By Ghassan Kadi for the Saker Blog | November 21, 2020 Nearly three weeks after the American elections, Americans and the world in general, are still none-the-wiser; not knowing who really won and if the votes have all been legitimate or otherwise. And the man who is supposedly trying to make America respectable again, yes, […]
21WIRE | We're now facing the dark prospect of international high-tech censorship effectively controlling political discourse on all of the main social media platforms.
21WIRE | Facebook CEO was evasive and dodged direct questions when confronted with evidence by the Senator.
source During his 2020 election monitoring project, Dr. Robert Epstein found stark data showing Google election bias, he says, and he’s only just started to pore through all the data that was collected. In this episode, Dr. Epstein, a Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, explains what he’s found […]
RT | November 15, 2020 With the UK preparing for a Covid-19 vaccine rollout, the Labour Party is calling for emergency censorship legislation to punish social-media companies if they allow posting of what it considers to be “anti-vax disinformation.” “Social-media companies have a pitiful record of tackling disinformation,” shadow culture secretary Jo Stevens said Sunday […]
Antiwar.com | It's shaky assessments like this one that sets a dangerous precedent for independent media outlets.
There is a growing unease that the decisions taken by social media corporations can have a harmful impact on our lives. These platforms, despite enjoying an effective monopoly over the virtual public square, have long avoided serious scrutiny or accountability. In a new Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, former Silicon Valley executives warn of a […]
“Ambition is the subtlest Beast of the Intellectual and Moral Field,” wrote John Adams to his son, John Quincy Adams, in January, 1794. “It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.” Father Adams was thinking of Thomas Jefferson in penning these words, that sly devil of a man who sought to gain power […]
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JP Sears | Behind the scenes with the Fact Checkers who determine what’s true, and what’s false.
By Peter Van Buren | We Meant Well | October 24, 2020 Twitter and Facebook are the censors the Founders feared when they wrote the First Amendment. In the 18th century, none of those forward-thinking men could have envisioned a day when technology and global corporations would overshadow the power of governments to control information. […]
