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Elon Musk Says US Government ‘Had Full Access’ to Private Twitter DMs

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said he was stunned after learning that the U.S. government had “full access” to users’ private direct messages (DMs). Musk, who took over Twitter in October last year in a $44 billion deal, made the comments in a recent interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, which is due to air on…


Coalition Sues California Attorney General Over Alleged Social Media Censorship

A coalition including satirical website The Babylon Bee, social media company Minds, Inc., and podcaster Tim Pool has sued California Attorney General Rob Bonta for enforcing a state law they claim is unconstitutional on the grounds it violates free speech. The legislation, authored by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino), regulates social media platforms, requiring them to…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: ‘Science That Cannot Be Questioned Is Just Propaganda’: MEP Rob Roos on Getting Pfizer to Admit That Its COVID Vaccine Was Never Tested for Transmission

“For Pfizer … total contracts of the European Union was 72 billion euros to buy vaccines. They bought 10 vaccines for every person in the European Union. So, it’s a huge amount of taxpayers’ money.” I sit down with Rob Roos, a Dutch member of the European Parliament. Roos made global headlines after he got…


PREMIERING NOW: ‘Science That Cannot Be Questioned Is Just Propaganda’: MEP Rob Roos on Getting Pfizer to Admit That Its COVID Vaccine Was Never Tested for Transmission

“For Pfizer … total contracts of the European Union was 72 billion euros to buy vaccines. They bought 10 vaccines for every person in the European Union. So, it’s a huge amount of taxpayers’ money.” I sit down with Rob Roos, a Dutch member of the European Parliament. Roos made global headlines after he got…


‘Science That Cannot Be Questioned Is Just Propaganda’: MEP Rob Roos on Getting Pfizer to Admit That Its COVID Vaccine Was Never Tested for Transmission

“For Pfizer … total contracts of the European Union was 72 billion euros to buy vaccines. They bought 10 vaccines for every person in the European Union. So, it’s a huge amount of taxpayers’ money.” I sit down with Rob Roos, a Dutch member of the European Parliament. Roos made global headlines after he got…


PREMIERING 4/11 at 7:30PM ET: ‘Science That Cannot Be Questioned Is Just Propaganda’: MEP Rob Roos on Getting Pfizer to Admit That Its COVID Vaccine Was Never Tested for Transmission

“For Pfizer … total contracts of the European Union was 72 billion euros to buy vaccines. They bought 10 vaccines for every person in the European Union. So, it’s a huge amount of taxpayers’ money.” I sit down with Rob Roos, a Dutch member of the European Parliament. Roos made global headlines after he got…


The Warnings Unheeded Now Threaten Our Fundamental Freedoms

Commentary The First Amendment is at a critical juncture. Recent congressional hearings on the Twitter Files brought the matter into full public view. Freedom of speech and of the press are hanging by a precarious thread. Do we want a future in which information flows freely, or one in which an information elite controls those…


The Ominous Message Behind the Taxman’s Visit to Journalist Matt Taibbi’s Home

Commentary When the IRS targeted Tea Party groups during the Obama years, and no one paid a serious price for it, it was both a harbinger of and contributor to the more pervasive and extreme weaponization of the federal government against dissenters from its orthodoxy that was to come. Today, a decade after IRS officials…


‘The Largest Censorship Operation in Recent American History’: Sen. Schmitt on Big Tech–Government Collusion

Freshman Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) on March 30 accused President Joe Biden’s administration of running “the largest censorship operation in recent American history” by its dealings with social media platforms. “The Biden administration has led the largest speech censorship operation in recent American history,” Schmitt said in testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the…


Federal Government Requested Removal of Online Content, Document Shows

Multiple federal departments and agencies have interacted with social media companies to request online content be taken down, often times to have impersonating accounts removed but also to purge posts they deemed offensive. The Canadian government provided the information on March 27 in an Inquiry of Ministry following an order paper submitted by Conservative MP…