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September 26, 2024
William Upton
1A
TECH

How Facebook Trained CDC Employees to Censor Americans.

Newly released documents from America First Legal (AFL) provide new details on how Facebook trained government employees with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to use the social media platform’s censorship portal to target so-called ” COVID & Vaccine Misinformation.” The legal group engaged in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation against the CDC published the Facebook onboarding documents on its website on Wednesday.

Following constant pressure from the Biden-Harris government—including current Kamala Harris presidential campaign senior staffer Rob Flaherty—Facebook created an “end-to-end workflow” portal for government officials to submit links for the social media platform to remove. The links in question were posted by Americans on the Facebook platform.

According to AFL, this process “dramatically increased the efficiency of the censorship machine by allowing up to twenty links at a time to be referred for censoring.” Allegedly, only approved government officials and law enforcement had access to the portal, though there are significant concerns that some may have shared access with non-authorized users.

Among the other revelations in the FOIA’ed documents are that “[e]ach censorship request automatically generated a ticket number so that the government could track if Facebook complied with its censorship demands.” Additionally, the trove of communications acquired by AFL shows that “Facebook explained precisely what content it would remove and what it needed from the CDC in order to censor certain narratives within the bounds of its ‘community standards.'”

The social media company, co-founded by tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, walked government employees through a series of slides that provided an almost paint-by-numbers explanation of how to report content to be censored. In August, The National Pulse reported that Zuckerberg admitted Facebook interfered in the 2020 presidential election and censored Americans at the behest of the Biden-Harris government.

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Newly released documents from America First Legal (AFL) provide new details on how Facebook trained government employees with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to use the social media platform's censorship portal to target so-called " COVID & Vaccine Misinformation." The legal group engaged in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation against the CDC published the Facebook onboarding documents on its website on Wednesday. show more
September 18, 2024
Jack Montgomery
1A
Election 2024

Hillary Wants Americans Spreading Pro-Trump ‘Propaganda’ to Be ‘Criminally Charged.’

Hillary Clinton is suggesting American citizens should be “criminally charged” for repeating so-called Russian propaganda “boosting Trump.” Kamala Harris‘s running mate, Tim Walz, has similarly claimed the First Amendment does not apply to alleged “misinformation.” The comments suggest free speech could be under threat if the Democrats win in November.

“I think it’s important to indict the Russians, just as Mulluer indicted a lot of Russians who were engaged in direct election interference and boosting Trump back in 2016,” the failed Democratic presidential candidate told Rachel Maddow.

“But I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda. And whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged, [that] is something that would be a better deterrence, because the Russians are unlikely, except in a very few cases, to ever stand trial in the United States,” she said.

Clinton appeared to be referencing two alleged Russian shell companies—Concord Management and Concord Consulting—which the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged following Muller’s flawed investigation. However, these charges were dropped once the firms began defending themselves in court.

WALZ. 

Clinton’s comments echo those of Tim Walz, the controversial Governor of Minnesota and running mate to Kamala Harris.

“There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy,” the Democrat said in December 2022.

Walz displayed similarly authoritarian attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic, taking a hands-off approach towards Black Lives Matter rioters but having the National Guard shoot paintballs at suburban women standing outside their front doors to enforce curfews.

Harris, too, during her run at the Democrats’ 2020 nomination, threatened government action against social media platforms that do not censor content to her liking, saying: “If you profit off of hate, if you act as a megaphone for misinformation or cyber warfare, if you don’t police your platforms, we are going to hold you accountable.”

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Hillary Clinton is suggesting American citizens should be "criminally charged" for repeating so-called Russian propaganda "boosting Trump." Kamala Harris's running mate, Tim Walz, has similarly claimed the First Amendment does not apply to alleged "misinformation." The comments suggest free speech could be under threat if the Democrats win in November. show more
September 4, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
1A
Culture
World

Podcasters Face Over $276k Fine for Misgendering.

Two podcasters have been forced to remove an episode of their show from the Internet by court order after they used male pronouns to describe a balding transgender “woman.” They also face massive fines or even prison.

German podcasters ‘Hoss and Hopf’—said to be sympathetic to the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party—referred to Laura Holstein, formerly Nicholas, as a man following several stories about his attempts to access women’s spaces.

