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Alexander Hall newsbusters.org Project Veritas showed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg worried about the “long-term side effects” of COVID-19 vaccinations. Those same comments wouldn’t be allowed on his own platform. It’s even unclear whether Facebook will censor this story about his concerns. Guerrilla journalism group Project Veritas shared
The war between Big Tech and the Australian government is heating up. First shot fired was Google threatening to pull its services from Australia entirely. Now Facebook has gone nuclear and canned all local and international news. The move is the latest in the high-stakes standoff against the Morrison government’
Info from Manhattan Institute Our wonderful Climate Commission Planners, aka CCP, have decided that we are all going to drive electric vehicles (EVs) in the next few years. We know there is not enough electricity to power their dreams but they could copy a plan for that eventuality. However, they
Lipton Matthews mises.org Lipton Matthews is a researcher, business analyst, and contributor to Merion West, The Federalist, American Thinker, Intellectual Takeout, mises.org, and Imaginative Conservative. Liberals rarely defend the property rights of corporations, so it is quite amusing that scores of them are arguing that social media companies
Alexander Hall newsbusters.org The wildly popular free speech platform Parler has made a sudden return after being nuked from the internet by Amazon Web Services back in January. “Parler, the world’s #1 free speech social media platform with over 20 million users, is announcing its official relaunch today,
Michael Snyder endoftheamericandream.com Throughout human history, our God-given liberties and freedoms have often been brutally crushed by oppressive governments, and that is still happening all over the world today. But in our time, an additional threat to our liberties and freedoms has emerged. Global corporations just continue to get
On Monday the company announced that Parler is back online with a new interim CEO Mark Meckler. From next week you will be able to follow The BFD on Parler as new users won’t be able to sign up until next week. If you already have a Parler account,
Michael Cook mercatornet.com The Force is no longer with Gina Carano, one of the stars of The Mandalorian, the wildly popular spin-off from the Star Wars films. She has been cancelled. Twitter erupted with #FireGinaCarano and Lucasfilm dutifully complied. Carano, a 38-year-old mixed-martial arts expert who has moved into
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Last week I wrote about Twitter cancelling conservative Christian group “Focus on the Family.” This week its YouTube’s turn. ReclaimTheNet reports. The YouTube channel for LifeSiteNews, a non-profit Christian news outlet, has been purged from the platform for “violating YouTube’s community guidelines.” “YouTube just completely removed the LifeSiteNews
As reported on The BFD, Twitter has a strange habit of blatantly ignoring child abuse material on its platform, even when the victims directly report it. Apparently, child porn doesn’t go against their “community standards” in the same way that conservative politics does. Facebook is almost as assiduous as
Pieter Verdegem University of Westminster Dr. Pieter Verdegem is a Senior Lecturer in Media Theory in the Westminster School of Media and Communication and a member of CAMRI (the Communication and Media Research Institute), University of Westminster. He is course leader for the MA Data, Culture and Society. His research
Amelia Thorpe Sophie Adams UNSW Declan Kuch Western Sydney University Amelia Thorpe is Associate Professor in Law at UNSW, working in the areas of planning, property and local government law, legal geography and urban studies. Her research centres on frameworks for decision-making in contemporary cities – who gets to have a
