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August 12, 2024
Politics

FBI Conducted Nationwide Social Media Censorship and Surveillance Before 2022 Midterms.

Federal government documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) reveal the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) engaged in extensive social media censorship and surveillance during the 2022 midterm elections. The Biden-Harris government censorship program saw the FBI’s National Election Command Post (NECP) create a list of social media users they flagged as spreading “misinformation.”

Subsequently, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) sent “preservation letters” to social media companies requesting user information be preserved ahead of potential legal action. Among the accounts targeted by the FBI for further action and investigation during the midterms was Right Side Broadcasting Network, which streams former President Donald J. Trump‘s campaign events in their entirety.

According to the files and communications obtained by AFL, the lists generated by the FBI included foreign threats, known Internet hackers, and accounts they viewed as having potentially violated election laws. The last was the case with Right Side Broadcasting Network.

An Inspector General report indicates the Biden-Harris DOJ and FBI likely used legal processes to compel cooperation from social media companies—forcing them to hand over user data and other evidence.

The National Pulse reported in June that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives subpoenaed the Biden-Harris Department of State, requesting records on programs aimed to foster “censorship-by-proxy and revenue interference of American small businesses.”

Lawmakers allege that the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) has used federal grants to fund groups like the London-based Global Disinformation Index (GDI), which targets advertisers on conservative media platforms.

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Federal government documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) reveal the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) engaged in extensive social media censorship and surveillance during the 2022 midterm elections. The Biden-Harris government censorship program saw the FBI's National Election Command Post (NECP) create a list of social media users they flagged as spreading "misinformation." show more
August 9, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
TECH
UK

Scotland’s Muslim Ex-Leader Says Musk Uses X for ‘Most Wicked Evil Possible,’ Musk Brands Him ‘Super Racist’ Against Whites.

Humza Yousaf, the Pakistani heritage former First Minister of Scotland, has branded Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), Tesla, and SpaceX, “one of the most dangerous men on the planet,” saying he “uses his billions… to amplify far-right, white supremacist ideology.” Musk labeled Yousaf an anti-white racist in response.

Yousaf, a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP), said the South African entrepreneur has “I think instigated, is hoping for, civil war in some parts of Europe, including in the UK, and instead of using X as a platform for good and using his enormous wealth for good, he is using it, I think, for the most wicked evil possible.”

He went on to suggest Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer must consider regulating X to “ensure we don’t have the kind of disinformation that has run rampant in the last week… with such devastating consequences,” in reference to ongoing anti-mass migration protests and counter-protests.

An X user shared a video of Yousaf ranting against the number of white people in important positions in Scotland underneath the clip of his comments about Musk. The tech mogul responded, branding Yousaf “super, super racist.”

“Scotland gave him everything and yet he loathes white people,” Musk said. “This is obvious, because he has never complained about the race of any other country’s leadership. There are over 200 countries in the world, most of whom have single-race leadership. Why is he only attacking Scotland?”

Musk has been regularly criticizing Prime Minister Starmer for the two-tier policing of anti-migration demonstrators and Muslim counter-demonstrations in recent days, branding the British leftist “Two-Tier Keir.”

Yousaf said he may leave the West altogether amid the protests, citing “Islamophobia.” As First Minister, a position roughly equivalent to a U.S. state governor, he vacationed in Qatar, a Sharia dictatorship that hosts the leadership of Hamas.

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Humza Yousaf, the Pakistani heritage former First Minister of Scotland, has branded Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), Tesla, and SpaceX, "one of the most dangerous men on the planet," saying he "uses his billions... to amplify far-right, white supremacist ideology." Musk labeled Yousaf an anti-white racist in response. show more
August 9, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
TECH
UK

UK PM Starmer Warns Elon Musk It Is ‘Dangerous’ to Call Out Two-Tier Policing.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has warned Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), Tesla, and SpaceX, that it is “dangerous” to call out the two-tier policing in Britain amid the ongoing anti-mass migration protests and counter-protests.

“Talk of two-tier policing is wrong, it’s not true and it’s dangerous, because it exposes the police to even more danger than they’re already exposed to,” Starmer insisted.

However, the police themselves have conceded that footage of a police liaison officer at a counter-demonstration in Stoke asking a Muslim mob to “discard [their weapons] at the mosque” to avoid arrest has “impacted on public confidence.” Police in Birmingham, where a Muslim mob chased out journalists and beat white people unchallenged, have also admitted they did not intervene because Muslim “community leaders” told them their counter-demonstration would be “policed within themselves.”

On Thursday, police boasted online that they had arrested a 55-year-old woman for “a social media post containing inaccurate information” about the identity of a mass stabber who targeted children in Southport. This attack, allegedly perpetrated by a migration-background teenager, sparked the current protests.

Meanwhile, Nick Lowles of the far-left HOPE Not Hate organization has not been arrested for spreading false reports of a Muslim woman being attacked with acid, which angered many Muslim counter-demonstrators who believed them. Neither has Josh Fenton-Glyn, a Member of Parliament (MP) for Prime Minister Starmer’s Labour Party, who amplified Lowles’s false claims and attributed his fictitious acid attack to the “far right.”

Image via Flickr.

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has warned Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), Tesla, and SpaceX, that it is "dangerous" to call out the two-tier policing in Britain amid the ongoing anti-mass migration protests and counter-protests. 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
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 7, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Crime
Immigration
UK

UK Threatens to Extradite Overseas Social Media Users Who Criticize Mass Migration, Two-Tier Policing.

The United Kingdom’s Director of Public Prosecutions, Stephen Parkinson, has threatened to extradite overseas social media users who have supported or spoken out on the anti-mass migration protests and riots gripping the country. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has promised draconian action against those protesting against the deadly stabbing of multiple young girls by a migration-background teenager in Southport, England last week.