Kiarash “Hoss” Hossainpour described the pair’s legal troubles on X (formerly Twitter), writing that the Frankfurt am Main Regional court demanded the removal of the podcast episode in an “expedited procedure” without any oral arguments at all. The court claimed that the “misgendering” is a violation of Holstein’s rights.

“It is noteworthy that the court saw an ‘extraordinary urgency’ here—as if using biologically correct terms represented an immediate danger that could not be delayed. One inevitably wonders whether other, perhaps genuinely urgent cases had to take a back seat for this,” Hossainpour wrote.

The podcasters now face a possible €250,000 ($276,414) fine and up to six months in prison if they cannot pay it. They face two years in jail if they repeat the supposed offense.

Germany is not the only European country with laws against “misgendering.” Last year, Britain’s Labour Party, which is now in government, promised to make misgendering a crime carrying a prison term of up to two years.

In the United States, Michigan’s House of Representatives also passed “misgendering” laws last year, proposing sentences of up to five years for violators despite constitutional free speech protections.

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Two podcasters have been forced to remove an episode of their show from the Internet by court order after they used male pronouns to describe a balding transgender "woman." They also face massive fines or even prison. show more
August 29, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
1A
Immigration
Religion

Blasphemy: Sweden Prosecuting Quran-Burning Protesters.

Swedish prosecutors are charging two men with agitation against an ethnic or national group after they set copies of the Quran on fire in four separate locations, including outside a mosque. Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem both face charges for burning copies of the Islamic holy book, which led to Sweden heightening its terrorism alert system last year.

In the multicultural city of Malmo, Momika, a Christian Iraqi refugee, burned a Quran last year, sparking riots in the notorious no-go suburb of Rosengard as Muslims set dozens of cars on fire and threw missiles at police.

Sweden previously insisted that burning the Quran is not illegal, refusing to bring charges against anti-Islam activists like Momika or Rasmus Paludan. The country briefly considered outlawing Quran burning last year but ultimately ruled out any significant changes to the current laws on freedom of expression. A permit for a Quran-burning protest was granted as recently as May 2024.

The Quran protests strained Sweden’s relationship with Turkey amid its bid to join NATO, with Turkey demanding the European Union (EU) country make it illegal to burn the book.

Neighboring Denmark also caved to Turkey, passing de facto blasphemy laws in August 2023 banning burning the Quran, calling such protests uncivilized.

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Swedish prosecutors are charging two men with agitation against an ethnic or national group after they set copies of the Quran on fire in four separate locations, including outside a mosque. Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem both face charges for burning copies of the Islamic holy book, which led to Sweden heightening its terrorism alert system last year. show more
August 25, 2024
1A

Why Was Telegram’s CEO, Pavel Durov, Arrested in France?

Pavel Durov, CEO and founder of the social media app Telegram, was arrested by French authorities at Le Bourget Airport, north of Paris, on Saturday. The multi-billionaire was taken into custody upon landing his private jet. The 39-year-old’s detention is linked to a warrant concerning issues related to the Telegram messaging app.

The Russian Embassy in France has begun efforts to obtain details about Durov’s arrest, with critics alleging the detention is actually because Telegram is often used to share content inconvenient for Western authorities and their global wars.

France alleges Durov and his platform have failed to comply with government orders to crack down on drug trafficking, child sexual content, and fraud. Durov’s lawyers have scoffed at the claims, likening them to blaming a car manufacturer for an accident or for its cars being used for crimes.

Telegram, first released in 2013, has gained prominence in Russia, Ukraine, and other former Soviet states. Despite a ban in Russia in 2018, the messaging app resumed operations in 2021. The National Pulse is available on Telegram here.

The case is now being represented as a major freedom of speech issue in the Western world, with critics pointing out that it is the European Union, not Russia, that finally arrested Durov.

Telegram has almost a billion global users, and Durov is believed to be worth around $10 billion. Recently, he claimed to have fathered over 100 children around the world through his work as a sperm donor.

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Pavel Durov, CEO and founder of the social media app Telegram, was arrested by French authorities at Le Bourget Airport, north of Paris, on Saturday. The multi-billionaire was taken into custody upon landing his private jet. The 39-year-old’s detention is linked to a warrant concerning issues related to the Telegram messaging app. show more
August 19, 2024
Jack Montgomery
1A
Religion
UK

Christian Wins Payout After Arrests for Silent Prayer Near Abortionist.

