Earlier this month, Facebook once again revised its community guidelines. For years these guidelines have targeted conservatives, the alt-right, and even civil rights activists in an attempt to rid the site of what it calls ‘hate speech’. These guidelines have been heavily criticized. Free speech activists have charged that its censorship efforts have set a…
Facebook has had a pretty long list of banning people and censoring speech they don’t agree with. Now it seems they have censored the Reverend Franklin Graham, the son of the late and highly regarded evangelist Billy Graham. Graham took to Twitter last night to announce that he had been banned from posting on Facebook…
Joe Simonson on December 24, 2018 Disgraced movie star Kevin Spacey released a YouTube video Christmas Eve asking fans of “House of Cards” to let him back onto the show — at the same time a Massachusetts prosecutor filed sexual assault charges against the actor for an incident at a Nantucket bar in July 2016. The…
Follow Squiggly Line Guy on Facebook or Twitter Infowars creator Alex Jones was the first to have his accounts removed in a concerted effort by several platforms including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Apple. Followers of Jones declared him the catalyst of a coming purge. First it would be Jones, and others would be next. They called this a…
~This article is satire~ Media site InfoWars announced today that it has dropped controversial male vitality supplement salesman and founder of Prison Planet TV, Alex Jones from its platform. InfoWars is a media site whose app has been downloaded over 6 million times in the last few days. In a statement, InfoWars spokesperson Alec Jonas stated:…
Follow on Facebook or Twitter Some Facebook users are reporting disturbing suggested search results on Facebook which allegedly promote pedophilia. A post began making the rounds telling users to type “video of” in the Facebook search box and take note of the suggested results. A number of horrified users posted a screenshot of their…
Follow on Facebook or Twitter Last week Missouri U.S. Senate Candidate Austin Petersen received yet another 30 day Facebook ban for posting a link to Facebook for a gun giveaway on his campaign website. The first ban occurred in September of 2017, and Facebook afterwards conceded that Petersen’s post did not violate the terms and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Eric Lieberman The Spanish government reportedly fined Facebook $1.4 million for collecting data on people’s religious beliefs and ideology. The Spanish Data Protection Agency (DPA) says Facebook has been violating the country’s privacy rules, which forbids the stockpiling of certain personal information without explicit consent, according to TechCrunch. The social media company…
Eric Lieberman Facebook is trying to fix a technical problem after users complained that they are unable to block CEO Mark Zuckerberg, or his wife Priscilla Chan. Trying to obstruct Zuckerberg’s account is currently not permitted, as an error message will appear upon an attempt. “This profile can’t be blocked for now,” reads the pop-up…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: From Associated Press, KSDK: A Missouri lawmaker says in a Facebook post that he hopes whoever placed paint on a Confederate monument in Springfield is found and hanged. Osceola Republican Rep. Warren Love said in a Facebook post Wednesday that he hopes whoever vandalized the monument is “hung from a…