When Lyndon Johnson was in Congress in the 1950s he had three of his employees drive his car back from Washington to Austin at the end of every legislative session. That trip took his employees through the deep south. In Johnson’s telling, this went on for years without incident and he was unaware of any […]
Instagram and Facebook Ban Far-Right Extremists…
Platform Access Is a Civil Right…
Twitter Exposes its Politically Motivated Censorship Policy in Banning of Alex Jones…
It has been a busy month for Twitter, and Alex Jones, with Jack Dorsey forced to defend the decision not to ban Jones early last month, only reverse course by suspending Jones shortly after a tense Senate hearing on social media. The Senate hearing, in which Dorsey spoke alongside Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, […]
Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Jones and Infowars…
Twitter banned Infowars and its founder, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, following months of public pressure to do so. In a series of tweets on Thursday, the company said it had “permanently suspended” accounts associated with Jones and Infowars after numerous complaints that they violated its terms of service prohibiting repeated abusive behavior. A Twitter […]
Press Needs to Restore Its Credibility on FBI and Justice Department…
I will never call the mainstream media “the enemy of the people.” But I will call them out for having strayed from fairly reporting some of the biggest stories of the last two years. No matter how egregious their errors, they insist on pointing fingers elsewhere and reinforcing their political biases, in ways unimaginable to […]
We Told You That Once the Establishment Silenced Assange, The Rest of the Media Would Be Next: We Were Right by Elizabeth Vos…
The Press Misses the Point Again by Lee Smith…
After Suspending Personal Account of Alex Jones, Twitter Restricts Infowars As Well…
Following the suspension of Infowars founder Alex Jones, Twitter has restricted the Infowars account as well. The account will be restricted from tweeting, but will still be able to browse Twitter and send direct messages to other users, while users will still be able to view the account, reports BuzzFeed News…
Infowars Website Traffic Explodes After Silicon Valley Blacklists Alex Jones Empire…
Silicon Valley’s coordinated purge of all things Infowars from social media has had an unexpected result; website traffic to Infowars.com has soared in the past week, according to Amazon’s website ranking service Alexa. Infowars was recently banned by YouTube, Facebook, iTunes, Google Podcast, Spotify, iHeartRadio, MailChimp, Disqus, LinkedIn, Flickr, Pinterest and several others – leading […]