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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
August 2, 2024
William Upton
1A
Politics
TECH

REPORT: Feds Gave Billions to International Advertiser Group Censoring Conservatives.

A new report reveals the Biden-Harris government has funneled billions of dollars to an international group that has demanded the censorship of conservative voices on social media. According to the evidence released by the Foundation for Freedom Online, the U.S. federal government has underwritten—using taxpayer dollars—the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), which has actively pushed for the censorship of right-leaning media since 2019.

GARM was created as an initiative of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which controls roughly 90 percent of advertiser spending worldwide. Four advertising agencies—IPG, Omnicom, WPP, and the Publicis Groupe—are responsible for GARM’s push for censorship. It is also through these agencies that GARM has been funneled U.S. taxpayer dollars.

IPG holds over $1.5 billion in government contracts with the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Defense (DOD). Omnicom holds roughly $5 billion in contracts with the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Meanwhile, WPP has earned $455 million from work done with the U.S. Navy. Additionally, Publicis Groupe has a $394.2 million contract with HHS.

GARM’S CENSORSHIP CAMPAIGN.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee produced a report on Thursday detailing how GARM harnessed its control over Internet advertising revenue to pressure social media platforms—like X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook—to censor dissident speech and voices on the political right. In the case of X, GARM members claim they were able to severely impact advertiser money that the company’s earnings came in 80 percent below projections.

Another GARM target has been Spotify. The group pressured the podcast and music platform to drop its biggest subscriber draw, Joe Rogan, over various comments the entertainer has made, especially criticism of government policies regarding COVID-19. GARM targeted Spotify advertisers like Coca-Cola, warning the company that Rogan and his comments were “a major area of concern.”

In addition to targeting social media platforms, GARM has also targeted right-leaning media directly. The group has tried to drive advertisers away from news websites like Breitbart and The Daily Wire. This campaign appears to have been coordinated with the global censorship group NewsGuard.

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A new report reveals the Biden-Harris government has funneled billions of dollars to an international group that has demanded the censorship of conservative voices on social media. According to the evidence released by the Foundation for Freedom Online, the U.S. federal government has underwritten—using taxpayer dollars—the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), which has actively pushed for the censorship of right-leaning media since 2019. show more
July 30, 2024
1A
News

Professor Wins $2.4M Settlement After Criticizing DEI.

A professor from Bakersfield College has reached a $2.4 million settlement following a legal dispute concerning his questioning of grant funds used for social justice initiatives at the institution. Matthew Garrett, who was a tenured history professor at the California community college, will receive a total of $2,245,480 broken out in monthly payments over the next 20 years and an immediate lump sum of $154,520 as back pay and medical benefits, according to the settlement agreement dated July 10.

As part of the settlement, Garrett has resigned from his position within the Kern Community College District, which includes Bakersfield College, among several other schools. Additionally, the district has agreed to withdraw and seal all accusations of “unprofessional conduct” against him.

Garrett declined to discuss the specifics of the settlement but commented on the events leading up to it. “After five years of administrative misconduct, a decisive courtroom display exonerated me of all allegations and exposed that Kern Community College District engaged in flagrant retaliation for my questioning of partisan policies and wasteful expenditures,” he stated in a recent interview. Facing a likely adverse ruling and potential multimillion-dollar damages, the district opted for a settlement, he explained.

The conflict dates back to at least 2019, when Garrett defended free speech on campus and criticized grant funds earmarked for social justice agendas. Accusations of fiscal impropriety led to administrative action against him. In 2021, Garrett and colleague Professor Erin Miller, who faced similar accusations, filed a federal lawsuit alleging violations of their civil and First Amendment rights and academic freedom by the college district.

Garrett noted that despite the resolution of his case, Miller continues to face retaliatory actions, including class cancellations. Garrett has decided to withdraw from the shared federal lawsuit to allow Miller to pursue her claims independently.

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A professor from Bakersfield College has reached a $2.4 million settlement following a legal dispute concerning his questioning of grant funds used for social justice initiatives at the institution. Matthew Garrett, who was a tenured history professor at the California community college, will receive a total of $2,245,480 broken out in monthly payments over the next 20 years and an immediate lump sum of $154,520 as back pay and medical benefits, according to the settlement agreement dated July 10. show more
July 30, 2024
1A
TECH

Facebook Admits Wrongfully Censoring Iconic Trump Assassination Attempt Photo.

Facebook has admitted to wrongfully censoring an iconic photograph of former President Donald J. Trump moments after the July 13 attempt on his life. The image, captured by an Associated Press photographer, depicts Trump with a bloodied face and raised fist, with the American flag flying behind him. Facebook fact-checkers had been flagging the photo, claiming it was altered.

Facebook contends the censorship was supposed to target a manipulated version of the image, which falsely showed Secret Service agents smiling as they surrounded Trump. However, the original, authentic photograph was also censored.

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, acknowledged the supposed mistake following public backlash. Communications Director Dani Lever stated, “This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the Secret Service agents smiling, and in some cases, our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake.”

Facebook uses third-party fact-checkers and artificial intelligence (AI) software to monitor and control content on its platform. According to Meta, AI is used “to scale the work of fact-checkers by applying warning labels to duplicates of false claims and reducing their distribution.”

Meta and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has engaged in extensive election interference in the U.S., mostly through the funding of the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). Meanwhile, a report issued in April found that Facebook has directly interfered with and attempted to influence American elections 39 times since 2008.

In March, The National Pulse reported that an AI system deployed in Washington state erroneously flagged factually true stories as misinformation.

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Facebook has admitted to wrongfully censoring an iconic photograph of former President Donald J. Trump moments after the July 13 attempt on his life. The image, captured by an Associated Press photographer, depicts Trump with a bloodied face and raised fist, with the American flag flying behind him. Facebook fact-checkers had been flagging the photo, claiming it was altered. show more
germany
July 17, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
1A
Media
World

Government Bans Pro-Trump Magazine for Criticizing Multiculturalism.

Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has unilaterally banned the right-wing, pro-Donald J. Trump Compact Magazin, accusing the publication of fostering “hatred” of migrants and ethnic diversity. “The ban shows that we are also taking action against the intellectual arsonists who stir up a climate of hatred and violence against refugees and migrants and want to overcome our democratic state,” Minister Faeser said.

“Our signal is very clear: We will not allow ethnic definitions of who belongs to Germany and who does not,” she added.

Several people associated with the magazine, including publisher Jürgen Elsässer, had their homes raided following the ban on July 16. Police also seized the magazine’s assets.

Compact is well-known for its links to the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which lawmakers in Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, are also trying to get banned. The magazine is also noted for being skeptical of Western involvement in the Ukraine war, blaming NATO expansion for the conflict.

Brandenburg state interior minister Michael Stübgen, a member of the so-called “center-right” Christian Democratic Union (CDU) formerly led by Angela Merkel, has said all of Compact‘s social media channels will be scrubbed from the Internet, with their content deleted and revenue confiscated.

Earlier this year, Minister Faeser, who previously wrote for far-left Antifa publications, announced the government would be banning anyone declared a far-right extremist from owning firearms. The government will also trace people who donate to allegedly far-right individuals and groups.

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Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has unilaterally banned the right-wing, pro-Donald J. Trump Compact Magazin, accusing the publication of fostering "hatred" of migrants and ethnic diversity. "The ban shows that we are also taking action against the intellectual arsonists who stir up a climate of hatred and violence against refugees and migrants and want to overcome our democratic state," Minister Faeser said. show more