12 Worst Cases of Big Tech Censorship in 2021

With a level of standardization and ruthlessness never before seen, social media platforms and Big Tech censored conservatives 2021.

Many media reports reveal that Silicon Valley Big Tech titans such as Facebook and Twitter have set out a policy explicitly to suppress conservative viewpoints and promote leftist dogma.

Big Tech had a strong focus on the election in the beginning of this year. Views that strayed from the accepted COVID-19 narrative fell squarely in Big Tech’s bullseye the whole year, as alternative treatments for the virus and questioning of mask mandates incurred a great deal of scrutiny from the heads of Silicon Valley. The tech lords made every effort to encourage social awakening, savagely attacking both pro-life and transgenderism criticisms.

Facebook accepted its insufferably awake employees’ wishes and developed algorithms that permitted hatred of whites and conservatives but also protected favored left-wing organizations from ridicule.

Jack Dorsey, former Twitter CEO, has resigned in November. This opens the door for anti-conservatives radical Parag AgrawalConservatives instantly criticized the decision to hand over control of the organization. Twitter had previously censored Trump 625 times and Joe Biden only once before it banned him. Twitter was also censored New York PostStories in the run-up to 2020 focused on the allegations of corrupt business dealings between President Joe Biden in Washington and Hunter, his son in Ukraine.

Over the past year there have been two sides to the Washington political debate. Democrats are insisting on more control over offensive content and Republicans asserting that Facebook has been restricting speech. 24 lawmakers from Congress recently called on Google to cease censoring prolife voices.

These are the most severe cases of Big Tech censorship by 2021

1. Trump’s ban on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Twitter is permanent

The most notable instances of prominent censorship 2021 were also the most severe.

Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter joined forces to ban the ex-president in January after the Jan. 6, Capitol Hill Riot.

The collective action to silence the head of the world’s leading republic stands apart as a show of force by the Big Tech overlords, apparently to present themselves as a dominant societal force and to use the Jan. 6 event as a scapegoat for their agenda.

“We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. “[W]e are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely.”

In the days following the Riot, Trump was also expelled by Twitter. However, the website continues to house pro-genocide propagandists and foreign dictators.

CNBC reported that Trump had 86.7 million followers on Twitter before his suspension.

YouTube then followed the lead of other platforms and ban Trump beginning Jan. 12. After the platform had removed more than 300 ads for his campaign in the summer 2019, as well as censored OAN (both moves which could have affected the 2020 presidential elections), YouTube banned Trump from YouTube starting Jan. 12.

2. Twitter bans COVID wrongthink

In December, Twitter’s terms of service adopted new totalitarian language, including claims that certain speech about COVID-19 “may lead to harm” and that “persistent conspiracy theories” and “alarmist rhetoric unfounded in research” can threaten people and communities.

In addition to this Orwellian virtue-signaling, the platform informed users that they can expect to be permanently banned from the platform if they get five “strikes” for spreading purported COVID-19 “misinformation.”

Penalties extend to factual claims, tweets that are “demonstrably false or misleading, based on widely available, authoritative sources”; as well as language deemed likely to affect “public safety” or “cause serious harm.”

Twitter’s new policy follows its promotion of vehement anti-conservative Parag Agrawal to the position of CEO in November, and its censorship of an American Heart Association link to a study abstract warning that COVID-19 vaccines dramatically increase the risk of heart inflammation.

3. Amazon banned books that depict transgenderism in the context of a mental disorder

In the modern-day equivalent of a book-burning, Amazon decided to ban books that frame transgender and other LGBT issues as “mental illness” in March.

Amazon Public Policy Vice President Brian Huseman said in a March letter to Republican senators that the company’s blanket policy against selling such books includes Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan T. Anderson’s book, Sally, Harry’s Transgender Moment.

Anderson criticised the progressive, radical left’s view of sex, and gender in the book. For the three preceding years, the book was available at Amazon.

The book’s removal coincided with other attempts to suppress literature discussing sex and gender. Abigail Shrier, a Wall Street Journal contributor and sex and gender researcher dealt with attempts to cancel and suppress her book about the impacts of transgenderism on America’s youth. Amazon has not denied her book’s sale, but it has refused to advertise for it.

While Amazon’s stance on the subject matter was never a secret, the letter to senators made clear the platform’s bias and authoritarian tendencies.

4. Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook have censored videos that question the 2020 election

All doubts regarding the legitimacy and validity of the November 2020 election were quickly silenced by the Big Tech platforms.

On Feb. 1, Twitter banned the account of My Pillow, a week after the platform banned company CEO Mike Lindell’s account. Both accounts tweeted claims of electoral fraud. Shortly thereafter, on Feb. 5, YouTube deleted Lindell’s documentary “Absolute Proof” about election fraud amid fears Dominion Voting Systems would sue for defamation. Dominion had already written to Lindell asking him to cease and desist. 

Twitter removed a tweet by Tim Pool, a journalist on Feb. 5. Gateway Pundit journalist Cassandra MacDonaldCassandra Fairbanks, formerly Cassandra Fairbanks had tweeted a clip showing a van arriving in Detroit several times each morning to unload dozens of boxes. Twitter labeled Fairbanks’ tweet with its most restrictive label, which reads: “This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can’t be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence.” Twitter was then removed on February 7. Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft is the operator and owner of the site. Hoft also raised questions about the legitimacy of the election, as well as claiming that some ballots had been illegal. Facebook flagged incorrectly an article about election fraud from the publication as sensitive material for potential nudity and sexual content. An interstitial tag was added to the story, tagging it as potentially “sexually suggestive” or containing “partial nakedness.” Posts with such filters have been shown to be less popular than posts without them, according to studies.     

