CNN is naming and shaming corporate brands that have yet to join the ad boycott against Facebook, spurred by an agitated political left that wants the platform to do more to crack down on constitutionally protected speech — especially that of President Donald Trump. The anti-Trump broadcaster published an article on its website earlier today […]

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Princeton University is removing President Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school and a residential college due to the former president’s “racist thinking.” “The trustees conclude that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must firmly stand against racism in all […]

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Customs officials at major Indian ports are holding back imports coming from China, Indian government and industry sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Among the goods held back are products from U.S. companies, including Apple, Dell, Cisco, and Ford Motor Company. Although no official Indian government notice has been issued confirming the trade disruption, Reuters reports that […]

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Twitter has restricted the account of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell in the latest action against a prominent conservative. Powell is an open supporter of President Donald Trump, a Republican. Flynn was Trump’s first national security adviser. Powell’s final tweet before being restricted appeared to be a link to an American Thinker article […]

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Facebook will start to add a label to all “newsworthy” content such as statements from politicians that would otherwise violate the company’s policies, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday. The label acts as “a prompt to tell people that the content they’re sharing may violate our [Facebook] policies,” Zuckerberg said in an announcement. However, Facebook will “allow people […]

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Google has promised to change the default settings on its services to store less user browser history and location data on its servers. The default setting will only apply to new users — existing users will need to change the settings themselves. NBC News reports that Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced in a recent blog post […]

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The Washington Post alleges that social media giant Facebook began to develop policies as early as 2015 that made exceptions for Donald Trump in the event that he posted content that could violate Facebook’s guidelines. The Washington Post reports in an article titled “Zuckerberg Once Wanted to Sanction Trump. Then Facebook Wrote Rules That Accommodated Him,” that […]

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Facebook whistleblower Ryan Hartwig, who lifted the lid on Facebook’s pattern of bias and censorship against conservatives in a series of videos for Project Veritas, joined Rebecca Mansour and John Hayward on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Tonight on Thursday. Hartwig worked for a third-party company, Cognizant, that performs services including content moderation for Facebook. As Hartwig explains in […]

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Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), joined Al Sharpton on MSNBC on Sunday evening to promote a boycott effort against Facebook to force the social media giant to ban certain politicals. The “Stop the Hate” campaign includes several far-left wing groups, including those that have been involved in efforts to boycott news media. […]

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More and more countries and telecom companies “are waking up to the danger of the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance state” and allowing only trusted vendors in their 5G networks, excluding Huawei from deals with their telecommunications operators due to the Chinese company’s ties with the Chinese military, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement. Companies like […]

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