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USA

Google accused of allowing advertisers to search for ‘white supremacist’ keywords on YouTube – including ‘All lives matter’

Posted on April 11, 2021April 11, 2021By Editor

Google has updated its YouTube ad targeting terms after a media report revealed that people could search for phrases allegedly associated with white supremacy. … Read More >Google accused of allowing advertisers to search for ‘white supremacist’ keywords on YouTube – including ‘All lives matter’

Latin America

Maduro Slams Facebook For Banning Him, Calling It ‘Digital Totalitarianism’

Posted on March 29, 2021March 29, 2021By Editor

Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro posted a video in his Facebook account in January announcing that a Venezuelan medication called Carvativir would heal the COVID-19 disease. … Read More >Maduro Slams Facebook For Banning Him, Calling It ‘Digital Totalitarianism’

Latin America

Venezuelan President Maduro banned from posting on Facebook for talking about Covid-19 remedy – media

Posted on March 28, 2021March 28, 2021By Editor

Facebook has made Nicolas Maduro’s social media account ‘read only’ for 30 days, after the Venezuelan president allegedly used the platform to promote a treatment he said could help deal with the coronavirus. … Read More >Venezuelan President Maduro banned from posting on Facebook for talking about Covid-19 remedy – media

USA

Trump calls for breaking up Big Tech, says failure to restore freedom of speech would doom Republican Party

Posted on March 2, 2021By Editor

Former president Donald Trump has called for giant technology companies to be broken up and for their Section 230 liability protections to be removed. He argued that the Big Tech mutes conservative voices like his own. … Read More >Trump calls for breaking up Big Tech, says failure to restore freedom of speech would doom Republican Party

Russia

Russian Foreign Ministry says Twitter no longer independent social media, but a tool of ‘digital diktat’ under control of West

Posted on February 28, 2021By Editor

Twitter is rapidly changing from an independent platform into a tool of Western countries to impose a dictatorship over the internet. That’s according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, following a recent ban of Russian accounts. … Read More >Russian Foreign Ministry says Twitter no longer independent social media, but a tool of ‘digital diktat’ under control of West

Russia

In fresh censorship, Twitter bans ‘Russian’ accounts it says are ‘undermining confidence in NATO’ amid rising tensions with Moscow

Posted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021By Editor

Nearly 400 Twitter accounts have been shut down in the latest Silicon Valley banning spree over allegations many are linked to Moscow and work to discredit a US-led military grouping that stages war-games on the country’s border. … Read More >In fresh censorship, Twitter bans ‘Russian’ accounts it says are ‘undermining confidence in NATO’ amid rising tensions with Moscow

Documentary

Cyber Censors. What’s the future of the internet? | RT Documentary

Posted on February 26, 2021February 26, 2021By Editor

What’s the future of the internet? Digital reality will soon face a tough challenge. A war of platforms is breaking out in the virtual world, and it seems to be beyond the reach of any government. For some time, the three internet giants, YouTube, Google and Facebook, have made their own choices about which news people will see, and which presidential candidate to promote. … Read More >Cyber Censors. What’s the future of the internet? | RT Documentary

Asia & Pacific

Facebook scrubs Myanmar military page for ‘incitement of violence’ after security forces kill 2 anti-coup protesters

Posted on February 23, 2021February 23, 2021By Editor

Facebook has removed the main page of the Myanmar military after two people were gunned down while protesting against a coup that toppled the government earlier this month. … Read More >Facebook scrubs Myanmar military page for ‘incitement of violence’ after security forces kill 2 anti-coup protesters

USA

Biden’s White House ‘working directly’ with Big Tech to CENSOR content causing ‘vaccine hesitancy’ – Reuters

Posted on February 21, 2021February 21, 2021By Editor

Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly working directly with Silicon Valley giants to root out ‘misinformation and disinformation’ that hampers US vaccination efforts, indicating hands-on involvement in Big Tech censorship. … Read More >Biden’s White House ‘working directly’ with Big Tech to CENSOR content causing ‘vaccine hesitancy’ – Reuters

World

Instagram’s crackdown on ‘hateful’ DMs speeds up the spiral of Anglocentric censorship on social media

Posted on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021By Editor

The app founded to share cute photos is now using AI to censor “hate speech” in direct messages, enforcing an Anglo-American notion of banning the ever-increasing expanse of unapproved thoughts on the rest of the planet. … Read More >Instagram’s crackdown on ‘hateful’ DMs speeds up the spiral of Anglocentric censorship on social media