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September 26, 2025
Media

Sinclair and Nexstar Break, Add Jimmy Kimmel Back to Lineup.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar have reinstated Jimmy Kimmel Live! after a week-long ban due to false statements Kimmel made regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Jimmy Kimmel, Sinclair Broadcast Group, ABC, Disney, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr, and President Donald J. Trump.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The suspension occurred after Kimmel’s monologue on September 15, with his reinstatement announced on Friday. The show airs on ABC affiliates across the United States.

💬KEY QUOTE: “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man,” Kimmel claimed during his return monologue.

🎯IMPACT: Kimmel’s decision to spread a hoax that Kirk’s alleged assassin was MAGA, rather than a radical leftist, led to calls for accountability within Disney for his actions.

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Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar announced on Friday that they will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel Live! on their ABC affiliates after a week-long ban. The suspension followed remarks by Kimmel spreading disinformation about the assassination of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk. Sinclair, which owns numerous ABC stations across the U.S., stated the decision came after “thoughtful feedback from viewers, advertisers, and community leaders.”

Kimmel returned to air on Tuesday for a number of other ABC affiliates, appearing to express regret for his remarks on Kirk’s murder but not actually apologizing. “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man,” Kimmel claimed.

The backlash began after Kimmel’s September 15 monologue, in which he criticized President Donald J. Trump and his allies for their reactions to Kirk’s assassination and claimed the far-left alleged killer was actually a MAGA movement member. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr, appointed by Trump, suggested during a podcast interview that ABC’s broadcast license could be revoked. In response, Sinclair and Nexstar Media Group temporarily pulled Kimmel’s show from their stations, with ABC as a whole following.

Disney, ABC’s parent company, announced Kimmel’s return on Monday, though Sinclair and Nexstar initially maintained their blackout. Sinclair had called for “accountability” within Disney.

President Trump criticized ABC’s decision to reinstate Kimmel, writing on Truth Social, “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back.”

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September 23, 2025
William Upton
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Google to Reinstate YouTube Accounts Banned for Political Speech.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Google said YouTube will allow permanently banned accounts, including those censored for political speech, to seek reinstatement, acknowledging prior pressure from the Biden government to suspend the accounts over COVID-19 pandemic content.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Google/Alphabet, YouTube, the House Judiciary Committee, Dan Bongino, Sebastian Gorka, Stephen K. Bannon, and the former Biden government.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Announced Tuesday in a document provided to the House Judiciary Committee; applies platform-wide on YouTube.

💬KEY QUOTE: “Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect,” Google wrote to the House Judiciary Committee.

🎯IMPACT: Potential return of high-profile conservative creators; broader shift away from pandemic-era moderation; renewed scrutiny of alleged government jawboning undermining the First Amendment.

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Google announced on Tuesday that it will reinstate YouTube accounts that had previously been permanently banned over political speech under pressure from the former Biden government. A number of YouTube creators received bans or suspensions for refusing to remove COVID-19 pandemic content that Biden officials claimed to be disinformation.

The announcement by the Big Tech giant—also known as Alphabet—was contained in a legal document detailing the company’s new policy, which was sent to the House Judiciary Committee. The change impacts potentially thousands of users, including prominent supporters of President Donald J. Trump like Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States Sebastian Gorka, and WarRoom host Stephen K. Bannon.

“Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect,” Google wrote to the House Judiciary Committee.

In 2022, Google permanently banned Bongino from YouTube, resulting in the now-Deputy FBI Director taking his political talk radio program to YouTube competitor Rumble. Bongino ended his radio show earlier this year after his appointment by President Trump to the FBI.

According to Google, it “values conservative voices on its [YouTube] platform” and stated that conservative content creators “have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse.” In addition, the company detailed how it was pressured by Biden White House staffers to censor conservative content, especially relating to what they claimed was disinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The document states that while Google did remove some content independent of requests by the former Biden government, it has now ended those policies as well.

“Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies,” Google acknowledged, adding that the Biden White House “created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation.”

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September 16, 2025
William Upton
Lawfare

Biden’s Disinformation Czar Loses Defamation Case.

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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Former Biden government disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz has officially lost her long-shot defamation lawsuit against Fox News, after an attempt to appeal a lower ruling to dismiss the case failed.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Nina Jankowicz, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and Fox News.

📍WHEN & WHERE: Monday, September 15, 2025.

