by Laura Valkovic | Feb 19, 2021 | Columns, Good Reads, Privacy & Tech
In his first media interviews since ending his presidency, Donald Trump has rejected the idea that he would wish for a return to Twitter, saying that, with the heightened speech control of the platform, “I understand it’s become very boring, and millions of people are...
by Laura Valkovic | Feb 4, 2021 | Columns, Privacy & Tech
Social media platform Parler quickly gained symbolic status as a free speech frontier after the Capitol riots as one platform which would not capitulate to the politically correct – but is that all over now? Parler Free Speech Crusade Collapses Under Infighting?...
by Laura Valkovic | Jan 29, 2021 | Columns, Good Reads, Privacy & Tech
From YouTube massaging the numbers on Biden White House videos to Democrat attempts at weaponizing the FBI against social media platform Parler, it looks like we are entering a brave new world of online censorship and manipulation. Just how far will this go? Two...
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 Laura Valkovic | Nov 25, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Culture and Entertainment News, Media, Politics, Privacy & Tech, Social Issues
Perhaps nothing has clarified social media’s narrative control more than the 2020 election. With President Donald Trump repeatedly flagged, Facebook and Twitter infamously labeling the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell as fake news, then later admitting they had no...