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Von Spakovsky: FEC Needs To Reopen Twitter Probe Now That Documents Musk Released Show Company May Have Outright Lied

The Federal Election Commission is responsible for enforcing the act that governs the raising and spending of money in federal campaigns. Last year, the commission dismissed a complaint filed against Twitter and its executives that claimed they had violated federal law. Given the recent public disclosures of internal as well as external Twitter communications with campaign and party organizations, the FEC should reopen that investigation. It must determine if that dismissal was based on false information provided by Twitter.

By Hans von Spakovsky|2023-03-05T14:13:01-05:00January 13, 2023|ACRU Commentary, First Amendment, OPED|

‘It Just Kept Happening’: RNC Sues Google Over Email Censorship

“Fifty-three percent of the country has a Gmail account, and people who’ve opted in to receive Republican emails ask to receive them—they wanted to know, where is my polling location? How do I register to vote? How do I send money? Google has said, ‘You know what? We’re going to block that communication.’”

By ACRU Staff|2022-11-03T14:59:31-04:00November 3, 2022|First Amendment, News|

Josh Hawley got a Facebook exec to admit they censor constitutionally protected speech at the behest of the White House … and nobody cares

Facebook is acting as an enforcement arm for the government, censoring constitutionally protected speech.

By ACRU Staff|2022-09-17T11:40:45-04:00September 17, 2022|First Amendment, News|

This Video Got ACRU Executive Director Allen West Banned from TikTok

This video, highlighting the unprecedented government abuse via its FBI raid on former President Trump's private residence, caused the leftist social media machine to permanently ban LTC West from TikTok. What's next? The left fears truth and free discourse of political views, so they simply silence opposing viewpoints in the media and online.

By ACRU Staff|2023-05-22T22:42:53-04:00August 12, 2022|First Amendment, Video|

Hans von Spakovsky: YouTube Censors Strike Again for No Good Reason, Then Do About-Face

YouTube’s censors have struck again, removing a podcast discussing election integrity that it claims violates its “misinformation policy.”The podcast, hosted by Jacob Kersey, was an interview of me at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, in February 2021 and had been on YouTube for more than a year before it was suddenly taken down.YouTube never responded to Kersey’s appeal of the ban, but a day after Douglas Blair wrote about the censorship in The Daily Signal, the video suddenly reappeared on the website. Kersey says he received no explanation from YouTube for its actions.

By ACRU Staff|2022-05-07T10:26:41-04:00May 7, 2022|ACRU Commentary, First Amendment, OPED|