Parkinson said that overseas social media posters should be aware that “they are not safe and there is nowhere to hide.”

He emphasized that those involved in the violence could face the harshest criminal charges, including terrorism.

Of the 400 people arrested during the week of disorder, around 100 have been charged so far.

Anti-grooming gang activist Tommy Robinson, who is currently in Cyprus, may be one of the targets of prosecutors.  England’s High Court has issued a warrant for his arrest after he missed a court appearance last Monday, on unrelated contempt of court charges.

Parkinson stated, “Some people are abroad. That doesn’t mean they’re safe,” and noted that the British government has liaison prosecutors worldwide who can collaborate with international partners on extradition requests.

Parkinson also highlighted that suspects charged with violent disorder could face up to five years behind bars, and those charged with rioting could face up to ten years.

Parkinson stated that prosecutors will also pursue terrorism charges against people allegedly “planning activity for the purposes of advancing [an] ideology … planning really, really serious disruption.”

X owner and tech billionaire Elon Musk has also strongly criticized Prime Minister Starmer for two-tier policing of anti-mass migration demonstrators and Muslim counter-demonstrators, branding him “#TwoTierKier.”

It remains unclear whether the British government will try to extradite Musk for his posts or for allowing support for the anti-mass migration protests on X.

The United States and the United Kingdom have an extradition treaty signed in 2003 that lists terrorism as an offense for extradition.

Image via Benedikt von Loebell.

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The United Kingdom's Director of Public Prosecutions, Stephen Parkinson, has threatened to extradite overseas social media users who have supported or spoken out on the anti-mass migration protests and riots gripping the country. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has promised draconian action against those protesting against the deadly stabbing of multiple young girls by a migration-background teenager in Southport, England last week. show more
August 6, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Immigration
TECH
UK

Elon Musk Blasts Two-Tier Policing After Muslim Mob Attacks White Pubgoers.

Tech mogul Elon Musk has challenged Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer over two-tier policing in Britain after footage of Muslim mobs attacking white people in Birmingham, England, circulated on his X platform (formerly Twitter) on Monday. Musk responded to a post showing the footage asking Starmer, “Why aren’t all communities protected in Britain?” The British premier recently promised extra security for mosques and Muslims generally, but no one else.

Musk’s post, pinned to the top of his X profile on Tuesday, is followed by a reply reading “#TwoTierKeir”—a nickname the Labour politician has acquired due to the perception he and the law enforcement apparatus he presides over are handling supposedly far-right demonstrators much more aggressively than they are handling ethnic minority counter-demonstrators, and ethnic minority rioters generally.

Prime Minister Starmer has fired back at Musk, with his official spokesman claiming there is “no justification” for his comments. Justice Minister Heidi Alexander called Musk’s comments “deplorable,” echoing past comments by Hilary Clinton about Donald Trump’s supporters in the U.S.

WIDESPREAD DISORDER. 

Muslim mobs waving Palestinian flags also targeted the media in Birmingham, chasing out journalists who were reporting on the ground and stabbing the tires of film crew vehicles.

LBC reporter Fraser Knight said that he was chased “for miles” by Muslims with weapons, questioning why the police appeared to have abandoned the streets to the mob.

Meanwhile, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, roughly equivalent to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in the U.S., is focusing on people posting “hate” and “disinformation” online, and warning social media platforms have a responsibility for such posts. Already, footage is emerging of Britons being arrested for social media posts relating to protests and riots as the government attempts to stamp out anti-immigration demonstrations in the wake of a mass stabbing of young girls by a migration-background teenager.

There appear to be no repercussions for left-wing figures—including Labour politicians—who have been spreading fake news about far-right acid attacks on Muslim women, however.

Jack Montgomery contributed to this report. 

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Tech mogul Elon Musk has challenged Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer over two-tier policing in Britain after footage of Muslim mobs attacking white people in Birmingham, England, circulated on his X platform (formerly Twitter) on Monday. Musk responded to a post showing the footage asking Starmer, "Why aren’t all communities protected in Britain?" The British premier recently promised extra security for mosques and Muslims generally, but no one else. 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 29, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
TECH

Newsom Vows to Make Parody Illegal Over Musk Sharing AI Video of Kamala Harris.

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has vowed to outlaw parody in the Golden State over Elon Musk sharing a video featuring an Artificial Intelligence-generated voiceover of Kamala Harris confessing she is an incompetent “Deep State puppet.”

“Manipulating a voice in an ‘ad’ like this one should be illegal. I’ll be signing a bill in a matter of weeks to make sure it is,” the California Democrat rages. However, the video in question is not an earnest attempt to misrepresent the Vice President, but a clear parody. It features ‘Kamala’ thanking Joe Biden for having “exposed his senility” at his debate with Donald Trump, making way for her to replace the 81-year-old as the Democrats’ presumptive nominee.

“I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity hire… if you criticize anything I say, you’re both sexist and racist,” the voiceover continues.

“I may not know the first thing about running the country, but remember, that’s a good thing if you’re a Deep State puppet,” it goes on, with ‘Kamala’ saying Biden mentored her in hiding her incompetence. Some genuine clips of Harris are mixed in, such as her 2022 claim that the United States has “an alliance with the Republic of North Korea,” but for the most part it is composed entirely of voice lines that are clearly not genuine.

The X (formerly Twitter) user who originally uploaded the video also labels it with the caption “Kamala Harris Campaign Ad PARODY,” making it impossible for any good-faith observer to believe the AI voiceover was being presented as genuine commentary from the Vice President.

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Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has vowed to outlaw parody in the Golden State over Elon Musk sharing a video featuring an Artificial Intelligence-generated voiceover of Kamala Harris confessing she is an incompetent "Deep State puppet." show more