Obama Urged Government Censorship Week Before DHS “Disinformation Governance Board” Launch WATCH PUBLIC’S NEW MINI-DOCUMENTARY Leighton Woodhouse and Michael Shellenberger May 8, 2023 On April 27, 2022, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it had created a “Disinformation Governance Board,” ostensibly to protect national […]
Need To Keep Masses Afraid Is Behind Elite Embrace Of Wokeism And Censorship The antidotes of whistle-blowing, sunshine, and defunding are near the poison Michael Shellenberger May 7, 2023 For the last half-decade, elites in government and the media have created a culture of self-censorship on race, climate […]
Join The Pro-Freedom Resistance It’s time to fight for our rights against the totalitarians Michael Shellenberger May 4, 2023 Yesterday we exposed the existence of a secretive and coordinated push by governments across the Western world for censorship. We are still investigating what precisely is behind the simultaneous […]
Media blackout as politicians in EU, US, UK, Brazil, Ireland, Canada, and Australia seek to jail citizens for wrongthink under the cover of a Big Lie about “hate speech” Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag May 3, 2023 By Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag The Twitter Files gave us […]
An anonymous “trust and safety professional” from within the social media industry warns of European Union censorship coming to America Michael Shellenberger Apr 27, 2023 The European Union is now officially requiring expanded censorship by social media platforms, including Twitter, Google, and Facebook. On Tuesday, Europe’s top Internet […]
The Censorship Industrial Complex wants to censor “problematic content” on WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, and other encrypted text messaging apps Michael Shellenberger Apr 26, 2023 Pierre Omidyar (left) and Jeff Skoll (right) at the 88th Annual Academy Awards in 2016. Ever since journalist Matt Taibbi and I testified before […]
Andrew Lowenthal spent more than two decades defending digital rights, and watched as peers and partner organizations switched to an opposite mission called “anti-disinformation.” An inside account Andrew Lowenthal Apr 25, 2023 I knew things were bad in my world, but the truth turned out to be much […]
Introduction to a series of features about the new global speech-policing bureaucracy, uncovered in the Twitter Files and beyond Matt Taibbi Apr 25, 2023 Today you’ll find two new #TwitterFiles threads out, one by longtime Racket contributor Matt Orfalea, and another by Andrew Lowenthal, who worked for 18 […]
CENSORSHIP SOUGHT FOR “NEGATIVE COMMENTS ABOUT PUBLIC FIGURES’ APPEARANCES” Michael Shellenberger Apr 25, 2023 Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden has accepted a post at a Harvard think tank to use artificial intelligence to censor citizens around the world. The United Nations is training people worldwide to […]
The political establishment has constructed a new apparatus of control Leighton Woodhouse Apr 23, 2023 In 2002, the Bush administration, desperate to sell its planned invasion of Iraq to the American public, turned to the mainstream media. Every evening on Fox News, White House officials invoked Hitler allusions […]
Democrats Threaten Journalists With Prison PLUS: Twitter Sneetches :: Blinken, Conspiracy Theorist :: Golden Age Of Substack Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse Apr 21, 2023 ∙ Paid Democrats Threaten Journalists Last month, Matt Taibbi and I testified to Congress about the existence of a Censorship Industrial Complex. The […]
Representative Stacey Plaskett, who called Michael Shellenberger and me “direct threats to people who oppose them,” is now threatening me with prison – over Mehdi Hasan’s uncorrected error Matt Taibbi Apr 20, 2023 Wow. When I think this iteration of the Democratic Party can’t sink any lower, it […]
Exclusive with journalist, Matt Taibbi, as he discusses being threatened with jail by a member of Congress for testifying about the Twitter Files to Congress.
