Commentary This past month, I figured that my two-day-old post in a Facebook group for journalism school alumni and students, in which I voiced opposition to censorship of free speech on social media, was nearing the end of its active life. I reached this conclusion when one of the group’s members added a long comment…
An Inconvenient Post: How I Was Censored in a Facebook Group for Journalists
Facebook Cancels Abe Lincoln
Commentary Facebook has a problem with America’s greatest president. Abraham Lincoln’s run-in with the tech giant began late last year, when Republic Book Publishers decided to buy social media ads for my new historical novel, “Old Abe.” The marketing team created and submitted ads to a handful of platforms. Right away, to our surprise, we…
Our Tech Minders and the Future of Public Discourse
Commentary Both Apple and Google have deplatformed Parler, a social media app widely used as an alternative channel for group communication. Amazon soon joined this effort by denying access to cloud services hosting Parler content. Other service providers apparently followed suit, constricting and perhaps exterminating Parler from among the options available to consumers. Parler was…
Facebook to Reduce Political Content on Platform
Facebook is working toward reducing the amount of political content on the platform following feedback from its users, the company CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday. “One of the top pieces of feedback we’re hearing from our community right now is that people don’t want politics and fighting to take over their experience on our…
Video: Don’t Allow Yourself to be Censored—Interview With Elizabeth Heng
Amid the current wave of big tech censorship, one of the platforms created to push back against this is now also facing censorship. Elizabeth Heng, CEO of The New Internet, said her platform was recently censored by both GoFundMe and by PR Newswire. We’ve invited her to speak with us about the challenges she’s facing,…
Rupert Murdoch Decries ‘Awful Woke Orthodoxy’ Amid Wave of Social Media Censorship
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch this week decried what he sees as “a wave of censorship” that seeks to stifle debate and stop people from realizing their potential. Murdoch, whose holding company owns Fox News, the New York Post, and other media outlets, said media professionals nowadays have “a real challenge to confront: a wave of…
On the Efforts to Silence Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity
Commentary The American political commentators Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel are under attack, with many calling for their removal from the airwaves. While this is perhaps a predictable extension of cancel culture’s ongoing persecution of those who uphold traditional values, the attack on these men is a particularly offensive attempt at…
Decoding Social Media Censorship by the Issues
January 21, 2021
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Commentary Free speech is under ferocious attack by Big Tech social media platforms. This is generally viewed as an attack against conservatives on that basis alone. Consequently, the reverse side of that coin views Big Tech as left-wingers in cahoots with Democrat operatives, both of whom have ganged up to gain a political advantage. I…
‘Uncle Tom’ Blacklisted by Hollywood
Commentary Actor Ben Affleck once explained why he found it difficult to watch Republican actors on screen. “It’s … hard,” explained Affleck, “to get people to suspend disbelief. … When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks, I probably wouldn’t like this person if I met him, or…
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The Nation Speaks (Jan. 23): Alan Dershowitz on the Perils of Impeachment; Finding Common Ground; Why America is the World’s Most Generous Country
In this episode, we talk to Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School professor emeritus and constitutional law expert, about the dangers of using impeachment as a political tool and the future of free speech in America. And in a time of deep divide, Dr. George Barna, director of research at Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian…