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Mixing business and politics: B.C. entrepreneur and 'Freedom Convoy' admin locked out of Facebook

Raechel Allan-Nicholls says she's like a lot of small business owners who rely on Facebook to promote their sales activity. Read More.

Another popular account gone. Read More.

YouTube CEO URGES governments to outlaw 'harmful' speech

Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, has acknowledged that the platform’s policy of censoring legal content that it deems to be “harmful” is controversial and urged governments to step in and pass stronger speech laws. Read More.

Virginia School District Seeks Social Media Surveillance System to Combat ‘Hate Speech’

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is looking to implement a surveillance and intelligence-gathering service to monitor student, parent, and teacher social media accounts for “hate speech” and “social media threats.” Read More.

U.S. Accuses Zero Hedge of Spreading Russian Propaganda

Washington (AP) -- U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused a conservative financial news website with a significant American readership of amplifying Kremlin propaganda and alleged five media outlets targeting Ukrainians have taken direction from Russian spies. Read More.

Freeland announces measures targeting crowdfunding platforms, cryptocurencies to curtail Freedom Convoy funding

Under the Emergencies Act, Freeland said that the government is ordering financial institutions to cease providing financial services to anyone supporting the blockades, Read More.

Texas AG sues Facebook for allegedly collecting facial-recognition data without consent

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Meta on Monday, alleging the Facebook parent illegally collected biometric data on users without their consent. Read More.

Mike Lindell Gets Unsigned Letter From MN Bank & Trust “Cowards” To Inform Him His Accounts Have Been Closed

On January 14, 100 Percent Fed Up reported about a phone call Mike Lindell’s My Pillow controller received from Minnesota Bank & Trust Senior VP Thomas Cardle. In the call, Mr. Cardle asked Mike’s controller to remove all nine of Mike’s bank accounts from their bank before shutting them all down. Read More.

Europe considers regulating Spotify

Forcing it to moderate content. Read More.

Jon Stewart: “Who Gets to Decide” What’s ‘Misinformation’?

Establishment media was wrong about Iraq. Read More.

GiveSendGo fires back defiant message after Canadian government moves to freeze donations to Freedom Convoy

GiveSendGo, the Christian-based crowdfunding platform, responded defiantly to a Canadian court order demanding that the platform freeze the transfer of donations to Freedom Convoy protesters. Read More.

‘Will You Publicly Disavow?’: Republicans Grill Biden FCC Nominee On History Of Left-Wing Activism

Republican members of the Senate Commerce Committee grilled Gigi Sohn, President Joe Biden’s nominee for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), at a hearing Wednesday, questioning her history as a left-wing activist. Read More.

TikTok shares more of your data than any other app, and a study says it's not clear where it goes

TikTok mostly makes untrackable third-party connections Read More.

Watchdog group pushes Google, YouTube parent company for government censorship requests

National Legal and Policy Center files shareholder resolution calling on Alphabet Inc. to disclose requests from federal entities to take down information Read More.

Biden administration says 'misinformation' creates a 'heightened threat' for terrorism in DHS bulletin

The bulletin states that "several factors" contribute to the "heightened threat environment," including the "online spread of mis- dis- and mal-information." Read More.