Caitlin Johnstone Apr 20, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Militarized robots are the anti-guillotine. They’re the final solution to the ancient “there are a lot more of us than there are of our rulers” problem. Everyone with wealth and power has […]
Norway State Media Behind Facebook Censorship Of Seymour Hersh Over Nord Stream Explosion Were the former CIA and NATO officials at Facebook involved? Michael Shellenberger Apr 19, 2023 Over the last several months, there has been a major debate over who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, which […]
Matt Taibbi 2 hr ago I’d be lying if I said I didn’t spend last week wondering how to undo any damage to the #TwitterFiles caused by my interview with MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan. Short of jumping in a DeLorean and time-flying back to cancel, few ideas presented themselves. […]
Please Blow The Whistle On Censorship We can’t do this alone. If you are researching “misinformation,” “fake news,” or “hate online,” please email me, michaelshellenberger@proton.me Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse Apr 18, 2023 Over the last several months, my colleagues and I have documented the existence of, and […]
by Brett Samuels – 04/13/23 10:06 AM ET Greg Nash White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre addresses reporters during the daily briefing at the White House on Friday, March 10, 2023. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday said social media companies have a “responsibility” to manage […]
The Elon Musk portion of the Twitter Files story meets its M. Night Shyamalan ending. On the WTF week to end all WTF weeks Matt Taibbi Apr 12, 2023 Nearly five months ago I was presented with a rare opportunity, to look through internal correspondence at Twitter. A […]
by Peter Zeihan on April 12, 2023 The CCP is always watching…and no, I’m not talking about spy balloons today. Under the law in China, any company must cooperate with the government. So if you’ve got TikTok on your phone, you may want to watch your back. However, […]
Plus: Trans Witches Are Witches :: They Really Want You to Eat Bugs :: That Which Doesn’t Kill Trump 4 hr ago In the early afternoon yesterday, we heard from a whistleblower: “There will be a full court press coming up against the Twitter files and the reporters,” […]
How a former CIA fellow came to lead US government efforts to stamp out disfavored speech on the Internet Michael Shellenberger 8 hr ago Renee DiResta, CIA Fellow turned Stanford Internet Observatory research manager Since the 2016 elections, politicians, journalists, and many others have raised the alarm about […]
Can a Left/Right Civil Libertarian Coalition defeat the Restrict Act? Robert Stark Mar 31 There is a new bill to ban TikTok, that is not really about banning TikTok, that has gone under the radar until recently. The very Orwellian worded, “Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that […]
The Week Staff Does TikTok have a future in the U.S.? Harold Maass Is there any hope to stop gun violence? The Week Staff 5 criminally funny cartoons about Donald Trump’s indictment Advertisement from Wisebread Best Rewards Card of 2023 With $200 Bonus Becca Stanek A guide to […]
Once again, politicians use popular fears to push for open-ended power. J.D. Tuccille | 3.31.2023 7:00 AM (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/Newscom) Even if you believe that governments should be in the business of banning things such as popular communications tools, the details of the effort to eject TikTok from […]
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Robby Soave is the senior editor of Reason and anchor for The Hill Rising blasts in from Kim’s past to discuss the possible ban on TikTok
Michael Shellenberger 4 hr ago The author (right) with Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya (center) and Babylon Bee founder, Seth Dillon (right). All three were censored by Big Tech Internet companies, and testified to Congress about their experience today. I was honored to once again testify before Congress today […]
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March 24, 2023 Hello, Insiders. This is Shona Ghosh, the deputy executive editor for Insider in the UK. Today, I’m thinking about the future of humans. Remember the alarmingly capable ChatGPT? It recently received an upgrade and early testers say it’s a pretty competent programmer, game developer, therapist, […]
Excerpts of interviews with Die Welt and Weltwoche about the censorship-industrial complex Michael Shellenberger 13 hr ago The author testifying before Congress on March 9, 2023. [Getty Images] Two weeks ago, Matt Taibbi and I testified before Congress to reveal to the public the existence of a secret […]
Matt Taibbi, investigative journalist and author discusses the Censorship Information Complex revealed by the explosive Twitter files. The Virality Project is a collusion project to silence COVID -19 information about vaccines and approaches to the pandemic response. Stanford University along with other think tanks and government agencies targeted […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here are my most recent articles for you Republicans for National Renewal Gets Permanently Banned from Instagram On March 14, 2023, nationalist organization Republicans for National Renewal announced that it was permanently banned from Instagram for supposedly being a fake about. It made this announcement […]
