Censorship

When data showing consumers spent 7.5 percent more this Black Friday than they did last year debuted days after Americans partook in pricey Thanksgiving feasts, the White House and its allies pounced on the buying frenzy as an opportunity…

The for-profit censorship giant NewsGuard is now selling its “Misinformation Fingerprints” technology to private companies to silence Americans’ speech — technology the federal government helped NewsGuard develop to the tune of nearly…

Over the weekend, Elon Musk said he plans to file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against Media Matters for America, a left-wing propaganda shop whose sole reason for existing is to churn out deceptive, fake studies designed to pressure large…

In May 2021, L. Gordon Crovitz, a media executive turned start-up investor, pitched Twitter executives on a powerful censorship tool. In an exchange that came to light in the “Twitter Files” revelations about media censorship,…

House Republicans are taking aim at the Pentagon’s censorship regime in the latest version of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In June, Rep. Richard McCormick, R-Ga., attached an amendment to the annual defense bill to…

It’s been just over a year since Elon Musk tweeted a picture of himself holding a sink in the Silicon Valley headquarters of the world’s most influential social media platform. Conjuring a dad joke worthy of a man with 11 children, Musk…

In 2020, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), along with writers at The Federalist, had their social media posts flagged, suppressed, and even censored by a government-nonprofit-industry taskforce supposedly designed to combat…

Harassment and death threats of Jewish creators on TikTok have led more than a dozen high-profile creators, including Amy Schumer, to sign a joint letter calling on TikTok to be more proactive in fighting antisemitism. “Your Jewish…

The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway and Sean Davis were among several prominent conservatives targeted by a federal censorship operation carried out during the 2020 election, according to a new bombshell congressional report. Released by the…

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray were grilled during a Tuesday Homeland Security Committee hearing by Sen. Rand Paul over their…