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The Guardian Is Committing Journalistic Malpractice By Not Retracting This Claim
The Guardian Is Committing Journalistic Malpractice By Not Retracting This Claim On the 19th of April, The Guardian published an article making the positive assertion that two Twitter accounts were run not by real people, but by automated bot software based in Russia. Since the article was published, the owners of both accounts have stepped forward, […]
UK Foreign Office Denies Claiming Russia Responsible For Nerve Agent, Deletes Tweet
UK Foreign Office Denies Claiming Russia Responsible For Nerve Agent, Deletes Tweet Update: It appears that either the British government can’t keep its lies and proof-less accusations straight or something far more nefarious is at play. Following headlines (below) that British government scientists admitted they couldn’t tell where the poison – identified by the UK […]
Check Your Mute List On Twitter For Possible New Censorship Shenanigans
Check Your Mute List On Twitter For Possible New Censorship Shenanigans I decided a while back that I’m just going to document all the weird censorship activities that I personally encounter from giant social media corporations in order to have information available to the public so the hive mind can connect the dots on all […]
Inhuman: What The Establishment’s Bot Hysteria Reveals About Their View Of The Masses
Inhuman: What The Establishment’s Bot Hysteria Reveals About Their View Of The Masses The only apparatus that could hope to match the soullessness of the psychopaths that run our planet is manifested in the rise of artificial intelligence, paired with robots, which press reports indicate will replace vast sections of the beleaguered human workforce within […]
This Is The Worst Purge Of Conservative Voices In The History Of The Internet
This Is The Worst Purge Of Conservative Voices In The History Of The Internet In recent weeks, we have witnessed an unprecedented social media crackdown on conservative voices. YouTube’s war with Alex Jones has gotten the most attention, but literally hundreds of conservative content creators have had their accounts penalized, suspended or deleted by YouTube, […]
Should Facebook, Google and Twitter Be Public Utilities?
Should Facebook, Google and Twitter Be Public Utilities? This opaque corporate censorship amounts to a private-sector Stasi, pursuing an Orwellian world of profits reaped from the censorship and suppression of dissent My longtime friend GFB recently suggested I revisit my position on RussiaGate, the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. I have […]
Kim Dotcom proposes Twitter alternative over ‘censorship of Seth Rich tweets’
Kim Dotcom proposes Twitter alternative over ‘censorship of Seth Rich tweets’ © Nigel Marple / Reuters Kim Dotcom has called on Twitter to stop ‘censoring’ tweets, saying he’ll create an alternative to the social network if it continues. Dotcom told RT he believes Twitter is targeting tweets about late DNC staffer Seth Rich. Tweeting early […]
AI Censorship and the Power of Steem to Preserve Truth
AI Censorship and the Power of Steem to Preserve Truth Just read a great article by Caitlin Johnstone over at Medium where she discusses the automation of censorship tools by companies like Twitter and Google. Putting paid Julian Assange’s warning last year on this, Ms. Johnstone details just some of the abuses that Twitter and Google engaged in […]
Project Veritas Exposes Twitter “Shadow Banning”, Blocking Opposing Views
Project Veritas Exposes Twitter “Shadow Banning”, Blocking Opposing Views In the latest of a series of undercover operations targeting the mainstream media and now Social Media, James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has just dropped a new undercover video which reveals Twitter “shadow banning” and creating algorithms that censor certain ideas. The first clip features a former Twitter software engineer who […]
First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plans to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News”
Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plans to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News” YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, the official Twitter account of Brazil’s Federal Police (its FBI equivalent) posted an extraordinary announcement. The bureaucratically nonchalant tone it used belied its significance. The tweet, at its core, purports to […]
Today’s The Day: Twitter To Start Purging Users And Prevent “Certain Content From Trending”
Today’s The Day: Twitter To Start Purging Users And Prevent “Certain Content From Trending” Twitter will begin suspending accounts which engage in “hateful conduct” or affiliate with organizations which “use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes” both on and off the platform, following a November announcement. The new rules apply to whatever Twitter […]
Big Brother Is Here: Twitter Will Monitor Users Behavior ‘Off Platform
Big Brother Is Here: Twitter Will Monitor Users Behavior ‘Off Platform‘ In perhaps the most intrusive move of social media platforms’ efforts signal as much virtue as possible and appease their potentially-regulating government overlords, Twitter has announced that it is cracking down on what it defines at hate-speech and not just by looking at its […]
Mark Zuckerberg’s Long Litany Of Failings – Mainstream Media Turns On Social Media
Mark Zuckerberg’s Long Litany Of Failings – Mainstream Media Turns On Social Media The mainstream media is a fickle beast beholden to the direction of the prevailing political winds. Unfortunately for Facebook, Google and Twitter, those winds have turned about face in recent weeks as the political establishment thrashes about in its misguided efforts to […]
How Facebook and Google threaten public health – and democracy
How Facebook and Google threaten public health – and democracy The sad truth is that Facebook and Google have behaved irresponsibly in the pursuit of massive profits. And this has come at a cost to our health ‘Substance cannot compete with sensation, which must be amplified constantly, lest consumers get distracted and move on.’ Photograph: Anadolu […]
Twitter Revises Terms Of Service, No Longer Believes In “Speaking Truth To Power”
Twitter Revises Terms Of Service, No Longer Believes In “Speaking Truth To Power” Having been caught in a crossfire over internet free speech and Russian conspiracy theories, Twitter has quietly made a significant change in its stated “Twitter Rules” terms of service. Following several Congressional hearings meant to root out “Russian interference” by Twitter accounts, […]
