Social Media
News & Current Events: Social Media

FYI: I am No Longer on Social Media
Facebook (and others) are trying to keep users engaged as long as possible for their advertisers, and they use the...
Rand Eastwood02/05/2026VIDEO: 𝕏’s Capitulation to Brazil’s Unlawful Censorship Demands Sets a Dangerous Precedent
Elon Musk's 𝕏 has been reinstated in Brazil, after having complied with all government demands. The platform has been banned...
Rand Eastwood10/18/2024Noteworthy: Pavel Durov, Founder of Telegram App, Arrested
Pavel Durov, billionaire Founder of the encrypted messaging app Telegram, was arrested at the Bourget airport outside Paris today...
Rand Eastwood08/27/2024VIDEO: Rumble Shuts Down In Brazil Rather than Comply with Censorship Mandates
The free speech video platform Rumble has ceased their availability in Brazil, due to the Brazilian government’s censorship demands to...
Rand Eastwood01/05/2024VIDEO: Why Privacy Matters | Glenn Greenwald Speaks at TED
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and constitutional/civil rights attorney Glenn Greenwald gave a TED Talk entitled Why Privacy Matters, wherein he responded...
Rand Eastwood10/08/2023Finally, the Illegal Censorship Spotlight Turns to Facebook
The "Twitter Files" revealed how the US government was pressuring Twitter to censor, shadow-ban and outright de-platform users for content...
Rand Eastwood07/29/2023Warning: Government Censorship of the Internet & Free Speech is Escalating
The fact that authoritarian-style censorship regimes are infiltrating Brazil says a lot about the threat to the entire west; it's...
Rand Eastwood03/05/2023VIDEO: Turning Up The Heat In…Siberia?
As of Nov 2025, this video, performed by dancers from the Fraules dance centre in Novosibirsk, Siberia (Russia), has accrued over...
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