YouTube Response to NYT, WashPost Censorship Pressure May Surprise You

October 31st, 2024 5:08 PM

YouTube, the Google-owned video streaming platform, rebuffed pressure from The New York Times and The Washington Post to silence some prominent right-leaning and free-speech voices just days before the 2024 presidential election.

Soros-Funded Group Targets Musk for Engaging with ‘Right-Wing’ Twitter

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February 6th, 2023 12:42 PM

A George Soros-funded group targeted Twitter owner Elon Musk for daring to interact with “right-wing accounts” following acquisition of the platform.

Free Speech Win: Twitter Removes Warning Label after Musk Intercedes

October 31st, 2022 4:36 PM

Musk is on the move. In a win for free speech, Twitter removed a warning label from a Just the News ballot harvesting story after self-dubbed “Chief Twit” Elon Musk interceded on the news site’s behalf.

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SILENCED! China Government-Tied TikTok Bans 11 Pro-Free Speech Groups

September 1st, 2022 10:30 AM

The Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok is muzzling conservatives and free thinkers by shutting down their accounts, typically with no explanation.

Judicial Watch Reveals: California Urged Big Tech to Censor Election

April 27th, 2021 3:31 PM

California pressured social media companies to censor posts about the 2020 presidential election, according to Judicial Watch. The conservative legal organization announced the news Tuesday after it obtained over 500 pages of documents.

25 Times Big Tech Claimed They Censored Conservatives by Mistake

December 21st, 2020 11:31 AM

Big Tech has eviscerated free speech on social media. There have been at least 25 famous, well-documented examples of when Big Tech companies censored conservatives, allegedly by mistake since August 7. 2018.

Lame! Google Apologizes After New ‘Bug’ Blacklists Conservative Sites

July 22nd, 2020 1:16 PM

Talk about living down to expectations. Google gave a measly mea culpa after several conservative websites were delisted from its general search and appeared to have been blacklisted. The massive search engine company claimed that a technical issue prevented many high profile conservative websites from being reached via Google. Google said the problem was merely a bug in the system.…

WashPost Trashes Judicial Watch.... As If Iowa's Caucuses Were Legit?

February 10th, 2020 12:35 PM
Mark Hemingway at Real Clear Politics offered a tough critique of Washington Post reporters Isaac Stanley-Becker and Tony Romm for their article headlined “Conservatives spread false claims on Twitter about electoral fraud as Iowans prepare to caucus.” This came before the caucus debacle. 

YouTube Stops Impeachment Trial Livestreams from Conservative Orgs

January 22nd, 2020 11:54 AM
Two conservative outlets have complained that their livestreams of the Senate impeachment trial have been taken down—for no apparent reason. Judicial Watch’s president, Tom Fitton, noted that the organization’s livestream of the impeachment trial was halted mid-stream. YouTube claimed that the stream was “violating ‘community standards,’” according to Fitton’s Jan. 21 tweet. While the stream…

Hannity’s Judicial Watch Scoop: Where’s the Rest of the Media?

August 10th, 2019 4:00 PM
So as I sat in a television studio in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ready to beam in on Thursday night’s Sean Hannity show, I checked my notes. The topic was to be the media and President Trump’s visit to El Paso. The format was, first, a Hannity monologue, then the segue to the opening El Paso segment, where I would be paired with Dr. Sebastian Gorka, the former Trump White House aide and now host of…

Study Blames Conservatives For ‘Fake News’ on Twitter

January 28th, 2019 4:39 PM
Left-wing academia attacks conservatives and conservative news for “fake news.” But their studies fall short of proving this theory. A new study found that “fake news was most concentrated among conservative voters.” Yet it highlighted 11 sources as “fake news” or “questionable” that constitutes a large part of conservative media  
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FNC Highlights Media Blackout on Developments in Clinton E-Mail Probe

December 10th, 2018 5:35 PM

Last week, federal Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the State Department and the Justice Department to hand over information related to the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation. The decision was a victory for Judicial Watch, who has requested the information via a Freedom of Information Act request.

NYT Front Page: Trump-Fed Conspiracies' That 'Appear to Drive Attacks'

October 30th, 2018 8:21 PM
On the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times, reporter Jeremy Peters committed a “news analysis” that basically blamed Trump for stoking the recent pipe bomb attack against Democrats and anti-Semitic massacre in Pittsburgh: “Caravan Rhetoric Intersects With Deadly Hatred -- President Stokes Same Fears That Appear to Drive Attacks.” The online headline made the connection even more explicit: “How…
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Schmidt: NewsBusters Has ‘Blood On Their Hands’ for Radicalization

October 29th, 2018 11:30 PM
According to the rage-fueled tirade of MSNBC faux Republican strategist Steve Schmidt during Monday’s edition of All In, presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, the President, “Mark Levin, and Rush Limbaugh, and Breitbart, and NewsBusters, and Judicial Watch, and all the rest of them, have blood on their hands for the incitements that they have made that have triggered and radicalized these crazy…