Ryan Lovelace

Tech sector reevaluating donations to GOP candidates

Big Tech is rethinking its political advocacy under President Biden and the new Democrat-controlled Congress.

January 25, 2021

Pro-life group spending $200,000 on ads thanking Sen. Joe Manchin

A prominent pro-life ally of former President Donald Trump is mounting a six-figure ad campaign to get in the good graces of a key Democratic vote in the new Congress: Sen. Joe Manchin.

January 25, 2021

Google launches $150 million coronavirus vaccine education and distribution push

Google said Monday that it was mounting a new $150 million coronavirus vaccine education and distribution push worldwide.

January 25, 2021

Parler provided freedom from censorship at cost of users’ data

Few people heard of the social media platform Parler before Big Tech's political censorship made it a refuge for conservative voices in the 2020 election season.

January 24, 2021

Rep. Cawthorn under fire from liberals for social-media posts

Liberals are frothing mad at Rep. Madison Cawthorn's statements on social media about his alleged athletic training and about the 2020 election in advance of the riot at the Capitol earlier this month.

January 22, 2021

Facebook’s Oversight Board to review Trump ban as company doubles down on banning president

Facebook's Oversight Board is set to review the company's decision to ban former President Trump indefinitely. While the board is intended to operate independently of Facebook to review its content moderation decisions, Facebook executive Nick Clegg said he expects the board will approve of Facebook's ban.

January 22, 2021

Twitter says Iran leader’s tweet threatening Trump’s death was a fake account

Twitter has suspended an account purportedly linked to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that featured an image showing a Donald Trump-like figure on a golf course apparently being targeted by a missile strike, saying it believed the account was a fake.

January 22, 2021

Amazon offer to aid Biden administration with coronavirus vaccine distribution irks Republicans

Amazon has offered to assist President Biden in distributing coronavirus vaccines, raising questions about whether the company put politics over people's lives in dealing with the Trump administration.

January 21, 2021

Federal judge tosses Parler’s request that court force Amazon to restore its services

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that Amazon did not need to immediately restore its services to the social media platform Parler.

January 21, 2021

Carolyn Maloney, House Oversight chair, asks FBI to investigate Parler

Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, House Committee on Oversight and Reform chair, on Thursday requested the FBI to investigate the social media platform Parler and any role it may have played in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

January 21, 2021

Kevin McCarthy supports keeping Liz Cheney in House leadership role after her vote impeaching Trump

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Thursday that he supports Rep. Liz Cheney retaining her leadership role in the GOP despite her vote to impeach former President Trump.

January 21, 2021

Social media companies’ ban on Donald Trump poised to continue after end of presidency

Big Tech's ban of former President Donald Trump persisted Wednesday even as his term ended.

January 20, 2021

YouTube extends Trump ban for at least seven more days

YouTube extended its ban preventing President Trump from posting videos for an additional seven days.

January 20, 2021

Ransomware hit 2,300+ U.S. government, health care and school facilities in 2020: Report

Ransomware attacks affected more than 2,300 U.S. government entities, health care facilities and schools in 2020, according to security software company Emsisoft.

January 19, 2021

Parler accuses Amazon of giving a green light to hackers to attack its data centers

Parler accused Amazon of giving hackers a green light to target the social media platform's data centers.

January 19, 2021

Parler resurfaces: ‘Our return is inevitable’

The social media platform Parler is reemerging online. Visitors to its website, Parler.com, will now see a webpage displaying messages describing "technical difficulties" and statements from some Parler staffers.

January 19, 2021

Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat: IRS should investigate whether tax-exempt groups fueled Capitol riot

Sen. Ron Wyden wrote to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig to request an investigation of whether tax-exempt organizations had any direct involvement in planning or inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol last week.

January 15, 2021

March for Life going digital amid pandemic and civil unrest in D.C.

Organizers of the annual March for Life said Friday that the annual march scheduled to occur in D.C. later this month will now largely take place online.

January 15, 2021

Conservative activists urge House GOP to rethink antitrust crackdown

Prominent conservative activists are pressing House Republicans to back off plans to help Democrats use antitrust action to break up Big Tech.

January 15, 2021

Social media purge of Trump, supporters drives extremists deeper underground to communicate

The purge of President Trump and his supporters from social media platforms has not stopped extremists from communicating -- it just drove them further underground.

January 14, 2021