The same Democratic minority staff that trashed the First Amendment in last week’s Twitter Files hearings put something amazing in writing in a parallel case Matt Taibbi Ranking member Stacey Plaskett, left, co-authored a Judiciary Committee minority report about would-be FBI whistleblowers Racket readers may recall that […]
Democrats are demanding ever-more censorship in a widening social media pani During a conference call about the Silicon Valley Bank bailout yesterday, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) asked representatives from the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, and the Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation (FDIC) if they had a way to […]
Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Arktos De-Platformed in War on Dissident Thought In one of the greatest attacks on free speech to date, Arktos, the world’s foremost publisher of New Right and traditionalist literature in the English language, was suddenly de-platformed by […]
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023 FBI debacles in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing foreshadowed far worse antiterrorism failures in the following decades. – James Bovard “30th Anniversary of the FBI’s Biggest ‘Bomb’” (2023) HORNBERGER’S BLOG March 10, 2023 Killing Communists with Impunity The New York Times recently carried […]
The Weaponization of Government, World War III, and other news of the week. Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse 8 hr ago “So-Called Journalists” Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD “So-called journalists” @mtaibbi 8:04 PM ∙ Mar 9, 2023 54,097Likes5,332Retweets Well, that was weird. Yesterday we helped break what could be […]
House Democrats try to “kill the messenger” with personal attacks against investigative journalists, Matt Taibbi and Micheal Shellenberger, who testified today about the Government agencies colluding with Twitter executives to censor users of Twitter violating the first amendment using tax payer money. —- Thank you for watching the […]
In testimony to the House Judiciary Committee about the Twitter Files, a few words about why state-funded “anti-disinformation” and free speech can’t coexist Matt Taibbi 15 hr ago Editor’s note: at around 10 a.m. EST this morning, Michael Shellenberger and I will be testifying at the “Hearing on […]
EXPOSED: America’s Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex U.S. government officials, agencies, and contractors are violating the First Amendment Michael Shellenberger 12 hr ago Friends — Over the last three months, a small group of independent journalists, including Leighton and I, have, thanks to the Twitter Files, exposed the ways in […]
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Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise themselves, as government agencies and subcontractors undertake a massive digital blacklisting project. Narrated by Jared Moore Thumbnail Art by Daniel Medina Text published 3/2/23: Racket News Twitter Files: GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists A new #TwitterFiles thread will be dropping […]
Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise themselves, as government agencies and subcontractors undertake a massive digital blacklisting project Matt Taibbi 6 hr ago A new #TwitterFiles thread will be dropping in a few hours, at noon EST. It follows up the Hamilton 68 story of a […]
Posted by Henry Delacroix on February 27, 2023 Musk owns Twitter now. It is his baby. Maybe more like a step-child, but he molds it now. There have been changes. It is exciting to consider what comes next. It’s refreshing in comparison to what has felt like a […]
Caitlin Johnstone 4 min ago Listen to a reading of this article: Being labeled a Russian propagandist all day every day for criticizing US foreign policy is really weird, but one advantage it comes with is a useful perspective on what people have really been talking about all […]
In this video, the latest installment of “The Twitter Files” is discussed. Matt Taibbi reveals that the long-standing claim of Russian bots controlling online discourse and brainwashing Americans is actually not the case. The video analyzes the work of Hamilton 68, a dashboard funded by a neo-liberal D.C. […]
Published: Jan 28, 2023, 8:19 PM Alan Friedman A long-standing rumor suggests that the Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps drain the battery on cellphones that have the apps installed. If you believe former Facebook employee George Hayward, a data scientist, Facebook can secretly drain the battery on […]
Lawmakers want to know whether it was a violation of the German Constitution. By Didi Rankovic German authorities have made quite a name for themselves over the past several years by walking the fine line, and critics say sometimes crossing it, between protecting citizens’ freedom of speech, […]
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