June 17, 2020 Lawmaker blasts Amazon’s ‘performative’ support of Black Lives Matter movement Amazon, which last week imposed a one-year ban on selling its controversial facial recognition technology to the police, is being called out for a "performative" gesture amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests.
June 17, 2020 Shapiro hammers NBC over role in Google's crackdown on The Federalist: 'The mask finally fell' Ben Shapiro said Wednesday that he was "glad" to learn of NBC News' role in Google's recent actions against The Federalist because it finally exposes the network's agenda to "punish" those that don't buy into their narrative.
June 17, 2020 Civil rights groups demand Facebook advertising boycott over ‘promoting hate, bigotry, racism’ A group of civil rights organizations blasted Facebook on Wednesday, calling out the platform's role in allowing hate and bigotry to fester and urging an advertiser boycott.
June 17, 2020 Columnist calls for breakup of Google, other tech giants; says they 'pose a threat to consumers' New York Post columnist Miranda Devine accused NBC News of "despicable" behavior Wednesday after a writer for its web site apparently sought to influence Google to punish two conservative news sites over what was deemed offensive coverage of the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement.
June 17, 2020 DOJ proposes legislation to hold Big Tech accountable for 'illicit activity' on sites The Department of Justice is pushing Congress to pass new legislation that would hold Facebook, Twitter and other tech behemoths accountable for what is posted on their platforms – a move that if passed would roll back protections Silicon Valley has had for decades.
June 17, 2020 Pelosi pours $180K into Facebook ads while calling for advertisers to boycott site House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on advertisers to boycott social media networks unless the outlets agree to restrict "dangerous" political speech, even as her campaign spent over $180,000 on Facebook ads over the past week.
June 17, 2020 Hawley introduces bill targeting Big Tech companies over political censorship concerns Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced legislation Wednesday to give Americans the ability to sue major tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter if they engage in selective censorship of political speech.
June 17, 2020 Federalist's Ben Domenech: We're seeing how 'Big Tech can be weaponized by woke mobs' The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday that NBC’s apparent influence over Google to punish two conservative news sites over what was deemed offensive coverage of the George Floyd protests “is a canary in a coal mine moment.”
June 17, 2020 Tucker Carlson: Google and Big Tech are the chief threat to our liberties - and no one is protecting us Google is acting directly to shape what people can say and what they're allowed to speak. It's a direct effort to stifle free speech.
June 17, 2020 Sen. Tom Cotton: Twitter tried to censor me – and they lost A Jacobin mob of left-wing thought police has risen up across our country. No statue, no movie, no cartoon is immune. Nor any op-ed.