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J.D. Vance, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Ohio, said on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that Facebook co-founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent admission of his company’s digital censorship of news and information related to Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 presidential election contradicts the framing of Big Tech companies as operating within a free market.

Social media “fact-checkers” are working overtime, but Conservatives say it’s in effort to block their voices ahead of midterms.One America’s Stella Escobedo spoke with Anthony Raimondi, TPUSA Ambassador and social media influencer about the issue.Video

For some years now, many on the right have studiously avoided looking at what was going on with social media. As social media companies ratcheted down the ability of anyone to oppose the conventional, and invariably leftist, wisdom, all we heard was “muh private company.” The idea is that if a private monopoly prevents speech on any subject, that’s fine because they are a private company and conservative, you know, worship at the altar of private property and free enterprise. The solution has always been something along the lines of “if you don’t like how they operate, start your own...

Under pressure from federal officials and mainstream media to apply a rigid lens to ever-evolving scientific research, Big Tech companies are flailing in their efforts to treat contested claims consistently. Twitter blamed an overactive spam filter for wrongly suspending a U.K. doctor who started a project to audit the country's COVID-19 deaths and was previously censored by YouTube for explaining the results of Pfizer's COVID vaccine trial for young children in layman's terms. The explanation suggests that even as Twitter implements election misinformation rules ahead of the fall midterms, it may be wary of continuing to aggressively police "misleading" COVID...

Appearing on "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast on Thursday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg alleged that the FBI warned the company of a "Russian propaganda dump" prior to the New York Post publishing a story that included damaging information on then-candidate Joe Biden from his son Hunter Biden's laptop.

I certainly sleep better at night knowing that Zuckerberg’s security team is making sure that what we see is carefully curated for our own good, including posts like this one from House Republicans that simply stated: “If you take out a loan, you pay it back. Period.” Those words were posted on the House Judiciary GOP page on Wednesday. Not only were people unable to share it, but Facebook censored the post stating: “Your post goes against our Community Standards so only you can see it.” At least one person claimed to have gone directly to FB jail for trying...

In video, Zuckerberg is being interviewed by Joe Rogan, and says that, in the 2000 election, FBI agents came to Facebook and told them that there would be "Russian disinformation" about the Hunter laptop, and told them to suppress it.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Google's Jigsaw subsidiary will next week launch a campaign aimed at tackling disinformation about Ukrainian refugees in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic based on research by psychologists at two British universities. Working with Jigsaw, the psychologists from the universities of Cambridge and Bristol have produced 90-second clips designed to "inoculate" people against harmful content on social media. The clips, which will run in advertising slots on Google's YouTube video platform, aim to help people identify emotional manipulation and scapegoating in a news headline. The research was spread over seven experiments, including with a group of Americans...

Tomorrow is primary election day in Florida. Dr. Drew Montez Clark is running for Congress in Florida’s 20th District. He is running unopposed and the election is tomorrow. His next election in November 8. Dr. Drew Montez Clark is an impressive, conservative, Constitution first candidate. Dr. Drew is the total package! So it makes sense then that Twitter would remove his account one day before the Florida primary election. Twitter took his account down earlier today. Twitter announced last week it would meddle in the 2022 elections. They weren’t kidding. And when Twitter says they will meddle that means Twitter...

Facebook has deployed one of its infamous ‘fact checkers’ to suggest that the completely accurate claim that the IRS is seeking to arm more agents to use deadly force was “partly false information.”Earlier this month, an IRS job posting was uncovered that announced the agency was looking to hire people who are ready to kill.The job ad listed one of the “major duties” of IRS agents to be able to “carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.”The IRS subsequently deleted the job posting after it stoked controversy, but then a 2021 IRS annual report also...

Just to create a public record of the absolute stupidity of the people who are moderators at F-Book—assuming they are people at all—I am going to share my history of posts over the past year that resulted in my account being restricted. Here's the first one, posted September 29, 2001, during the height of the COVID vaccine mandate foolishness: Want to know what this video is? See below. It's an undercover video from Project Veritas showing two employees from Johnson and Johnson expressing doubts about their company's vaccine. [Insert video here] If anything, the supposed "false information" on this video...

