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Censorship by Big Tech is imperiling America’s democracy

November 03, 2020 -

(Article by Armstrong Williams republished from NationalInterest.org)

Make no mistake, the mathematical parameters and algorithms that Dorsey’s team developed and implemented had this goal in mind. Despite what he and his company might have you believe, his frustration and anger are more likely related to getting caught, and the resulting public outrage, not the wanting of some algorithm.

Any remaining lines between social media companies and the political propaganda ...

12 worst cases of Big Tech censorship in 2021

December 19, 2021 -

(Article by Brian Bradley republished from NewsBusters.org)

Silicon Valley Big Tech giants like Twitter and Facebook appear to have adopted an explicit policy to suppress conservative views and encourage the spread of leftist dogma, as several media reports have revealed.

In the early part of the year, anything related to the election was a major target for Big Tech censorship. Views that strayed from the accepted COVID-19 narrative fell squarely in ...

MeWe goes Big Tech authoritarian, opts for political censorship

January 27, 2021 -

(Article by Richard Moorhead republished from BigLeaguePolitics.com)

MeWe’s administrators confirmed they would close so-called ‘Stop the Steal’ groups and purge their content from its platform earlier this month.MeWe styles itself as somewhat of a Facebook alternative, advertising user privacy and independence from a data surveillance business model. MeWe’s administrators have taken to signaling against real free speech social media platforms ...

Big Tech COVID-19 censorship is endangering the population

December 14, 2020 -

We have Big Tech to thank for that. As more and more people depend on Google, Amazon, Facebook and other platforms, their power only grows. And after all they’ve done in the past few years to silence those who speak out about vaccines, it should come as no surprise that they’re up to the same old tricks when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic and its response.

In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson talks about ...

DOJ targets Big Tech censorship, election meddling and racketeering

September 30, 2020 -

Big Tech must lose their carte blanche censorship powers

Facebook, Twitter and the other Big Tech platforms are being represented by The Internet Association (IA), The IA opposes the DOJ’s new rules and said the threat of litigation would threaten the current community guidelines put forth by the technology companies.

Of course, it would. Every voice that has been censored from the public conversation deserves a right to be heard and deserves to legal representation ...

CensorTrack database records OVER 6,000 CASES of Big Tech CENSORSHIP

November 08, 2023 -

According to a statement, the aggressive censorship efforts target any type of information that harms the Democratic Party, the Biden administration or otherwise runs counter to the Left's narrative and gaslighting the American people. Since its launch in September 2020, researchers from CensorTrack have worked tirelessly to track down and document the censorship of some of the most high-profile cases of de-platforming, as well as the takedowns of those who have written to ...

Rep. Issa: Bipartisan effort needed to fight big tech censorship

January 09, 2023 -

(Article by Autumn Johnson republished from NewsBusters.org)

Issa joined Fox Business last week to discuss revelations from internal Twitter files that the U.S. government pressured the company to engage in one-sided censorship. Twitter owner Elon Musk announced shortly after he purchased the company that its internal files would be released in the name of transparency.

Issa echoed his message calling for an immediate investigation on Twitter. “We learned from ...

Owen Shroyer slams Barack Obama for promoting Big Tech censorship

May 04, 2022 -

In a recent episode of his "War Room" program, Shroyer zeroed in on a speech delivered April 21 by Obama at Stanford University in California.

"[When] I'm talking to people at these [Big Tech] companies, I believe they are sincere in trying to limit content that engages in hate speech, encourages violence or poses a threat to public safety. They genuinely are concerned about it, [and] they want to do something about it," said the former president. "While content moderation ...

Democratic National Committee openly pushing for more Big Tech censorship

April 25, 2022 -

A document recently published by the DNC entitled, “Recommendations for Combating Online Misinformation” has some very disturbing recommendations that some observers fear could jeopardize bipartisan Big Tech bills and casts doubt on the true goals of the Congressional Democrats backing these bills.

For example, in their 14-point plan, they recommend tech companies “enforce rules on hate speech consistently and comprehensively,” enforce what they term a “comprehensive political ...

Democrats are “working with” Big Tech on new censorship calls

April 20, 2022 -

(Article by Dan Frieth republished from ReclaimTheNet.org)

The DNC has published a document titled “Recommendations for Combating Online Misinformation.” Notably, the document contains a plan that calls for more censorship on online platforms.

Among other things, the DNC recommended that tech companies should “enforce rules on hate speech consistently and comprehensively,” “promote authoritative news over highly engaging news in content algorithms, and “enforce ...