A pro-life Christian arrested and charged by England’s West Midlands Police force has received a payout after being wrongfully detained for praying silently inside her head near an abortion clinic in 2022 and 2023. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce lodged claims for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment against the force, whose officers had told her, “You’ve said you’re engaging in prayer, which is the offense,” as they arrested her.

Vaughan-Spruce was initially arrested for her silent prayers near a Birmingham abortionists’ clinic in late 2022 for violating a “buffer zone” in which expressing “approval or disapproval with respect to issues related to abortion services, by any means” was outlawed. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) took her to trial, but she was acquitted of all charges in early 2023.

Undeterred, West Midlands Police—noted for its systematic failures concerning tackling Muslim grooming gangs—arrested Vaughan-Spruce for silent prayer again a few months after her acquittal. She was put through another six months of investigation. Efforts to charge her again were only abandoned after then-Home Secretary Suella Braverman of the then-governing Conservative Party issued draft guidance confirming silent prayer is “not unlawful.”

Vaughan-Spruce’s claims against the police over the arrests and an invasive search have now been settled with a £13,000 (~$17,000) payout.

NOT OVER YET.

“Silent prayer is not a crime. Nobody should be arrested merely for the thoughts they have in their heads—yet this happened to me twice at the hands of the West Midlands Police, who explicitly told me that ‘prayer is an offense,’” Vaughan-Spuce said of her ordeal.

“There is no place for Orwell’s Thought Police in 21st-century Britain… Yet despite this victory, I am deeply concerned,” she continued, warning: “Our culture is shifting towards a clampdown on viewpoint diversity, with Christian thought and prayer increasingly under threat of censorship.”

Since Braverman issued her guidance against arresting Christians for silent prayer, the Conservatives have been replaced in government by Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. Labour is moving to ban silent prayer along with other forms of supposed protest near abortionist clinics, with the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)—which aborts more babies than any other organization in Britain, usually with taxpayer funding—pushing for further restrictions, such as banning Catholics from carrying rosary beads in the vicinity of clinics.

Image by James Chan.

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A pro-life Christian arrested and charged by England's West Midlands Police force has received a payout after being wrongfully detained for praying silently inside her head near an abortion clinic in 2022 and 2023. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce lodged claims for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment against the force, whose officers had told her, "You’ve said you’re engaging in prayer, which is the offense," as they arrested her. show more
August 9, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
1A
Crime
UK

Starmer’s Stasi: Cops Arrest Middle-Aged Woman for ‘Social Media Post Containing Inaccurate Information.’

Police in Cheshire, England, are boasting they have arrested a 55-year-old woman for “a social media post containing inaccurate information.” The post concerned the identity of the alleged mass stabber who targeted young girls in Southport, a migration-background teenager, on July 29. His attack has sparked widespread, sometimes riotous protests against mass migration, and Muslim and far-left counter-demonstrations and violence.

Cheshire Police Chief Superintendent Alison Ross said of the arrest, “It’s a stark reminder of the dangers of posting information on social media platforms without checking the accuracy.”

“It also acts as a warning that we are all accountable for our actions, whether that be online or in person,” she warned.

However, far-left HOPE Not Hate director Nick Lowles has not been arrested for spreading false reports of a Muslim woman being acid attacked during the protests. Nor has Josh Fenton-Glyn, a Member of Parliament (MP) for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer‘s Labour Party, who amplified these false reports and blamed the fictitious attack on the “far right.”

British authorities have vowed to crack down on online speech amid the anti-mass migration protests. Stephen Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales (DPP), warned this week that anyone so much as retweeting “hatred” will be hunted down, and possibly extradited if they are outside Britain.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for England and Wales has also issued statements warning people over “hateful” posts, which they characterize as “online violence.”

“Content that incites violence or hatred isn’t just harmful—it can be illegal,” CPS stated in an Orwellian threat this week.

Jack Montgomery contributed to this report. 

Image by Ivan Radic.

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Police in Cheshire, England, are boasting they have arrested a 55-year-old woman for "a social media post containing inaccurate information." The post concerned the identity of the alleged mass stabber who targeted young girls in Southport, a migration-background teenager, on July 29. His attack has sparked widespread, sometimes riotous protests against mass migration, and Muslim and far-left counter-demonstrations and violence. show more
August 8, 2024
Jack Montgomery
1A
Immigration
UK

‘Think Before You Post’ – British State Brands ‘Hateful’ Posts ‘Online Violence,’ Threatens Prosecutions.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for England and Wales is issuing Orwellian threats to prosecute people for social media posts and even reposts inciting “hatred” amid ongoing anti-mass migration protests, branding them “online violence.”

