Elon Musk announced that X, previously known as Twitter, plans to take legal action against organizations funded by financier George Soros. These organizations are accused of advocating for restrictions on free speech. Musk, who purchased Twitter with the intent of preserving free speech, expressed agreement with investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger’s
Running an independent media outlet is tough, and there’s a company called NewsGuard that’s making it even harder. NewsGuard claims to rate online content, including from media outlets, to see how trustworthy it is. But if we take a closer look, it’s doing more than that—it’s putting pressure on news
The House Judiciary Committee released its report titled “The Weaponization of CISA,” which highlights the secret government effort to regulate your mind. One of the big questions that those of us involved in exposing the secret U.S. government censorship effort have been asking ourselves over the last few months is:
A law known as the Online News Act has caused Facebook and Instagram to follow through with blocking all news stories in Canada. Meta said Thursday that it plans to follow through with a threat to block Canadians from sharing news on its platforms, after the federal government passed a
A lawsuit in federal court challenging the censorship-industrial complex, as journalist Michael Shellenberger has described it, exposes the government-led information war to censor what Americans think. One year ago, I joined the states of Missouri and Louisiana and several other co-plaintiffs to file a suit in federal court challenging what
Claire Wardle is the academic disinformation queen who’s a part of Brown University and has also been chosen to brief CISA’s advisory committee, which is allegedly doing federal censorship of Americans. The Washington Post defended campus researchers collaborating with federal agencies to censor Americans in an awkward, bumbling article last
The Federalist reported that University of Texas students are behind a censorship project targeting alternative news outlets. Students at the University of Texas–Austin were found to be responsible for a censorship project that targeted conservative news outlets. The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) report, which called for the blacklisting of conservative
James O’Keefe is sued by Project Veritas for incredibly troubling workplace and financial misconduct, including screaming at coworkers, ‘targeting’ female employees, and creating ‘strained’ relationships with donors. Project Veritas, known for its undercover investigations and whistleblower disclosures, is suing its founder James O’Keefe months after he was ousted from the
According to a report by POLITICO, the European Union is furious after Elon Musk withdrew Twitter from an online censorship program, citing his commitment to prioritizing freedom of speech over pleasing EU. Elon Musk has pulled Twitter out of the EU’s “Code of Practice”, a pro-censorship project aimed at countering