In his letter dated July 9, 2025, addressed to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Trump ties new U.S. trade measures directly to Brazilian censorship.
European politicians last Thursday called for social media censorship to combat 'misinformation' and 'hate speech' and to 'protect democracy,' criticizing X and Meta's free speech policies during a debate at the Council of Europe.
Elon Musk revealed after Christmas that X accounts’ reach ‘will decline significantly’ if they are blocked or muted by ‘far more credible, verified subscriber accounts’ and that X’s algorithm will be ‘tweaked’ to ‘promote more informational/entertaining content’ over ‘negativity.’
The Western District of Louisiana’s U.S. District Court has ruled in favor of the State of Missouri, allowing additional discovery in the significant Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, which scrutinizes government collaboration in social media censorship.
The Internet was founded to be free and democratic. It will require herculean efforts at this point to restore that vision as escalating censorship efforts are quickly suppressing that ideal.
Meta senior software engineer Jeevan Gyawali declared that Facebook still has and still uses the power to influence the outcome of presidential elections on behalf of Democrats.
A three-judge panel will decide if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Children’s Health Defense have standing to sue the Biden administration for colluding with social media companies to censor constitutionally protected speech.
TikTok and the World Health Organization (WHO) are entering a one-year partnership to train influencers and promote regime-approved content concerning public health on the social media platform.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the Biden administration pressured his companies to censor certain COVID-related content and that he regrets throttling the Hunter Biden laptop story in an August letter to the House Judiciary Committee.