports that Google, the tech giant known for the sharp anti-Trump bias of its executives and founders and its self-admitted "shift toward censorship" in the wake of Trump's election, has landed a massive contract to build cloud technology for the Department of Defense.
Mika Brzezinski, co-host ofMSNBC'sMorning Joewent off on a rant about President Trump today, calling him "sick" and "disgusting," and calling on Twitter's Jack Dorsey to censor the President's tweets.
Progressive activists are using cellphone location data to track the movements of anti-lockdown protesters, and are passing on that data to left-wing journalists.
Google has deleted "tens of thousands" of links to news stories about topics including child rape, political corruption, and fraud since 2011, often due to bogus copyright complaints filed by people using fake identities, according to a report by theWall Street Journal.
Snapchat, the messaging and photo-sharing social network popular with young people, is preparing a voter registration drive ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, reports Axios.
Facebook has published an article boasting of its advancement in the field of AI, specifically training its advanced systems to detect and remove "hate speech" and "harmful memes.
Fear of lawsuits from aggrieved employees and exposure by Breitbart News led Google to scale back its internal commitment to radical intersectional leftism, according to a report by NBC News.
Bradley Smith, a law professor and former Republican Federal Election Commissioner, is set to serve on the board of a new advocacy group aimed at defending Big Tech companies from regulation.
Facebook is facing another censorship showdown in court, based on a suit brought by the owner of a censored viral news page set to appear before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this June.
Joe Saladino, better known by his stage name Joey Salads, a YouTube comedian who recently ran in the Republican Congressional primary to represent Staten Island (NY-11), has been banned by Twitter.
Facebook has blacklisted the page "Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine," a group with over 380,000 members that served as a central organizing hub for protests against Michigan's Chinese virus lockdown.
Facebook is helping set up a new political advocacy group in D.C., called "American Edge," hoping to dissuade lawmakers against regulating big tech companies, according to a report in theWashington Post.
A Democrat campaign consultant has proposed a radical idea to breathe new life into the Biden campaign — turn the gaffe-prone candidate into a gigantic hologram, projected against the Grand Canyon.
Conservative activist and author Pamela Geller has filed a lawsuit against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), alleging that the city's continued suspension of the right to assemble is a violation of the Constitution.
California Governor Gavin Newsom's hopes for a hassle-free lockdown have been dashed by a new conservative nonprofit, founded by First Amendment lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, which has filed a flurry of lawsuits on behalf of California residents and organizations who allege the state's stay-at-home orders infringe on their constitutional rights.
A virologist and clinical computational epidemiologist has slammed the Chinese virus model created by fellow epidemiologist Dr. Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, whose dire mathematical models of the Wuhan coronavirus's spread formed the basis for lockdowns in the U.K.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R AZ) has written a letter to Attorney General William Barr calling on him to investigate Facebook for falsely labeling conservative influencers as "dangerous individuals," and for making vast, undisclosed in-kind campaign contributions by censoring the political opponents of Democrats.
A coalition of 60 conservative organizations and publishers led by Media Research Center founder L. Brent Brozell III has called on Facebook to scrap its politically skewed "oversight board" if it is unable to provide an adequate balance of political viewpoints.
MarketWatch reports that Eric Schmidt, former chief executive of Google and Clinton lackey, has been tasked by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) to "reimagine" the post-pandemic state.
Facebook has released a list of the first 20 members of its "Oversight Board," a semi-independent body the social network is setting up that will have the power to decide whether content banned by Facebook stays banned or is restored on appeal.
Are you about to post a tweet containing "harmful" language? Don't worry — Twitter is experimenting with a feature that will warn you ahead of time, so you don't accidentally infect any users with your wrongthink.
Jair Renan Bolsonaro, the fourth-oldest son of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, was suspended from the Amazon-owned video streaming platform Twitch.tv last week after casting doubt on the severity of the Chinese virus pandemic.
In days past, if you were risking your life for low pay, that likely meant you were a soldier. The upside: survival skills, high status, a free college degree, and good benefits.
The Democrats and their progressive allies in Silicon Valley and the mainstream media have spent the last two decades convincing themselves that they are the "party of science.