💬KEY QUOTE: “I’m writing with bad news: my appeal of the lower court’s decision to grant Fox’s motion to dismiss was not successful. This marks the end of my defamation suit against Fox, but not the end of my fight for the truth.” — Nina Jankowicz

🎯IMPACT: While it is unclear—other than attorney’s fees—what additional legal or financial exposure Jankowicz has, she has informed her readers that she’s renaming her GoFundMe page to the “Nina Jankowicz Legal Fund” even though it appears to still be just a standard GoFundMe and not a formally filed Legal Defense Fund.

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Former Biden government disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz has officially lost her long-shot defamation lawsuit against Fox News, after an attempt to appeal a lower ruling to dismiss the case failed. Jankowicz, a former official with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) who oversaw efforts to root out supposed “disinformation” in the media, attempted to sue the Fox News network, alleging they had defamed her in their description of her work and the circumstances of her removal from DHS.

“I’m writing with bad news: my appeal of the lower court’s decision to grant Fox’s motion to dismiss was not successful. This marks the end of my defamation suit against Fox, but not the end of my fight for the truth,” Jankowicz wrote in a post on Substack, going on to engage in an astounding degree of legal disinformation herself: “Since I resigned my appointment at DHS 40 months ago, I have become well-acquainted with an American justice system that too often protects offenders instead of victims. It is a justice system that, in this crucial moment, doesn’t seem capable of reconciling decades-old precedent with the realities of violent political rhetoric in the digital age.”

Notably, Jankowicz attempts to skirt the fact that she, as a former government official, is a public figure and the legal bar to defamation is far higher, due to long-standing court precedents to ensure the protection of First Amendment rights. However, Jankowicz continues her play for pitty, arguing: “As the nation reels from the highest profile political assassination in decades, following a year of other high profile acts of political violence, it’s hard not to interpret the Third Circuit’s decision as a shrug: to the suffering Fox’s coverage caused me, to the suffering the network’s lies have caused others, and to our suffering democracy, abdicating the role the courts might play in healing our poisoned political discourse.”

Humorously, given that the court merely upheld long-standing precedent, the former Executive Director of the Disinformation Governance Board at DHS, sometimes dubbed the Ministry of Truth, dabbbles in her own ‘disinformation,’ claiming: “The court has effectively given permission for pundits to baselessly declare open season on people with whom they disagree, making it almost impossible for anyone to serve their country without the fear of being tarred and feathered by a powerful cable news channel with a rabidly devoted audience.”

While it is unclear—other than attorney’s fees—what additional legal or financial exposure Jankowicz has, she has informed her readers that she is renaming her GoFundMe page to the “Nina Jankowicz Legal Fund” even though it appears to still be just a standard GoFundMe and not a formally filed Legal Defense Fund.

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August 7, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
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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
July 4, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Election 2024

ICYMI: Karine Jean-Pierre Implies Any Videos Exposing Biden’s Infirmities Are ‘Cheap Fakes.’

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre implied during the press briefing on Tuesday that any video exposing Joe Biden‘s cognitive decline or physical infirmities is a “cheap fake.” Jean-Pierre first used the term “cheap fake” last month, attacking videos exposing Biden’s declining mental state on social media as “disinformation.”

When pressed if she regretted using the term “cheap fakes” to delegitimize criticism of Biden‘s declining cognitive state, the White House Press Secretary doubled down. She accused a “certain part of the media”—meaning independent and conservative-leaning press—of pushing “cheap fakes.”

“Independent, mainstream fact-checkers in the press and misinformation experts have been calling out cheap fakes,” Jean-Pierre claimed, insisting: “at the end of the day, they’re fakes—that’s what they were.”

“Targeting the President, they have said—the reporters and these misinformation experts—said that this President was being targeted, and what we did was echo them. That’s what we did,” Jean-Pierre argued, implying that any video exposing Biden’s cognitive decline is disinformation.

The Caribbean French official has been highly defensive regarding Biden’s mental condition, hanging up on a reporter in March when she was asked about the President’s mental faculties and whether he shows symptoms of dementia.

During last week’s presidential debate, the 81-year-old appeared cognitively impaired. He often contradicted himself and at times offered nonsensical responses to moderator questions. In the aftermath, many Democrats admitted the debate performance was a disaster.

