Source: Epoch Times Date: 6/27/2021 The Texas Supreme Court ruled Facebook could be held liable if sex traffickers use the platform to prey on children, arguing the social media website is not a “lawless no-man’s-land.” The ruling was made following three Houston-area lawsuits involving teenage trafficking victims who alleged they met their abusers through Facebook’s messaging service. Prosecutors also said that Facebook was negligent by not doing more to block sex traffickers from using the site. “We do not understand Section 230 to ‘create a lawless no-man’s-land on the Internet’...

Source: The Defender Date: 6/18/2021 Story at-a-glance: Big Pharma and mainstream media are largely owned by two asset management firms: BlackRock and Vanguard. Drug companies are driving COVID-19 responses — all of which, so far, have endangered rather than optimized public health — and mainstream media have been willing accomplices in spreading their propaganda, a false official narrative that leads the public astray and fosters fear based on lies. Vanguard and BlackRock are the top two owners of Time Warner, Comcast, Disney and News Corp, four of the six media companies that control...

Source: Reuters Date: 6/22/2021 WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) - A group of state attorneys general may file a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google as early as next week, accusing the search and advertising giant of violating antitrust law in running its mobile app store, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The anticipated lawsuit follows complaints from app developers about Google's management of its Play Store for Android devices, according to one source. The lawsuit has been in the works since last year and has already been delayed, but seems close again, the...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 6/20/2021 A conservative influencer filed a lawsuit against Twitter, a former California secretary of state, and others on June 17, alleging that they colluded to censor election-related content, violating the plaintiff’s rights to free speech, equal protection, and due process. The lawsuit (pdf) cites emails and documents from California’s Office of Elections Cybersecurity, which show that state employees flagged Twitter posts because they purportedly contained misinformation. Twitter subsequently removed many of the flagged posts, including those written...

Source: Resist the Mainstream Date: 6/14/2021 YouTube has taken down a video of Dr. Hooman Noorchashm discussing COVID-19 vaccinations of younger adults and college students with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson. The story: Noorchashm, a retired cardiac surgeon who has a Ph.D. in immunology, made an appearance on Fox News where he discussed concerns related to vaccination efforts around the globe. After the interview, Noorchashm uploaded a video of his conversation with Carlson on YouTube. He also promoted the interview and linked to the video in a Twitter post. Shortly after, the company removed...

Source: Hellbound and Down Date: 1/2/2021 A new law is due to be passed in Poland that would fine Big Tech firms a staggering $2.2 million every time they unconstitutionally censor lawful free speech online. While liberal governments in western nations seek to fine social media giants Facebook and Twitter for failing to remove so-called “hate speech,” Poland is taking a refreshingly different approach. “Under its provisions, social media services will not be allowed to remove content or block accounts if the content on them does not break Polish law.” “In the event of removal...

Source: South China Morning Post Date: 6/7/2021 France's competition regulator fined Google US$268 million on June 7, 2021, after finding the company had abused its dominant market position for placing online ads. Photo: Agence France-Presse Google agreed to pay 220 million euros (US$268 million) and change the way its business works across the world after settling a French investigation that struck at the heart of its power over online advertising. France’s antitrust agency said on Monday the US tech giant used its dominance over ad sales and purchasing on its platforms...

Source: National File Date: 6/4/2021 Twitter has locked ICAN out of their account for the second time in 24 hours after they publicized their newly released dump of emails from Anthony Fauci. National File reported on Thursday that the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) was locked out of their Twitter account for 12 hours, after they publicized that they had acquired 2,957 pages of emails sent from Anthony Fauci between February and May of last year. The Big Tech platform locked the organization dedicated to increasing informed consent regarding vaccinations out of their account due to...

Source: Breitbart Date: 5/29/2021 The speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly announced Thursday he is expanding the state legislature’s investigation into the conduct of several city officials and the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) during the 2020 election. Center Square reported: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, told News Talk 1130 WISN’s Dan O’Donnell on Thursday that he is hiring three former police officers to lead the legislative investigation. “What I am most concerned about is making sure that when we have another election in 2022,...

Source: CTV News Date: 5/20/2021 TORONTO -- As the third wave of COVID-19 continues across the country, staying up-to-date with the right information has never been more important. But depending on where you get the news, sometimes misinformation can be hard to spot. Since the start of the pandemic, until April 2021, more than 18 million pieces of content from Facebook and Instagram have been removed for violating the platforms’ policies on COVID-19-related misinformation. The company says it has labeled more than 167 million pieces of COVID-19 content in total, and are making accounts...

