Category: Big Tech, Censorship, and Socialism

American Companies Poured Over $82 Billion Into Black Lives Matter Movement: Think Tank

Billions of dollars have been poured into the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization and its related causes by corporations during the past few years according to a new funding database, with recently collapsed banks like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank among the list of funders. The BLM funding database is tracked by the…


No Plans to Censor Social Media to Prevent Bank Runs, Government Corporation Says

A U.S. banking corporation said March 14 it has not tried to have social media users censored, and doesn’t have any plans to moving forward. “We have not, would not, and will not,” Brian Sullivan, a spokesman for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), told The Epoch Times via email. FDIC representatives, along with officials with…


Has Wokeness Peaked? That’s Debatable

News Analysis As headlines declare that “peak woke” has passed, one researcher thinks it’s possible that wokeness is actually just “mutating.” “The jury is still out in terms of whether the Great Awokening is winding down,” wrote Associate Professor David Rozado in a Feb. 24 Twitter post. Rozado’s research in computational social science at the New Zealand Institute…


[PREMIERING at 9 PM ET] The Real Story of January 6 | Documentary

“The Real Story of January 6,” a documentary by The Epoch Times, reveals the truth that has been hidden from the American people. While a narrative has been set that what took place that day was an insurrection, key events and witnesses have been ignored until now. The documentary takes an unvarnished look at police…


PREMIERING NOW: The Real Story of January 6 | Documentary

“The Real Story of January 6,” a documentary by The Epoch Times, reveals the truth that has been hidden from the American people. While a narrative has been set that what took place that day was an insurrection, key events and witnesses have been ignored until now. The documentary takes an unvarnished look at police…


Minnesota Lawmaker Concerned Over Bill Allowing Government to Track Alleged ‘Hate and Bias Incidents’

Minnesota state Rep. Walter Hudson has taken aim at a bill that would update the way the state government responds to and tracks “hate and bias incidents,” in which no crime may have actually been committed, calling it “problematic.” The bill, HF 181, was first introduced in January this year by Rep. Samantha Vang, a member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party,…


Lawmakers Erupt in Heated Discussion After ‘Twitter Files’ Journalist Refuses to Reveal Sources

Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) engaged in a heated discussion with lawmakers as she tried to get “Twitter Files” journalist Matt Taibbi to reveal a source during a Thursday congressional hearing. The Democrat lawmaker asked Taibbi about whether Twitter owner Elon Musk asked him to partake in the reporting on internal Twitter communications and the firm’s communications…


House Passes Bill to Prohibit Collusion Between Federal Government, Big Tech to Censor Lawful Speech

The House passed a bill on March 9 that would prohibit the federal government from colluding with Big Tech to censor lawful speech. The bill passed 219–206. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival in the Democrat-controlled Senate, was introduced by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee. Ahead of the…


Congress Grapples with AI Revolution, ChatGPT

Senators and representatives held separate hearings March 8 on the perils and promise of artificial intelligence (AI), signaling lawmakers’ growing regulatory appetite in the wake of actions on the technology from the Biden administration. “AI is no longer a matter of science fiction nor is it a technology confined to research labs. AI is a…


TikTok Whistleblower Says US Data Can Easily Be Accessed From China: Sen. Hawley

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is pressing the Treasury Department to conduct a thorough review of new whistleblower allegations regarding the Chinese-owned short video app TikTok that were recently brought to his attention. Writing to Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen on March 8, Hawley said that a TikTok whistleblower has come to him with direct…