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united nations
August 30, 2023
Jake Welch
Media
News
World

UN Launches ‘Digital Army’ To ‘Combat Disinfo’, Push ‘Agenda 2030’

The United Nations (UN) has announced a ‘digital army’ to combat misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, admitting to having monitored the internet in recent years as it continues to push for “progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),” comprising seventeen long-term global aims known as “Agenda 2030,” which is being used by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to advance what it calls the “Great Reset.”

The UN launched its digital army at a workshop in the Democratic Republic of Congo in July this year, recruiting 30 people as young as 15 to search the internet and various social media platforms for what the UN considers false information and use their “fake news detection techniques… to attack the viral false information.” The organization taught the recruits how to process information and disseminate it through UN-sponsored channels, providing them with smartphones equipped with editing software.

The UN launched further initiatives across the world, such as hosting an anti-disinformation blogger festival in Mali, though was quickly asked to cease its efforts by the Malian government. The UN also launched a radio station called the “Voice of Peace” in both Sudan and South Sudan aimed at countering fake news.

“It has become clear that business as usual is not an option,” announced the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres regarding information integrity on digital platforms.

“The ability to disseminate large-scale disinformation to undermine scientifically established facts poses an existential risk to humanity and endangers democratic institutions and fundamental human rights,” he added.

The WEF announced earlier this year that it is cooperating alongside the UN to accelerate the implementation of Agenda 2030 after progress was halted by “unforeseen setbacks” due to the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, among other things.

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The United Nations (UN) has announced a 'digital army' to combat misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, admitting to having monitored the internet in recent years as it continues to push for "progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)," comprising seventeen long-term global aims known as "Agenda 2030," which is being used by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to advance what it calls the "Great Reset." show more
trump
August 24, 2023
Breaking

BREAKING: Trump Makes Dramatic Return to Twitter (X).

Former President Donald J. Trump has made a stunning return to X (formerly Twitter), posting a link to his own website alongside the already notorious mugshot of himself taken at Fulton County jail late on Thursday.

Trump’s campaign also lists a new “NEVER SURRENDER” shirt, riffing off Sir Winston Churchill’s infamous “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech.

This story is developing.

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Former President Donald J. Trump has made a stunning return to X (formerly Twitter), posting a link to his own website alongside the already notorious mugshot of himself taken at Fulton County jail late on Thursday. show more

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“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old
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“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old show more
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wapo
August 15, 2023
Raheem J. Kassam
News
TECH

WaPo Bemoans Big Tech Bias After Years of Cheering It On.

Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post, which for years has mocked conservatives for alleging Big Tech biases against them, is now bemoaning what they claim is an effort by Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) to limit web traffic to corporate media outlets. On Tuesday, WaPo claimed: “The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times, Facebook and other sites Musk commonly attacks”.

But one of article’s authors, Drew Harwell, has cheered on Twitter’s suppression of conservative voices, with WaPo routinely lampooning conservatives, including then-President Donald J. Trump, for raising the matter of Big Tech bias. The site published the following in 2019:

“Conservatives long have claimed that major social-media sites exhibit political bias, pointing to Silicon Valley’s liberal leanings and regular contributions to Democrats. Beyond that, however, experts have said there is no evidence that Facebook, Google and Twitter have deliberately sought to limit the reach of Republicans, a message that tech giants in attendance on Wednesday emphasized.”

There was, in fact, a mountain of evidence.

Another article boosted then-Twitter’s denial of “shadow-banning” – a practice most knew was used against conservatives, which briefly ended under Musk before his World Economic Forum-linked CEO Linda Yaccarino effectively reinstated it under a “freedom of speech, not freedom of reach” policy. Another WaPo piece gave cover to Twitter in 2019 for its inherent biases.

In fact, a cursory glance through the Washington Post‘s own site search function reveals dozens if not hundreds of articles cheering on the censorship of conservatives, or Trump himself, with one declaring: “Twitter’s Trump ban is even more important than you thought” and another which says Twitter actually went “easy” on Trump, despite banning the President.

On January 8th, 2021, WaPo columnist Graham Lampa declared: “Donald Trump’s Twitter account should belong to all of us,” making the case for some kind of public ownership of the property. Instead, it seems, it is the Washington Post that has been owned.

