Elon Musk has made a public offer to buy 100 percent of Twitter stock and transform it into a public company, in what the billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO says will unlock the company’s potential to be “the platform for free speech around the globe.”
Apple CEO Tim Cook (also known as Tim Apple) received widespread criticism on social media recently after he argued that current antitrust efforts against Big Tech are bad for national security and user privacy.
Google’s Gmail, the most popular desktop email client in the world, disproportionately filters emails from conservatives to the “spam” folder where they are much less likely to be read, according to a recent study from North Carolina State University’s Department of Computer Science.
Conservative pundit Jack Posobiec was briefly suspended by Twitter over the weekend after sharing a link to buy T-shirts identifying Disney as “groomers,” due to the woke entertainment giant’s opposition to Florida’s bill protecting kids from sexual predators and groomers in the education system.
The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), which Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan notoriously poured hundreds of millions of “Zuckerbucks” into for the purpose of getting out the vote in Democrat-leaning areas in the 2020 election, claims it won’t repeat the process for the 2022 midterms.
Big media companies are making another attempt to pass the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill that would protect them from online competition, propping up legacy media in the face of widespread public distrust and a failing business model.
Despite more than six years of Silicon Valley favoritism towards the establishment media, including censorship of its competition and artificial promotion in algorithms, liberal-globalist regimes want Big Tech to do more to protect Big Media from competition. The latest country to take action in this area is Canada.
If you’re trying to obtain information from both sides of the ongoing war in Ukraine, Twitter just made your job a little bit harder.
Airbnb has banned the entire populace of two countries. If you are located in Russia or Russia-aligned Belarus, you will no longer be able to make reservations through the platform, anywhere in the world.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX and the world’s wealthiest person, bought a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, after conservatives on the platform urged him to use his wealth to fix the platform’s free speech problem.
If you think prepubescent kids shouldn’t be pumped full of artificial hormones that in many cases permanently castrate them, then Apple is lobbying against you, and attempting to bring the might of the Fortune 500 to their side.
Former Google boss Eric Schmidt’s fingerprints are “all over” the Biden White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a closeness that even a former Obama White House ethics official has criticized, according to a report in Politico.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), already under fire from all sides for his bellicose statements on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, has now risked angering conservative voters across the country by backing a bill that would give legal sanction to collusion between Big Media and Big Tech, empowering corporate media giants like CNN and the New York Times at the expense of independent creators.
Twitter censored Breitbart News senior writer John Nolte after he made a joke about transgender Health & Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine.
Sydney Watson, co-host of You Are Here on the conservative streaming service BlazeTV, was banned from Patreon earlier this week, the second major conservative blacklisted by the funding platform on the same day.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, the most popular cable news host on television, is the latest victim of Twitter censorship as the platform cracks down on anyone who even jokes about the fact that Biden administration Health & Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine is a biological man.
Not every meme deserves an article of its own, but for those of us who follow politics on social media closely, this one hits home. It’s a meme that could force even the most sheep-like adherents of official narratives to stop and think.
Josh Lekach, host of the Wrong Opinion podcast urged fellow creators to leave Patreon for free speech-friendly alternatives after the left-wing funding platform wiped out his stream of income with a permanent blacklisting.
NewsGuard gives perfect 100/100 “credibility” ratings to news organizations that helped bury the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” stories, one of the most consequential stories of the 2020 presidential cycle and beyond, according to a report by the Media Research Center.
The editor-in-chief of the Babylon Bee, the popular conservative-run satirical website, has been locked out of his Twitter account after mocking the platform for allowing Chinese officials involved in abuses against the country’s Uighur minority on the platform while conservatives are censored.
Former Bush Administration CIA director Michael Hayden, who spent much of the Trump years attacking and belittling Republicans, has yet to retract his claim that the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation,” despite serving on the board of Newsguard — an organization that claims to oppose the refusal to correct major errors in news stories and commentary.
Despite its status as one of the wokest companies in the world, including maintaining an official program to inject critical race theory into the field of programming, tech giant Google is facing a major lawsuit alleging it discriminates against black employees.
NewsGuard, the establishment “news-rating” project that presents itself as a source of expert knowledge on which news sources can be trusted and which ones cannot, defended its track record on the Hunter Biden laptop story in comments to Breitbart News, despite its cofounder labeling the story a Russian “hoax” at the time.
YouTube, the Google-owned video platform, continues its campaign of censorship in support of the official narrative on Ukraine, this time censoring a recent Fox News appearance by former Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, a longtime critic of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
The American Conservative Union (ACU), the organization that runs the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has blasted Google-owned YouTube for censoring its channel after it uploaded a video of former President Donald Trump’s speech at this year’s conference.
Vimeo, a video hosting platform that markets itself as an alternative to YouTube, has updated its terms of service to ban “fake news” and “conspiracy theories” that creates “a serious risk of material harm to a person, group, or the general public.”
Former Google CEO and noted Clinton lackey Eric Schmidt urged the American tech industry to take a deeper role in national defense.
Following a briefing at the White House, TikTok influencers have taken to the Chinese-owned platform to blame Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for rising gas prices in the U.S., following.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a report recommending an increased focus on scanning the social media accounts of its employees in order to detect “extremism.”
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, sent an email to employees of both social media platforms informing them that calls for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers will temporarily be allowed, according to a report by Reuters.
Google-owned YouTube has censored Ukraine On Fire, a 2016 documentary chronicling the events of Euromaidan, the uprising that overthrew Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and installed a pro-EU, pro-NATO government.
President Biden issued a highly anticipated executive order on cryptocurrency earlier today. The order mentions “national security” twenty times, and stresses the importance of maintaining the dominance of the U.S. dollar.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took another warning shot at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) today, the law that grants Big Tech wide legal immunity to host and censor content at will.
Coinbase, one of the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges, says it has blocked 25,000 cryptocurrency addresses linked to Russia, and released a statement saying it is “committed to complying with sanctions.”
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit that coordinates management of the global internet, has said it will not act on Ukraine’s demand to cut Russia off from the internet.
Peter Schweizer’s “Red-Handed” shines a spotlight on Microsoft’s decision to set up an artificial intelligence research institute at a Chinese military university.
Binance.com, the world’s largest centralized cryptocurrency exchange, has rejected calls from the Ukrainian government to blacklist Russian users, saying it would “fly in the face” of the pro-freedom values of cryptocurrency to stop ordinary users from accessing the service.
Republicans are desperate for policy solutions to the issue of Big Tech, so much so that they’re allowing the Democrat point woman on tech regulation, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), to dupe them into supporting a leftist, pro-censorship agenda.
Video footage and photos show Joe Biden’s radical, pro-censorship FCC nominee Gigi Sohn attending a “Net Neutrality” rally with radical leftists in 2012, an attempt to pressure her former boss Chairman Tom Wheeler. Members of the same group of protests would later confront Wheeler at his house.
NeverTrump Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) fell victim to internet pranksters over the weekend, retweeting the viral hoax that the “Ghost of Kyiv,” an alleged Ukrainian fighter ace, was a man called “Samuyil Hyde.” Tricksters are quick to spread memes naming American comedian Sam Hyde as the culprit in media events such as mass shootings. In this case, Rep. Kinzinger fell for a poor photoshop of Hyde into a cockpit along with an ethnic spin on his name.
