by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2020 This week, Twitter has locked the accounts of two attorneys for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who is charged with killing two men who attacked him during riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Twitter locked the account of John Pierce, the lead defense lawyer for Rittenhouse, over a tweet on Sept. 3 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 30, 2020 The leader of a brutal, repressive regime which is the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism apparently has the green-light from Twitter to advocate for the destruction of Israel. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has posted several tweets in which he calls for the destruction of the “Zionist […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 30, 2020 Instagram flagged, then deleted a post by Madonna in which the pop star praised Dr. Stella Immanuel, the Houston physician who says she has successfully treated 350 coronavirus patients with hydroxychloroquine. “The truth will set us all free,” Madonna wrote, according to screen shots of her now-deleted Instagram post. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 23, 2020 Google, in preparation for the November election, may have this week carried out a trial run of de-platforming conservative websites, a columnist noted. Content from multiple conservative outlets temporarily disappeared from Google’s search results on Tuesday. “Google appeared to test its ability to blacklist conservative media Tuesday,” Tristan Justice […]
FPI / May 28, 2020 The Twexit has begun. Having censored conservative voices for years, Twitter “removed any remaining doubt” as to its “rigid leftwing ideology” in its “fact checking” of President Donald Trump by leftist media outlets CNN and The Washington Post, said John Matze, CEO of the new Parler app. Twitter labeled two […]
FPI / February 5, 2020 Following a Feb. 3 high-level meeting, China’s leaders reportedly called for stricter controls on information relating to the coronavirus outbreak. During the early stages of the outbreak, China was criticized for suppressing vital information about the deadly virus which many analysts said contributed to the devastating epidemic. At the Feb. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 7, 2020 Citing the country’s free speech rights, a library in Norway is refusing to give in to communist China’s demands to remove a book that is censored in China, a report said. The coaches and managers of a Chinese Olympics ski team that was training in Norway requested that the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2019 Earlier this year, Democrats introduced the so-called “For the People Act” which critics say proposed government censorship of political speech which is protected by the First Amendment. On Dec. 19, Democrats themselves got a taste of what government censorship of political speech looks like when China’s censors cut the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 1, 2019 With social media monopolies driving privately-owned media out of business, journalism professors are advising their students to look for work outside of the news business. The practice of social media platforms of dismantling true journalism to protect their business models has created “the greatest assault on free speech in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 3, 2019 June 4 marks the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests, when the Chinese government in a bloody and brutal crackdown sent troops to fire on students, activists and other people demonstrating for democracy and against the Communist Party. China’s government, per its usual conduct on the Tiananmen anniversary, […]