5. Wells Fargo cancels Lauren Witzke, former GOP Senate candidate

While plain censorship has striking real-world impacts, terminating someone’s access to finance has uniquely practical and invasive effects.

Wells Fargo shut down the account of former Republican Senate candidate Lauren Witzke of Delaware in June, telling her only that the action was a “business decision,” and that the bank can close her account at any time, giving apparently no further explanation.

“The current weaponization of corporations and banks against conservatives and Christians is terrifying,” Witzke reportedly told conservative commentator Michelle Malkin for a Creators Syndicate commentary also published on CNSNews.com.

When MRC Free Speech America reached out to Wells Fargo, the bank refused to say why it terminated Witzke’s account, but paid a lot of lip service. “Wells Fargo does not consider political views or affiliations in making account decisions. Accounts may be closed for many reasons, depending on specific facts and circumstances. While we cannot discuss customer accounts because they involve confidential customer information, we can report that we have reviewed this situation, gave ample notice of our decision and it was handled appropriately.” 

6. Washington Post Report reveals Facebook algorithm segregates users

Facebook caved in to pressure from leftists calling for it to specifically favor minorities using its social media platform.

Executives programmed algorithms to stop automatically taking down content directed at white people, Americans and men, even though an internal Facebook document showed that 90 percent of “hate speech” subject to content takedowns in April 2020 were statements of “contempt, inferiority and disgust directed at White people and men,” The Washington Post Published November

An internal initiative resulted in overhauling Facebook’s hate speech algorithm to remove “hate speech” only against people who are “Black, Jewish, LGBTQ, Muslim, Arab and LGBTQIA,” and essentially disregard hate speech against whites, according to The Post.

7. Google bans Live Action’s pro-life ads

Google has banned Live Action’s ads as a pro-life advocate organization from being displayed on its site. Lila Rose, the company’s founder and president, announced in September. Rose explained that the company’s founder and president,, requested the banning of advertisements, including ads promoting abortion pill reversal. Rose claims the ban has saved the lives of 2,500 children since September. “Abortion activists knew the ads were making a difference, so they had Google shut them down,” Rose said.

It is targeted at women who have regretted taking the abortion pill.

Rose also posted purported screenshots on Twitter showing Google had flagged the ads for so-called “medical misinformation” and “restricted medical content.”

8. ‘Facebook Papers’ show suppression of The Washington TimesAnd other conservative news outlets

The Wall Street Journal released a trove of internal Facebook files showing the company’s internal debates about how far it can go in censoring conservatives in October. The JournalWe called your attention to the two tools that were being used to suppress content. One tool, called “Sparing Sharing,” allegedly reduced the reach of frequent posters who “disproportionately shared false and incendiary information,” The Journal wrote.

A second tool, “called ‘Informed Engagement,’ reduced the reach of posts that people were more likely to share if they hadn’t read them,” reported The Journal. Combining the two tools severely impacted conservative news content on Facebook. Facebook’s own “political ideology analysis” indicated that multiple conservative outlets would do far better if strict moderation tools were removed, “with Breitbart’s traffic increasing an estimated 20%, Washington Times’ 18%, Western Journal’s 16% and Epoch Times’ by 11%.”

9. Twitter permanently bans Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe for exposing CNN

The national establishment used undercover journalism to uncover corruption and reveal the secrets of power brokers at one time.

But the last few years have seen society’s leftist establishment clamp down on undercover news that reveals information that elites apparently don’t want to spread.

The most egregious example of Big Tech censorship of conservative undercover journalism in 2021 came when Twitter permanently suspended Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe in April. Project Veritas had released an undercover video showing one of its staffers bragging about Joe Biden winning the presidency. That staffer even admitted on the video that CNN coverage questioning Trump’s mental health was “propaganda.”

10. YouTube blocks videos of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, apparently due to COVID

YouTube has removed video clips from Brazil President’s channel Jair BolsonaroIn July, he shared his thoughts on COVID-19. Bolsonaro was publishing weekly addresses to his YouTube channel in which he discusses issues that are important for Brazil. YouTube, however, removed 15 videos from his YouTube channel because of misinformation about COVID-19.

According to YouTube, the Brazilian President was targeted by the platform for suggesting alternative treatment options to COVID-19. “‘Our policies don’t allow content that claims hydroxychloroquine and/or Ivermectin are effective to treat or prevent Covid-19, claims that there is a guaranteed cure for Covid-19, and claims that masks don’t work to prevent the spread of the virus,’” YouTube reportedly told the New York TimesMake a statement.

11. Twitter suspends all former accounts New York Times Alex Berenson is the reporter

Continuing social media’s trend of censoring views straying from COVID-19 orthodoxy, Twitter permanently suspended former New York Times journalist and author Alex Berenson in August, alleging “repeated violations of [the platform’s] COVID-19 misinformation rules.”

In “the tweet that did it,” as Berenson described it, he claimed that the controversial COVID-19 vaccines should not be thought of as vaccines but rather as “therapeutic[s].” Berenson posted a purported picture of the tweet in his online Substack newsletter, Unreported Truths: “Don’t think of [the COVID-19 vaccine]As a vaccine. It is best to think of it as a treatment with limited efficacy. The side effects are severe and must be administered IN THE ADVANCE of ill health. And we want to mandate it?”

12. Apple fired book author following complaints from woke workers

Retired Apple employees are expelled by woke workers in an egregious case of career ambush and retroactive censorship Antonio Garcia MartinezIn May they discovered that he had previously written a book before he was hired. The bestselling book is here. Chaos Monkeys, Martinez called out Bay Area women as “soft and weak, cosseted and naïve despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit.”

Though Martinez claimed Apple was “well aware” of what he wrote in the book before hiring him, the company apparently fired him around the same time an ouster petition signed by over 2,000 employees went public.

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