Category: censorship

The Twitter Files: Just the Beginning

Commentary Last night was quite the ride. Bari Weiss, who left the New York Times in protest against the culture of that paper, had been given access to another tranche of inside information about the operation of Twitter before Elon Musk took over. She found vast confirmation of what we’ve suspected for years now: the platform was…


Can Private Companies Censor If They Want To?

Commentary It’s like clockwork. Every time we get a new batch of proof that Big Tech companies have been censoring information related to COVID controls, vaccines, or other controversial topics, someone pops up with the same argument. They say these are private companies and they can do whatever they want. They aren’t violating the First…


Facebook’s Oversight Board Calls for More Equitable Censorship

Facebook parent Meta’s Oversight Board, the quasi-independent body that advises the social media giant on content policy, has issued a report warning of flaws in the company’s “cross-check” system that gives more leeway to high-profile users to post violating content. The advisory panel has urged Meta to modify “cross-check,” which it calls a “false-positive mistake-prevention”…


How the EU Killed Elon Musk’s Twitter ‘Amnesty’

Commentary Elon Musk’s announced “general amnesty” week has come and gone and there has been no sign of any amnesty at all. In particular, none of the—on Twitter’s own count—11,230 accounts that have been suspended for violating the platform’s “COVID-19 misinformation” policy appear to have been restored. Many have been wondering why the announced “amnesty” has…


LIVE: Elon Musk Exposes Potentially Criminal Censorship and Collusion; Canada Promotes Suicide Message

Elon Musk is putting his money where his mouth is, with his pledge to restore citizen journalism on Twitter. The billionaire founder of Tesla began releasing what he calls “The Twitter Files,” which include internal communications from Twitter that detail how the U.S. government has been censoring Americans by using Twitter. The findings are being…


Elon Musk Exposes Potentially Criminal Censorship and Collusion; Canada Promotes Suicide Message

Elon Musk is putting his money where his mouth is, with his pledge to restore citizen journalism on Twitter. The billionaire founder of Tesla began releasing what he calls “The Twitter Files,” which include internal communications from Twitter that detail how the U.S. government has been censoring Americans by using Twitter. The findings are being…


LIVE 12/06, at 10:30 AM ET: Elon Musk Exposes Potentially Criminal Censorship and Collusion; Canada Promotes Suicide Message

Elon Musk is putting his money where his mouth is, with his pledge to restore citizen journalism on Twitter. The billionaire founder of Tesla began releasing what he calls “The Twitter Files,” which include internal communications from Twitter that detail how the U.S. government has been censoring Americans by using Twitter. The findings are being…


A Culture of Lies and the Healing Power of Truth

Commentary To a friend, I was trying to explain what made the Brownstone Institute annual conference and dinner in Miami this past weekend so very special. It was just fantastic that The Epoch Times covered it with a livestream, which is now up and ready to watch. The interviews were great all day but the…


FBI Coordination with Big Tech Censorship Ahead of 2020 Election Revealed in Agent Deposition, Missouri AG Says

Officials from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security frequently met with major social media companies ahead of the 2020 election and pointed out users and pieces of content for removal, according to information from a deposition of a senior FBI agent revealed by a state Attorney General. “We found that the FBI plays…


‘New Twitter’ Will Push Mainstream Media to Be More Truthful, Says Elon Musk

Elon Musk says the “new” version of Twitter under his leadership will put competitor pressure on mainstream media to become more truthful and “stop toeing the line.”  The comment was made during a live Q&A session on late Dec. 3 discussing the release of the “Twitter Files,” which exposed the social media giant’s role under…