SUMMARY UK media regulator Ofcom has forced X into a stricter Online Safety Act compliance regime, requiring 24-hour average review of reported “illegal terrorist and hate content.” Ofcom has also compelled X to formally engage with outside “expert organizations” – the professional disinformation and hate speech monitoring industry built up under the Biden Administration. Among…
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In a recent address to fellow disinformation researchers, Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) co-founder and CEO Imran Ahmed delivered what amounted to a victory speech, telling the assembled audience that the long campaign to dismantle online speech protections has finally reached the enforcement phase. Critics of the “disinformation industry” have long described a sprawling…
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The Department of Justice has formally admitted that federal officials “exerted substantial coercive pressure” on Twitter to suppress journalist Alex Berenson’s speech, and has paid him a six-figure settlement to resolve his claims. The settlement, announced on May 11, 2026, is the first known instance in which an individual American has received a monetary payment…
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SUMMARY The idea of European digital sovereignty has become a major narrative for the censorship industry following their loss of influence in Washington DC and Silicon Valley. Once supported by American tax dollars and Big Tech donations, “disinformation researchers” are now calling for the EU to fully replace the “American tech stack,” promoting alternatives like…
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For the first time, the legislative branch is moving to convert President Trump’s executive ban on federal censorship into appropriations law. Introduced by Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL-26), appropriations bill H.R. 8595 would lock key provisions of Executive Order 14149 (Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship) into binding statutory funding restrictions, a move that…
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The Minerva Research Initiative was a U.S. Department of War grant program that funded unclassified, university-based social science research on topics relevant to national security. Billed by the Pentagon as “Social science for a safer world,” it awarded 3- to 5-year grants for unclassified research by university researchers “to help DOD better understand and prepare…
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SUMMARY Elon Musks’ xAI filed a lawsuit challenging Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI bill, which is set to take effect this summer The law is set to become the nation’s first state-level move to impose protections against supposed “algorithmic discrimination” on AI platforms Musk’s AI lab has said that it would force xAI to promote the state’s…
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The censorship industry, the global network of “counter-disinformation” nonprofits and activists that work tirelessly to exert control over social media platforms, is banking on a new strategy to circumvent the First Amendment: frame tech companies as producers of harmful and addictive products, rather than platforms for speech. This was evident at the latest Cambridge Disinformation…
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The Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, recently spoke at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, a major gathering of the global censorship industry held annually at the University of Cambridge in the UK. In his remarks, the Republican governor praised foreign governments for clamping down on American social media platforms while blaming tech companies for creating “discord”…
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A new strategy has emerged for the censorship industry, spearheaded by the Knight-Georgetown Institute. What emerges from Institute’s own materials is not a call for blunt censorship, but something more methodical—and, in some ways, more ambitious. The project it is advancing, in partnership with the Tech Justice Law Project and others, is to use litigation as…
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