Category: Social Media

Facebook Hires Biden Transition, Obama Admin Official as VP of ‘Civil Rights’

January 27, 2021
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Facebook has hired Roy Austin, former Obama administration official and a member of President Joe Biden’s transition team, as the social media company’s vice president of Civil Rights and deputy general counsel. Austin used to serve as civil rights prosecutor and supervisor in the Department of Justice (DOJ) before becoming a deputy assistant to President…

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Facebook Hires Biden Transition, Obama-Era Official as VP of Civil Rights

January 27, 2021
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Facebook has hired Roy Austin, an Obama administration veteran and a member of President Joe Biden’s transition team, as the social media company’s vice president of civil rights and deputy general counsel. Austin had been a civil rights prosecutor and served as a Department of Justice (DOJ) supervisor before becoming a deputy assistant to President…

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Trump’s YouTube Channel to ‘Remain Suspended,’ Company Says

January 27, 2021
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YouTube this week confirmed former President Donald Trump’s channel will remain suspended. Trump’s channel was suspended Jan. 12 from uploading new content for at least a week, according to the Google-owned platform, claiming it could be used to incite violence following the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. “In light of concerns about…

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Rupert Murdoch Decries ‘Awful Woke Orthodoxy’ Amid Wave of Social Media Censorship

January 26, 2021
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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…

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Sen. Markey: Facebook ‘Failed Commitments’ to Stop Recommending Political Groups

January 26, 2021
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Facebook is still recommending political groups to users despite a pledge from its CEO that it would no longer do so, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) charged on Tuesday. Markey told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a letter that Facebook “has failed to meet commitments it made to stop recommending political groups on its platform.” Markey…

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Twitter Suspends Account of Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow

January 26, 2021
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Twitter late Monday suspended the account of MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell on its platform. Users were faced with an error message, “You’re trying to follow user that doesn’t exist,” before the account page simply said that Lindell’s account has been suspended for having violated Twitter rules. Lindell’s personal Twitter account had nearly half…

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Twitter Initiates ‘Community-Based Approach to Misinformation’

January 25, 2021
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Twitter is introducing a pilot version of a “community-based approach to misinformation,” as it works to develop a system where the general user will be able to add a note and report on different posts, specifying their opinion if they find something wrong with what other people write. “We apply labels and add context to…

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House Oversight Republicans Say FBI’s Capitol Riot Probe Into Parler Should Include Facebook and Twitter

January 25, 2021
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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee criticized its chairwoman’s calls for an FBI investigation into the role the social media platform Parler may have played in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as “blatantly and overtly partisan,” arguing that for any such probe to be fair, it should also include Facebook and Twitter. Reps. James Comer…

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House Oversight Republicans Say FBI’s Capitol Riot Probe Into Parler Should Include Facebook, Twitter

January 25, 2021
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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee criticized calls by the panel’s chairwoman for an FBI investigation into the role the social media platform Parler may have played in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as “blatantly and overtly partisan,” arguing that for any such probe to be fair, it should also include Facebook and Twitter. Reps….

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First Amendment Rights Being Eroded by Technocrats: Director of Citizens for Free Speech

January 25, 2021
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The increased censorship of people’s views expressed on social media by Big Tech companies has been part of an orchestrated attack on the First Amendment, Patrick Wood, director and founder of Citizens for Free Speech, told The Epoch Times. Wood believes that there is an agenda behind the censorship. It would be almost statistically impossible…

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