Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Fox News for an exclusive interview with Dana Perino earlier today, in which he repeatedly stressed his commitment to free expression — but he did not address the issue of the numerous prominent conservatives who are still banned from the platform.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech at Georgetown University yesterday in which he said the messages of politicians should not be censored on his platform — even though multiple conservative politicians remain blacklisted on Facebook.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is one of the key legal devices that allow big tech companies to censor with impunity. Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and the Trump administration are among the Republicans who have criticized the law.
Twitter has long been a hub of public shaming, where old tweets are dug up — often by journalists— to shame and embarrass users, or destroy their reputations and careers.
Democrat presidential candidate Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke was correct in his claim that big tech platforms "curate" the content that we see. In fact, it's a point that was popularized by Republicans, including his one-time Senate opponent Sen.
Democrat contender Andrew Yang agreed with the need to tackle the power of Silicon Valley, but disagreed with Elizabeth Warren's plans to break up big tech.
Twitter banned, then quickly unbanned Carpe Donktum, widely known as a favorite meme-maker of President Donald Trump, after massive media backlash over a parody video that mimicked his style.
Facebook, which has banned numerous conservative personalities and placed others on "hate agent" watchlists has come under fire from Hillary Clinton — for not being anti-Trump enough.
Over the past week, we've witnessed two iconic American brands, the NBA and Blizzard Entertainment,grovel to communist China, betraying American values in the process. I propose a new phrase for this sort of behavior: "corporate communism.
In a letter, five Republican Senators warned Microsoft of the "real and urgent" threat from Chinese tech giant Huawei.
Far-left Antifa agitator David Campbell pled guilty to two assault felonies earlier this week, and faces a likely prison sentence.
Ironically for the CEO of a company infamous for its role in destroying the barrier between private and public life, Mark Zuckerberg's private and public personalities seem very different.
The ruling Liberal Party of Canada, whose leader and Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was recently outed for repeatedly wearing blackface, has pledged to force social media companies to remove "hate speech" within 24 hours if it wins the upcoming Canadian elections.
Republican congressional candidate and U.S. Air Force veteran Anna Paulina Luna says censorship on Facebook-owned Instagram has hampered her campaign's ability to collect donations.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) slammed Google-owned YouTube amid the platform's contradictory statements on its censorship policies, calling on the platform to allow users to filter lawful content as they see fit instead of imposing top-down bans.
President Donald Trump used part of his speech before the United Nations Tuesday to warn of the growing accumulation of power by big tech companies.
Chef, a company that helps companies manage their technical infrastructure, has cut ties with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after one of its employees sabotaged the company's systems in protest of its government contract.
Facebook said on Friday that it had removed "tens of thousands" of apps over concerns that they may have inappropriately accessed the personal data of its users.
Progressive political elites have decided that in order to save the environment, ordinary citizens must submit to radical lifestyle changes (while those same elites fly around the world on private jets and enrich themselves from trade with China, the world's biggest polluter).
Stop Child Predators, an organization that works to protect children from sexual predators, has sent a letter to the Judiciary and Commerce Committees of both the House and the Senate asking lawmakers to investigate alleged violations of children's privacy by the Masters of the Universe.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted a "clear bias" in the way his platform handled the pro-life organization Live Action, according to a report by the group's founder and president, Lila Rose.
The President's son, Donald Trump Jr., has called out Instagram for allegedly removing him and President Trump from search suggestions.
Facebook, in court filings defending itself from a lawsuit filed by activist and congressional candidate Laura Loomer, has cited its first amendment rights as a "publisher," contradicting public claims by the company that its social media service is a platform.
Facebook will establish an "oversight board," colloquially known as the "Facebook Supreme Court," to deliberate on whether content should be banned or unbanned on the platform.
Facebook has promised the House Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism that it will ban certain links to message boards 4chan and 8chan, amid a shakeup of its rules around "hate and extremism.
The upcoming book on Brett Kavanaugh fromRobin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly has more to offer than smears andfake news traps for theNew York Times— it also reveals that Silicon Valley elites including Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg aided Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford.
A Communist group in Denver appears to be using Facebook to threaten to set a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility on fire.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden hacked a nuclear laboratory during his teenage years, reporting its vulnerabilities to the authorities. An official from the lab later thanked him for the hack, which helped it fix its security issues.
Whistle-blower Edward Snowden, who revealed the mass surveillance of Americans in his 2013 leaks about the National Security Agency (NSA), has issued a warning about the rise of AI-driven policing in the near future.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ordered Google to allow its employees to speak their minds on political and workplace issue, according to a report in theWall Street Journal.
"Abolish ICE Denver," a far-left activist outfit based in Colorado, is urging its supporters on Facebook to protest outside the personal home of the warden of a privately-owned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) center in Aurora, Colorado.
The Post Millennial, a conservative news and commentary website based in Canada, says it has been the victim of a cyberattack. The site's editor pointed out the attack came less than 24 hours after the site published an exclusive article about feminist Zoe Quinn.
Live Action,a leading national pro-life organization, has sent a legal demand to YouTube and Pinterest alleging that both companies have violated the law by discriminating against the organization.
