March 17 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc-owned (GOOGL.O) YouTube said on Friday it lifted restrictions on former U.S. President Donald Trump’s channel, following a more than two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump now has access to key vehicles for political fundraising and the ability to reach his combined 146 million followers across three major tech platforms as he makes another run for the presidency in 2024.
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The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine ~ Matt Taibbi
1.TWITTER FILES #19
The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine
Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories”
2.“The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Spring 2020 emails… has been used to exacerbate distrust in Dr. Fauci.”
“Increased distrust in Fauci’s expert guidance.”
3.“Reports of vaccinated individuals contracting Covid-19 anyway”; “natural immunity”; suggesting Covid-19 “leaked from a lab”; even “worrisome jokes”:
4.All were characterized as “potential violations” or disinformation “events” by the Virality Project, a sweeping, cross-platform effort to monitor billons of social media posts by Stanford University, federal agencies, and a slew of (often state-funded) NGOs.
Continue reading “The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine ~ Matt Taibbi”‘Rigorous’ Maidan massacre exposé suppressed by top academic journal
A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation. Its author, one of the world’s top scholars on Ukraine-related issues, had marshaled overwhelming evidence to conclude Maidan protesters were killed by pro-coup snipers.
The massacre by snipers of anti-government activists and police officers in Kiev’s Maidan Square in late February 2014 was a defining moment in the US-orchestrated overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government. The death of 70 protesters triggered an avalanche of international outrage that made President Viktor Yanukovych’s downfall a fait accompli. Yet today these killings remain unsolved.
Enter Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist at the University of Ottawa. For years, he marshaled overwhelming evidence demonstrating that the snipers were not affiliated with Yanukovych’s government, but pro-Maidan operatives firing from protester-occupied buildings.
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History is one of the most censored academic fields, with massive ramifications in the present. Look what happened with covid medical “science.” It’s even easier to distort truth in history. Much of what many of us think we know about history is deeply wrong. Many of the usual actors and groups are to blame. ABN
John Chansley announcing President Trump’s Tweet telling people to ‘GO HOME. We are the party of law and order’
President Trump’s Tweets telling supporters to remain peaceful and go home were immediately taken down by Twitter activists. The prosecution of Chansley was clearly a gross miscarriage of justice. ABN
America’s Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex — Michael Shellenberger
Over the last three months, a small group of independent journalists, including Leighton and I, have, thanks to the Twitter Files, exposed the ways in which social media platforms have, under pressure from U.S. government agencies, censored ordinary Americans and spread disinformation.
Our findings are shocking. A highly-organized network of U.S. government agencies and government contractors has been creating blacklists and pressuring social media companies to censor Americans, often without them knowing it.
We and others have already reported on some of the actions of this complex, including its disinformation campaigns. But the extent of its censorship was unknown to us until very recently. And, as importantly, we now understand the ways in which this complex simultaneously spreads disinformation and demands censorship.
What my 68-page testimony to Congress shows is an effort by U.S. government intelligence and security agencies to wage “information warfare” against the American people.
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‘They believe that ordinary people can’t handle difficult truths and so they think that they need minders to separate out things that are controversial or difficult for them’ ~ Matt Taibbi
McCarthy Vows Full Public Release of Capitol’s January 6 Surveillance Tapes
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he intends to fully release to the public the tens of thousands of hours of U.S. Capitol surveillance footage from January 6, 2021.
McCarthy’s comments came during a wide-ranging hourlong on-camera interview in the ceremonial U.S. House speaker’s office in his first sit-down interview since Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired on his program some never-before-seen clips of such surveillance footage earlier this week.
“Yeah,” McCarthy said when asked if the tapes will be fully released to the public.
“We just want to make sure we go through them all, and it takes time,” he continued. “The first thing that Tucker said too, he didn’t want to show any exits to cause any problems. We asked the Capitol Police, ‘Were there any concerns?’ They came back with one, and we mitigated that, but it was interesting, that one that they had a problem with, Eric Swalwell had had up on the internet for the last two years showing that part.”
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The Twitter Files reveal an incestuous, self-appointed truth squad moving from law enforcement/intelligence to the private sector and back, claiming a special right to do what they say is bad practice for everyone else: be fact-checked only by themselves ~ Matt Taibbi
1. TWITTER FILES:
Statement to Congress
THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
2. “MONITOR ALL TWEETS COMING FROM TRUMP’S PERSONAL ACCOUNT/BIDEN’S PERSONAL ACCOUNT”
When #TwitterFiles reporters were given access to Twitter internal documents last year, we first focused on the company, which at times acted like a power above government.
Continue reading “The Twitter Files reveal an incestuous, self-appointed truth squad moving from law enforcement/intelligence to the private sector and back, claiming a special right to do what they say is bad practice for everyone else: be fact-checked only by themselves ~ Matt Taibbi”
‘The real story emerging in the #TwitterFiles is about a ballooning federal censorship bureaucracy that’s not aimed at either the left or the right per se, but at the whole population of outsiders, who are being systematically defined as threats’ ~ Matt Taibbi
TWITTER FILES #16
Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment
2. The #TwitterFiles have revealed a lot: thousands of moderation requests from every corner of government, Feds mistaking both conservatives and leftists for fictional Russians, even Twitter deciding on paper to cede moderation authority to the “U.S. intelligence community”:
3. These and at least a dozen other newsworthy revelations produced exactly zilch in mainstream news coverage in the last two months:
4. Then House hearings were held last week, at which one witness told a story about Donald Trump asking to remove a mean tweet by Chrissy Teigen.
The press went bananas. Now THAT was big news!
Rep. Kat Cammack on ‘a quick and devastating published take down’ of dissenting medical opinions on covid
I usually ignore members of Congress. But these hearings are producing honest speech so I am pleased to post them. When our politicians do a good job, I think we should support them for that. ABN
The net result of censorship
Covid has conclusively proved that free speech produces better results than curated speech. Free speech saves lives. Censorship is never good. People who argue for censorship always have an agenda—control, power, something to hide. During all of covid government and MSM speech was almost all lies and propaganda. Our government did not even recommend vitamin D, let alone provide it for everyone. Such a small thing but even that they couldn’t do. ABN
Full Committee Hearing – Part 1: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story
Nancy Mace destroys Vijaya Gadde over Twitter censorship
Rep. Mace discloses she regrets getting the vaccine and now has asthma and chronic heart pain
She calls out Twitter for censoring Harvard & Stanford doctors that didn’t support the vax
Originally tweeted by DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) on February 8, 2023.
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