SYDNEY—Elon Musk’s social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as “part of public discussion,” rejecting a regulator’s order to take down the content on grounds it is offensive and violent. In a post overnight, X’s “global government affairs” account said the video taken by an […]
X owner and tech billionaire Elon Musk has probed Australian prime minister on whether his government is attempting to “censor” content worldwide. In response to a post from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Mr. Musk wrote, “Just want to understand clearly. “Are you requiring this platform to censor content globally, even when that content is […]
Retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. David Stilwell says new legislation to force the popular video-sharing application TikTok to divest from its Chinese ownership or lose the ability to operate within the United States should be seen as a measure of national defense rather than an issue involving free speech and censorship. On April 20, […]
A group of 15 financial officials from 13 states sent a notice to Bank of America, raising concerns about the institution’s “de-banking” of Christians. “We write to express our concerns over Bank of America’s troubling track record of politicized de-banking. Bank of America’s de-banking policies and practices threaten the company’s financial health, its reputation with […]
RIO DE JANEIRO—A U.S. congressional committee released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend accounts on the social media platform X, offering a glimpse into decisions that have spurred complaints of alleged censorship from the company and its billionaire owner Elon Musk. The Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee late Wednesday published a staff report disclosing dozens of […]
Students from several schools in a Utah school district have staged a protest against “furries” who growled and bit them at school. The students said previous complaints about the situation were ignored by school officials. Videos from the protest showed dozens of children outside the school, holding signs and banners. Adam Bartholomew, a live streamer, […]
As we draw closer to the Nov. 8 presidential election, a security expert is predicting how Big Tech might influence Americans to decide who wins another term in the White House. Andrew Riddaugh served as a key figure in the Presidential Advance team for all four years of President Donald Trump’s term in the White […]
Google employees in two different office locations staged protests against the company over its involvement with the Israeli government. Google signed a billion-dollar contract with Israel in 2021. The contract, known as Nimbus, operates jointly with Amazon and offers cloud computing services to the U.S. ally. The protesters organized the sit-ins across Google’s Sunnyvale, California, […]
Are the voices of conservative students being silenced at American universities? The Young Americans for Freedom student group says it was de-recognized at the University at Buffalo and barred from receiving the same benefits as other student groups. NTD speaks with the nonprofit legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing them in a federal […]
Former CBS reporter Catherine Herridge said on April 11 that her former employer seized some of her files, including files containing confidential information. Ms. Herridge told a U.S. House of Representatives panel in Washington that she was informed in a Zoom call that she was being terminated. “I was locked out of my emails, and […]
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a series of letters on Tuesday, seeking to stay current on the FBI and U.S. Justice Department officials’ efforts to communicate with and potentially sway the behavior of major technology companies like Google and Facebook. The FBI and DOJ have come under past scrutiny for their outreach […]
A recent bill proposed by Wisconsin Republicans that would have banned biological male athletes in high school from competing in girl’s sports has been rejected by the state governor. Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers vetoed the bill on April 2 in the Capitol, surrounded by Democratic lawmakers, LGBT advocates, the mayor of Madison, and others. […]
Elon Musk’s social media platform X announced on April 2 that it has appointed a new head of safety. The company’s decision came after the company’s previous safety leader resigned just seven months into the role. Kylie McRoberts, who has worked for the social media giant for nearly four years, will be taking over the […]
A coalition of Marxist and other left-wing organizations are warning delegates to the Democratic National Convention about what they can expect when they arrive in Chicago this August. A self-avowed “anti-imperialist” group calling itself “Behind Enemy Lines” (BEL) has issued an online call for volunteers to converge on downtown Chicago from August 9th to August […]
A federal judge in San Francisco has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk and the X social media platform against a self-styled hate speech watchdog organization called the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). X Corp. had filed a complaint in July last year, alleging the CCDH had illegally scraped data off the social […]
A California federal judge ruled that Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) can proceed with their lawsuit against two California cities based on the allegation that the cancelation of two of their political rallies was discriminatory to their political beliefs. U.S. District Judge Hernán Vera on March 22 determined that the cancelation […]
Manhattan’s largest neighborhood school board district approved a resolution that requests the city’s Department of Education (DOE) to allow a public review of its policy that permits biological male athletes who identify as transgender to play female sports. The measure also calls on the DOE to allow parental involvement in future decisions over the matter, […]
The Supreme Court is considering a high-profile free speech case, which alleges that the government pressured social media companies to censor content. Jenin Younes, an attorney for the plaintiffs in this case, says internal communications show that the social media companies censored content at the behest of the government, which is a violation of the […]
The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in what is being called the “most consequential” First Amendment case in America’s history. The attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, and five individuals, claim that federal officials violated their First Amendment rights by coercing social media companies to censor their viewpoints in their social media posts that […]
Several U.S. Supreme Court justices on March 18 suggested ruling in favor of individuals who are challenging how government officials pressured social media companies to censor users, leading to a number of repercussions. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, appointed by former President Donald Trump, offered the scenario of Louisiana state officials being doxxed, with their private […]
