Big Tech Backlash - Page 62

May 5, 2021

Conservatives must fight Big Tech censorship ‘in the marketplace’: Gowdy

Fox News contributor Trey Gowdy said that conservatives have to fight big tech censorship in the marketplace.

May 5, 2021

Boebert blasts Facebook over continued Trump suspension, calls for antitrust action

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., called Wednesday for Facebook to be broken up after the social media giant’s oversight committee affirmed a decision to suspend former President Donald Trump’s account following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

May 5, 2021

White House backs social media crackdown on 'misinformation' after Trump Facebook ruling

The White House on Wednesday said social media companies need to do more to protect the public from “disinformation” and “misinformation,” after Facebook’s Oversight Board upheld the company’s ban against former President Trump from using the platform.

May 5, 2021

Trump Facebook ban could be a fundraising hurdle for possible 2024 campaign, sources say

The Facebook Oversight Board decision to uphold former President Trump’s ban from the platform could be “devastating” to his digital marketing and fundraising efforts for 2024, a source with Trump’s Facebook strategy told Fox News Wednesday, while others close to the former president said his fundraising track record since being banned from social media sites “suggests otherwise.”

May 5, 2021

Jonathan Turley: Facebook vs. Trump – Big Tech has allowed for the creation of a state media without the state

The decision of the Facebook board to uphold the decision to ban former President Donald Trump but reconsider his lifetime ban may seem transparently convenient for many. However, there is precedent.

May 5, 2021

Trump slams Facebook ban as 'total disgrace,' says Big Tech companies 'must pay a political price'

Former President Trump on Wednesday slammed the Facebook Oversight Board’s decision to uphold his ban from Facebook and Instagram as a “total disgrace,” saying Big Tech companies “must pay a political price.”

May 4, 2021

CNN's Brian Stelter complains that 'free speech advocates' on Facebook board may allow Trump back on platform

CNN's left-wing media guru Brian Stelter seemed upset about the possibility that "First Amendment absolutists" at Facebook could allow former President Trump back on the platform. 

May 4, 2021

Trump launches new communications platform months after Twitter, Facebook ban

EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump on Tuesday launched a communications platform, which will eventually give him the ability to communicate directly with his followers, after months of being banned from sites like Twitter and Facebook. 

May 4, 2021

House candidate suing FEC over inaction on complaint against Twitter, says blue check of 'value' in campaigns

Anna Paulina Luna, the former 2020 GOP nominee for Democrat Rep. Charlie Crist's House seat, is suing the Federal Election Commission (FEC) over alleged inaction on a complaint about the fact Twitter never verified her account. 

May 4, 2021

Jonathan Turley: Facebook's Orwellian censorship push – their insidious campaign to destroy free speech

The movie "Dr. Strangelove" came to mind recently with the public campaign of Facebook calling for people to change their attitudes about the internet and rethink issues like "content modification" – the new Orwellian term for censorship.