“Think before you post,” the state prosecutor threatens on social media, warning: “Content that incites violence or hatred isn’t just harmful—it can be illegal.”

“The CPS takes online violence seriously and will prosecute when the legal test is met,” it continues. “Remind those close to you to share responsibly or face the consequences.”

A video accompanying the threat stresses that not only can you be “prosecuted for posting material online which incites violence or hatred,” but “You can also be prosecuted for sharing this material.”

‘SCOURING SOCIAL MEDIA.’

Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales (DPP) Stephen Parkinson—whose role was previously filled by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer—says that “dedicated police officers… are scouring social media,” warning: “Their job is to look for this material and then follow up with identification, arrests, and so forth.”

Britons enjoy no First Amendment-style free speech protections, and prosecutions over, for example, offensive jokes shared in private messages are commonplace.

Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights confers a notional “freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.” However, this is caveated with a warning that the “exercise of these freedoms… may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.”

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for England and Wales is issuing Orwellian threats to prosecute people for social media posts and even reposts inciting "hatred" amid ongoing anti-mass migration protests, branding them "online violence." show more
August 7, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
1A
Health
TECH

Revealed: Biden-Harris DHS Pressured Big Tech to Censor Canadian Freedom Convoy.

A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has shown that the Joe Biden–Kamala Harris regime’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved to censor accounts supporting Canadian truckers’ Freedom Convoy.

Emails from February of 2022 between DHS staff reveal that the Disinformation Governance Board was monitoring the Canadian Freedom Convoy protests and was coordinating with social media companies to censor accounts under the guise of stopping “misinformation.”

Convoy protestors shut down several key border points between the U.S. and Canada, including the Ambassador Bridge, which links Detroit, Michigan, with Windsor, Ontario, and sees the highest amount of trade between the two countries.

The Freedom Convoy protests were largely in response to mandates for vaccines for cross-border truckers but became a general protest against vaccine passports and other COVID-19 restrictions.

Millions of dollars were raised for the convoy, leading to hundreds of Canadians being “debanked” when woke Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act and froze their bank accounts.

The protests coincided with several Canadian provinces dropping various restrictions, including vaccine passports, which had previously banned the unvaccinated from different venues.

Several prominent members of the Freedom Convoy were later charged by the government, including those who took part in protests along the Alberta border at the town of Coutts.

In the Coutts case, prosecutors alleged that the convoy activists plotted to murder police, but all were found not guilty of any such plot.

Image via Wikimedia Commons. 

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A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has shown that the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved to censor accounts supporting Canadian truckers' Freedom Convoy. show more
August 7, 2024
Jack Montgomery
1A
TECH
UK

Chief Prosecutor Warns ‘Dedicated Police Officers’ Are ‘Scouring Social Media’ to Arrest People for Retweets.

Stephen Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales (DPP) under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer—himself a former DPP—warns police officers tasked solely with hunting down people being racially offensive amid the anti-mass migration protests gripping the country, even if all they do is repost others’ content.

“The offense of incitement to racial hatred involves publishing or distributing material which is insulting or abusive, which is intended to or likely to stir up racial hatred,” Parkinson said.

He warned, “If you retweet that, you’re republishing it, and potentially, you’re committing that offense.”

“And we do have dedicated police officers who are scouring social media. Their job is to look for this material and then follow up with identification, arrests, and so forth. So, it’s really, really serious. People might think they’re not doing anything harmful—they are, and the consequences will be visited upon them,” he threatened.

Parkinson has also warned that social media users outside the United Kingdom will also be hunted, particularly if the British state believes their posts are “advancing [an] ideology.”

“We have liaison prosecutors around the globe, who’ve got local links with the local judiciary… We would certainly consider extradition if we are satisfied that an offense has been committed,” he said.

Britain has been rocked by days of sometimes riotous protests following the deadly mass stabbing of several young girls by a migration-background teenager. The authorities have tackled the protestors aggressively—while appeasing violent Muslim counter-demonstrators.

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Stephen Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales (DPP) under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer—himself a former DPP—warns police officers tasked solely with hunting down people being racially offensive amid the anti-mass migration protests gripping the country, even if all they do is repost others' content. show more