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The Story: Facebook, the world's largest social network, announced last week that it is beefing up the powers of its Oversight Board, the board that...

Share A month ago the novelist Jay Seliger asked “Is there an actual Facebook crisis, or media narrative about Facebook crisis?” After two years of criticism of the company, he noted, its users are still on board. Seliger remarks that an earlier New York Times story “reads a lot like a media narrative that has very little to do with users’ actual lives.” Seliger asserts that Facebook is “a Girardian scapegoat for a media ecosystem that is unable or unwilling to consider its own role” in the election of Donald Trump. (On Rene Girard see this). But Trump himself, his campaign, and those who voted for him bear responsibility for his election; to be more accurate those who voted for him in a small number of states like Michigan and Wisconsin put him in the White House. After all, Facebook might have prevented Trump’s victory by refusing to sell advertising to his campaign and by suppressing a significant part of advocacy for his election on the platform. Perhaps more than a few people believe Facebook helped elect Donald Trump not because of what it did but because of what it did not do. The bad publicity and even government investigations might go away if Facebook refuses to sell ads to Trump’s re-election campaign and suppresses at least the worst speech of his supporters. In this latter case, Republicans too might end up asking Mark Zuckerberg what he’s willing to do to make the pain end. Facebook may moderate (and suppress) content on its platform. It’s not a road we want to follow to its end.

Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, shares her story on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'. #Tucker FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number…

Constitutional rights and judicial precedent make it difficult for left-wingers to silence conservative speech throught the government, so they're trying a new strategy: using corporations and social media giants to silence speech instead. So far the most prominent casualty of…

Twitter is taking heat for 'shadow banning' conservatives. On 'Fox & Friends,' RNC chairwoman is calling for social media platforms to be transparent. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well…

Zion's Joy choir member speaks out on 'The Story.' FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been…

Hi, Reddit! I'm excited to do my very first AMA (of course, since I'm anti-censorship, I prefer that to the "AMAA" option). About Me: I’m Nadine Strossen, constitutional law professor and civil liberties activist, and especially eager to answer questions about the topic of my new book*—HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship—*and about ANYTHING else! I served as President of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) for 18 years (1991-2008), and I’m now on the national advisory boards of the ACLU, EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center), FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), and Heterodox Academy. I am an impassioned defender of free speech and academic freedom, which are embattled now as always; experience convinces me that these freedoms are essential for advancing “liberty and justice for all,” as well as any other cause. So that’s my favorite topic, but as a free speech absolutist, OF COURSE I welcome questions about any other topic too!

When he won last year, Portuguese singer Salvador Sobral told the crowd he hoped his victory would bring back "music that means something." He said, "Music is not fireworks, music is feeling." Netta Performs "Toy" 01:35 Her song was pure pop weirdness, and the fans in the arena loved it. After winning, Netta told the crowd "thank you so much for choosing different." Frequently, both they and Netta would break out into a chicken dance, echoing a line in the song in which she appears to do a chicken impression. Some fans of the song in the audience wore chicken hats to show their support. In previous years, those have mostly involved Russia. Last year, for instance, the Russian act was banned by Ukrainian authorities from coming to the country since she had visited Crimea after Russia annexed the peninsula. In response, the European Broadcasting Union, or EBU, which runs the contest, said it was immediately ending its relationship with Mango TV, and would not allow the broadcaster to air Thursday's semifinal or Saturday's grand final. Next year's contest will be held in the winning country, Israel.

Once again, we've bleeped and blurred all the week's big TV moments whether they need it or not. This week we feature Melania Trump, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, LeBron James, Shaq, Steve Harvey and more. #UnnecessaryCensorship People Apologize to Their…

Once again, we've bleeped and blurred all the week's big TV moments whether they need it or not. This week we feature Donald Trump, Sean Hannity, Draymond Green, Steve Harvey and more. #UnnecessaryCensorship Jimmy Kimmel’s Exclusive Chat with Donald Trump’s…