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NO SURPRISES HERE: Study Finds Less Than 4 Percent of American Journalists Are Republicans
A new study has found that only 3.4 percent of American journalists are Republicans. Read More.
Updated Apple policy now requires search warrant to send customer data to law enforcement
Apple has discreetly updated its legal guidelines. Now, the company requires U.S. law enforcement agencies to obtain a court order first before gaining access to specific aspects of Apple customer data. According to Apple’s updated guidelines, the company will only release customer data about push notifications with law enforcement “in response to a search warrant issued upon […] Read More.
Google's New Patent: Using Machine Learning to Identify "Misinformation" on Social Media
Google has filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for a tool that would use machine learning (ML, a subset of AI) to detect what Google decides to consider as “misinformation” on social media. Read More.
50 Years Ago, ‘Gulag Archipelago’ Unveiled A Haunted World
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dedicated his book about the end state of communism ‘to all those who did not live to tell it.’ Read More.
Elon Musk's Transparency Led to Michael Shellenberger's Swift Education in the Censorship Industrial Complex
Michael Shellenberger’s ‘Twitter Files’ reporting exposed a world of government-tech coordination he didn’t know existed. Read More.
Obituary: Tom Smothers, TV comedian canceled by CBS amid Vietnam War protests, dies at 86
“I'm just devastated,” Dick Smothers, told the AP of his former co-host and partner. “Every breath I’ve taken, my brother’s been around.” Read More.
Two Harvard board members and four faculty held private dinner where they discussed 'self-censorship'
Harvard Corporation members Tracy Palandjian and Paul Finnegan (both right) met with four professors from the school at Bar Enza in Cambridge. Read More.
Bitcoin faces risk of protocol-level censorship as miners under increasing regulatory pressure
Major mining pools filtering transactions from sanctioned addresses would mean a whole new era for Bitcoin, with protocol-level censorship. Read More.
New Instagram fact-check settings spark claims of stealth censorship
The feature allows users to increase and decrease the level of moderation Instagram applies to fact-checked content that appears on their feeds. Read More.
Once Again, Europeans Are Trying To Tell Americans What They Can Say And Do
The European Union (EU) has a regulatory agenda that will largely hit U.S. technology companies and will impact American speech and lifestyle. Read More.
‘They Would Kill You’: Babylon Bee CEO And Tucker Discuss What They Believe To Be Real Reason Behind Censorship
The Babylon Bee CEO discussed his experience of censorship with Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson, stating it was for "control" of speech and thought. Read More.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Attacks Zuckerberg’s Censorship of Pro-Hamas Messages
Come January 5, we should find out just how much worse Facebook and the rest of Meta will have become. Read More.
China's Internet Users Warned Not To 'Badmouth' Stuttering Economy
Weibo, China's leading microblogging platform, is urging its users to refrain from badmouthing the economy, account holders have said. Read More.
Former Google CEO Urges Social Media to Verify Users, Block VPNs, and Watermark AI Deepfakes to Combat "Misinformation"
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has penned an opinion piece in which he presented his “6-point” plan for combating what he has decided to consider election “disinformation.” Read More.
EU Parliament Supports Granting Access to Sensitive Health Data Without Asking Patients
The latest European Parliament (EP) efforts, grappling with how to allow access to sensitive medical records without patients’ permission, while still maintaining a semblance of caring for privacy, has had an update. Read More.
