Jim Banks
State Department is Sued for Withholding Records on Censorship Efforts
Government watchdog FGI sues the State Department for withholding FOIA documents on alleged censorship, free speech suppression, and media blacklisting.
X Says It Will Reduce the Visibility of Posts That Purposely Ignore a Person’s Preferred Pronouns
X appears to be returning to old Twitter’s controversial “misgendering” ideas, this time shadow banning instead of an account suspension.
Facebook and Instagram are censoring criticism of the Iranian regime
Lawmakers want to know why.
Lawmakers want answers on “misinformation” tool used in schools
Pushed by the American Federation of Teachers.
Pentagon is told to preserve documents on its NewsGuard “Misinformation Fingerprints” contract
US Cyber Command used NewsGuard to monitor “state-sponsored mis- and disinformation” and identify “sources publishing known false narratives.”
Rep. Jim Banks criticizes Twitter for locking his official account
Banks was locked out under Twitter’s “misgendering” policy.
Microsoft’s LinkedIn censors US journalists in China
Increasingly common.
Congressman Jim Banks questions LinkedIn after it censored for China
The Microsoft-owned platform is accused of taking orders from the CCP on who to censor.
YouTube caught auto-censoring some comments that criticize China’s propaganda pushers (again)
The comments were being blacklisted within seconds of being posted and was reversed only when YouTube was questioned about it.
Republican lawmakers send another letter to Amazon, demanding answers on book censorship
The letter is addressed to Jeff Bezos.
The Epoch Times responds to Facebook accusations of inauthentic activity
Epoch denied the accusations.
Rep. Jim Banks questions Twitter on why it allows scams but censors political speech
Twitter denied the accusations.