In the past five years, a cadre of fact-checkers has marched through the institutions of journalism and installed itself in the U.S. media as a privatized, quasi-governmental regulatory agency. What’s wrong with facts, you say? Fueled by a panic over misinformation, the fact-checking industry is shifting the media’s primary obligation away from pursuing the truth and toward upholding vague notions of public safety, which it gets to define. In the course of this transformation, journalists are being turned into rent-a-cops whose job is to enforce an official consensus that is treated as a civic good by those who benefit from—and pay for—its protection.
The Russian think tank and discussion forum Valdai Club said that the Western Press uses pseudo-academics like University of Manitoba professor and geopolitical economist Radhika Desai to silence critics.
According to former White House adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, Twitter’s COVID-19 censorship led to the loss of life by preventing people from making the appropriate use of caution.
Yoel Roth, the former Global Head of Trust and Safety for Twitter, exposed the widespread scientific censorship at Twitter.
Twitter has made changes to the violent speech policy and announced a new Zero Tolerance of violent speech policy.
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...
The UN plans to control speech online by imposing international laws through organizations like governments and corporations.
Proponents of free speech and prominent US legislators are alarmed by a...
The article below lists the top 50 organizations to know in the Censorship-Industrial Complex, with Information Futures Lab (IFL) at Brown University topping the list.
On January 17, 1960,...
According to new information, censorship activists are trying to spy on and censor even supposedly encrypted text messages through apps like What’s App, Signal, and Telegram.
Early this month, James O'Keefe confronted one executive during a meeting and threatened to leave Project Veritas if the individual did not follow his lead, which could be why he quit Project Veritas.