Source: The Week Date: 5/26/2021 The studio behind the James Bond series is getting a new owner: the name's Bezos. Jeff Bezos. Amazon announced Wednesday it's acquiring Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $8.45 billion, the company's second-largest acquisition ever behind its purchase of Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, Variety reports. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval. Founded in 1924, MGM is the studio behind film franchises like Rocky and, most notably, the James Bond series, as well as TV shows like The Handmaid's Tale. MGM's upcoming movies also include Ridley Scott's House of Gucci...

Source: USSA News Date: 5/28/2021 Censorship is something we here at Collective Evolution have experienced many times – especially at the hands of Facebook. We began our work in 2009, growing our following on Facebook to over five million people, with a website viewership of tens of millions of page views a month. We were a fast growing company with big plans and then, all of a sudden, Facebook changed their algorithms. Not only that, they began knocking “less trusted” brands out of their algorithm as well. Over the course of a year, our viewership dropped drastically. This cost our company...

Source: US News Date: 5/27/2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Thursday it will resume making donations to U.S. lawmakers through its political action committee, but will not support 147 lawmakers who voted against President Joe Biden's electoral certification in January. The company had suspended all donations in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack pending a review. A company spokesman confirmed the decision to resume donations. The decision was reported earlier by BuzzFeed. The company did not say how long the ban on donations to the Republicans who voted against...

Source: The Defender Date: 5/20/2021 New guidance from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is making employers think twice about their COVID vaccine requirements. On April 20, companies were put on notice they’ll be responsible for any adverse reaction should they require their employees be vaccinated with a COVID vaccine. In the Frequently Asked Questions section of OSHA’s website having to do with COVID safety compliance, a question was asked whether an adverse reaction to a COVID vaccine had to be recorded if an employer mandated vaccination as a condition for employment. OSHA...

Source: Breitbart Date: 5/21/2021 The disgraced, far-left hate network CNN is experiencing a catastrophic decline in viewership. For the most recent week available, CNNLOL has failed to average even a million viewers during its primetime hours. In total day, the racist outlet barely climbs over 600,000 average viewers. Here’s the breakdown for the week of May 10… Average Primetime Viewers: Fox: 2.348 million MSNBC: 1.487 million CNNLOL: 932,000 Average Total Day Viewers: Fox: 1.303 million MSNBC: 833,000 CNNLOL: 629,000 Compared to this same week last year, CNNLOL has lost 38 percent...

Source: Breitbart Date: 5/11/2018 Facebook is facing a class-action lawsuit following the revelation that the company logged users’ text and call logs using the Facebook smartphone app. Facebook is now reportedly facing a class-action lawsuit relating to the company’s collection of user text and audio logs via the Facebook smartphone app, Fast Company reports. A lawsuit filed in the northern district of California names John Condelles III as the main plaintiff and states that Facebook “presents several wrongs, including a consumer bait-and-switch, an invasion of privacy, wrongful monitoring...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/15/2021 The Chinese regime is heavily relying on Twitter and Facebook to broadcast its state propaganda to the global audience and its online effort has been amplified by fake Twitter accounts, according to recent reports. “We find that the PRC [People’s Republic of China] is increasingly seeking to use its diplomats to amplify the outward-facing propaganda dissemination of state-backed media outlets,” stated Marcel Schliebs, lead author of a report titled “China’s Public Diplomacy Operations, according to a press release. The report, along with a...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/9/2021 Commentary The hypocrisy of Facebook’s so called internal “supreme court” decision to uphold former President Donald Trump’s ban from the platform is astounding. However, this decision will ultimately help President Trump because it makes him a martyr for standing in defense of constitutional American freedoms. Every American should take note of this decision. If the Facebook oligarchs can silence someone who served as President of the United States and received nearly 75 million votes, then they can silence anyone. But to understand the depth...

