by Dave Patterson | Feb 20, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Media
Facebook’s Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand, Will Easton, announced that the social media and tech titan would bar “publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content.” Laura...
by Laura Valkovic | Feb 12, 2021 | Columns, Good Reads, Privacy & Tech
Will he – won’t he? The internet has been abuzz with conjecture about whether Donald Trump will be making an imminent reappearance online. Once the world’s most famous tweeter, what are the former president’s social media prospects? Twitter Ban Is Forever Twitter...
by Laura Valkovic | Jan 12, 2021 | Columns, Privacy & Tech
This is the second part of a two-part series looking at the digital purge of President Trump and his supporters following the protest at the Capitol. In Part One, we looked at YouTube restrictions, Parler’s existential crisis, and the solutions pioneered by Gab....
by Graham J Noble | Jan 9, 2021 | Articles, Election 2020, First Amendment, Free Speech, Media, Politics, Privacy & Tech, The Constitution, The Left
It may have been General Michael Flynn who first coined the term “digital soldiers,” back in the early days of the Trump administration. Perhaps Flynn knew what was coming, and perhaps many others knew it too – but now the digital war on conservatism has...
by Mark Angelides | Jan 8, 2021 | Articles, Politics, Trump Administration
Late yesterday evening, President Trump addressed the nation to discuss the attack on the Capitol, his thoughts on election integrity, and plans for the future. The speech was released on the president’s Twitter account, which had been reinstated – at least...