Tim Bray, a vice president at Jeff Bezos' e-commerce giant Amazon, has resigned in protest of the company's treatment of workers who have criticized the company over inadequate protections against the Chinese virus.
Democrats have converted an AI project that was initially funded by the department of defense to combat propaganda from ISIS and other extremists, into a tool to track down and counter Trump supporters on social media.
Rich Granville, founder of the alternative search engine Yippy, and both a supporter of President Donald Trump and a critic of big tech companies like Google and Facebook, is funding the production of custom, made-in-America face masks to help with the Chinese virus pandemic.
Amazon founder,Washington Postowner and world's richest man Jeff Bezos has been called before Congress to address charges that Amazon has potentially criminally misled the public over its use of data from third-party sellers on the platform.
Comcast, the telecom giant that owns NBC and MSNBC lost a lawsuit that alleged the companydeliberately stole multiple pieces of intellectual property from TiVo for its cable boxes.
Mark Zuckerberg's personal control over the operation of Facebook and its affiliated tech platforms is growing, according to an in-depth report in theWall Street Journal.
YouTube has released a statement on its decision to censor a video of two doctors in Bakersfield, California, making the case for an end to Chinese virus lockdowns.
YouTube, the Google-owned video hosting giant, has introduced "fact check" labels next to videos as it ramps up censorship during the Chinese virus pandemic.
YouTube has taken down a video of two doctors from Bakersfield, California, who held a press conference calling for the reopening of the country. According to the Google-owned video platform, the doctors "violated community guidelines.
A clip from a 1993 episode of CNN'sLarry King Livefeaturing the mother of Biden accuser Tara Reade has seemingly been removed from the Google Play catalog.
Twitter and YouTube have censored AYTU BioScience, a publicly-traded Colorado-based pharmaceutical company, after it promoted ultraviolet (UV) light developed in conjunction with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center as a potential treatment for the Chinese virus.
As Google faces criticism over its collaboration with Apple on Chinese virus "contact tracing," one of the D.C. think tanks it funds, the Niskanen Center, is coming out in defense of the tech giant against allegations by Oracle, whose lawsuit against Google is headed for the Supreme Court.
Twitter is censoring another meme mocking Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, just a day after it blocked a satirical video about the candidate posted by President Donald Trump.
If you're a business selling your products through Amazon, the e-commerce giant may use data on your products and sales to develop its own, competing products, according to a new report in theWall Street Journal.
Twitter has once again broadened its rapidly-growing set of rules specific to the Chinese virus, this time banning statements that cause "harmful activity," with a specific focus on posts about 5G network infrastructure.
Twitter took down a meme posted by President Donald Trump making fun of Joe Biden after a copyright complaint was lodged with the platform.
Cullen Tiernan, the presidential campaign spokesman for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's 2020 bid for the Democrat presidential nomination, claims more oversight of The Big Tech Masters of the Universe is needed after an alleged "error" saw him locked out of his Twitter account and threatened with permanent suspension.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has called on the CEOs of Google and Apple to accept personal legal liability for protecting user privacy as they move to implement "contact tracing" technology in smartphones to track the spread of the Chinese virus.
Is Mark Zuckerberg's God complex getting worse? Every day seems to bring a new, mind-boggling act of overreach from Facebook.
Vanity Fair has published a longform article about the future of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, providing an inside glimpse into attempts from establishment Republican billionaire Paul Singer's attempt to oust him as CEO.
Google-owned YouTube CEOSusan Wojcicki appeared on Brian Stelter's CNN show, Reliable Sources, to discuss the kind of "misinformation" that YouTube is removing during the Chinese virus pandemic.
The mainstream media are out in force defending Microsoft founder Bill Gates, alleging that he has become a "right-wing target" due to his involvement in Chinese virus vaccine development.
Facebook has launched an interactive map based on self-reported symptoms of the Chinese virus, showing the number of reported symptoms per U.S. county.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that posts and pages attempting to organize protests against stay-at-home orders will be banned as "misinformation."
Facebook is relying on a "fact checker" that uses "expert opinion" from a researcher who conducted projects with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the biolab next to the wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan where the Chinese virus originated.
