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Von Spakovsky: FEC Needs To Reopen Twitter Probe Now That Documents Musk Released Show Company May Have Outright Lied

By Hans von Spakovsky|2023-03-06T11:33:47-05:00January 13th, 2023|

The Federal Election Commission is responsible for enforcing the act that governs the raising and spending of money in federal campaigns. Last year, the commission dismissed a complaint filed against Twitter and its executives that claimed they had violated federal law. Given the recent public disclosures of internal as well as external Twitter communications with campaign and party organizations, the FEC should reopen that investigation. It must determine if that dismissal was based on false information provided by Twitter.

Von Spakovsky: Republican National Committee Targets Google’s Censorship in Lawsuit

By Hans von Spakovsky|2023-03-06T11:34:01-05:00November 12th, 2022|

After enduring years of targeted censorship, the Republican National Committee is suing Google for its bulk-labeling of millions of RNC campaign email communications to its supporters and donors as “spam” during “pivotal points in election cycles.”

‘It Just Kept Happening’: RNC Sues Google Over Email Censorship

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T11:34:04-05:00November 3rd, 2022|

“Fifty-three percent of the country has a Gmail account, and people who’ve opted in to receive Republican emails ask to receive them—they wanted to know, where is my polling location? How do I register to vote? How do I send money? Google has said, ‘You know what? We’re going to block that communication.’”

Josh Hawley got a Facebook exec to admit they censor constitutionally protected speech at the behest of the White House … and nobody cares

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T11:35:51-05:00September 17th, 2022|

Facebook is acting as an enforcement arm for the government, censoring constitutionally protected speech.

Hans von Spakovsky: YouTube Censors Strike Again for No Good Reason, Then Do About-Face

By Hans von Spakovsky|2023-03-06T11:56:00-05:00May 7th, 2022|

YouTube’s censors have struck again, removing a podcast discussing election integrity that it claims violates its “misinformation policy.”The podcast, hosted by Jacob Kersey, was an interview of me at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, in February 2021 and had been on YouTube for more than a year before it was suddenly taken down.YouTube never responded to Kersey’s appeal of the ban, but a day after Douglas Blair wrote about the censorship in The Daily Signal, the video suddenly reappeared on the website. Kersey says he received no explanation from YouTube for its actions.

Fact-checking my ______… The Unanimously Liberal Tilt of the ‘Fact-Checkers’

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T11:56:10-05:00March 30th, 2022|

Just like the modern media, fact-checkers are partisan hacks on a mission. Check some recent examples of the fine propagandist art of “fact-checking” to see these “arbiters of truth” in action...

Airbnb Blacklists Michelle Malkin – and Her Husband

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T11:59:09-05:00February 4th, 2022|

Conservative author and journalist Michelle Malkin and her husband were banned by Airbnb as “retaliation” for her engaging in free speech at a conference last November. Malkin says: “The speech delved into the K-20 metastasis of anti-white curriculum, the corporate media’s whitewashing of black-on-Asian attacks, and the long campaign to censor nationalist dissidents who put America first,” adding that “San Francisco-based Airbnb notified me that I was banned from using its services ever again and imperiously deleted my account.”

There’s a Social War a Comin’

By Tom McHale|2023-03-06T12:05:14-05:00October 27th, 2021|

If you put your iPhone to the ground, you’ll hear distant war drums beating. On a quiet day, you might also catch hints of Silicon Valley boardroom debates. They know trouble is on the horizon, and I’ll bet some of that crypto money tech company bigwigs are wondering how the heck they’re going to respond.

Facebook has reportedly allowed millions of VIP users to violate its content rules without being punished

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T12:05:23-05:00September 19th, 2021|

Facebook has become known in recent years for the ruthless enforcement of its internal content rules, to the point that posting anything on the site can sometimes feel like opening your mouth in Stalinist Russia—you never know if you're going to become an Unperson by saying the wrong thing. But the social media company has apparently allowed millions of users to skirt around those rules without being punished:

Big Tech Report Card: Amazon, Twitter, Apple Earn Industry Huge ‘F’

By ACRU Staff|2023-03-06T12:06:32-05:00April 27th, 2021|

By almost any measure, the first three months of 2021 were the worst ever for online freedom. Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Google, Facebook, YouTube and others proved to the world that the Big Tech censorship of conservatives is a reality. And they did so in disturbing, authoritarian ways that highlight their unchecked power over information and our political process.

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