Justice Alito damns Biden WH over social media coercion

Justice Samuel Alito railed against the White House in a dissenting Supreme Court opinion Wednesday, accusing the Biden administration of leading a “campaign to coerce Facebook” when it attempted to moderate misinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic on social media. Joined by fellow conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, Alito dissented from his six colleagues […]

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Fed Judge bans Biden from censoring free speech

On Tuesday, a Trump-appointed judge in Louisiana prohibited a three-page list of federal agencies and U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration from working with social media companies to limit or censor “protected free speech” on their platforms. In a case brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana in 2022 against Biden and other members […]

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Is Biden’s new ‘Ministry of Truth’ constitutional?

Federal and state lawmakers, constitutional scholars and other experts are expressing concerns with the Department of Homeland Security’s new misinformation board, which they say is the Biden administration’s attempt to stifle free speech. Mayorkas announced during testimony Wednesday before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security that DHS had created a Disinformation Governance Board to […]

Facebook Responds To Whistleblower Testimony

Following former Facebook product manager-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen’s shocking testimony to the Senate Commerce Committee, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security on Tuesday, the social media giant is firing back. Facebook Director of Policy Communications Lena Pietsch blasted Haugen, noting she “worked for the company for less than two years, […]

Conservative Social Media Site Parler Taken Down Due To Violent Messages

Parler will likely go offline for “a while” Sunday evening given Amazon Web Services’ decision to suspend the upstart social media platform after Wednesday’s U.S. Capitol riot, executives said Sunday. “We are clearly being singled out,” Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff told “Fox & Friends Weekend” one day after Apple suspended Parler from its App […]