Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the founder of the House Media Fairness Caucus, says “there is just too much evidence” of censorship against conservatives in Silicon Valley for the Democrats to pretend it is not happening.
During a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, a Facebook representative stated that Russian election interference was limited to “a few thousand” of two billion posts analyzed by the social media firm.
During a hearing relating to censorship on social media platforms, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee repeatedly denied the existence of any social media censorship and attempted to turn the hearing towards talk of Russian election interference.
Executives from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube testified Tuesday in Washington, D.C. before a House Judiciary Committee hearing that their companies support free speech and expression. They further denied their companies’ use of political censorship of their users’ conduct.
Democrats attempted to a derail a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday on social media censorship to discuss alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Lawmakers hold a second hearing into social media censorship Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
Representatives from major tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter are set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on July 17.
YouTube plans to “prominently surface authoritative sources” for its users.
A professor at the University of Tulsa is concerned that a popular YouTube talk show about buffalo wings is sexist because it hasn’t had enough female guests.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly has continued to sleep under his desk at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, despite fans buying him a fold-out couch via a crowdfunding drive.
Three YouTube vloggers were killed after they fell over a waterfall in British Columbia, Canada.
The #Walkaway movement that began with a popular Facebook video featuring a gay hairdresser in New York City explaining why he was leaving the Democratic Party has quickly morphed into a major force on social media and beyond.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the technology industry’s problems “are out of control,” before warning that no company is too big to regulate, in an article for Fox News, Tuesday.
“The pervasiveness of the largest digital platforms makes Standard Oil look like a corner gas station” said the CEO.
Google will be adding words like “gun-grips” and “scopes and sights” to its list of prohibited AdWords later this month.
YouTube Star Tyrone Fleming, known as Tye Banga, was stabbed to death in New York City this week.
A YouTube content creator who allows viewers to pay for the ability to play certain messages, sound effects, and songs while he roams around in public, was arrested after a viewer paid to play a bomb threat sound effect while he was at the University of Washington.
A new survey from the Pew Research Center revealed that American teenagers are losing interest in Facebook.
Tributes poured in for popular video game commentator John “TotalBiscuit” Bain, following the announcement of his death on Thursday.
YouTube has reportedly begun testing a new subscription algorithm that would see content displayed in a non-chronological order, giving YouTube greater control over the content that users see.
YouTube has terminated the account of popular anti-SJW content creator Bearing.
The names of rape victims, who are entitled to anonymity under British law, were reportedly exposed through a bug on Google Search.
Dennis Prager of Prager University appeared on Breitbart News Daily alongside host Alex Marlow to discuss a number of topics including the censorship of conservatives by tech companies.
YouTube has issued a warning to users who attempt to watch Paul Joseph Watson’s latest video, in which he talks about the left-wing political undertones of Childish Gambino’s music video for “This Is America.”
First Lady Melania Trump has unveiled her “Be Best” initiatives, which include an initiative to get children using social media so they can “learn positive online behaviors early on.”
Prominent conservatives have published an open letter calling for social media companies to treat conservative users and employees in a fairer manner.
Conservative Review’s Michelle Malkin joined SiriusXM host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Sam Sorbo for a Friday interview on Breitbart News Tonight to discuss political censorship via technology companies. She dismissed “purist anti-regulation tendencies” while describing companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter as “quasi-monopolies” and “trusts that need to be busted.”
Following multiple complaints about the content published on the YouTube Kids app, the company has decided to give parents better control over what their children view.
PragerU has released a statement on its plans to further battle Google’s censorship of its content.
YouTube’s algorithms were unable to detect “graphic” bestiality images for several months, some of which had millions of views, according to a report.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) discussed social media censorship and privacy, most notably regarding Facebook, on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Saturday.
YouTube reportedly demonetized an interview with Dave Rubin of the popular internet show the Rubin Report and American political philosopher and author Thomas Sowell. The video was monetized shortly after Rubin publicly demanded an explanation from YouTube.
Hip-hop megastar and fashion mogul Kanye West took to Twitter on Saturday and declared his “love” for conservative YouTube star turned grassroots activist Candace Owens.
Popular pro-Trump internet duo Diamond and Silk will testify before the House Judiciary Committee over growing concerns that social media companies such as Facebook are routinely censoring and suppressing conservative content.
As J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades so accurately points out, if you take a look at the lay of the land today, what you will see is a coordinated and massive assault against some of our most cherished rights — namely the First (Facebook), Second (David Hogg), and Fourth Amendments (Robert Mueller) of the Constitution, all of which are under assault.
Twenty-three consumer activist groups signed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) calling for an investigation against YouTube for targeting ads at children.
NEW YORK — The YouTube sensations known as Diamond and Silk, former Democrats who left the party to support President Donald Trump, called on the Trump administration to probe social media giants over allegations of singling out certain political viewpoints.
Facebook has reportedly limited the page of the pro-Trump YouTube sensations Diamond and Silk.
Celebrities who double as gun control proponents were largely silent following the shooting at YouTube’s San Bruno, California, headquarters. Their silence was likely the result of the fact that they could not parlay the shooting into something supportive of more firearm restrictions.
The thing that puts me off libertarianism is the “more libertarian than thou” game so many libertarians like to play.
