EXCLUSIVE – A North Carolina high school student said she was accused of vandalism by her school and told she was being investigated by law enforcement after she painted her school’s “spirit rock” with a religious and patriotic tribute to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk. According to a new complaint filed Monday and shared first […]
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Top health official accuses RFK Jr’s agency of ‘censorship’
A top official at the National Institutes of Health announced his abrupt retirement from the agency after 21 years, complaining about censorship under the leadership of HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. NIH senior investigator Kevin Hall complained that he “experienced censorship” during his investigation of ultra-processed food addiction. “After 21 years at my dream […]
FLASHBACK: Zuckerberg and Facebook’s conflicting positions over the years on censorship
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s past comments on censorship have resurfaced following his decision to end fact-checking on his U.S. platforms, revealing a storied timeline of seemingly contradictory positions that appeared to put him at odds with his company. As controversy swirled over his refusal to fact-check political ads in 2019, Zuckerberg asserted that Facebook did […]
Flashback: Meta’s ‘history of censorship,’ fact-checking woes under the Trump, Biden administrations
Experts and journalists hope Meta will continue to move toward free speech and avoid the content moderation policies that plagued Facebook under the Biden administration. “Meta has a terrible history of censorship in the Biden era. They took direction from the government to censor COVID-19 content; they shut down the sharing of the New York […]