By Dan Frieth | Reclaim The Net | December 2, 2022 Journalism group Hacks/Hackers was awarded $5 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop software that would encourage ordinary Americans to warn their friends and family about misinformation in their online speech. Users of the software would confront alleged misinformation by replying with […]
By Tom Parker | Reclaim The Net | November 29, 2022 During the pandemic, several doctors in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) hit the headlines for opposing Covid measures. State-sanctioned medical authorities responded by warning physicians that if they “put the public at risk with misinformation,” they may face investigations and regulatory action. Now, just […]
By Cindy Harper | Reclaim The Net | November 29, 2022 Elon Musk has claimed that Apple has threatened to “withhold” Twitter from the App Store without giving a reason. “Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why,” Musk tweeted on Monday. The announcement came after Musk said that the iPhone maker […]
RT | November 29, 2022 Twitter has said it will no longer enforce its coronavirus misinformation policy, according to an update on the platform’s Covid-19 transparency page that went largely unnoticed since it was posted last week. The move came as its new owner Elon Musk announced a “general amnesty” for previously suspended accounts. The misinformation policy […]
By Ron Paul | November 28, 2022 Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) recently got in touch with his inner mobster and threatened Elon Musk — the new owner of Twitter and the CEO of electric car company Tesla and space ventures company SpaceX. He told Musk, “Fix your companies” or “Congress will.” As part of this […]
Samizdat – 29.11.2022 The British government’s draft Online Safety Bill has previously come under fire from free speech campaigners and MPs — including current culture and media minister Michelle Donelan — for demanding social media sites censor posts which do not break any law. The UK’s media minister has demanded Beijing grant British journalists freedom […]
RT | November 28, 2022 The former disinformation czar for President Joe Biden’s administration has apparently landed on her feet after resigning amid controversy earlier this year. She has registered as a foreign agent representing a UK activist group that advocates for censorship of speech it finds objectionable. Nina Jankowicz filed her registration paperwork with […]
By Ilya Tsukanov – Samizdat – 28.11.2022 Miguel Almaguer, the NBC News reporter whose reporting on last month’s Paul Pelosi hammer attack incident offered curious details which challenged the mainstream narrative at the time, has not been seen on air or tweeted since the media giant expunged his report and suspended him over unspecified “inaccurate […]
Senator Markey wants social media regulated for “safety” By Christina Maas | Reclaim The Net | November 27, 2022 Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has called on Congress to pass new legislation to regulate social media after Elon Musk ignored his demand letter. On November 11, Markey sent a letter to Musk asking about the new paid account verification feature. […]
Bob Baer isn’t a fan of Elon Musk’s Twitter By Dan Frieth | Reclaim The Net | November 27, 2022 Former CIA analyst Bob Baer, in an interview with CNN’s Boris Sanchez, said that the idea of “free speech” on Elon Musk’s Twitter is “nonsense.” Sanchez started the discussion by noting that Musk recently said that banned accounts will be reinstated, […]
