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Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies against election-related misinformation, setting new rules that will likely force the platform to more aggressively fact-check President Donald Trump during the final months of the 2020 campaign.The social media giant rolled out the new policies in a blog post, which said that Twitter will either add fact-check labels to or hide altogether tweets that contain "false or misleading information that causes confusion" about election rules, or posts with "unverified information about election rigging." Twitter's porous and subjective policies have enabled Trump to spread a steady stream of misinformation about the election to...

Facebook on Wednesday banned roughly 900 groups and pages and 1,500 ads related to the QAnon conspiracy. The removals were part of an expansion of the platform's policies on violent rhetoric, which also resulted in 10,000 Instagram pages and nearly 2,000 Facebook groups associated with QAnon having their reach limited. The QAnon theory baselessly claims that President Trump and the military are working together to expose a shadowy cabal of figures in media, entertainment and politics that are trafficking children. In a blog post explaining the policy change Wednesday, Facebook noted that groups and pages dedicated to the theory have...

Facebook announced Thursday that it will ban pro-Trump super PAC, The Committee to Defend The President, from buying ads on its platform. “As a result of the Committee to Defend the President’s repeated sharing of content determined by third-party fact-checkers to be false, they will not be permitted to advertise for a period of time on our platform,” Facebook Policy communications director Andy Stone told FOX Business in a statement. The page will lose advertising privileges for a minimum of 90 days. The advertising ban will take effect on August 10, and would end around November 1.

Twitter has redefined the meaning of “hateful conduct” by becoming the arbiters of acceptable speech. In doing same they determined that I ran afoul of their self-righteous rules of conduct. You see, it’s okay for vile skin-color harlots to accuse white people of being racist and enjoying a mythical privilege based upon whites having less melanin. But it’s not permissible for you and I to call such persons out for their ugliness. Oprah Winfrey now has a YouTube Channel program called, the “Oprah Conversation.” Her program, not surprisingly, is nothing more than a platform to shame craven whites who have...

UPDATE: Since posting this video below by frontline US doctors and after over 17 million views Facebook has cencored the video!! This video has been CENSORED by Facebook after +17million views. Also censored by YouTube. Big Tech thinks it knows better than licensed doctors and medical professionals. Article soon… https://t.co/TbJDuJRkJZ— Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue) July 28, 2020 Previously… Frontline doctors from across the US held a “White Coat Summit” on Monday in Washington DC to dispel the misinformation and myths surrounding the coronavirus.The doctors are very concerned with the disinformation campaign being played out in the far left American media...

Twitter has removed President Trump's "They're not after me. They're after you" meme

The free speech social media platform Parler is calling for “Twexit” — a mass exodus of Twitter users — in its recently issued tech “Declaration of Independence” and “Bill of Rights,” in which it takes a stand against acts of censorship and data abuse by Silicon Valley giants like Twitter and Facebook. Parler said this week that Silicon Valley “technofascism” is threatening Internet freedoms as companies crack down on speech they don’t like and engage in acts of censorship and blacklisting. “Twitter long ceased to be a public square. They are now merely a publisher. And a bad, biased publisher...

The controversial rightwing commentator Katie Hopkins has had her Twitter account permanently suspended for violating the platform’s “hateful conduct” policy. Hopkins, who has been repeatedly retweeted by the US president, Donald Trump, and had more than 1.1 million followers, was removed to “keep Twitter safe”, according to the social media platform. The move came hours after she had complained that her blue “verified” check mark, which lets users know that an account is authentic, had been removed. A spokesperson for Twitter confirmed her removal to the Guardian. The statement read: “Keeping Twitter safe is a top priority for us. Abuse...

Twitter has flagged a tweet from President Trump as containing “manipulated media” after the president tweeted a clip of a black toddler and a white toddler edited to include a CNN chyron reading “terrified todler[sic] runs from racist baby.” The initial video, which was widely circulated online long before the tweet, shows the two children running towards each other and embracing. It has been edited to include ominous background music and the fictitious CNN headline. The video reverts to the original clip midway through, cutting to a title reading “America is not the problem. Fake news is.” “This tweet has...

Don’t look now, but Twitter is beginning its move to de-platform the President. – Twitter took the first step towards what will almost certainly become an eventual de-platforming of President Trump’s account Wednesday. Check out the little blue blurb at the bottom of the tweets below: Hilariously, clicking on the “Get the facts” note takes you to completely false articles by corrupt outlets like CNN on the matter of mail-in voting. But that’s what Twitter does. Look, you should expect the President’s account to be banned completely well before the Republican National Convention in August. Twitter already moved to restrict...

Two conservative students were shut by a crowd of leftist protesters while they attempted to recruit for their Turning Point USA chapter at Binghamton University in New York. The situation became so tense that police arrived on the scene, as video obtained by Campus Reform shows. Lacey Kestecher, president of Binghamton University's Turning Point USA chapter, was joined Wednesday by classmate John Lizak and Taylor Cisinski, a TPUSA regional manager, to recruit for their conservative group. The students also sought to advertise an upcoming College Republicans event featuring the prestigious economist Dr. Aurthur Laffer.  However, the students’ efforts were quickly met with...

On 30 April 2019, St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge, rescinded a fellowship to the outstanding young researcher Noah Carl, who self-identifies as a conservative. The rescinding was unjust, and it came after a sustained and equally unjust campaign of leftist protest and demonstration against Dr. Carl. The campaign was unjustly supported by leftist press outlets, including Varsity, the University of Cambridge student newspaper. I was the external examiner on Dr. Carl’s DPhil from Nuffield, Oxford, so I am familiar with his work. It is a data-intensive investigation of cognitive ability (or intelligence) and its correlates, including ideological views, trust,...