Verily, the life sciences wing of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., will not comply with a request from lawmakers to drop its mandatory Google account sign-in for its Chinese virus screening website.
Facebook has called for a federal judge in Miami to summarily dismiss a defamation case brought by Laura Loomer against the social network, arguing that its decision to ban her as a "dangerous individual" does not constitute defamation.
Facebook has called for a federal judge in Miami to summarily dismiss a defamation case brought by Laura Loomer against the social network, arguing that its decision to ban her as a "dangerous individual" does not constitute defamation.
Microsoft released and then deleted an ad for its VR technology featuringMarina Abramović, the performance artist infamous for hosting a "spirit cooking" dinner at her house in 2015, to which Clinton campaign manager Tony Podesta and his brother were invited.
As the Chinese virus pandemic has swept across the world, there's been a familiar panic about "misinformation" on social media. Yet certain types of misinformation — in particular the types that could damage President Donald Trump and Republicans — seem immune to crackdowns by the Masters of the Universe.
Author and journalist Mike Cernovich appeared on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Daily with Alex Marlow this morning to discuss Amazon's censorship of his documentary about media misinformation,Hoaxed.
Hoaxed,the documentary about mainstream media manipulation by author and journalist Mike Cernovich, has risen to the top of the documentary category in the Apple iTunes store, after being censored by Amazon last week.
It will come as no surprise to Breitbart News readers that Facebook's vaunted fact-checking system does not stop, or even appropriately label, fake, misleading claims from the left-wing media about President Donald Trump.
Apple and Google, who together control over 99 percent of the global smartphone operating system market, are joining forces to track contact between carriers of the Chinese virus and other individuals, using smartphone location data.
China wants to ban the popular online video gameAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, due to it becoming a hub for dissidents to criticize Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and authorities in Hong Kong.
The Obama-linked nonprofit "Free Press," which seeks to "change the media to transform democracy to realize a just society" has petitioned the FCC to pressure broadcasters into either not broadcasting President Trump's public comments about the Chinese virus, or "fact checking" everything Trump says.
Amazon appears to have bannedHoaxed,a documentary about media manipulation from author, filmmaker, and journalist Mike Cernovich.
Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced that he will provide $ 1 billion of his own money for relief efforts to combat the Chinese virus. Dorsey says the sum represents approximately 28 percent of his net worth.
Google has published reports for 131 countries showing citizens' compliance with guidance and orders from governments to "socially distance," or stay at home, according to Reuters. The report is based on location data from millions of peoples' phones running Google's Android operating system.
Facebook has removed a video from Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe showing the conservative journalist questioning testers and Army National Guard personnel about their opinions about the Chinese virus.
Does Mark Zuckerberg know more about the Chinese virus pandemic than Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro?
Twitter has forced Fox News host Laura Ingraham to take down a tweet reporting on news that the malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine has been used to successfully treat sufferers of the Chinese virus in New York City hospitals.
Twitter took down two tweets from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, citing its policy against misinformation related to the Chinese coronavirus, despite refusing to take down misinformation from Chinese officials about the virus last week.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has denied supporting notorious Chinese tech giant Huawei after his social media post appeared to praise the company in comparison to its American competitor, AT&T.
Twitter says that alleged misinformation about the Wuhan coronavirus spread by Chinese Communist Party officials is perfectly in line with the platform's terms of service, despite the fact that the company announced a platform-wide crackdown against misleading information about the Chinese virus last week.
The U.S. government wants Google, Facebook, and other Big Tech companies to turn over the location data of Americans in order to help them monitor people's compliance with social distancing guidelines amid the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier this week, a Facebook "bug"censored thousands of links to genuine news stories about the Wuhan coronavirus, incorrectly labeling them as "spam."
Twitter is responding to the Chinese coronavirus by banning jokes about it.
Microsoft's competitor to Slack, Microsoft Teams, went down for two hours in Europe yesterday morning as thousands of housebound Europeans attempted to use it to work from home amid the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic.
President Donald Trump condemned the press for spreading "fake news" about Google's planned Wuhan coronavirus screening tool in a press conference Sunday.
Schools are being shut down. Workers are being sent home from offices. Universities are telling their students not to return to campus. Political rallies are being called off.
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