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre implied during the press briefing on Tuesday that any video exposing Joe Biden's cognitive decline or physical infirmities is a "cheap fake." Jean-Pierre first used the term "cheap fake" last month, attacking videos exposing Biden's declining mental state on social media as "disinformation." show more
May 6, 2024
William Upton
Media

EXC: U.S. State Media DELETES Pro-Biden ‘Fact Check’ After Rep. Gaetz Exposes Propaganda in National Pulse Exclusive.

The taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) media outlet has removed a post that spread Biden government disinformation against Representative Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) investigation into the status of U.S. troops stationed in Niger, The National Pulse can reveal.

On April 26, The National Pulse was also first to report on a letter Rep. Gaetz sent to VOA’s acting director, John Lippman, demanding they remove a post that insinuated the Florida Republican’s Niger report was Russian disinformation.

“Our Polygraph.info post concerned the article from BreakThrough News in which you were quoted and not your quote itself. That is why our reporter did not call your office,” acting director Lippman wrote in a letter responding to Gaetz. Despite initially trying to cover for his taxpayer-funded organization’s mistake, Lippman conceded: “In hindsight, we should have. We did not intend the story to be accusatory of you and apologize if you felt that it was.”

“We have removed the post from our website and will be taking corrective action so that our writing is more specific when calling into question the content of published reports,” the VOA acting director continued. He concluded: “We don’t want people who may be quoted in the original articles to be inadvertently tarred with the same brush.”

The post is now simply a blank page that reads, “The story at this URL is undergoing further editing.

While the concession from VOA marks a win for rolling back government agencies and publicly-funded programs that spread Biden regime propaganda, it does fall short of addressing some of Rep. Gaetz‘s specific objections. Lippman does not acknowledge the fact that VOA made claims stating the State Department and Pentagon have been engaged in “continuing talks” with the Niger government, something the Congressman’s investigation found to be false.

Additionally, the letter did not address his outlet’s false denial of poor equipment conditions and lack of troop rotations for American soldiers stationed in the African country.

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The taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) media outlet has removed a post that spread Biden government disinformation against Representative Matt Gaetz's (R-FL) investigation into the status of U.S. troops stationed in Niger, The National Pulse can reveal. show more
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April 26, 2024
William Upton
Exclusive

EXC: Gaetz Uncovers How YOUR Cash is Funding Biden Regime Disinfo.

Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) says the taxpayer-funded international news outlet Voice of America (VOA) is promoting disinformation against publicly elected U.S. officials—including himself—through its “fact-checking” site Polygraph.info. In a letter to the Biden government-backed news outlet’s acting director, John Lippman, the Florida Republican details how VOA broke their own “Journalistic Code” in publishing their attack on him.

“The VOA has a clear ‘Journalistic Code,’ a public statement of its alleged principles, which were clearly violated in this case, and I ask you to take down this demonstrably false “fact check” by Polygraph.info,” Rep. Gaetz wrote to Lippman. He continued: “In fact, the sources you do cite in the piece, contrary to your Journalistic Code, clearly do not have firsthand knowledge of the facts on the ground, and worse, you don’t report any disagreement here.”

Last week, Rep. Gaetz published a detailed report on the current status of American troops in the African country of Niger. The Congressman conducted multiple interviews with U.S. active-duty personnel stationed in the county who outlined the deteriorating state of equipment and resources.

“Since the U.S.-trained Nigerien coup leaders took control of the country in mid-2023, there has been a cessation of diplomatic overflights. This has left the Department of Defense unable to execute planned troop rotations, in addition to being unable to deliver critical medical supplies, equipment, and other routine materials,” Gaetz reported in his investigation into the matter.

According to the Congressman, Polygraph.info‘s published “fact check” claims there are “continuing talks” between U.S. and Niger officials, which Gaetz details as categorically false. Additionally, Gaetz informs Lippman that no one from Polygraph.info ever contacted his office regarding the “fact check.”

“At root, I find it amazing that the U.S. government is paying an entity to put out misinformation about U.S. policy and labeling that propaganda outfit as a “fact checking” organization. Do better,” Gaetz concludes. The Congressman asks Lippman to respond by May 1, 2024, and remove the false Polygraph.info “fact check.”

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Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) says the taxpayer-funded international news outlet Voice of America (VOA) is promoting disinformation against publicly elected U.S. officials—including himself—through its "fact-checking" site Polygraph.info. In a letter to the Biden government-backed news outlet's acting director, John Lippman, the Florida Republican details how VOA broke their own "Journalistic Code" in publishing their attack on him. show more
April 23, 2024
William Upton
1A

Biden’s Failed Censorship Czar Nina Jankowicz Now Runs a Think-Tank Named After a Venomous Snake.