Source: USA Today Date: 5/6/2021 Four months after his ouster from Facebook and Instagram, the Facebook Oversight Board upheld the suspension of former President Donald Trump.  But the company-funded tribunal of outside experts ruled that it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose an indefinite suspension and instructed the company to review the matter within six months, possibly opening the door to Trump's return. "It is not permissible for Facebook to keep a user off the platform for an undefined period, with no criteria for when or whether the account will be restored," the Oversight...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/5/2021 Commentary Twitter’s stock fell 15 percent last week apparently because they’re not getting sufficient numbers of new users to please the market. People are not as intrigued as they used to be with an allegedly open social media platform that’s not really open, in fact is something of a dictatorship. I know you’re not supposed to kick someone when they’re down. But when that someone has been acting in the most unAmerican, peremptory ways for years, as if the Bill of Rights never existed, censoring people without explanation—even a former president—blocking...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/3/2021 The content oversight board for Facebook and Instagram will announce its decision on May 5 regarding the ongoing suspension of former President Donald Trump. The social media giant’s independent oversight board announced the timing of the decision in a brief Twitter message on May 3, saying the verdict will be made public at about 9 a.m. Eastern time on May 5. The independent board, which purportedly has the power to overrule Facebook, said in mid-April that it had collected and was reviewing more than 9,000 comments from the public. The board...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/3/2021 Iowa State officials worked with Big Tech last year to censor posts related to the 2020 election, government watchdog group Judicial Watch announced on May 3. Judicial Watch’s claim is based on the 624 pages of records it received from the office of the Secretary of State of Iowa as a result of a June 2020 open records lawsuit. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit (pdf) because the Secretary of State’s office failed to provide records and communications relating to the state’s voter registration rolls as requested by Judicial Watch. “These records...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 5/1/2021 The Florida legislature on April 29 passed a bill to prohibit social media platforms with huge user bases from knowingly deplatforming politicians and other Floridians. If a social media company deplatforms a user they know to be a political candidate they face penalties of up to $250,000 per day for statewide officials and $25,000 per day for a candidate for other offices, the bill states. This applies to platforms with over $100 million in annual revenue and over 100 million monthly users, eliminating many but the giants like Facebook and...

Source: Reuters Date: 4/21/2021 Facebook Inc's (FB.O) Instagram is rolling out a feature to prevent users from viewing possibly abusive messages by filtering offensive words, phrases and emojis on the photo-sharing app. The company said on Wednesday that along with the filter option for abusive direct messages, it will also make it harder for people blocked by users to circumvent and contact them through new accounts. Instagram has been pushing on its efforts to tackle hate speech and online abuse on its platform, which is more popular than Facebook's main app among teens and young adults. The...

Source: Project Veritas Date: 4/19/2021 [WESTCHESTER, NY – Apr. 19, 2021] Project Veritas founder and CEO James O’Keefe sued Twitter in The Supreme Court of New York today, over “false and defamatory” statements made by the Big Tech giant.  READ THE ENTIRE COMPLAINT FILED TODAY HERE. The lawsuit was set in motion after O’Keefe’s personal account -- with nearly one million followers -- received a permanent ban from Twitter, for operating “fake accounts.”  The ban was issued almost immediately following Veritas’ release of Bombshell undercover CNN videos, where Technical Director Charlie...

Source: Georgia Star News Date: 4/13/2021 A group directly linked to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated nearly $5.6 million to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office last year. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (pictured above, left) spent that money on the 2020 presidential election. That Zuckerberg-linked group, the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), donated the money. With it, Raffensperger and his staff carried out a variety of tasks, according to the CEIR website. The Georgia Star News contacted Raffensperger’s communications...

Source: Daily Mail Date: 4/15/2021 Facebook has stopped users from sharing articles by DailyMail.com about a BLM founder Patrisse Cullors' multi-million dollar property empire while users were allowed to share it from other outlets. Users that wanted to share links to the DailyMail.com were met with a message that said it 'couldn't be shared.'  'This content was removed for violating our privacy and personal information policy,'  a Facebook spokesperson told DailyMail.com. However, other outlets, such as Black Enterprise, a media company that covers black-owned businesses, was allowed to...

Source: New York Post Date: 4/15/2021 Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe’s Twitter account was suspended Thursday, a day after he released secretly-recorded video of a CNN staffer boasting that his network produced “propaganda” aimed at defeating President Donald Trump during the 2020 election. Twitter gave no immediate reason for the suspension and a message on the account link said only that it was disabled due to a violation of “Twitter rules.” CNN technical director Charlie Chester was featured in Project Veritas’ undercover video on Wednesday, saying that the network brought in...

Source: Fox News Date: 4/19/2021 Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe followed through Monday on his promise to file a defamation lawsuit against Twitter following his permanent suspension from the platform.  "This is a defamation action arising from the publication of a false and defamatory statement by Twitter on April 15, 2021 concerning its decision that day to ban Plaintiff James O’Keefe, an investigative journalist followed by over 926,000 Twitter users as of the time he was banned," the lawsuit reads. "Twitter’s false and defamatory claim was that it removed Mr. O’Keefe because he...

Source: Epoch Times Date: 4/8/2021 A Facebook spokesperson said on Wednesday that the tech company didn’t notify the more than 530 million users whose personal data was obtained through inappropriate means, further noting that they don’t have the intention to do so either. Business Insider first reported the data leak which included information about user’s phone numbers, Facebook IDs and names, locations, email, and birthdays. A Facebook spokesperson told Reuters it also took into account that users could not fix the issue and that the data was publicly available in deciding not to notify...