The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents
By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of…
Why Did Twitter Cancel This Veteran Journalist?
Social media censorship is threatening our press freedoms, the First Amendment, and at the horizon what remains of our democratic polity.
Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
Big Tech and the corporate media are ushering in an ominous era of intense censorship over Ukraine.
Hedges: American Commissars
Social media platforms are aggressively censoring all who challenge the dominant narrative on Ukraine, the ruling Democratic Party, the wars in the Middle East and the corporate state.
Facebook Warns About Consortium News Story
Facebook has put out contradictory warnings about a Consortium News article on the Bucha massacre: it both says the piece does and does not violate its standards. Joe Lauria reports.
The Kids Online Safety Act Is a Heavy-Handed Plan to Force Platforms to Spy on Young People
Data collection is a scourge for every internet user, regardless of age. The law requires platforms to ban the potentially infinite category of “other matters that pose a risk to…
Greenwald: Your Top Priority is The Emotional Comfort of the Most Powerful Elites, Which You Fulfill by Never Criticizing Them
Corporate journalists have license to use their huge platforms to malign, expose and destroy anyone they want. Your moral duty: sit in respectful silence and never object.
Greenwald: The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop — Falsely Called “Russian Disinformation” — is Authentic
The media outlets which spread this lie from ex-CIA officials never retracted their pre-election falsehoods, ones used by Big Tech to censor reporting on the front-runner.
Democrats and Media Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer Its Power to Censor
"Whistleblower" Frances Haugen is a vital media and political asset because she advances their quest for greater control over online political discourse.
Meet the Censored: Paul Jay
When contacted by press, YouTube admirably reversed bans and content removals involving a Canadian broadcaster. But the episode reveals the limits of algorithmic censorship.
Ximena Vengoechea: Has Silicon Valley Made It Impossible for Us to Listen?
The author wants to teach us how to listen again with her new book “Listen Like You Mean It,” but is that even possible in a capitalist world?
Congress Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet in Despotic Hearing
The repressive objective of the Democratic-controlled Congress is to transfer the power to police and censor political discourse from these tech giants to themselves.
Chris Hedges: Bandaging the Corpse
Biden's bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America's death spiral.
Trump’s TikTok Tantrum Is No Joke
Trump’s rage toward TikTok is symptomatic of a president losing his grip on power, but it's no laughing matter.
Jennifer Rothman on the Privacy Rights You May Not Know You Have
The Loyola Law professor discusses her new book, "The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World," about the publicity's history.