On February 20th, 2022, John Lott was interviewed by Sebastian Gorka on his national radio show. In just a month, this is the second time that our interviews have been tagged as violating community standards. If we get a third violation within the next 90-days, we...
In April 2021, John Lott did an interview with America's Voice about the problems with Mail-in ballots in Missoula, Montana. YouTube says that the video that we posted there violated their community standards on "Elections misinformation policies." They say "This...
Are we not allowed to point out that recent mass public shooters are environmentalists and socialists? In 2019, Twitter closed down both the CPRC and John Lott's accounts because they didn't want mass public shooters in El Paso and New Zealand identified as anything...
The political bias by social media has continued. At the Crime Prevention Research Center, we have dealt with social media bias direction many times (see here for some of our posts). Here is Dr. John Lott's latest piece on political bias by Twitter. Twitter is not...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about Twitter's new policy to warn readers that they think that Trump's tweet contained wrong information. Unfortunately, Twitter is the one who got the information wrong. Twitter is no longer willing to just let President...
Blue Bloods, CBS, Season 10, Episode 12, January 10, 2020 In January, we posted a brief eleven second video from the CBS show Blue Bloods. The show made the false claim that police commit suicides at high rates because they have "easy access to guns," and we provided...
UPDATE: The block on our account has been at least temporarily lifted. Original: Twitter has again blocked our account, this time doing the equivalent of the Twitter death penalty, blocking our account and removing all our 4,700 Twitter followers. Below is the...
Here are the two important paragraphs in Dr. John Lott's latest post. Twitter offered to unlock the accounts if I agree to a post saying that “your Tweet is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules.” But Twitter refuses to explain why they locked our...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the New York Daily News about Twitter locking the CPRC Twitter account. I am the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, whose account Twitter locked because it tweeted a link to a Daily News article that I wrote...
John Fund at National Review discusses Twitter locking Dr. John Lott's account: Last March, John Lott, head of the Crime Prevention Research Center and author of the book More Guns, Less Crime, sent out this tweet trying to debunk claims that the Christchurch shooter...
First, Twitter blocked John Lott's account because of a post about the New Zealand mosque killer, and now they have locked the Crime Prevention Research Center's account. Again, they have blocked this account for a similar reason -- explaining that the killer had...
Dr. John Lott talked to Gavin McGinnis in FreeSpeechTV about how Twitter locked Lott's account for tweeting factual statements about the New Zealand killer. For more information see here, here, and here. (Gavin McGinnis' Get off My Lawn, July 15, 2019)