Social Media

When the TikTok ban was set to go into effect this past Sunday, I immediately thought of a famous scene from “The Simpsons” where all the children go out to play after their favorite cartoon is pulled off the air. They come out of their…

As of Sunday, a law effectively outlawing the Chinese-owned app TikTok from use in the U.S. is in effect which gives hundreds of millions of Americans the opportunity to put down their phones and go touch grass. The question is, will they?…

Joe Biden is ending his disastrous presidency the way he started it: by promoting the mass censorship of Americans’ free speech. During his fumbling Wednesday night Farewell Address, the Democrat commander-in-chief bemoaned decisions by…

When Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday that Meta is shutting down its fact-checking program, the company promised “more speech and fewer mistakes.” But when The Federalist asked for details about changes to the company’s content moderation…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers, replacing them with X-style “community notes” where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users. What do you think? “No…

Over the last decade, America’s ruling class has used the threat of “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” to justify turning the awesome powers of the administrative state against domestic Wrongthinkers from elite orthodoxy. The most insidious…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that Facebook plans to do away with its extensive and partisan fact-checking program in favor of a community notes system modeled after Elon Musk’s X reforms. Zuckerberg claims the change will…

Meta, the social media giant that owns Facebook and Instagram, donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund as the company tries to mend fences ahead of a second administration that could oversee major social media…

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., complained on Thursday that social media has ruined Congress’s ability to make secretive deals on legislation before it is released to the public. Mullin made the comments during a panel at a conference…

TikTok suffered a major legal setback as a federal court rejected the company’s petition to overturn the law that requires TikTok either to find an American owner or face a ban in the United States as early as January 19, 2025. If the ban…