Chronicling scandals and controversies around Meta (aka Facebook) the company that operates Facebook, Instagram and other social media services. Evidence Facebook Helped Conservatives Facebook tweaked its algorithm in 2018 in a way that gave an artificial boost in reach to conservative groups. Facebook/Instagram Targeting Children A family sued Meta, arguing that the company tweaked its … Read more
The @JoeBiden account has 29.2 million followers and follows 47 accounts, including a variety of high profile political figures, organizations, and celebrities.
Tracking developments with the conservative social media network, Parler. Parler fired CEO John Matze. In a statement, Matze said billionaire Rebekah Mercer pushed him out of the company. Documents uncovered by Buzzfeed showed that Parler offered Donald Trump a 40% stake in the company in exchange for him to post exclusively to the site. Oliver … Read more
Facebook is the most popular social media network in the world. Facebook has frequently made decisions that show a conservative, right-wing bias.
Videos from Donald Trump’s official website have been removed by YouTube because he violated the services’ policies by inciting violence.
Amazon is turning off Parler’s account on its web servers. Parler uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) and kicking out Parler would effectively shut down the service.
The conservative social media app has been banned from Apple and Google’s app stores. The app received a surge of users after Twitter banned Donald Trump.
Facebook is leading millions of people into the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Donald Trump’s threat of violence on Twitter forced the service to make a warning about his tweets for the first time ever.
Angry that Twitter called him out for lying about voting by mail, Trump is plotting an executive order attack against social media.