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A Hezbollah media outlet slammed “zionists” after a parody account seemingly got the outlet kicked off Twitter.

A recent Politico podcast detailed the importance of Twitter in the new age, but the platform has a history of amplifying some voices more than others.

Kyle Rittenhouse said his Instagram account was disabled again just days after his social media accounts were reinstated. Rittenhouse was acquitted of all criminal charges against him.

According to a new study on algorithms, Google is the search engine with the most “conspiracy-free” search results. The study, from professors at German and Swiss universities, examined how algorithms filter “conspiratorial information” in search results. The research “examine[d] the distribution of conspiratorial information in search results across five search engines: Google, Bing,…

Life360, an app designed to help parents track the movements of their children, reportedly sells customers’ locations to data brokers. According to its website, Life360 is used by 31 million members. The company’s privacy policy states that it sells “identifiers, Internet/Network information, Geolocation, Inferences, and Other personal information, including driving event and movement data” to…

Illinois State University is getting hauled into court for intolerance. Former assistant football coach Kurt Beathard is suing the university that fired him in 2020 for removing a Black Lives Matter poster from his office door and replacing it with a Christian-themed "All Lives Matter" sign.

An editor of a conservative publication slammed Big Tech social media platforms for continuing to favor leftist viewpoints online.

Sony managers were apparently too abrasive when they didn’t stay in the same room as women with the door shut and for showing genuine concern for women’s personal lives.

Meta removed over 160 Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to Hamas, a designated terrorist group, according to The Jerusalem Post. The accounts reportedly were primarily operated in the Gaza Strip and targeted “Palestinian territories,” according to The Post. The outlet further noted that “[t]he accounts primarily posted news stories, cartoons and memes in Arabic about…

Twitter announced on Tuesday that it would expand its privacy policy to include media posted of an individual without their consent.

On June 23, 2003, Linden Labs unveiled a website called Second Life. It is a website wherein individuals can interact and live a second life as an online character, called an avatar. In 2004, several politicians held virtual press conferences in Second Life. The Maldives and Sweden opened virtual embassies. Second Life is still around, but it's now used primarily by those without social lives…

In the latest example of Big Tech censorship, Foundation of Economic Freedom Policy Correspondent Brad Polumbo accused TikTok of removing a pro-Rittenhouse video. TikTok's reasons? Not surprisingly, they appeared to be incredibly vague.

GoFundMe bizarrely tried to defend its ban on fundraising for acquitted Kenosha, WI defendant Kyle Rittenhouse. The fundraising platform previously banned fundraisers dedicated to raising money to aid in Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense. But after Rittenhouse’s acquittal on Friday, the platform again tried to justify its decision to ban fundraisers to defend against “violent crimes.”

Attorneys general from several states have decided to launch an investigation into the effects Instagram has on children who use the app.