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Jeff Bezos's Washington Post, which for years has mocked conservatives for alleging Big Tech biases against them, is now bemoaning what they claim is an effort by Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) to limit web traffic to corporate media outlets. On Tuesday, WaPo claimed: "The site formerly known as Twitter has added a five-second delay when a user clicks on a shortened link to the New York Times, Facebook and other sites Musk commonly attacks". show more
lawful but awful
August 10, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News
TECH

WEF CEO Says SHE Runs Twitter (X), Not Elon, & Introduces Censorious ‘Labeling’ of ‘Lawful But Awful’ Users.

Linda Yaccarino, the World Economic Forum (WEF) former NBC executive hired by Elon Musk as CEO of Twitter, now X, has boasted that she, not Musk, is in charge of the site, with the South African billionaire banished to the tech team. Yaccarino also boasted that X now has a “freedom of speech not freedom of reach” policy which “labels” users for posting unapproved narratives, then demonetizes them and limits their exposure.

“Mine and Elon’s roles are very clear,” she said in a CNBC interview Thursday, describing Musk’s area of responsibility as “product design” at the head of “a team of extraordinary engineers [focusing] on new technology.”

Asked about the company’s so-called “hate speech” policies, Yaccarino said: “It goes back to my point about our success with freedom of speech, not reach… If it is lawful but it’s awful, it’s extraordinarily difficult for you to see it.”

Yaccarino has hired fellow ex-NBC executive and drag queen enthusiast Joe Benarroch, who was involved in censoring anti-illegal immigration adverts by Donald Trump at the network, to assist her at X.

WATCH: 

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Linda Yaccarino, the World Economic Forum (WEF) former NBC executive hired by Elon Musk as CEO of Twitter, now X, has boasted that she, not Musk, is in charge of the site, with the South African billionaire banished to the tech team. Yaccarino also boasted that X now has a "freedom of speech not freedom of reach" policy which "labels" users for posting unapproved narratives, then demonetizes them and limits their exposure. show more
segregated social media
August 9, 2023
Jake Welch
News
TECH

‘Separate, But Equal’ – WaPo Wants Segregated Social Media for Black Americans.

The Washington Post is pushing for racially segregated social media use, suggesting Elon Musk’s takeover of ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) has given rise to a drastic increase in hate speech and racism directed at black Americans from so-called ‘right-wing and extremist accounts.’

An “exodus” of black Twitter users allegedly began after Musk opened up freedom of expression on the platform and removed X’s former content moderation against “misinformation, hate speech, and other harmful content,” the Bezos-owned paper claims, parroting the argument of a BBC reporter who previously made unsubstantiated claims of “hate speech” on Twitter to Musk.

“What Elon’s purchase of Twitter has successfully done is create a hostile environment for [Black] folks who were meeting in good faith, to connect and find community,” told Meredith Clark, professor of associate journalism at Northeastern University, to the newspaper.

The result has been to make – what the WaPo terms – “Black Twitter” a “digital diaspora” that requires another social media platform to launch social movements, such as Black Lives Matter.

Some of the potential new platforms for Black Twitter include recently-launched Threads, left-wing journalist favorite Mastodon, the “safety focused” Spoutable, Fanbase, and Spill, which has gained more than 100,000 users and aims to moderate potentially harmful content to the black community by “people and by algorithms trained to pick up on keywords.”

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The Washington Post is pushing for racially segregated social media use, suggesting Elon Musk's takeover of 'X' (formerly Twitter) has given rise to a drastic increase in hate speech and racism directed at black Americans from so-called 'right-wing and extremist accounts.' show more
facebook
August 7, 2023
William Upton
News

Biden WH Told Facebook to Boost Globalist News Orgs in Algorithm.

The Biden White House is under fire for asking social media giant ‘Meta’ to show preferential treatment to regime-loyal news outlets like the New York Times by boosting their visibility via Facebooks’s algorithm.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) laid out a number of startling revelations regarding interactions between Biden political appointees and employees at Facebook that range from requests to suppress the visibility of independent and conservative-leaning news outlets to asking the social media company to push Biden’s talking points into user feeds if they made disagreeable posts or comments.

Chairman Jordan stated in a thread on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter): “These newly subpoenaed meeting notes continue to show the Biden White House’s desire to direct and control content on Facebook. More evidence of the censorship-industrial complex. To be continued…”

The newest revelations regarding collusion between the White House and Facebook come on the heels of the Biden government being barred by a federal judge from communicating about ‘content moderation’ with several social media companies including Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube.

