Commentary Now that Canada’s Bill C-18 has made its way through Parliament and has received royal assent, the battle of wills between the government and social media platforms begins in earnest. The regulations packed into C-18 amount to little more than a shakedown of social media platforms on behalf of financially failing legacy media outlets….

When Chris Licht became the new CEO of CNN, he claimed he wants CNN to go back to its supposed roots of being fair and non-partisan. But has there really been any change? Tim Graham, the director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org sits down with…

A coalition of outspoken critics and skeptics of the mainstream narratives on COVID-19 has brought an antitrust lawsuit against some of the world’s largest news organizations, accusing them of working in collaboration to suppress dissenting voices surrounding the pandemic. The lawsuit (pdf), filed on Tuesday in a federal court in Texas, targets The Washington Post,…

Commentary Most Americans seem unaware of the ongoing information warfare being carried out against their collective best interests. We are bombarded continuously with politically motivated messaging about every important issue of the day: Ukraine virtue-signaling, LGBTQI activism, those evil election “deniers,” mRNA jabs über alles, critical race theory brainwashing, Trump criminality, etc. All media winds…

Elon Musk has criticized mainstream media outlets over their coverage of the so-called “Twitter Files.” “Why is corporate journalism rushing to defend the state instead of the people?” Musk wrote on Twitter on Dec. 27, in response to a tweet from journalist and documentary filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse. The latter was sharing his new Substack post…

CNN’s new president Chris Licht has said he will no longer be using Twitter after commencing his new role, stating that the platform can “skew” important issues. Licht took to Twitter on April 18 to announce that he will be ditching the social media platform as of May 2, the same day that he starts his…

Commentary More than half a century ago Canada’s then-prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, famously declared that the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation. Last week, the government of current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau very quietly inserted that same state into the newsrooms of the nation. The tool used is something called the…

Commentary There has been much in the news lately about censorship. The major media have been reporting on Vladimir Putin’s efforts to keep the Russian people from hearing the truth about his war against Ukraine and what President Biden has called war crimes. Dictionary.com offers this definition of a censor: “an official who examines books, plays,…