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Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa”
Sam Biddle, The Intercept
Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.” The post Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” appeared first on The Intercept.
Apr 14, 2026, 2:17 PM
Remember The “Ministry Of Truth” Freakout? Rubio Is Now Doing Something Far Worse Through Elon Musk’s X
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Remember when the Biden administration set up something called the “Disinformation Governance Board” and the entire MAGA universe lost its collective mind? It was the “Ministry of Truth.” It was “government speech police.” It was the single most Orwellian thi…
Apr 8, 2026, 5:55 PM
Weeks After Denouncing Government Censorship On Rogan, Zuckerberg Texted Elon Musk Offering To Take Down Content For DOGE
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
On January 10th, 2025, Mark Zuckerberg sat down with Joe Rogan and put on quite a performance. He talked about how the Biden administration had pressured Meta to take down content. He detailed how the Biden administration had apparently pressured Meta to take…
Mar 31, 2026, 6:09 PM
Karoline Leavitt Got Press Wires to Vanish an Unflattering Photo of Her
Danielle Han, Jezebel
Photogenic paranoia is very much top of mind with this administration.
Mar 31, 2026, 11:40 AM
America’s Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warrior, Brendan Carr, Gets A Letter Documenting His First Amendment Violations
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
For years, certain folks on the left kept insisting they wanted to bring back the Fairness Doctrine — the old FCC policy that required broadcasters to present “both sides” of controversial issues. Many of us in the tech policy world kept explaining why that w…
Mar 26, 2026, 7:25 PM
Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions
Seth Stern, The Intercept
The Trump admin wants to criminalize a key part of journalists doing their jobs — a broadside attack on a free press. The post Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions appeared first on The Intercept.
Mar 26, 2026, 9:00 AM
Brendan Carr Pretends To Be Tough, Demands Broadcasters Support Disastrous War
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Brendan Carr is once again doing Brendan Carr stuff. Carr has threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of broadcasters that tell the truth about Trump’s disastrous war in Iran. In a post over at Elon Musk’s right wing propaganda website, Carr insists that …
Mar 17, 2026, 12:20 PM
FCC Chairman Threatens to Revoke TV Licenses Over Iran Coverage
Ece Yildirim, Gizmodo.com
Here's the latest in the FCC's quest to keep American media on a tight leash.
Mar 16, 2026, 6:46 PM
Trump & Newsom Spar Over Censorship & POTUS’ Despotic Claim To Be “Reshaping The Media”
Dominic Patten, Deadline
Another weekend and it’s another dust-up between Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom — this time about media censorship or control, depending on who you ask. As the former Apprentice host’s sycophantic FCC chair threatens outlets over their Iran War coverage, a gol…
Mar 14, 2026, 7:47 PM
Newsmax Didn’t Like Its NewsGuard Rating, So The FTC Attacked NewsGuard, And Now NewsGuard Is Suing
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
We’ve written a few times now about how the GOP’s “free speech warriors” have been waging an absolutely absurd campaign against NewsGuard, a company whose entire business model is… expressing opinions about the reliability of news sources. You know, speech. T…
Feb 20, 2026, 5:25 PM
FCC reject claims of censorship, announces probe into US show The View
Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English
Federal Communications Commission faces backlash after comedian Stephen Colbert blamed its rules for scuttled interview.
Feb 18, 2026, 10:27 PM
The ‘Most Massive Attack On Free Speech’ Is Happening Right Now, And The Twitter Files Crew Is Mighty Quiet
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
For the last five years, we had to endure an endless, breathless parade of hyperbole regarding the so-called “censorship industrial complex.” We were told, repeatedly and at high volume, that the Biden administration flagging content for review by social medi…
Feb 18, 2026, 5:28 PM
The FCC (probably) didn’t censor Stephen Colbert
Christian Paz, Vox
For the 12 of us who woke up Tuesday morning wondering what we had missed on Monday’s late-night shows, CBS greeted us with a concerning development. Overnight, Stephen Colbert had laid into his network, dedicating time at the top of The Late Show to claim th…
Feb 18, 2026, 5:08 PM
Stephen Colbert Says CBS Bowed to FTC Pressure, Dropped Interview With Democrat
Ece Yildirim, Gizmodo.com
Here's the interview that CBS and the FTC don't want you to see.
Feb 17, 2026, 5:35 PM
Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
Jeremy Busby, The Intercept
The government wants to make it illegal to possess literature it deems dangerous — a familiar tactic to this incarcerated writer. The post Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us appeared first on The Intercept.
Feb 16, 2026, 11:00 AM
TikTok creators flock to UpScrolled app after U.S. takeover. Here's why
CBC News
Thousands of creators are deleting TikTok and flocking elsewhere just days after a change in ownership and mounting claims of widespread censorship and shadowbanning, or reduced reach, on the app.
Feb 7, 2026, 9:00 AM
Researchers say no evidence of TikTok censorship, but they remain wary
Bobby Allyn, NPR
Posts have been going viral on social media accusing TikTok's new owners of suppressing content, but eight academics examined the issue and found no evidence to support the claims.
Feb 4, 2026, 11:16 PM
TikTok Raises U.S. Censorship Fears After Messages About Jeffrey Epstein Are Blocked
Miles Klee, Rolling Stone
After Trump-connected investors took a controlling stake in the U.S. version of the app, users have claimed that it's suppressing political topics
Jan 27, 2026, 9:36 PM
TikTok Swears It Didn’t Ban Sharing the Name ‘Epstein,’ as Gavin Newsom Announces Investigation
Bruce Gil, Gizmodo.com
The scrutiny follows a rocky first week under new U.S. ownership./
Jan 27, 2026, 5:30 PM
All the ways TikTok is broken: here’s what’s real and what’s not
Richard Lawler, The Verge
While social media rumors have suggested the errors are examples of censorship, more than a day after the issues began, TikTok USDS says the problems are the result of a power outage at a data center that it is working to resolve. Rumors of censorship targeti…
Jan 27, 2026, 2:10 AM
Trump’s ‘Free Speech’ Presidency Racked Up 200 Censorship Attempts In Its First Year
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
We’ve said it before, and we’ll keep saying it because apparently it needs repeating: Donald Trump is not a free speech president. He just plays one on TV while doing the exact opposite behind the scenes. And in front of the scenes. And basically everywhere. …
Jan 16, 2026, 8:11 PM
The EU Fired Their Censor. Ours Kept His Job
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
The Trump administration has spent months shrieking about EU “censorship” while actively censoring people themselves. While I’ve long been a critic of parts of the DSA, Americans—particularly MAGA officials—keep crying wolf over the DSA’s non-censorial aspect…
Jan 13, 2026, 5:32 PM
The Truth About Europe’s Regulation of Digital Platforms
Bertrand Badré, Project Syndicate
US President Donald Trump claims that Europeans are engaging in "censorship" when they require digital platforms to be transparent about their algorithms and to remove already illegal content. With the US recently barring entry to five Europeans it accuses of…
Jan 2, 2026, 2:42 PM
Marco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship
Mike Masnick, Ms.now
In the name of protecting free speech, the U.S. government just banned five Europeans from entering the country — because it doesn’t like their speech.
Dec 27, 2025, 11:00 AM