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Twitter’s stock dropped, Thursday, after the social network faced controversy for banning two conservatives: Jesse Kelly and Laura Loomer. Financial news site the Street believes the drop is tied to fears of a conservative boycott of the social media platform.

Twitter permanently suspended prominent feminist Meghan Murphy last week for saying men aren’t women. Murphy accused the social media platform of “censoring basic facts and silencing people.”

Free speech social network Gab was blacklisted by its web host, Joyent, and by Big Tech payment processors PayPal and Stripe, Saturday, prompting the social network to announce the possibility of it going offline for several weeks.

After President Trump called out Twitter for removing “many people” from his account, Friday, Twitter issued a statement defending its removal of followers.

Left-wing alternative media outlet Reverb Press was blacklisted from Facebook and Twitter last week, just months after celebrating Infowars’ mass purge from the same platforms. Reverb Press now complains, “It’s absurd that Facebook thinks it can define what is ‘legitimate’ news.”

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed in an interview this week that it was a “joke” when the social network described itself as the “free-speech wing of the free-speech party.”

Gay Patriot, a popular conservative Twitter user, has been permanently blacklisted from the social network for undefined “hateful conduct.”

A 65-year-old woman in the city of Jönköping is set to be prosecuted on hate crime charges for claiming that mass Muslim immigration will lower the general IQ of the Swedish population.

Conservative political operative Ali A. Akbar met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey this week to discuss the future of conservatives on the social media platform.

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has been subject to his own social media censorship law after one of his old tweets calling German economist Thilo Sarrazin an “idiot” was deleted.

Facebook has apologised for censoring a viral video of an anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish restaurant owner in which he and a 60-year-old German man argued about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the latter telling the business owner he deserved to be put in a “gas chamber”.

Twitter has begun its “purge” of right-wing accounts and has terminated the account of far-right Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen who was retweeted three times by President Donald Trump last month.

YouTube removed a parody video that mocked them last week, before reposting it following community backlash.

Twitter has removed the ability for conservative users to send out automated tweets using a service created by the Patriotic Journalist Network (PJNet). According to Slate, “The app helped users build tweets with prewritten text and pictures and allowed them

Theryn Meyer, a popular transgender commentator and anti-SJW activist, has been permanently suspended from Twitter.

Twitter has suspended the account of right-libertarian trans commentator Michelle Catlin.

Gab, the free speech social network, has filed a lawsuit against Google after they were suspended without warning from Google’s Play Store last month.

YouTube has reportedly demonetized a number of videos from former presidential candidate Ron Paul following an announcement that the company would be censoring the platform to an even greater degree.

Support for free speech is starting to dwindle in Silicon Valley, according to Wired, who claim that major tech companies are starting to doubt the concept.

Instagram has restored popular conservative commentator and author Lauren Southern’s account, claiming it was removed “mistakenly.”

Street artist Sabo has had his Facebook page suspended after he placed anti-Mark Zuckerberg posters around California.

The European Union (EU) has signed off on proposals to make companies such as Facebook and Twitter remove videos containing ‘hate speech’.

The Sweden Institute, the government organisation that runs the official @sweden Twitter account, has blocked over 12,000 users they say promote hateful speech including Israel’s ambassador to Sweden and anti-mass migration Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson.

In an article for the Washington Examiner this week, writer Mark Grabowski pondered the idea of whether Twitter’s routine censorship could be unconstitutional, while technology entrepreneur Josh Lekach claimed that everyone should be afraid of the site’s censorship which is also destroying livelihoods.

The Council of Europe has claimed the UK media, “online sources”, and “certain politicians” are inciting “hate speech” and “hate crimes”, and demands the state strengthens “mechanisms” to “tone down” and silence such voices.

Social networks and technology companies in the UK could face government sanctions unless they pledge to stop “trolling,” “sexting,” and “cyberbulling on their platforms.

Families minister Manuela Schwesig has pledged to do more to protect children in Germany from right wing “hipsters” who post messages about migrant criminality on social media. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) minister was speaking at a press conference last

ROME, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Facebook must do much more to stamp out hate speech on its site, the president of Italy’s lower house of parliament said, warning that rising abuse on various social media was being fuelled by fake

Angela Merkel warned Germans should not take freedom for granted, in a speech aimed at countering a rising tide of populism on Friday night. Speaking at a party conference in Saarlouis, the chancellor called on Germans to show respect for

European Union (EU) nations must set up a network of public agencies to remove ‘fake news’ from circulation and impose fines, Italy’s antitrust chief has said.

The German interior ministry has announced its intention to combat so-called “fake news” on social media by setting up a “defence centre against disinformation,” ahead of next year’s federal election.

A fifth of Swedes have no confidence in the mainstream media, and half the country now gets their news primarily from alternative sources, a new study has found.

An Austrian court has, in a landmark ruling, forced social media giant Facebook to remove a post that misquoted a member of the Austrian Green Party and could have severe ramifications. A court in Vienna has made a landmark ruling that

Sweden’s Minister for Culture and Democracy has told Facebook to censor so-called “fake news” voluntarily or else face “compulsory measures” by the government.

The parliament of the European Union (EU) has voted to clamp down on “anti-EU propaganda”, which MEPs claim is part of a concerted “disinformation” campaign by the Kremlin.

Yvette Cooper has announced that MPs will look into how social media companies can censor a “tide of hate”, and strongly implied that freedom of speech should mean freedom from criticism in remarks ahead of a new inquiry into “hate crime”.