Social Media Censorship

The French offices of Elon Musk’s X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor’s cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.

The prosecutor’s office said the probe began in January 2025 when it started looking into content recommended by the social media platform’s algorithm, before being widened to include its controversial AI chatbot, Grok.

In a statement, it added that both Musk and former X chief executive officer Linda Yaccarino had been summoned to appear at hearings in April.

THUNDER BAY – The Lakehead District School Board is taking legal action against a social media site over posts it says are defamatory.

The school board has filed a court order demanding Reddit Canada disclose information to identify users who have made posts on the platform about the school board and staff.

The order would compel Reddit Canada to remove the posts from the platform.

The Twitter Files pulled back the curtain on a massive election interference campaign. Now, the House Judiciary Committee is set to grill FBI Director Christopher Wray and others about how the government colluded with Big Tech to censor Americans’ free speech rights.

Twitter owner Elon Musk shocked the internet when he released secret internal documents to certain reporters who uncovered how the FBI, a plethora of other government agencies and leftist elites colluded with Twitter employees to swing the election for Joe Biden and protect him in his presidency. As MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider described it, “The FBI was conspiring and coercing Big Tech to do what it couldn’t legally on its own. They were censoring speech and silencing their political opposition.”

European Commissioner Thierry Breton declared that social media sites will face bans if they do not remove “calls for revolt” or content that shows riots under new censorship measures set to be imposed next month by Brussels.

The popular conservative social media account Libs of TikTok has already experienced censorship on tech giant Meta’s new text-based app Threads, according to a screenshot shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Libs of TikTok , which is run by Chaya Raichik, posted that “[n]on-binary isn’t real” on Threads Friday morning, and the newly launched app removed it the same day due to its “hate speech” guidelines, a screenshot shared with the DCNF and posted to Twitter shows. Raichik told the DCNF that the removal was unsurprising because of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s history of conservative censorship on Facebook and Instagram.

As most people expected Zuckerberg’s “Threads” is just a shittier version of shitty in its own right Twitter.

Evidence of potential human rights abuses may be lost after being deleted by tech companies, the BBC has found.

Platforms remove graphic videos, often using artificial intelligence – but footage that may help prosecutions can be taken down without being archived.

Meta and YouTube say they aim to balance their duties to bear witness and protect users from harmful content.

But Alan Rusbridger, who sits on Meta’s Oversight Board, says the industry has been “overcautious” in its moderation.

Elizabeth Williamson is a feature writer for The New York Times whose book Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth came out in March.

Appearing as a guest on Thursday’s Amanpour & Co. on PBS, Williamson connected Sandy Hook deniers to “coronavirus myths” and January 6 and called for government to “tighten the cranks” on social-media giants to prevent “disinformation.” She claimed this was not a free-speech issue.

In the wee hours of Monday morning, June 21, down came the Reddit ban hammer. The popular subreddit TumblrInAction, with almost 500,000 active users, and its little sister sub, SocialJusticeInAction, with 96,000 users, each received a no-warning ban for “promoting hate” on the platform.

What did these Redditors do wrong to merit such a punishment? These subs allowed users to post anti-woke and often truthful, gender-critical content that pushed “identity invalidation.” Reddit’s victims had employed free speech on the platform, thus becoming popular and therefore had to go.

Libs of TikTok — an account known for reposting videos of radical leftist activists on social media — was suspended from Instagram on Thursday.

Because the account or “activity on it” did not follow Instagram’s community guidelines, Libs of TikTok was suspended from Instagram, according to a screenshot of the suspension notice. Libs of TikTok has 30 days to “disagree with the decision” — or else the account “will be permanently disabled.”