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‘Potentially Monstrous’: Musk’s X May Be On The Verge Of Enforcing Censorship Similar To Predecessor, Experts Say

“Twitter 2.0 is putting the pieces in place for a potentially monstrous censorship regime ahead of 2024 — similar bad-looking policies, similar bad-looking personnel as 2020,” Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, told the DCNF. “So the infrastructure is in place for the worst case scenario to manifest itself months from…

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Conservative blacklist group leader hired to teach ‘economics of disinformation’ class

CEO Clare Melford of the Global Disinformation Index, a London group with two affiliated American nonprofit organizations Republicans have argued is engaged in “censorship” while pocketing U.S. government money, is listed as the trainer for an online class in September on the “economics of disinformation,” according to an application link posted in July. The module is being offered by a little-known project composed…

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Musk’s X seeks job applicants to stop disinformation, promote ‘credible’ election stories

“X is seeking job applicants for two positions on its threat disruption team who are “passionate about protecting users from global disinformation” and “helping people find credible information online” in the context of elections. “Team leader Aaron Rodericks not only touts his profile on X rival BlueSky in his X bio, but is actively recruiting applicants through a subscription newsletter on…

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Fox News: Dem Gov Katie Hobbs requested Twitter censor critics of tweet comparing Trump supporters to Nazis

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs requested the social media website formerly known as Twitter to censor critics of her tweet that compared supporters of former President Donald Trump to Nazis. In August 2017, while serving in the Arizona state legislature, Hobbs attacked Trump in a tweet, when she compared the former president’s voter base to neo-Nazis. “[Trump] has…

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Star News Network: Director of Internet Free Speech Nonprofit Sounds Alarm on ‘Middleware’ Censorship by NewsGuard

The founder of a nonprofit that advocates for freedom of speech on the internet is sounding the alarm on government weaponization of “middleware” companies, which he said are essentially shell organizations for government censorship. “The reason that they call it competitive middleware is because they’re trying to create a competitive industry around middleware compliance to…

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DHS Fed the Corporate Media its Baseless “Domestic Violence Uptick” Claims

Mike did a segment on Emerald Robinson’s web show discussing how the Department of Homeland Security was censoring Americans. They ran through a few different news items, including the new House Judiciary report on CISA censorship. Emerald also spoke about the Department of Homeland Security pushing narratives with the mainstream press that discussed “domestic terrorist…

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