In response to the latest revelations from Chairman Jordan, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) stated: “More evidence that we need the Free Speech Protection Act! The time has come for resistance and to reclaim our God-given right to free expression. Under my Free Speech Protection Act the government will no longer be able to cloak itself in secrecy to undermine the First Amendment rights of Americans.”

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The Biden White House is under fire for asking social media giant 'Meta' to show preferential treatment to regime-loyal news outlets like the New York Times by boosting their visibility via Facebooks's algorithm. show more
social
July 10, 2023
Jake Welch
News
World

EU: Sanctions for Social Firms That Aid Public Revolts.

Social media companies will be hit with sanctions next month if they fail to remove ‘problematic content’ during riots under the European Union (EU)’s new content law, according to the French EU Internal Markets Commissioner Thierry Breton.

A total of 19 online platforms, including TikTok, Twitter, and Snapchat, must comply with government regulations aiming that claim to reduce illegal or harmful content spreading online. If they fail to do so, they risk being fined up to six percent of their annual income.

“When there is hateful content, content that calls – for example – for revolt, that also calls for killing and burning of cars, they will be required to delete [the content] immediately,” Breton argued during an interview on Monday.

“If they fail to do so, they will be immediately sanctioned. We have teams who can intervene immediately… “If they don’t act immediately, then yes, at that point we’ll be able not only to impose a fine but also to ban the operation [of the platforms] on our territory,” he added.

These measures follow a week of mass rioting and destruction – “unparalleled” since the French Revolution in 1789 – across France following the death of Nahel M. As a result, French President Emmanuel Macron announced last week that he considered removing French people’s access to social media platforms to pacify the riots.

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Social media companies will be hit with sanctions next month if they fail to remove 'problematic content' during riots under the European Union (EU)'s new content law, according to the French EU Internal Markets Commissioner Thierry Breton. show more
July 6, 2023
Jack Montgomery
News

Judge: Biden WH Must STOP Pressuring Social Media Firms to Censor Opponents.

Federal Judge Terry A. Doughty has ordered several arms of President Joe Biden’s government, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS), to immediately cease communications with social media platforms for “the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.”

The Louisiana-based judge issued the ruling after Republican attorneys-general for the state, alongside Missouri, complained the federal government was using its influence to censor dissidents.

“If the allegations made by plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history,” said Judge Doughty, adding that they were “likely to succeed on the merits in establishing that the government has used its power to silence the opposition.”

Public records requests recently revealed that the federal government collaborated with foreign-born ‘Never Trump’ billionaire Pierre Omidyar to establish a so-called Misinformation Reporting Portal (MiRP) for social media. This was used by a “coalition of liberal-leaning research groups” including the Democratic National Committee to to flag predominantly conservative accounts, with 61 percent of reports being actioned.

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Federal Judge Terry A. Doughty has ordered several arms of President Joe Biden's government, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS), to immediately cease communications with social media platforms for "the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech." show more
france
July 6, 2023
Jake Welch
News

France Mulls National Social Media Censorship to Stop Riots.

French President Emmanuel Macron is considering the removal of French people’s access to social media platforms, including TikTok and Snapchat, in an effort to pacify out-of-control riots through suppressing the free flow of information.

Macron, who has already blamed social media and video games for intensifying the ongoing French riots, told a gathering of 250 mayors from across the country: “We need to think about the use of these networks by the youth … and about the bans that need to be put in place. And I say this very clearly, because they change the way young people relate to reality.”

“And [we need to think about] the decisions we make, including administrative decisions, when things get out of hand, so that at some point we can say we’re in a position to regulate or cut them off,” the French President added.

The announcement was met with outrage from across the political spectrum, with his own party members irate over the matter. Eric Bothorel, a member of Macron’s Renaissance party, tweeted: “This would mean abandoning the idea that democracy is stronger than the tools used against it. That would be a mistake.”

The riots in France began after Nahel M, a 17-year-old with a migrant background, was shot by the police in the Paris suburb of Nanterre last Tuesday. A fundraiser for the policeman raised $1.75M dollars before being shut down.

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French President Emmanuel Macron is considering the removal of French people's access to social media platforms, including TikTok and Snapchat, in an effort to pacify out-of-control riots through suppressing the free flow of information. show more