Joe Biden has put the former White House official who spearheaded an unlawful social media censorship effort in charge of an anti-“misinformation” operation involving hundreds of staff and volunteers. They will be tasked with monitoring online platforms.
Rob Flaherty was instrumental in the Biden regime’s campaign to pressure social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter (now X) to censor the likes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tucker Carlson, and generally restrict the speech of Americans expressing lawfully-held opinions online.
The courts ruled the pressure campaign violated the First Amendment after a case brought by the attorneys general for Missouri and Louisiana, with a judge deeming it “arguably… the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.”
Nevertheless, President Biden continued to praise and promote Flaherty, and his elevation to a new “misinfo” role on his reelection campaign suggests he is likely to redouble his efforts, this time in a notionally party political capacity rather than a governmental one.
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Joe Biden has put the former White House official who spearheaded an unlawful social media censorship effort in charge of an anti-"misinformation" operation involving hundreds of staff and volunteers. They will be tasked with monitoring online platforms.
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Hackers have taken control of Donald Trump Jr.’s account on X (formerly Twitter), claiming his father has died and that he will be running for the presidency in his stead.
The National Pulse confirmed with Donald Trump Jr’s team that the account is hacked and that the claim is false.
The hackers followed up the post with several others, including one saying “Fuck @JoeBiden Stupid Ass N*gga” – possibly in an attempt to get the account banned.
As of 9am EST, the account had been restored to Donald Trump Jr’s control.
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Hackers have taken control of Donald Trump Jr.'s account on X (formerly Twitter), claiming his father has died and that he will be running for the presidency in his stead.
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The hashtag ‘#BanTheADL’ trended on X (formerly Twitter) this weekend, with users calling for the removal of the far-left Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as its chief, Jonathan Greenblatt, pushed for more restrictions on free speech.
Greenblatt, a former White House special assistant to Barack Obama, boasted on X of his “very frank + productive conversation with [X CEO Linda Yaccarino] yesterday about X, what works and what doesn’t, and where it needs to go to address hate effectively on the platform… [The ADL] will be vigilant and give her and [Elon Musk] credit if the service gets better…and reserve the right to call them out until it does.”
His post has been viewed over 4.3 million times as of Monday morning, but received only 144 reposts and 361 likes. The vast majority of engagement was negative, with over 89,000 people posting the #BanTheADL hashtag in response to his anti-free speech lobbying.
X owner Elon Musk responded to the controversy by proposing a user referendum on whether the ADL should be banned: “[The] ADL has tried very hard to strangle X/Twitter,” Musk wrote. “Perhaps we should run a poll on this.”
The ADL has become infamous for its hostility towards conservatives, and is accused of regularly “faking” crime statistics to argue right-wingers are the country’s biggest threat. Once a bastion of tackling actual anti-Semitism, the group became wildly politicized under Greenblatt, and is now perceived as little more than a mechanism by which to attack the political right. In doing so, it has actually diluted the cause of confronting actual anti-Semitism.
I had a very frank + productive conversation with @LindayaX yesterday about @X, what works and what doesn't, and where it needs to go to address hate effectively on the platform. I appreciated her reaching out and I'm hopeful the service will improve. @ADL will be vigilant and…
The hashtag '#BanTheADL' trended on X (formerly Twitter) this weekend, with users calling for the removal of the far-left Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as its chief, Jonathan Greenblatt, pushed for more restrictions on free speech.
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A man from Louisiana who was arrested for making a joke at the beginning of the pandemic has only just seen the charges dropped by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Waylon Bailey was arrested by a SWAT team with weapons and bulletproof vests on March 20, 2020, after he posted a joke on Facebook, reading “JUST IN: RAPIDES PARISH SHERIFFERS OFFICE HAVE ISSUED THE ORDER, IF DEPUTIES COME INTO CONTACT WITH ‘THE INFECTED’ SHOOT ON SIGHT…Lord have mercy on us all. #Covid9teen #weneedyoubradpitt.”
Local authorities suggested that his post amounted to a “terrorist threat.”
Now, over three years later, judges have found that his post was neither a threat nor an incitement to violence. Instead, the court said Bailey’s First Amendment rights were violated and that there was no legitimate purpose for his arrest. One judge stated:
“The post did not direct any person or group to take any unlawful action immediately or in the near future… at worst, his post was a joke in poor taste, but it cannot be read as intentionally directed to incitement.”
Bailey subsequently filed a lawsuit against the Rapides County Sheriff’s Office in September 2020. The case was, however, dismissed in July last year on the grounds of qualified immunity, used to protect government officials from civil liability unless they violate a constitutional right.
Bailey has since appealed the decision and is awaiting a verdict next month.
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A man from Louisiana who was arrested for making a joke at the beginning of the pandemic has only just seen the charges dropped by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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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.”
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."
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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.
Trump’s campaign also lists a new “NEVER SURRENDER” shirt, riffing off Sir Winston Churchill’s infamous “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech.
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.
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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
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, WaPoclaimed: “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, WaPoclaimed: "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".
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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.
“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:
Linda Yaccarino: " I can confidently sit in front of you and say that 99.9% of all posted impressions are healthy."
CNBC's Sara Eisen: "How do you define healthy, though? Is porn healthy? Are conspiracy theories healthy?"
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.
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The Washington Postis 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 Postis 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.'
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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.
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…”
For example, Flaherty questioned whether Facebook was doing enough to reduce traffic from sites like the @nypost.
“I’m curious – NY Post churning out articles every day… What is supposed to happen to that from Policy perspective. Does that article get a reduction, labels?” pic.twitter.com/zC8QFWcckZ
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.
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