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Conservatives Demand Supreme Court Overrule Fake Facebook Court, Others Weigh In
On Wednesday, Facebook’s Oversight Board, the pseudo-legalistic, questionably independent body that the company claims has the power to review and potentially overrule official moderation decisions, issued its not-so-final proclamations regarding the status of Donald Trump’s account.
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U.S. House Oversight Committee Asks FBI to Investigate Parler
The chairwoman of the U.S. House Oversight Committee has asked the FBI to investigate Parler, the largely unmoderated conservative social media hellhole implicated as one of the sites involved in organising the January 7 riots at the Capitol.
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What the EPA Has in Common With Pornographers
It’s been a few weeks since our last edition of Hellfeed, and in the meantime, things on the feed have gotten somewhat closer to baseline dispiriting: While the U.S. president’s efforts to overturn the election results have degenerated from coup attempt to dangerous levels of cringe, social media firms are eager to return to pretending…
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Big Tech Election Interference Hearing Interrupted by U.S. Senator’s Election Interference Scandal
Thank the gods for Lindsey Graham’s alleged spineless criminality. Without the presence of the senator from South Carolina, today’s Big Tech hearing on censorship and election interference on social media might’ve been completely off-topic.