By Glenn Greenwald | March 17, 2022 One of the most successful disinformation campaigns in modern American electoral history occurred in the weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election. On October 14, 2020 — less than three weeks before Americans were set to vote — the nation’s oldest newspaper, The New York Post, began publishing a […]
By Richie Allen | March 17, 2022 This morning, the UK government will publish the revised Online Safety Bill. It’s a landmark piece of legislation that has been in the works for five years. The government claims that the bill will protect people from being exposed to harmful content on the internet. Critics have called […]
Corbett • 03/16/2022 Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Now that DuckDuckGo has officially DuckDuckGone in the direction of censorship, what’s a free speech-loving, liberty-minded conspiracy realist to do? Never fear, #SolutionsWatch is here. In the first of a series of explorations of Alt Tech, James talks to Colin Pape of Presearch, a decentralized search engine that is seeking […]
By Kit Knightly | OffGuardian | March 16, 2022 This week has seen several timely reminders that the Covid narrative is not done. It may have lost its number 1 spot at the top of the “news” charts, but it’s not dead. It’s just resting. While the big red numbers at the top of every […]
By David Sedgwick | March 16, 2022 It’s tough being a writer. It’s even tougher when your work is being actively suppressed by the world’s biggest market place for books: Amazon. Reputed to account for 80% of world book sales, for an author there’s no getting away from the online giant, no escaping its tentacles. My […]
By Christina Maas | Reclaim The Net | March 15, 2022 An interview for Fox News’ “Ingraham Angle,” featuring former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, was censored for being potentially “offensive” and “inappropriate” to some audiences. In the interview, Ingraham asked Gabbard, “Congresswoman, why are we talking about no-fly zones instead of the fact that for the first … … Continue reading →
By Rick Findlay | Reclaim The Net | March 15, 2022 Mozilla has pushed a new release of its Firefox browser with one notable change; it will no longer have Yandex, the Russian search engine, and Mail.ru as options. “Yandex and Mail.ru have been removed as optional search providers in the drop-down search menu in […]
By Dan Frieth | Reclaim The Net | March 14, 2022 Last Spring, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas ordered an internal review to identify how to best detect, prevent, and respond to threats related to domestic violent extremism within the department. A component of this was based on online activity. “DVE [domestic violent extremist] […]
By Chris Menahan | InformationLiberation | March 13, 2022 Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday expressed his gratitude to Mark Zuckerberg for Facebook and Instagram censoring Russian news outlets, allowing calls for violence against Russians and helping his government spread endless disinformation. “War is not only a military opposition on UA land. It is also […]
By Tom Parker | Reclaim The Net | March 11, 2022 The huge $1.5 trillion US federal spending bill, that’s expected to be signed into law by President Joe Biden today, allocates over $2.6 billion to “Democracy Programs” and requires these programs to combat “the misuse of social media to spread disinformation or incite hate.” […]
