“I am in regular contact with the leaders of other nations on these issues. We simply won’t be intimidated.”
Facebook through their subsidiary, Instagram, may have made a major strategic blunder in pursuing their policy of being the ‘truth czars’ of world thought, says top civil rights lawyer, Robert Barnes. Instagram recently de-platformed Robert F Kennedy Jr, but then went to the point of releasing a press statement explaining why they deplatformed him. The […]
Hungary’s Justice Minister Judit Varga announced that “systematic abuses” of freedom of expression by tech giants should be addressed by the current government.
Both Twitter and Facebook have seen sharp falls in their share price as the controversy over Big Tech muzzling Donald Trump continues. Twitter plunged almost 9% since it banned the U.S. president on Friday, and embarked on what conservatives described as a “purge” of users, with many others leaving the platform in protest. Facebook slumped more than […]
A spokesman for German leader Angela Merkel said the Chancellor found it “problematic” that Twitter had permanently suspended US president Donald Trump.
An investigation by Sky News Australia into bias shown by Facebook’s ‘fact-checkers’ has revealed that one of the leading academics assessing who can become a fact-checker for the online platform, Prof Margot Susca, is a liberal activist. She also signed-off on the Irish platform, TheJournal.ie, becoming a supposedly unbiased checker of facts for the platform. Digital […]
This week’s New Yorker carried an article by Andrew Marantz whose main thrust was that Facebook is not doing a good job of moderating its content. The result is that all sorts of people and groups that, in the view of many experts the reporter interviewed, should not be able to use the electronic megaphone of Facebook, are allowed […]
Tech giant Facebook has agreed to pay the French government €106 million taxes to settle a dispute over taxes raised on revenues earned in the country. The charge would cover the period of Facebook’s operations in France from 2009 to 2019. The social network trailblazers also agreed to pay €8.46m in taxes on revenues earned […]
A much-admired Catholic priest has said an “Account Warning” he received from Facebook was most likely prompted by his pro-life posts to his personal page. Fr Paddy McCafferty, who is parish Priest of Corpus Christi, in Ballymurphy, West Belfast, is an outspoken pro-life advocate, who has addressed the March for Life in Belfast and spoken […]
Extraordinary: https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1275500569940176897 The background to this: Some weeks ago, anarchist protestors in Seattle set up what they called an “autonomous zone” – basically their own independent quasi-country, in the city. Two nights ago, protestors in Washington DC threatened to do the same. Trump was having none of it. Twitter says that Trump’s tweet constituted a […]
US President Trump has just signed an executive order to reign in social media companies like Twitter from censoring their political opponents. The level of censorship against conservative and pro-life people on social media in the last few years has been clear to everyone with eyes. Most people by now have at least heard stories […]
The prominent conservative leader and commentator, Candace Owens, has hired the lawyers who took the ‘Covington Catholic’ cases to take the first steps in a legal case against Facebook for defamation. “This week, in light of discovering that Facebook has granted a former CNN editor of 26 years, “fact-checker” status to censor and ban conservative accounts, I engaged […]