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The never-ending battle against leftist social media autocracies Twitter and Facebook, principal among them continues, as conservatives; the prime targets of the mercurial wrath of Dorsey-Zuckerberg Inc., grapple with how best to put an end to their suppression and outright censorship of conservative content not to mention their unbridled power.
A headline-making event last week only served to throw additional fuel on the fire.
As my RedState colleague Nick Arama reported last week, Republican lawmakers ratcheted up their call for the federal government to step in and break up Facebook after the Facebook Oversight Board upheld the social media giant’s indefinite ban on Donald Trump, despite also finding that an indefinite ban would violate Facebook’s own rules.
The Facebook Advisory Board’s ruling on former President Donald Trump’s account and more round out today’s top media headlines.
Democratic Missouri Rep. Cori Bush riled up her online critics on Thursday when she referred to women as birthing people during a congressional hearing.
The squad member was heavily ridiculed after she publicly refrained from using the word women during a Democratic oversight committee hearing where she recounted her personal experience with difficult pregnancies to raise awareness of the rising maternal death rate among Black expectant mothers.
Bush shared a video of the hearing to her Twitter page with the caption, Every day, Black birthing people and our babies die because our doctors don’t believe our pain. My children almost became a statistic. I almost became a statistic. I testified about my experience @OversightDems today. Hear us. Believe us. Because for so long, nobody has.
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Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) on Wednesday reacted to the Facebook Advisory Board’s decision to uphold former President Donald Trump’s ban from their platform.
Kennedy likened big tech CEOs to “Bolsheviks.” He then pushed to regulate big tech companies, much like telephone and other utility companies.
“Those not wishing, Bill, to reside in La La Land, I think will agree with the facts as I’m about to articulate them,” Kennedy began. “Number one, most of the young people and some of the old people who are running these social media platforms are practically Bolsheviks. I mean, they’re wokeristas. Now, that’s OK. This is America. You can believe what you want. But no one believes that these social media platforms will regulate, or censor, let’s say Senator Bernie Sanders like they would former President Donald Trump or Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. And I think the facts bear that out.”
The Facebook Advisory Board’s ruling on former President Donald Trump’s account and more round out today’s top media headlines.
The three main broadcast networks appear to be turning a blind eye on the bombshell report that showed a top teachers union influencing the Biden administration s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over reopening schools.
On Saturday, the New York Post revealed communications between the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), The nation’s second-largest teachers union, and the CDC and the White House showing the union suggesting guidance on whether or not to roll back school restrictions.
The Facebook Advisory Board’s ruling on former President Donald Trump’s account and more round out today’s top media headlines.
A left-wing 501(c)3 organization that bills itself as a media watchdog group defended Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm from criticism of her recent holdings in the green energy sector after President Biden virtually-toured and touted an electric omnibus manufacturer she had seven-figure investments in until taking her current post.
Media Matters for America, a Washington group founded by 1990s conservative-turned-contemporary liberal political consultant David Brock, criticized what they called right wing media for reporting on Granholm s investments in Proterra.