On Monday, the Women’s March voted off its board Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Bob Bland due to the anti-Semitism controversies surrounding them.
The organization announced 16 new members to the board. I noted in my Monday blog that Zahra Billoo could cause problems for them due to her past statements on...
Saudi Arabia has chosen to use Instagram influencers as a way to help boost its global image.
They took this route instead of stopping the execution of gays and journalists and embracing basic human rights.
Pulitzer Prize finalist author Rebecca Makkai set off a Twitter storm the other day. Turns out red caps trigger her because God forbid it could say MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
A simple red cap causes her heart to do some “weird sh*t.”
College of Charleston Professor Rachel McKinnon, a transgender, found herself in hot water when she tweeted that it’s okay to celebrate deaths of those others find transphobic.
She tried to clarify that she wasn’t celebrating, but that it’s okay if others do.
The call out and cancel cultures, enabled by major media, are out of control. Old tweets, sometimes from teenage years, are dug up and turned into media feeding frenzies.
In December 2018, Robby Soave at Reason reported, Medi...
The organization Speech First started a social media campaign to encourage students to record and share how their university handles speech.
From Campus Reform:
The organization is encouraging students who see attempts to censor viewpoints on campus to snap a picture of the situation or policy, post it to Instagram with the hashtag...
German authorities have investigated hundreds of internet users over comments they made on a Facebook video posted by the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The massive probe, spanning over 250 investigations, was launched in response to the live streaming of a migrant protest by the Bavarian-wing of the AfD party...
Twitter locked out @Team_Mitch, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign account, after it posted pictures of people protesting outside of his home and literally calling for his head. That meant the account could not post new tweets.
The social media platform took this action even though it allowed the hashtag #MassacreMitch to...
A few years back, there was another application similar to this called Yik Yak. It caused a lot of problems.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
New Gossip App Hits College Campuses
Despite their relatively short shelf life, the development of campus-based social media platforms isn’t slowing down. Pop, the latest social media app to target...
He posted something on Facebook as a joke and people are so into it, he might try to make it happen.
ABC News reports:
College student floats idea of ‘Area 51’ festival after joke invitation catches fire on Facebook
When a California college student created an event to meet aliens at Area 51, he...
Over the past several weeks, the Legal Insurrection Foundation has investigated the coalition of anti-Israel groups that organized protests and disruptions at the annual Christians United for Israel (CUFI) summit July 7-9, 2019
Calling their campaign “Rise against Racism”, Counter CUFI followed the traditional modus operandi of intersectional anti-Israel groups, seeking to...
In a video by Canadian free speech activist and Wilfred Laurier University graduate student Lindsay Shepard, the activist announced she was been permanently banned from Twitter earlier this week.
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Facebook is going overboard in an attempt to make sure nobody gets their feelings hurt on the platform.
Pro-life activist Domenico Bettinelli claimed that Facebook deleted a quote from St. Augustine because it violated the platform’s Community Standards on hate speech.
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL), is a perfect example of how out of touch our political class has become. Despite taking an oath to defend the Constitution, Wilson would like to override the First Amendment to protect members of Congress from mockery.
On Monday, Project Veritas unveiled a new investigative video of a Google employee describing how the company wants to stop a “Trump situation” in 2020.
YouTube removed the video, but Vimeo went one step further. The company chose to ban Project Veritas from its platf...
On Saturday we celebrated National Best Friends Day because everything has a day. I guess former Vice President Joe Biden thought he could seize the day to remind people that he served next to President Barack Obama for eight years by posting their friendship bracelet.
Cringeworthy doesn’t quite cut it. Even some...
CNN published a story on Sunday about BirthStrikers, people who have chosen not to reproduce because of climate change. One woman justified her decision because of a future “ecological nightmare.”
