Reports

Germany’s Media Regulators to Force Platforms to Elevate ‘Trusted’ Outlets
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Germany’s network of state media regulators — the Landesmedienanstalten — is assembling a regulatory framework that would compel social media platforms to algorithmically privilege government-sanctioned news sources. Under the proposed rules, platforms including X, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram could be legally required to elevate “reliable” media outlets in their feeds, recommendations, and search rankings, with…

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TikTok Censors UK Opposition Party Due to Online Safety Act
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On May 17, TikTok removed a campaign video by Reform UK’s Shadow Home Secretary, Zia Yusuf, in which he criticized mass migration and announced the party’s policy of placing illegal-migrant detention centers in constituencies that vote for pro-migration parties. Yusuf reported that TikTok subsequently removed a second video of his, outlining the policies he would…

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UK Forces X to Work With ‘Anti-Hate’ Nonprofit That Vowed to ‘Kill’ It
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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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CCDH Founder Admits Disinformation Researchers Are the Engine of Global Censorship
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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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US Government Concedes First Amendment Violation in Berenson Settlement
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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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Firewall of Europe: Online Censors Demand EU Blunt US Platforms, Discuss ‘Kinetic Options’ Against US Tech
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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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House Moves to Codify Ban on Federal Censorship in Appropriations Bill
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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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Former Pentagon Minerva Initiative Researcher Compares Conservative Narratives to Foreign Propaganda
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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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Social Media as Nicotine: ‘Harms’ Approach Takes Center Stage at Cambridge Disinfo Summit
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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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