On Monday, a new law came into effect in the UK that forces social media companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok to take down harmful content or face huge fines. The law, known as the Online Safety Act, was passed in 2023, and the country’s telecoms watchdog, Ofcom, just published
Elon Musk has waged war against the Censorship Industrial Complex, which includes organizations such as the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a dark money operation headed by a purported ex-intelligence agent from Britain. The world’s wealthiest man started the process of dismantling the censorship-industrial complex, which is a complex web
Michael Shellenberger wrote the report about the origins of the Censorship Industrial Complex that a whistleblower recently revealed. After President Trump was elected and Brexit was approved in the UK, a whistleblower recently came out with paperwork showing the beginnings of the Censorship Industrial Complex. Alex Gutentag, Matt Taibbi, and
Canada is going to create a registry of podcasters as a potential censorship initiative called the Online Streaming Act, formally Bill C-11, which will be in force on November 28. In an effort to control streaming services and social media platforms, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is leading Canada down a
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
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. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya who, along with Dr. Martin Kulldorff and the author, was censored for content related to COVID and public health policy that
The FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their information, including journalists, after sending Twitter a list of accounts on behalf of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information,
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
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
