Category: censorship

Creator of Conservative Chatbot Powered by ChatGPT Says OpenAI Tried to Censor Content

The creators of a conservative chatbot powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT announced that they shut down the chatbot because of pressure from OpenAI to censor the bot’s responses. The conservative chatbot, named GIPPR in honor of the late President Ronald Reagan, debuted in May and is part of TUSK, a pro-free speech and anti-censorship web browser. GIPPR…


Report: FBI Fears Informant Will Be Murdered If Unmasked Over Biden Family Bribery Scheme

Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans are forging ahead with plans to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress. The issue is the bureau’s delay in handing over documents related to the Biden family’s business dealings. We hear from Oversight Committee members on Capitol Hill. President Joe Biden is holding his first cabinet meeting in…


Legacy Media Illegally Colluded With Big Tech to Censor News Publishers: Lawsuit

Some of the oldest media organizations in the world illegally colluded with Big Tech companies to censor news publishers, according to a new lawsuit. Reuters, the Associated Press, the BBC, and the other organizations violated U.S. law with the collusion, which was done after forming a new coalition called the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), the…


University of Texas Students Behind Censorship Project Targeting Conservative News Outlets

Students at the University of Texas at Austin were found to be responsible for a censorship project that targeted conservative news outlets. The Global Disinformation Index’s (GDI) report, which called for the blacklisting of conservative news organizations, was written up by students under the direction of academics working at the University of Texas at Austin’s…


YouTube Reverses Policy on Censoring Claims of Stolen 2020 Election

YouTube has announced it’s doing a U-turn on censoring content about U.S. elections, with the platform saying it will no longer delete posts questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election, including claims of widespread voter fraud. The company made the announcement in a blog post on Friday, which comes about two months after it…


The Deplatforming of the ‘Disinformation Dozen’: More Coverage From Tracy Beanz

Commentary Our lawyers in Missouri v. Biden were in court last week seeking a temporary injunction to halt the government’s censorship industrial complex. In our petition, we explained how this regime has been functioning with the following analogy: “Suppose that the Trump White House, backed by Republicans controlling both Houses of Congress, publicly demanded that all libraries…


Elon Musk Uncovers Decade-Old, Thousand-Word Censorship List in Twitter’s Algorithm

In a recent interview with The Babylon Bee, Elon Musk, the current owner of Twitter, revealed the discovery of a decade-old line of code in Twitter’s algorithms designed to suppress tweets containing certain keywords. This information was made public during Musk’s conversation with The Babylon Bee, a satirical news outlet that had previously experienced censorship…


Peter Menzies: Publishers Rightly Fear Bill C-18

Commentary Ignoring pleas from publishers for the preservation of their independence, Canada’s ruling party has turned up the heat on innovators who believe in freedom of the press and want the state to keep its eyes, ears, and nose out of the nation’s newsrooms. The most egregious example took place in the Senate Transport and…


Totalitarian Temptations Among Progressive Elites

Commentary During a mid-May CBS morning show, host Nate Burleson asked former U.S. President Barack Obama if there’s anything about the country that still keeps him up at night. Obama said: “The thing that I’m most worried about is the degree to which we now have a divided conversation, in part because we have a…


They Censored at the Behest of the White House: More Reporting From Tracy Beanz

Here we continue with a lightly edited version of reporter Tracy Beanz coverage of the case and our activities in court last week. Parts one and two provide the background. *   *   * Social media companies acted in direct response to the White House calling out the so-called “Disinformation Dozen.” Evidence in the case proves that they acted to…