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STUDY: Cable News POUNCES on Suspensions, Yawned at Twitter Files

December 16th, 2022 1:30 PM

CNN and MSNBC are pouncing on Twitter’s suspension of several liberal journalists, but those same cable news giants had about 15 times less interest in evidence of the same platform’s suspensions, blacklists and shadow banning aimed at conservatives when the so-called Twitter Files were released two weeks ago.

The Musk Moment We Find Ourselves in

December 16th, 2022 11:16 AM

WASHINGTON — The progressives — once called liberals — have a new target to hate. He is Elon Musk. By the way, the progressives have become very complacent about their targets for hatred. They hate Musk today, but it cannot be only because he is the richest man in the world. There is a tremendous competition to be the richest man in the world, and what I would have thought makes this…

ABC, NBC FREAK OUT Over Twitter Suspending Slew of Lefty Journalists

December 16th, 2022 10:03 AM

On Friday, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today were in a state of anger, shock and sadness over a number of their fellow leftists propagandists being suspended from Twitter late Thursday over what new boss Elon Musk insisted was a violation of the company’s doxxing policies and sharing information about his movements.

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CNN Declares Dictators Will Cite Musk To Clamp Down On Press Freedom

December 16th, 2022 9:51 AM

Friday’s CNN This Morning reacted to Thursday night’s suspensions with none of the nuance that a discussion about doxing and flight tracking information should have. Instead, it was claimed that non-democratic governments around the world will use the incident to clamp down on free speech in their own countries.

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CNN, MSNBC MELTDOWN Over Musk Banning Lib Journos on Twitter

December 16th, 2022 12:58 AM

Late Thursday night, Elon Musk banned the Twitter accounts of a group of leftist reporters from various left-wing outlets like CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times for violating the site's terms of service agreement against doxxing. They weren't just doxxing anyone, they were dumb enough to reveal the location of Musk's private jet which puts his personal safety…

Jack Dorsey: Twitter Did Censor, But No ‘Ill Intent’

December 15th, 2022 4:31 PM

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey released his opinion of the Twitter Files exposing his platform’s biased censorship, admitting his serious failures around free speech while still claiming a lack of “hidden agendas.”

NPR Smears Twitter Files as 'Ugly' Musk 'Stunt' That Spurred Threats

December 15th, 2022 4:13 PM

Taxpayer-subsidized NPR had been aggressively ignoring the "Twitter Files" revelations, but when they finally acknowledged them on Tuesday's Morning Edition, the new information was described as an "attention-grabbing stunt," "not a bombshell," and an "ugly" spectacle causing threats of violence to Dr. Anthony Fauci and former Twitter "trust and safety" czar Yoel Roth. 

Justifying the Suppression of Conservative Content

December 15th, 2022 1:28 PM

According to the avalanche of posts by reporters Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, and writer Michael Shellenberger, to whom new Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk provided access to internal communications, Twitter massively “shadow-banned,” restricted and even flat-out blocked access to conservatives and conservative content. So, how does the anti-Donald Trump and the anti-conservative Left ignore…

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Gov. DeSantis Slams Big Tech’s COVID-19 Censorship

December 15th, 2022 12:53 PM

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis slammed Big Tech’s censorship of COVID-19 content in a roundtable discussion announcing that he was calling for a “grand jury” to investigate “…

Jordan Requests Big Tech Provide Biden WH Censorship ‘Collusion’ Info

December 15th, 2022 12:12 PM

“Big Tech is out to get conservatives, and is increasingly willing to undermine First Amendment values by complying with the Biden Administration’s directives that suppress freedom of speech online,” incoming House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told Big Tech executives Wednesday.

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CNN: Twitter Files Release Violates The Spirit Of Free Speech

December 15th, 2022 10:47 AM

Thursday’s CNN This Morning had a peculiar take on the Twitter Files and revelations into what went into the decision to block the New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Not only was it alleged that the Twitter Files actually made Twitter look good, but it was also claimed that it was Elon Musk that was violating the spirit of free speech.

Trump Attorney Says Maricopa Recorder Called on Fed Gov’t to Censor

December 14th, 2022 4:00 PM

Maricopa County, Arizona’s County Recorder Stephen Richer asked the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) for help censoring alleged election “misinformation,” according to a tweet by 2024 Trump campaign attorney Christina Bobb. 

 

Pro-censorship ex-Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde also attended the meeting, endorsing government-…

Even 74% of Dem Voters Believe Big Tech Censors Due to Political Bias

December 14th, 2022 3:17 PM

Three-fourths all U.S. likely voters think that social media companies like Facebook are censoring content because of political bias, and three-fourths of Democrat voters agree, but Democrats are much less likely to want Congress to do anything about it – and much more concerned about so-called “misinformation” posted on social media sites.

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STUDY: Twitter Files Make Up Less Than 0.5% of Coverage on CNN, MSNBC

December 14th, 2022 11:02 AM

NewsBusters has found liberal cable news networks CNN and MSNBC have almost completely ignored the first five installments of the Twitter Files, which revealed Twitter employees engaged in rampant censorship of conservatives. Since the first set of documents were published on the evening of December 2, less half of one percent of the coverage on either network has even bothered to mention the…