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Report: Facebook employees debated “merits of censoring a sitting president’s potentially false statements”
The debate happened a day after Facebook removed one of Trump’s posts for “coronavirus misinformation.”
School principal resigns after posting meme comparing mask wearers to Holocaust victims
Internet users campaigned to have Stephen Ford removed.
Trump detractors get caught up in Twitter censorship
The unintended consequences of Twitter’s suppression.
Student ordered to take “implicit bias training” for honoring Tiananmen Square and Captain David Dorn is suing
The lawsuit argues that Fordham U’s response was “in contravention of its own policies and rules equivocally committing the University to free expression.”
Facebook raises eyebrows censoring #SaveTheChildren hashtag
Users are suspicious.
20 State Attorneys General call on Facebook to censor more
Don’t expect Facebook censorship to slow down.
TikTok outlines plans to police election “misinformation”
The platform is expanding its fact checking.
Researchers slowly discover censorship doesn’t work
The Streisand effect is real.
Twitter locked Trump Campaign account until it complied and deleted a tweet
Twitter forced the Trump Campaign account to delete a clip of Trump calling for schools to be reopened in order to be able to tweet again.
Akilah Hughes ordered to pay legal fees to Sargon of Akaad, may dissuade others from abusing the DMCA
The DMCA is often weaponized and used as a censorship tool.
Facebook and Twitter delete the President’s statement calling for schools to re-open
Facebook and Twitter deleted the post for containing “misinformation.”
Marketing exec fired from Publicis Groupe agency over lockdown skeptic tweet
Another person loses their job for non-conforming opinions.