Facebook has "reduced" the reach of feminist satire site Reductress, citing concerns about the "repeated sharing of clickbait," according to a message posted by the website's co-founder, Sarah Pappalardo.
If Democrats really believe that climate change is an existential threat to humanity, why are they proposing draconian and pointless curbs on the behavior of ordinary Americans? Why aren't they going after multinationals that continue to do business with the world's biggest polluter, China?
The New York Times bestseller list appears to have denied Judge Jeanine Pirro the number-one slot on its ranking system, despite the fact she sold over 17,000 more copies than Michelle Obama.
A far-left subreddit known for attracting posts encouraging acts of political violence has posted a guide to locating individuals who donated to President Trump.
A whopping 99 percent of audience members who aren't members of Rotten Tomatoes' professional critic class loved Dave Chappelle's politically incorrect Netflix special,Sticks and Stones,while only 17 percent of the platform's mainstream critics favored it.
YouTube announced that it removed over 100,000 videos and 17,000 channels for "hate speech" violations in the second quarter of 2019, a fivefold increase over the previous period.
An event hosted by free speech friendly social network Minds.com on racism and political violence will proceed this weekend, despite Antifa threats.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had his twitter account hacked earlier today, with the hackers posting a string of racial messages and a false report of a bomb threat before he regained control of his account.
Twitter's userbase is disproportionately young, affluent, and Democrat, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.
The "Trust and Safety Council," a coalition of advocacy groups that provide advice to Twitter on censoring lawful speech, claims that executives at the company aren't paying enough attention to them.
Facebook has blacklisted ads from the Epoch Times, a global multi-language newspaper known for its critical coverage of the communist regime in China.
Fast Company has caught on to what Breitbart News has been highlighting for some time: that the Big Tech Masters of the Universe are developing systems to monitor and regulate personal behavior that closely resemble China's totalitarian "social credit" system.
Google has implemented a set of new rules for its employees,cracking down on political discussion inside the company.
The New York Timespublished a 5,000-plus-word hitpiece about conservative news website Western Journal. The piece accuses WJ of "sensationalist and misleading stories," of being overly pro-Trump, and makes excuses for Google and Facebook arbitrarily throttling its traffic.
Shaving company Gillette says it is "shifting the spotlight from social issues to local heroes," after the company's brief foray into the SJW-style demonization of masculinity drew a massive backlash from customers.
Psychologist and search engine expert Dr. Robert Epstein, a liberal Hillary Clinton supporter, blasted the failed presidential candidate on social media yesterday after she falsely claimed his research showing pro-Clinton bias from Google in 2016 had been "debunked.
Joseph "Joey Salads" Saladino, the YouTube star and New York Congressional candidate sat down for an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in which he discussed how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's radical left-wing ideology has placed the Democrats beyond parody.
The Charles Koch Institute is working with Soros-funded organizations to combat "online hate."
Facebook has tapped former Arizona senator John Kyl to conduct a review of political bias on its platform, according to a report from Axios.
Two-time presidential failure Hillary Clinton accused President Donald Trump of lacking evidence to support his claim that biased Google search results shifted votes in her favor in 2016.
American CEOs have declared their intention to prioritize political and social goals as well as profit, in a joint statement released today.
Free speech at Google is long since dead. But it didn't go down without a fight. As the tech giant embarked on itsself-described "shift towards censorship", many employees inside the company spoke out against it — and were rewarded with harassment and discrimination for remaining true to Google's founding values.
The White House is reportedly planning an executive order that would give the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a role in determining what gets censored on big tech platforms.
Facebook has offered millions of dollars to mainstream news outlets in order to license their content, according to a recent report in theWall Street Journal.
The campaign account for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was suspended from Twitter after sharing a video of protesters allegedly making violent threats against the Senator, including a protester saying "just stab the motherfucker in the heart.
The White House is preparing executive action to tackle big tech bias against conservatives and non-progressives, according to a report by Politico.
YouTube blacklistedKilling Europe,a documentary about Islam and mass immigration in Europe that had previously been hosted on the platform for over a year, just days after Amazon Prime made the same decision.
Breitbart News has obtained a leaked discussion from inside Google showing far-left employees celebrating the company's decision not to sponsor 2019's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), one of the most prominent annual gathering of conservatives in the U.S.
Google-owned YouTube manually adjusted search results for “federal reserve” after MSNBC host Chris Hayes complained about the prominence of anti-Fed videos in the top results,according to a source who worked at the tech company.
"If we do not stand united in this struggle to protect our freedoms, we all lose," said presidential hopeful Gabbard.
Presidential candidate and military veteran Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is suing Google after the tech giant blocked her ads account shortly after the first Democrat presidential debate.
Peter Thiel, one of big tech's few prominent conservative-libertarians, is gunning for Google. The billionaire PayPal founder recently gave a speech in D.C. branding the tech giant "treasonous" and calling for a criminal investigation over its work with the Chinese military.
Peter Thiel, one of big tech's few prominent conservative-libertarians, is gunning for Google. The billionaire PayPal founder recently gave a speech in D.C. branding the tech giant "treasonous" and calling for a criminal investigation over its work with the Chinese military.
