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All they needed was an opening. And for the rich extremists at the helm of the West’s social media, last Wednesday’s riot gave them one. The purging of conservative expression has begun. We knew it was coming — just as we’ve always known it will take every one of us to stop it. Most Americans thought they understood censorship. They’ve watched it evolve and expand this last decade, scooping up more people in its nets in the name of “tolerance,” “divers...

By Tony Perkins | January 12, 2021 | 12:46pm EST Jack Dorseys platform, Twitter, has come under fire for recent mass censorship. (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) All they needed was an opening. And for the rich extremists at the helm of the Wests social media, last Wednesdays riot gave them one. The purging of conservative expression has begun. We knew it was coming -- just as weve always known it will take every one of us to stop it. Most Amer...

Big Tech's battle with President Trump has become an all-out war on conservatives' free speech, Republican critics said Sunday after social media banished the president and his supporters from the Internet platforms.

The purge isn’t being engaged in only by Big Tech and the liberal media, but also by anti-Trump activists of all stripes.

Graphic: Mozilla Online platforms are hastilycuttingties with President Donald Trump and his ilk after years of milquetoast responses to the hateful and violent rhetoric fomenting under their watch, and all it took was a deadly insurgency at the nation’s capital. However, Mozilla says deplatforming doesn’t go far enough and has called for investigations and increased transparency into how sites target users for advertising and content recommendations. Advertisement On Friday, Mozilla, the ...

Online platforms are hastily cutting ties with Donald Trump and his ilk after years of milquetoast responses to the hateful and violent rhetoric

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the Firefox web browser, shared a list of additional actions intended to alter...

In the wake of President Trump's ban from Twitter, Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker is calling for more transparency from internet platforms.

Mozilla chairwoman calls for investigation into pro-Trump ad spending after a four-year disinformation campaign kshalvey@businessinsider.com (Kevin Shalvey) © Charles Platiau/Reuters Mitchell Baker at a technology summit in Paris. Charles Platiau/Reuters Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of Mozilla, called for more transparency into targeted advertising, including ads targeting followers of President Donald Trump.  "Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the ...

Charles Platiau/Reuters Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of Mozilla, called for more transparency into targeted advertising, including ads targeting followers of President Donald Trump.  "Donald Trump is certainly not the first politician to exploit the architecture of the internet in this way, and he wont be the last," Baker wrote on Mozillas blog.  Her call for more transparency echoed others in the tech sector, who said social networks hadnt done enough to curb misi...