Nina Jankowicz, the former and brief executive director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Disinformation Governance Board, has a new non-profit group called the American Sunlight Project (ASP). The group aims to combat what it believes is a concerted campaign by conservatives to target and discredit disinformation researchers like Jankowicz. The former DHS employee was the subject of blistering criticism in 2022 over her embrace of pro-Biden government propaganda narratives on social media.

The new organization, led by Jankowicz and Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos, has hit the ground running — already accusing several House Republican committee chairmen of using their constitutional subpoena power to silence think tanks and disinformation researchers. “These tactics echo the dark days of McCarthyism, but with a frightening 21st-century twist,” Jaknowicz and Álvarez-Aranyos wrote in a letter published yesterday, leveling a series of hyperbolic accusations against House Republican leaders.

Despite her concerns about ongoing disinformation operations, Jankowicz participated in at least two such initiatives herself in 2020.

The former DHS employee publicly praised the discredited Steele dossier author, Christopher Steele, on social media. After an appearance by the British spy on the Infotagion podcast, Jankowicz posted to X (formerly Twitter), “Listened to this last night — Chris Steele (yes THAT Chris Steele) provides some great historical context about the evolution of disinfo. Worth a listen.” The alleged disinformation expert also dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop — confirmed by the Department of Justice and FBI as authentic — as “a Russian influence op.”

The American Sunlight Project–whose acronym ASP recalls the name of several venomous snake species found in the Nile region of Africa and the European vipera aspis — has a board comprised of several notable figures — including NeverTrumper Katie Harbath, a former Facebook executive and Republican operative; Ineke Mushovic, who leads a think tank that tracks “threats to democracy” and gay, lesbian, transgender movements; and Benjamin Wittes, the resident Deep State apologist at the Brookings Institute, which was primarily backed by the government of Qatar until 2017.

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Nina Jankowicz, the former and brief executive director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s Disinformation Governance Board, has a new non-profit group called the American Sunlight Project (ASP). The group aims to combat what it believes is a concerted campaign by conservatives to target and discredit disinformation researchers like Jankowicz. The former DHS employee was the subject of blistering criticism in 2022 over her embrace of pro-Biden government propaganda narratives on social media. show more
April 19, 2024
William Upton
Corruption
Media

Wikipedia Founder Says Website Is Corrupted By NPR’s Katherine Maher, Who May Have Worked With Intel Agencies.

Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, says the massive open-source online encyclopedia is likely ideologically corrupted due to the efforts of its former chief executive, Katherine Maher. Maher led the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the online resource, before she was hired as the CEO of NPR.

“For the ex-CEO of Wikipedia to say that it was somehow a mistake for Wikipedia to be ‘free and open,’ that it led to bad consequences—my jaw is on the floor,” Sanger told the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher F. Rufo. He added: “I can’t say I’m terribly surprised that she thinks it, but I am surprised that she would say it.”

Maher, during her tenure as the head of the Wikimedia Foundation, told the Atlantic Council that she “took a very active approach to disinformation” and “through conversations with government” targeted what she deemed misinformation. Sanger, responding to Maher‘s claim, acknowledged that she likely worked with U.S. intelligence agencies to suppress political dissenters.

‘PROBABLY THE CIA.’

“We know that there is a lot of backchannel communication and I think it has to be the case that the Wikimedia Foundation now, probably governments, probably the CIA, have accounts that they control, in which they actually exert their influence,” Sanger said, continuing: “And it’s fantastic, in a bad way, that she actually comes out against the system for being ‘free and open.'”

He added, regarding the state of Wikipedia: “When she says that she’s worked with government to shut down what they consider ‘misinformation,’ that, in itself, means that it’s no longer free and open.”

Sanger lamented Wikipedia’s ideological capture, telling Rufo: “[It] has not just been taken over by the Left, but that it has been co-opted by and working with the government, is just—that’s not a thing I would’ve imagined happening 20 years ago.”

Concerns regarding Maher’s ideological bias and the Left’s capture of important media institutions were first raised by former NPR editor Uri Berliner. The veteran journalist resigned from the taxpayer-funded media outlet yesterday after being suspended by Maher.

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Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, says the massive open-source online encyclopedia is likely ideologically corrupted due to the efforts of its former chief executive, Katherine Maher. Maher led the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees the online resource, before she was hired as the CEO of NPR. show more