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On Monday, Twitter placed a “sensitive content” warning on a religious-based motivational video posted by pro-baseball player Tim Tebow.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged tighter government control over social media on Wednesday after insults were allegedly directed at his daughter and son-in-law when they announced the birth of their child on Twitter this week, Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News reported.

Social media platform Parler added about a million new users over the past two weeks said John Matze, CEO of Parler, attributing the “mass migration” to “frustration with censorship” on Twitter. He offered his remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Twitter’s censorship of prominent conservatives continued on Tuesday with the permanent suspension of the influential meme maker known as “Carpe Donktum,” whose humorous political memes and videos skewering the political left and mainstream media have made him a favorite of President Donald Trump.

Rapper and actor Ice Cube is claiming censorship over Twitter’s decision to lock him out of his account, saying that his brutal style of truth telling is the real reason the social media giant is punishing him.

Former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) highlighted Facebook and Twitter’s politically-driven and arbitrary censorship of information, contrasting the platforms’ facilitation of operations executed by Antifa and Black Lives Matter while censoring disagreement with public health authorities’ positions.

Trump’s rhetoric is combative and over-the-top. Yet his actions, as usual, not only obey the First Amendment, but also reinforce it. Biden would do the opposite.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr said at CPAC on Saturday that Americans should be empowered to turn off social media companies’ “bias filters.”

A widely viewed TikTok video that has drawn horrified responses shows a girl laughing and apparently having fun as she reveals her pregnancy and heads to Planned Parenthood for what appears to be her second abortion attempt.

Social media company Parler has slammed Twitter’s decision to suspend Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, saying that the move amounts to “political censorship” and “election interference.”

Actor James Woods returned from Twitter exile late Thursday, tweeting for the first time since his highly public feud with the social media giant last year.

A support group for Angel Families — the American families and friends of the victims of illegal alien crime, was suspended from Twitter for nearly a month until Breitbart News asked the platform why, at which point the account was promptly restored.

A video showing Prince Harry begging the head of Disney for voiceover work for his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has been deleted from Twitter for allegedly violating the platform’s “copyright policy”.

James Shupe, the man who became the first person to obtain a legal sex designation of “non-binary,” now says the transgender lifestyle is a “fraud.”

Satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo has hit out against social media censorship in a new special issue.

Researchers at the UK’s University of Cambridge have created a new software technology that treats online “hate speech” as a computer “virus” or “malware.”

In a blow to free speech protections in the United Kingdom, a judge in an employment tribunal has ruled that there is no right to question whether a transgender person is a man or a woman.

Facebook doubled down on censoring a pro-life organization just hours after GOP senators wrote to CEO Mark Zuckerberg to condemn the tech giant’s decision to declare “false” the pro-life content based on the views of two abortionists.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled his comprehensive plan to preserve and protect “real journalism” from “Wall Street, billionaire businessmen, Silicon Valley, and Donald Trump” in an op-ed published in the Columbia Journalism Review Monday.

Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga has announced that she will be starting an investigation into censorship of political views on social media in Hungary and across Europe.

National pro-life leader Lila Rose announced that Twitter has again banned both of her accounts and that of her organization from all ads.

The Swedish Defence Research Institute (FOI), along with other partners, have created a “hate speech robot” online and are asking members of the public to give it examples to form an algorithm to fight against “hate” on social media platforms.

The last thing any sane person should want is to give anyone, much less Big Business, the power to decide what is and is not acceptable speech, what is and is not racism, what is and is not a conspiracy theory.

National pro-life leaders celebrated a Senate hearing Wednesday on censorship by tech giants of pro-life voices and films.

Instagram removed a cartoon posted by Babylon Bee founder Adam Ford for “hate speech,” Wednesday.

Twitter’s Director of Public Policy and Philanthropy froze during a hearing, Wednesday, after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled him on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s previous declaration that the social network is not a neutral platform.

Facebook and Instagram have blacklisted political commentator Faith Goldy from their platforms, just one week after Goldy was also banned from Airbnb for her political views.

The U.K. government has revealed a set of planned “extreme” measures to sanction tech companies which fail to remove “harmful content” online, including terrorist content, self-harm, bullying, and child pornography, but also “extreme pornography,” “trolling,” and “disinformation.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed in an interview this week that political discussion on social media, including the immigration debate, should be regulated in an effort to crack down on foreign influence.

“It’s a very, very dangerous situation so I think I agree,” Trump said when asked about a proposal by Sen. Josh Hawley to investigate left-leaning tech companies.