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Senate panel compels CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter to testify over political bias
A U.S. Senate panel voted Thursday to compel testimony from the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter as lawmakers opened a new front…
Internet consolidation via titans like Apple, Google, and Facebook opened the door to censorship
The artificial crime of ‘hate speech’ had to be invented because more direct and traditional methods of enforcing certain goals yielded little result…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Hateful views ‘have no place’ on tech platforms
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday said he believes it is ‘right’ and ‘moral’ for technology companies…
President Trump: ‘I would rather have fake news’ than censorship
President Trump on Tuesday railed against social media censorship…
ACLU: Apple’s ban of Alex Jones and Infowars could set dangerous social media precedent
The director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) speech, privacy and technology project, warned Monday that bans against Alex Jones and Infowars…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I ‘fully admit’ our bias is ‘more left-leaning’
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Saturday that he ‘fully admit[s]’ Twitter employees share a largely left-leaning bias…
President Trump blasts social media ‘censorship’
President Donald Trump used Twitter to tear into social media companies Saturday morning…
Twitter bans Alex Jones from posting on Twitter for seven days
Twitter Inc. on Tuesday suspended the far-right talk-show host Alex Jones for violating…
Apple is monitoring Alex Jones’ Infowars app for content violations as it becomes 3rd-most downloaded app this week
The Infowars Official app has become the App Store’s third most-downloaded news app this week…
Alex Jones: Infowars has racked up 5.6 million new subscribers in the past 48 hours
Infowars’ Alex Jones has issued a ‘never surrender’ battle cry to his army…
Tim Cook sends Mark Zuckerberg, YouTube, and Spotify scrambling over Infowars’ Alex Jones
The big tech firms’ decision to ban some of Alex Jones’ and Infowars’ content on the grounds of “hate speech” sets a vague precedent that leaves them vulnerable to accusations of hypocrisy…
Want Facebook to censor speech? Be careful what you wish for
The only figure as capable as Donald Trump of spinning up an instant and frantic media cycle these days is Mark Zuckerberg…
EU ratchets up pressure on tech companies to curb ‘illegal content’
The European Commission on Thursday published new guidelines for online platforms to step up…
