by | Feb 24, 2022 | NRB News
Big Tech companies exert potent influence over the information ecosystem. Cultural trends inform corporate policy, which in turn impacts the spread of information and the user’s perception of sentiment and reality. To what degree does our ability to speak freely lie...
by | Feb 24, 2022 | NRB News
Cultural events have changed the landscape of threats to religious free speech dramatically in recent years. Ideologically-based content policing is baked into corporate policy at tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Twitter in the name of fighting...
by | Sep 24, 2021 | Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 25, 2021 FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Noelle Garnier 202-891-7843 ngarnier@nrb.org Facebook’s “Transparency Center” Confirms What “Shadow Banned” Accounts Already Knew WASHINGTON, D.C.— Not long ago, the concept of certain social media...
by Geoff Peters | Sep 24, 2021 | Advocacy
Not long ago, the concept of certain social media accounts and content being “shadow banned” was ridiculed as a hoax—but those days are over for good. In the name of “insightful transparency,” Facebook has unveiled its Content Distribution Guidelines, a partial...
by | Jul 21, 2021 | Equipping
On June 29, the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) hosted a Big Tech Symposium with leaders discussing questions and concerns around Section 230, antitrust law, common carrier issues, and censorship. The symposium was a part of EPPC’s Big Tech Project—a project...