Independent filmmaker Michael Hansen has a new documentary out,Killing Free Speech.It features an exclusive interview with an official at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who struggles to answer questions about the status of women in Islam.
The Alliance Defending Freedom has sent a legal letter to left-wing tech site Gizmodo demanding that the website correct a claim that the ADF, the world's largest Christian legal organization, is a "hate group.
Another source at Google has corroborated a report from Project Veritas that appears to show that YouTube manually interfered in search results related to the referendum to decriminalize abortion in Ireland, which was won by the pro-abortion side.
Reddit, the link-sharing platform and message board known for its influential role in Internet culture, has censored The_Donald, a community of 750,000 Donald Trump supporters.
At a Senate commerce committee hearing on social media algorithms today, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) took the opportunity to take Facebook-owned Instagram to task for apparent bias in its suggested follows feature, which recommends new accounts for users to follow.
YouTube says the Project Veritas video was taken down because of a "privacy claim by a third party."
Vox reporter Carlos Maza, whose pressure campaign against YouTube contributed to the mass-demonetization and banning of independent media and right-wing channels, is a former Media Matters employee who defended the violent Antifa movement.
Google displayed a picture of Donald Trump and a young Ivanka Trump at the top of a Google search for "hebephilia" (similar to pedophilia, but attracted to pubescent children).
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.
Carl Benjamin said social media companies should go through a legal process before they can ban accounts.
A Facebook spokeswoman confirmed the existence of the "hate agents" list, and did not deny Candace Owens is on it.
Conservative author, media entrepreneur and CPAC 2019 star Michelle Malkin has been censored by Facebook for posting supportive messages about recently-banned conservative figures Laura Loomer and Gavin McInnes.
President Donald Trump has commented on social media censorship, a few days after Facebook blacklisted several of his prominent supporters in the independent media from both Facebook and Instagram.
The banning of multiple political commentators from Facebook and Instagram, including conservatives Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer, is an outrage against the ideals of an open Internet on its own.
A New Zealand citizen faces a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison for sharing the video of the Christchurch mosque shooting on Instagram.
Google employees target colleague over post discussing hostile working conditions.
Conservative satire website The Babylon Bee has done it again, snaring far-left "fact-checker" Snopes.com into fact-checking an entirely satirical article about Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
In a column forThe Hill,lawyer and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz argues that on the basis of current evidence, prosecuting WikiLeaks for the publication of Chelsea Manning's leaks would not be constitutionally different to prosecutingThe New York Timesfor publishing the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
British police have further arrested WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange on behalf of United States authorities under an extradition request, according to the U.K's Metropolitan Police.
British police have further arrested WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange on behalf of United States authorities under an extradition request, according to the U.K's Metropolitan Police.
Documentary filmmaker Mike Cernovich joined Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow on Breitbart News Daily today, where he discussedHoaxed,his feature documentary exposing bias and deliberate falsehoods pushed by the mainstream media, as well as his efforts to unseal court records in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Big tech has long since caved to the power of big journalism. The spread of the Russia collusion hoax, fully approved of by Microsoft partner NewsGuard, is only the latest example.
National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry wrote a searing attack on the "right-left pincer" attacking big tech for Politico. The piece fails to mention Google CEO Sundar Pichai's recent acknowledgment that the National Review Institute received money from his company.
Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard issued a statement in favor of free speech earlier today, calling on Americans to "stand united" against attempts by Facebook and others to "censor," "stifle," and "influence" public debate.
Twitter suspended and then reinstated a conservative contributor for theWashington Examiner,Tyler Grant, after he tweeted "learn to code" in the context of a discussion about automation and the oft-debated Universal Basic Income (UBI).
Facebook has banned Tommy Robinson, along with a wide range of prominent UKIP members and anti-establishment media, just days after he released a documentary alleging cooperation between the purportedly neutral, state-funded BBC and the far-left organization Hope not Hate.
Dozens of Instagram users reported that the platform censored them for liking posts from President Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that the tech giant gave funds to the National Review Institute, the policy arm of establishment conservative magazineNational Review— but there is a discrepancy in Pichai's explanation of why the donation is not listed in the company's annual transparency report.
Newsguard isn't just a news-rating app -- it also aims to deplatform pro-Trump media by cutting off its ad revenue.
Following Breitbart News' article on verified Twitter accounts using Jack Dorsey's platform to encourage violence against conservative high school kids, the company has said it has "taken action" against the tweets that were flagged in Breitbart's article.
In a comment to theDaily Mailfor a story about Breitbart News' publication of internal discussions revealing search manipulation by the Google-owned video platform, YouTube admitted that it meddled with search results for "abortion.
Google withdrew ads from populist British news website Politicalite last week, over an article about Marine Le Pen. Online ad platform Taboola followed, accusing the site of violating its Acceptable Use policy.
The left's insistence that Silicon Valley censorship is just a 'conspiracy theory' ring hollow.
Google did not have a good 2018. Its CEO Sundar Pichai's disastrous appearance before Congress capped off a year of bad news for the tech giant — much of it the result of damaging leaks of internal information from its own employees.
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