CensorTrack exposes Big Tech, amasses 2,500 cases of online censorship

July 15, 2021 -

(Article by Kayla Sargent republished from NewsBusters.org)

The CensorTrack database has cataloged 2,500 cases of Big Tech silencing conservatives online since March 2020. In that time, Big Tech has booted a sitting president, silenced members of the free press like the New York Post for its reporting on Hunter Biden and shut down free speech-oriented platforms like Parler.

Twitter censored and Facebook suppressed a story from the New York Post that claimed to expose ...

Antifa violently attacks conservatives during protest against Big Tech censorship

October 19, 2020 -

Far-left agitators donned with anti-fascist flags and other regalia reportedly bashed in the tooth of Philip Anderson, one of the rally's organizers, as well as toppled a man wearing a pro-Trump t-shirt who had to be taken to the hospital for his injuries – all of this to supposedly make a statement against fascism.

An Associated Press (AP) photographer also early on witnessed a San Francisco police officer sustain injuries in United Nations Plaza upon attempting to ...

Pollak: Big Tech censorship is the IRS scandal of 2020

August 10, 2020 - This week, Breitbart News revealed that Google, is trying to intervene in the 2020 elections by censoring conservative news and preventing voters from receiving information they need to make an informed decision in November.

(Article by Joel B. Pollak republished from Breitbart.com)

Google has killed search traffic to Breitbart. Moreover, Twitter suspended Breitbart News’ account after the website streamed a press conference of dissident doctors on Facebook Live.

YouTube ...

US Attorney General Barr: Big tech ‘clearly … engaged in censorship’

June 16, 2020 -

(Article by Calvin Freiburger republished from LifeSiteNews.com)

“Clearly, these entities are now engaged in censorship,” Barr told Fox News’ Brett Baier in an interview. And they originally held themselves out as open forums where people, where the third parties could come and express their views, and they built up a tremendous network of eyeballs. They had a lot of market power based on that presentation.”

“And now they are acting much more like publishers,” ...

Independent journalists launch decentralized news portal to resist Big Tech censorship

May 21, 2025 -

In a significant move to reclaim editorial sovereignty, the Independent Media Alliance (IMA) recently announced it will launch its own decentralized news portal within Odysee’s Decentralized Media Ecosystem (DME). The platform, led by prominent investigative journalists Whitney Webb, Derrick Broze and Ryan Cristián, marks a bold departure from traditional social media giants like Meta and Alphabet, whose algorithms and moderation policies have long marginalized ...

WATCH: Democrat suggests Biden admin Big Tech-censorship collusion “doesn’t exist”

February 12, 2024 -

(Article by Tom Parker republished from ReclaimTheNet.org)

The “weaponization” at the center of the hearing included the federal government’s funding of AI-powered censorship and propaganda tools that can be “used by governments and Big Tech to monitor and censor speech at scale.” However, the hearing also cited many other examples of censorship, including former Biden admin officials demanding content takedowns, DHS-linked teams censoring 2020 election-related online ...

Government is marketing censorship tools to Big Tech to gag conservatives

April 12, 2023 -

(Article by Margot Cleveland republished from TheFederalist.com)

Specifically, the State Department marketed this censorship technology through its Global Engagement Center. In other words, our tax dollars not only funded the development of tools to silence speech that dissented from the regime’s narrative. They also paid for government employees to act as sales reps pitching the censorship products to Big Tech.

I’ve been “tasked with building relationships with ...

Marsha Blackburn calls Biden an “authoritarian” for supporting Big Tech censorship

August 09, 2021 -

Blackburn recently penned a letter to the Resident-in-Chief demanding to know why his regime is coordinating with tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter to silence Americans, particularly when they talk about the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) online.

China Joe's latest attempt to flag all Chinese Virus content on Facebook as "disinformation" appears to have been the final straw for Blackburn, who called Hunter's dad an "authoritarian" for his involvement with the scheme....

Texas Senate passes bill protecting users from Big Tech political censorship

April 06, 2021 -

Republican State Sen. Bryan Hughes said the measure would apply to YouTube, Facebook and other platforms. The state lawmaker said in a video posted on Twitter: "I think we all have to acknowledge [that] these social media companies are the new town square, [and] a small group of people in San Francisco can't dictate free speech for the rest of us. It needs to be an open exchange of ideas, and Senate Bill 12 is going to get Texas back online."

Two companion bills have also ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to take action against Big Tech censorship

January 21, 2021 -

DeSantis made the remarks during a keynote luncheon hosted by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The governor commented that tech companies censoring reports specifically from the New York Post bothered him. "I was very disturbed to see credible articles [from the Post] about Hunter Biden actively suppressed by these Big Tech oligarchs … [which] had an impact on the presidential election," he said.

The Florida governor said the events that unfolded since the beginning ...