Women have reacted furiously to one of the very first executive orders from President Joe Biden which they say is part of a trend to “erase women” by insisting that there is no biological reality to being a woman and that gender is simply fluid. The hashtag #BidenErasedWomen has been trending since the inauguration. One of Biden’s […]
Social media giant Twitter refused to take down images and videos of a teenage sex trafficking victim after its investigation “didn’t find a violation” of the company’s “policies,” a shocking lawsuit has alleged. According to the New York Post, a federal suit, filed by the victim and his mother in the Northern District of California, […]
Hungary’s Justice Minister Judit Varga announced that “systematic abuses” of freedom of expression by tech giants should be addressed by the current government.
A retired Chicago firefighter has said online accusations that he killed a policeman on Capitol Hill last week has “f***ed my life up”.
Whatsapp, Facebook and Twitter have all been affected by the shut down.
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.
This is now the fourth draft of this article. It is the fourth draft, because in the first three drafts, I had to be very careful what I said. That is because, in this new world that’s emerged over the weekend, you have to be very conscious, on the right, that you’re arguing with one […]
Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been permanently suspended by the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey.
There are a number of things that are remarkable about this tweet from the Chinese Embassy in Washington. The first, though, is that it’s still up, unmolested by twitter, with no warning, or clarification attached. President Trump gets banned for dopey tweets about how he didn’t really lose the election. China, on the other hand, […]
The Iona Institute has hit out at what appears to be a Twitter ban on any advertising from the organisation, after it sought to book an advert on the platform for a video featuring the charitable work of the Catholic Church. Director David Quinn said “Twitter has banned Iona Institute from advertising this extremely inoffensive video. They […]
A stark image here, via Gavan Reilly: pic.twitter.com/QxyaTuWiLy — Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) November 7, 2020 This is, of course, an absolutely terrible development, but most people seem incapable of understanding why. That’s largely because attitudes to Trump fall into two camps, and they are almost irreconcilable. The first camp includes almost every Irish journalist, and […]