One way Big Tech can control the information people get is through its "AdSense" service. Under Google AdSense, websites like SharylAttkisson.com can defray a small part of operating costs by allowing Google to rotate ads into spaces on the site. The website operator receives a small payment based on number of visits or clicks. To learn about more censored people and topics, click the CENSORED tab at the top of this page. But when Google wants to censor content, it flags pages on these sites and demands they be taken down, or else Google ads cannot be posted. If that...

My entire original answer: “ Because a dozen or so major cities with a majority of the nations criminals, drug users, welfare recipients, misfits and radicals would control the country. Plus the great % of sparsely populated but productive part of the country would have little say on how they are governed. The original framers of our constitution wanted a truly representative democracy where all peoples/groups/minorities would have a say in their governance. They didn’t want mob rule. PS of course i realize the mega cities have many, many decent and productive people living in them”

The Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok reached the climax of its lengthy battle with the Media Research Center’s video division by entirely axing it from the platform without notice. An MRCTV staff member opened the TikTok App to find that the account was “banned” — again — but not before the platform removed five more videos. TikTok’s latest censor blitz came just three weeks after the platform permanently banned MRCTV on May 26. TikTok reduced the initial sentence from a permanent ban to a weeklong suspension, but one week after the suspension ended, the Chinese-Communist Party-tied platform removed MRCTV. Between Aug....

Facebook placed a 'fact-checking' label on a post written by a top economist stating that the United States is now in a recession - a move he termed 'Orwellian'. Two consecutive quarters of negative growth is the standard definition of a recession, and Phillip Magness, the research and education director at the American Institute for Economic Research, posted on Facebook a commentary about the country now being in a recession. The post - which is no longer visible - was marked by Facebook's fact checkers as being misleading.

The Washington Free Beacon unearthed a trove of documents outlining how far President Joe Biden's government was willing to push Big Tech to censor criticism of COVID-19 vaccines. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “coordinated with social media companies and Google to censor users who expressed skepticism or criticism of COVID-19 vaccines,” The Beacon reported. Thirty-five pages of documents reportedly shared by America First Legal with The Beacon indicated “CDC officials regularly communicated with personnel at Twitter, Facebook, and Google over ‘vaccine misinformation.’” The documents showed correspondence between officials from Facebook, Twitter and Google and the CDC. At...

Republicans think a “red wave” is inevitable in November. But the Democrats still have one big advantage: the ever-tightening grip of Big Tech censorship, which will be used to prevent undecided voters from encountering even the most mainstream conservative news in the runup to the next election. Republicans will have a strong message — but what if voters are prevented from hearing it? In the runup to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Google completely suppressed Breitbart News from its search results. Compared to 2016, Breibart News went into the 2020 election with a 99.7 percent reduction in visibility for its...

WASHINGTON — About two dozen anti-Big Tech activists, some in costume, stalked a DC fundraiser hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday evening to demand that he call a vote on pending antitrust legislation. Schumer ended up hunkering down in the Kimpton George Hotel near the Capitol building until after the protest disbanded — as his guests filtered out and earnestly told the crowd that he already left. A person at the 5 p.m. fundraiser for Schumer’s Impact PAC said that the New York Democrat left the event at 5:56 p.m. — so most of the demonstrators returned...

The truth has become hate speech on Twitter. There are no conversations anymore," Moms for Liberty's Tiffany Justice told The Post Millennial. ... Twitter has been on a banning spree, suspending or banning accounts that call out "grooming" behavior on the site. Author and mathematician James Lindsay was banned for saying "ok, groomer," YouTuber Tim Pool was locked out of his account for saying "Twitter actively protects and supports pedophilia," and now Moms for Liberty has been suspended, pending appeal, for speaking against the medical gender transition of children. ... The truth has become hate speech on Twitter. There are...

President Biden should announce now that he will not run for reelection in 2024. He should not ask the Democratic Party, or the nation, to assume the risk of a second four-year term that would begin after he reached the age of 82.