Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Thursday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports” called for federal regulations to monitor social media so people can’t be “hatefully radicalized to harm our democracy.”
Critics have slammed a new European Commission plan to monitor private communications online in the name of protecting children from abuse.
China’s government-controlled social media outlet Weibo began censoring the official United Nations account and banning users from publishing comments by World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday – and reportedly censoring photos of top official – after Tedros called China’s coronavirus lockdown policy “unsustainable.”
The Attorneys General for Louisiana and Missouri have filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden for allegedly colluding with big tech social media companies to censor conservatives under the guise of combatting “misinformation.”
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized pushes to deal with social media disinformation for always focusing “on the producers, never the consumers, as if we’re all helpless, dumb blondes ready to believe anything” and said
British parliamentarians have summoned billionaire Elon Musk over his acquisition of Twitter and his plans to revive free speech.
From celebrities to lawmakers and run-of-the-mill leftists, the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft decision on Roe v. Wade lit up social media with wild accusations ranging from women dying to the reinstatement of slavery.
Hillary Clinton took to social media to weigh in on the leak of the draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade, which shows a majority of justices reject the idea abortion is a constitutional right.
A Flemish MEP has warned the EU “does not want free speech” after a European Commission official threatened Elon Musk over his takeover of Twitter.
We have three choices in dealing with Big Tech: like it the way it is, break it up, or fix it. Fixing it is the best course.
Elon Musk said Friday people on the far left had a deep dislike for others and themselves but added he was not a fan of the far right.
Barack Obama, in a speech on Thursday calling for more regulation of social media content, described himself as “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist” but immediately clarified that it does not apply to social media companies.
President Macron stated he is open to “dismantling” social media giants and proposed to end anonymity online as he campaigns for re-election.
A Canadian health ministry has apologised for sharing a link to a ‘foot fetish’ porn video instead of government COVID statistics.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) praised the possibility of Elon Musk taking over Twitter but argued that while someone with Musk’s resources can fix Twitter, “that’s the small fry,” because “You’ve
An automatic word monitor in a new Amazon worker chat app will ban a variety of words and phrases, such as “union,” “fairness,” “pay raise,” “slave labor,” and “master,” among other terms, according to internal documents obtained by the Intercept.
A recent study suggests that the negative impact of social media platforms varies for girls and boys based on their age. Girls are most negatively impacted between the ages of 11 and 13, while boys are most negatively impacted between 14 and 15 years old.
The British government has claimed they will give free speech a “trump card” status in an effort to combat woke cancel culture, despite the fact it is currently legislating to increase censorship online.
China’s state-run Global Times on Friday unleashed an editorial tirade against “badfaith [sic] actors fed by antagonistic Western media,” who have been running a “malicious smear campaign against China on Russia-Ukraine issues” by fiendishly translating the hideous things Chinese nationalist blowhards are saying on social media.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s newly hired press secretary Kirsten Allen posted questionable material on various social media accounts, which she did not delete during her Twitter purge before accepting the job.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a report recommending an increased focus on scanning the social media accounts of its employees in order to detect “extremism.”
Actor Alec Baldwin’s wife Hilaria Baldwin said over the weekend she is taking a break from social media. The move comes just weeks after her husband was hit with a wrongful death lawsuit.
Democrat first lady Jill Biden invited far-left former Facebook employee and fake ‘whistleblower’ Frances Haugen to attend the SOTU event.
Several Russian celebrities risked a potential exposure ban by state media this week through their public protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, Fortune magazine reported.
Online encyclopedia-turned information giant Wikipedia banned seven of its editors over their sympathy for a French presidential hopeful.
Legislation making its way through the Canadian Parliament would allow citizens to be taken to court and penalized if they are suspected of simply intending to post “hate speech” online.
Pope Francis has called on Christians to uproot evil from their lives this Lent, including the addiction to digital media that “impoverishes human relationships.”
Ireland’s parliament is currently considering a new media law that would push for the creation and dissemination of climate change propaganda.
Sir Nick Clegg, the discredited deputy prime minister turned Silicon Valley bigwig, has been promoted by Facebook’s parent company to a senior global position under the direct supervision of tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg.
Christopher Bedford is on the front lines fighting Big Tech and left-wing organizations’ online efforts to silence conservative voices.
During a Wednesday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) detailed his bipartisan bill, the Kids Online Safety Act, to protect children on social media sites.
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is looking to implement a surveillance and intelligence-gathering service to monitor student, parent, and teacher social media accounts for “hate speech” and “social media threats.”
China is turning to American social media influencers to help clean up the country’s image for the Beijing Olympics. The communist regime reportedly spent $300,000 on U.S. influencers ahead of the genocide games to distract Americans from its human rights abuses.
The algorithm for the Chinese-owned TikTok app makes it easier for teens to go viral and gain internet fame, especially with sexualized videos. But the downside of posting racy videos to social media is the toll taken on teens’ mental health, according to mental health professionals.
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram stated that social media companies “know exactly” how drug traffickers are using their sites to traffic drugs and that they could put an end to
German investigators have found nearly 400 cases of online hate speech related to last week’s shooting of two police officers.
A couple with a record of starting failed businesses cashed in on the coronavirus testing frenzy, collected $124 million from the feds.
Alex Marlow and Frances Martel both described TikTok as a “foreign weapon” targeting American children and youth.
State legislators in the Democrat stronghold of New York are pushing a bill that would allow lawsuits to be brought against tech companies that spread so-called misinformation.
A Swedish youth has suffered damage to their eyes after taking part in a trend on the social media platform Tik Tok that involved mixing chemicals to make a homemade explosive. The youth, who was not identified by name or
