The White House, health officials and the FBI may have violated the First Amendment rights of people posting about COVID-19 and elections on social media by pressuring technology companies to suppress or remove the posts, a federal appeals court ruled late Friday. The decision from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals partly upheld an order […]
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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 […]
Musk set to step down as Twitter CEO
Twitter CEO Elon Musk conducted a poll on the platform asking if he should step down from leading the company, and a majority of users support his departure as company head. Musk shared a poll to his Twitter account Sunday night asking his users if he should leave his position as head of the social […]
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 […]
Earthquakes Hits Los Angeles As Fault Line Continues Activity
LOS ANGELES — A small earthquake with an epicenter just outside Los Angeles has gotten people in southern California talking on social media. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-3.6 quake hit at about 11:20 Monday night. Its epicenter was about 3.6 miles northwest of Westwood. While the quake wasn’t big enough to cause much […]
Hillary Clinton Shares Her Plan To Fix Healthcare With GOP
The Republican National Committee released one video on Twitter criticizing Democrats for not proposing their own plan to “fix” Obamacare and another challenging Hillary Clinton to produce her plan to fix Obamacare. The first video features outspoken opponents of the Senate Republican health care plan, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), like Bernie Sanders of […]
Hillary Tweets 3-0 In Response To Courts Decision On Travel Ban
Trump was quick off the mark when he tweeted his reaction to the federal appeals court refusing to reinstate his travel ban, but his former rival Hillary Clinton was not far behind. The panel of three judges from the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block a lower-court ruling that suspended the ban […]
Obama Takes To Twitter To Defend His Legacy
Barack Obama on Sunday used Twitter, a medium notoriously favoured by the man who will succeed him in the White House, to tout his achievements in office. “As we look ahead to the future,” Obama wrote in his first tweet, “I wanted to take a moment to look back on the remarkable progress that you […]
Dad tells young son his mom died of heroin overdose, films it for Facebook
When an Ohio man decided to tell his young son that his mother had died of a heroin overdose, he did what most dads would never dream of doing: He filmed the moment and posted it to the internet. Brenden Bickerstaff-Clark’s 2-minute Facebook video, which purports to show the moment his 8-year-old learned the terrible […]