Category: censorship

Soros-Funded Nonprofit Played Key Role in Twitter’s Preparation for Dealing With Hunter Biden Story, Docs Reveal

First Draft News, a now-defunct nonprofit that left-wing billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations funded, played a key role in Twitter’s preparation to shut down the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, according to internal documents published by author Michael Shellenberger as part of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files.” The Aspen Institute hosted a September 2020 training…


We Are Still Locked Down

Commentary Consider just how fortunate we are to have the Twitter Files. Every few days, we are seeing dumps of documents from the operations of Twitter before Elon Musk took over. This weekend’s release was especially shocking. It revealed a close and symbiotic relationship between the company’s management and the FBI, which employs 80 people…


LIVE 10:30 AM ET: New Censorship Programs Aim to Control Public Information; Democrats File to Block Trump Presidency

New censorship programs are being rolled out globally to control the flow of information and create state-run propaganda. This includes new revelations in the United States that the FBI, DHS, and other agencies colluded with Twitter to censor content on the platform, as well as programs that are meant for “correcting false beliefs.” And in…


LIVE NOW: New Censorship Programs Aim to Control Public Information; Democrats File to Block Trump Presidency

New censorship programs are being rolled out globally to control the flow of information and create state-run propaganda. This includes new revelations in the United States that the FBI, DHS, and other agencies colluded with Twitter to censor content on the platform, as well as programs that are meant for “correcting false beliefs.” And in…


New Censorship Programs Aim to Control Public Information; Democrats File to Block Trump Presidency

New censorship programs are being rolled out globally to control the flow of information and create state-run propaganda. This includes new revelations in the United States that the FBI, DHS, and other agencies colluded with Twitter to censor content on the platform, as well as programs that are meant for “correcting false beliefs.” And in…


LIVE 12/19, at 10:30 AM ET: New Censorship Programs Aim to Control Public Information; Democrats File to Block Trump Presidency

New censorship programs are being rolled out globally to control the flow of information and create state-run propaganda. This includes new revelations in the United States that the FBI, DHS, and other agencies colluded with Twitter to censor content on the platform, as well as programs that are meant for “correcting false beliefs.” And in…


Iconic 1970s Sitcom ‘Happy Days’ Escapes Censorship by Standards Council

“Happy Days,” an iconic American sitcom set in the 1950s that aired from 1974 to 1984, has escaped the Canadian censors. In a decision released Dec. 14, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) said an episode of the popular TV show titled “All the Way” aired by an Ontario station on Aug. 22 did not violate…


FBI’s Handing Twitter List of Names for Censorship ‘Unacceptable’: Ex-DoD Official

Twitter was censoring American citizens at the same time that Chinese intelligence agents were employed at the company and officials of the Chinese regime were given uncensored use of the social media platform, John Mills, former Director of Cybersecurity at the Defense Department, told The Epoch Times’s sister media NTD Television in an interview on Dec….


FBI Handed Twitter ‘Unacceptable’ List of Names for Censorship: Ex-DoD Official

Twitter was censoring American citizens at the same time that Chinese intelligence agents were employed at the company and officials of the Chinese regime were given uncensored use of the social media platform, John Mills, former Director of Cybersecurity at the Defense Department, told The Epoch Times’s sister media NTD Television in an interview on Dec….


Celebrate Elon Musk, but Don’t Lose Sight of Big Tech’s Structural Problems

Commentary The story of Elon Musk’s acquisition, transformation, and public rehabilitation of Twitter is nothing short of remarkable. Here is that rarest of confluences: A right-leaning (or at least right-sympathetic) mega-billionaire privately acquires a disproportionately influential public company out of genuine public-spiritedness, perhaps even a hint of noblesse oblige, and an earnest commitment to preserving…