VigilantNews.com

“We’re in a crisis of trust” brought on by “newspapers and … social media companies and the government,” according to investigative journalist Lee Fang.

Fang appeared last week with Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., on Bhattacharya’s “Illusion of Consensus” podcast. The two discussed the latest revelations of collusion and deception involving the healthcare industry, the technology sector and government agencies.

The hour-long discussion centered on documented cases of censorship campaigns targeting academics and journalists for speaking scientifically validated truths that threaten powerful special interests.

New Illusion of Consensus podcast on @X! Recently, journalist @lhfang testified in Congress about how @moderna_tx paid hordes of medical influencers to police online speech criticizing its covid vaccine. I spoke with Lee about his career, free speech & pharma corruption. pic.twitter.com/KakjQsIv19

— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) February 12, 2024

Mises.org

Today marks the second and final day in what could very well be Julian Assange’s last extradition trial in front of the British High Court. For almost five years now, the United States government has been working to get the Wikileaks founder extradited to the US to face charges that he violated the Espionage Act.

Inspired by Daniel Ellsberg’s release of the Pentagon Papers back in 1971, Julian Assange founded Wikileaks in 2006. Assange’s vision was to develop an online portal where whistleblowers could submit evidence of corporate or government wrongdoing without needing to identify themselves or risk exposure. Once submitted, teams of volunteers and journalists would parse the documents to determine legitimacy. And, if it was determined to be authentic, publish the material straight to the internet so the public could see for itself.

Brownstone.org

I feel scared. Very scared.

Internet-wide surveillance and censorship, enabled by the unimaginably vast computational power of artificial intelligence (AI), is here.

This is not a futuristic dystopia. It’s happening now.

Government agencies are working with universities and nonprofits to use AI tools to surveil and censor content on the Internet.

This is not political or partisan. This is not about any particular opinion or idea. 

 What’s happening is that a tool powerful enough to surveil everything that’s said and done on the Internet (or large portions of it) is becoming available to the government to monitor all of us, all the time. And, based on that monitoring, the government – and any organization or company the government partners with – can then use the same tool to suppress, silence, and shut down whatever speech it doesn’t like. 

TheGatewayPundit.com

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the Biden regime targeted both Facebook and Twitter over content they did not approve of.

Now, it turns out the censorship tactics the Biden regime employed extended to Amazon as well. Moreover, we know the person who led the charge for the Regime.

Rep. Jim Jordan dropped an explosive thread Monday on X detailing the great lengths the Regime employed to pressure Amazon to stop selling books they hated. Their prime focus was reading material critical of the COVID-19 shot.

While Amazon was initially skeptical of the Regime’s bullying tactics, they ultimately bent the knee.

TheEpochTimes.com

A powerful United Nations agency has unveiled a plan to regulate social media and online communication while cracking down on what it describes as “false information” and “conspiracy theories,” sparking alarm among free-speech advocates and top U.S. lawmakers.

In its 59-page report released this month, the U.N. Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) outlined a series of “concrete measures which must be implemented by all stakeholders: governments, regulatory authorities, civil society, and the platforms themselves.”

RealClearInvestigations.com

In May 2021, L. Gordon Crovitz, a media executive turned start-up investor, pitched Twitter executives on a powerful censorship tool. 

In an exchange that came to light in the “Twitter Files” revelations about media censorship, Crovitz, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, touted his product, NewsGuard, as a “Vaccine Against Misinformation.” His written pitch highlighted a “separate product” — beyond an extension already on the Microsoft Edge browser — “for internal use by content-moderation teams.” Crovitz promised an out-of-the-box tool that would use artificial intelligence powered by NewsGuard algorithms to rapidly screen content based on hashtags and search terms the company associated with dangerous content.

IndependentSentinal.com

The executive director of FFO Freedom, Mike Benz, explains in this clip how The US government decided in 2016 to end free speech on the Internet.

Why 2016 was the birth of the censorship industry.

- The State Dept lost 3 elections in a row
- They were all Internet elections
- The "Rules Based Order" struck back
- Military overtook civilian control of media

w/ @MartyBent: https://t.co/yA7xnWdSQ0 pic.twitter.com/1FDUqLfJNm

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) November 14, 2023

BeckerNews.com

The failed socialist state of New York has decided that if elected officials can’t do the job of making their voters happy, the next best thing is cracking down on their ability to express their unhappiness.

On Monday, New York’s kooky governor Kathy Hochul came out with the announcement: If you don’t like the job she’s doing in office, then she’s got people watching you in case you should engage in “hate speech”:

TODAY: New York Governor Kathy Hochul announces the state has started conducting special media "surveillance efforts" to monitor "hate speech." pic.twitter.com/4tzts6kDAV

— Reclaim The Net (@ReclaimTheNetHQ) November 14, 2023

The report further highlighted the litany of prominent individuals and organizations whom the EIP worked to monitor and censor, including former President Donald Trump.

JustTheNew.com

The House Weaponization Subcommittee on Monday published an interim report detailing the operations of the federal government and self-styled disinformation experts that allegedly worked to censor political speech ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

The 104-page report, published Monday, details the operations of the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), which worked with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies to monitor online political speech and allegedly censor disfavored viewpoints.

"In the lead-up to the 2020 election, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the American public and lawmakers debated the merits of unprecedented, mid-election-cycle changes to election procedures. These issues, like all contemporary discourse about questions of political import, were extensively discussed on the world’s largest social media platforms—the modern town square," the report stated. "But as American citizens, including candidates in these elections, attempted to exercise their First Amendment rights on these platforms, their constitutionally protected speech was intentionally suppressed as a consequence of the federal government’s direct coordination with third-party organizations, particularly universities, and social media platforms."

Have you heard of NewsGuard? Its mission is to “counter misinformation on behalf of readers, brands, and democracies.” In other words, it “guards” the news by telling you what you can and cannot trust. Of course, this begs the question: can you trust NewGuard?