YouTube Removes Video of Doctor Questioning Transgenderism

Alex Griswold
November 5, 2019 5:05 PM

YouTube and the conservative Heritage Foundation are butting heads after the Google-owned video streaming site removed a video in which a leading doctor questioned the medical community's acceptance of transgenderism. YouTube claimed some of the doctor's statements violated a new policy against hate speech.

Kamala Campaign Mocked For Tweeting Bizarrely Terrible Photoshop

Alex Griswold
October 17, 2019 3:05 PM

The Kamala Harris campaign baffled the Twitterverse Thursday by posting a photoshopped image showing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi yelling at a hypothetical President Harris.

The Soul-Crushing Tedium of Cable News, Explained in One Tweet

BREAKING: "Circle jerks," or "circles jerk"? We report. We decide

Andrew Stiles
October 1, 2019 3:30 PM

Rodents are raining from the ceiling of the White House press room. Maybe it's a metaphor for how the media, especially of the cable news variety, has become a plague of absurdity, an endless circle jerk of extraneous "analysis" and soul-crushing tedium.

NY Times Reports ‘Airplanes Took Aim’ at World Trade Center on 9/11

The updated piece still makes no mention of hijackers' motive.

Alex Griswold
September 11, 2019 12:00 PM

The New York Times deleted a tweet and updated a piece Wednesday after writing that the 9/11 attack occurred after "airplanes took aim" at the World Trade Center.

Hawley Plan to Regulate Tech’s Political Bias Tops Policy Ideas Poll

Majorities of registered voters believe social media political bias is at least a minor problem

Charles Fain Lehman
July 11, 2019 11:25 AM

A new poll reveals that a plurality of registered voters support Sen. Josh Hawley's (R., Mo.) proposal to compel big tech firms to prove that their algorithms are not politically biased.

SCOTUS: Private Firms Not Bound by First Amendment

Turns back suit that could have made social media subject to free speech law

Charles Fain Lehman
June 17, 2019 12:20 PM

A private corporation that runs a public "forum" is not bound by the First Amendment, the Supreme Court ruled Monday morning.

Poll: More Americans Fear Big Government Than Big Tech

Patrick Hauf
June 17, 2019 12:10 PM

A new Fox News poll shows that Americans are more concerned about big government than powerful technology companies, 58 percent to 35 percent.

Josh Hawley Versus the Machine

Missouri’s freshman senator on his 'loot box' bill and how he thinks about big tech

Charles Fain Lehman
June 17, 2019 5:00 AM

If you were looking for a David to the multi-billion-dollar, big-tech Goliath, you could do worse than Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.).

Twitter Co-Founder: Fox News Is ‘Much More Destructive Than Twitter’

Cameron Cawthorne
May 22, 2019 2:10 PM

Twitter co-founder Ev Williams on Tuesday claimed Fox News is “much more destructive than Twitter."

Former U.N. Spokesman Harasses Holocaust Museum Over Holocaust Remembrance Day

The United Nations stands in midtown Manhattan

Mikhael Smits
May 8, 2019 12:10 PM

A United Nations spokesman, replying to a five-day-old post about Holocaust Remembrance Day, demanded a Holocaust museum respond to a ten-year-old Israeli comment.

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