Twitter Files Reveal CIA, FBI Pressured Twitter to Censor Content

Saturday's Twitter Files drop showed that the CIA joined the FBI in meddling in censorship decisions on the platform.


 

Autumn Johnson

Liberal Media Can't Report 'Twitter Files' on FBI -- Zip, Zero, Nada

Out comes the news - make that voluminous news - that the FBI has been engaged in a serious partnership with Twitter to censor everything from the October, 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story in The New York Post to the accounts of this or that conservative. And from the liberal media? But of course -- zip, zero, nada.

Jeffrey Lord

MSNBC: Justice Jackson and Black Woman Harvard Prez Are Victims!

On Mehdi Hasan's MSNBC show, guest host Melissa Murray leads a segment on "the glass cliff." The notion is that women, particularly women of color, tend only to be appointed to prestigious positions at institutions that are in crisis, and thereby are being "set up to fail." Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Claudine Gay, recently named as Harvard's new president, are cited as…

Mark Finkelstein

Jane Fonda Is Right....Really! Culture Matters

Jane Fonda’s recent appearance with Ari Melber on MSNBC made waves in conservative-leaning media.

Christian Toto

MSNBC Slobbers Over 'Outstanding' Biden, 'Great, Effective' Harris

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris don’t have to look under a tree for their Christmas presents this year, they just have to tune in MSNBC. On the Christmas Eve edition of Velshi, the host and liberal guests Molly Jong-Fast and Dean Obeidallah fawned over the President and Vice President without the slightest trace of embarrassment.

Rich Noyes

Flashback: Eight Christmas-Trashing Quotes from the Liberal Media

Tomorrow is Christmas Day, one of the most joyous on the Christian calendar. But over the years, assorted Scrooges in the media use the holiday as an occasion to badmouth Christmas or Christianity itself, or to lamely use Christmas as a left-wing political talking point.

Rich Noyes

On PBS, David Brooks Puts Biden Aide Ron Klain on Santa's 'Nice' List

On Friday, PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff asked their regular pundits David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart who should be on Santa's Naughty List and Nice List. Brooks suggested a model train set for "long-suffering, neglected" White House chief of staff Ron Klain, since "The White House has had a good year."

Tim Graham

NewsBusters Podcast: Airing Grievances Against Curtailing Christmas

Festivus is supposed to be about the airing of grievances, but Christians can feel that our cultural institutions, from the media to public schools, try to inhibit the message of Christmas as divisive, as not "inclusive"...as if Jesus didn't come to speak to the "marginalized." 

Tim Graham

Give Elon Musk a Chance at Twitter

WASHINGTON — It did not take the richest man in the world long to find himself in trouble with the American media. Elon Musk bought Twitter in October for $44 billion, and in no time found himself in the doghouse with the press for suspending writers from CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. What was the cause of this imbroglio?

R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

CNN’s Darcy Says Elon Musk ‘Misleading the Public’ with Twitter Files

CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy acted like a flunky for the FBI, throwing a conniption over Twitter owner Elon Musk’s revelations that the bureau paid the platform millions to “censor”  Americans.

Joseph Vazquez

Cardinal Dolan Gives a Christmas Message to NBC: Jesus in Our Hearts

Continuing their tradition of having Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan on set to deliver a Christmas message to viewers, NBC’s Today co-hosts Craig Melvin and Sheinelle Jones talked with the archbishop of New York about Christmas being a light in the darkness for so many people and how people are never truly lonely because Jesus is in our hearts and soul.

Nicholas Fondacaro

NBC 'Historian' Outraged When GOP Didn't Show Up or Clap for Zelensky

MSNBC used to be the network that demanded that people be allowed to dissent from a government line, certainly when the president was Trump or George W. Bush. But when Ukraine's president Wlodomyr Zelensky came to speak to Congress, anyone who didn't treat him as the second coming of Winston Churchill was a foul individual. On Wednesday night's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell,

Tim Graham

Wealthy Pro Sports Teams Sticking It To Taxpayers

Why are taxpayers footing the outrageous costs of building and maintaining wildly expensive pro football stadiums for mega-corporations? 

Jay Maxson

Illegal Aliens Are the Protagonists of CNN’s Border Coverage

In between obligatory hourly segments about Trump and the weather, CNN hosts spent Friday morning  engaging in outright open-borders activism. The network aired multiple reports emphasizing the plight of illegal aliens, all of which started from the premise that anyone attempting to enter ought to be allowed in.

Bill D'Agostino