The Future Will Be Woke
Social Disease
I watched oh so many good bloggers get sucked into the black void of Facebook;
As old media looks for a return to the limited and monolithic days of old, it’s a reminder that on the Internet, abandoning the decentralized Blogosphere for the walled gardens of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube was a huge mistake, particularly for conservatives.
The Libranos: Influencer Peddling
@GovCanHealth quietly paid $682K to Twitter influencers ‘not required to reveal they are gov’t paid because that would be embarrassing.’
I assume the disclosure is already being tagged to their accounts.
Update – meet a Health Canada influencer.
Pizzagate, Come Back!
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From this morning’s testimony at the Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. “US and UK military contractors” deployed “sophisticated psychological operations and disinformation tactics… against the American people.”
More: When the FBI does it… (with a shout-out to Canada).
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A HAPPY STORY
4 years ago the bitter commies at Twitter BANNED ALX forever
Never gave a reason
1 yr ago @elonmusk restored ALX
ALX now has +600K followers
Today, ALX BOUGHT the old Twitter sign
Twitter thought they owned ALX, but in the end it was ALX who owns Twitter
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 19, 2023
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A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Biden administration likely violated the First Amendment by pressuring social-media platforms to censor posts about Covid-19 and elections.
The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling says that the White House likely “coerced the platforms to make their moderation decisions by way of intimidating messages and threats of adverse consequences.” The panel of three judges found that the administration “significantly encouraged the platforms’ decisions by commandeering their decision-making processes, both in violation of the First Amendment.”
A lower court previously placed restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with social-media platforms; those restrictions applied to a number of government agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, the State Department, Homeland Security, and the U.S. Census Bureau.
After temporarily blocking the order, the Fifth Circuit judges have now modified the order to apply only to the White House, the surgeon general, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the FBI.
Plus, a blow by blow from Tracy Beanz: I want to stop for a second (again) and go over how monumental this actually is. This is the first time ever that a normal “user” or American has submitted evidence of social media censorship and had their concerns ADDRESSED at all by a COURT OF LAW.
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Nice little space exploration company you have there, be a shame if something happened to it.
Good Stuff
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Biden Administration Ordered Facebook to Change Algorithms to Suppress Conservatives
In one meeting on April 14th, 2021, Flaherty asked Facebook if it was possible to artificially promote outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, instead the Daily Wire and Fox News, particularly commentator Tomi Lahren.
“If you were to change the algorithm so that people were more likely to see NYT, WSJ, any authoritative news source over Daily Wire, Tomi Lahren, polarizing people,” Flaherty asked. “You wouldn’t have a mechanism to check the material impact?” […]
“Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and changed their content moderation policies because of unconstitutional pressure from the Biden White House,” said Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, on Twitter.
Constitutional scholars have also raised the alarm over the revelations, with George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley saying that he has “asked Congress to pass a law barring federal employees from engaging in censorship and targeting of citizens.”
“Agencies have a right to speak in their own voices,” Turley added. “Instead, the Biden Administration sought to engage in what I have called ‘censorship through surrogate.’ This is part of that pattern.”
Fruiti Kaputi
Vegan influencer Zhanna Samsonova has allegedly “died of starvation” after subsisting exclusively on a diet of exotic fruit in Malaysia, according to her friends and family.
She was 39.
The Russian national — who frequently promoted raw foods on social media where she was known to her millions of viewers on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as Zhanna D’Art — reportedly died July 21 after finally seeking medical treatment during a tour in Southeast Asia, according to local media outlet reports.
“A few months ago, in Sri Lanka, she already looked exhausted, with swollen legs oozing lymph,” one unidentified friend told Newsflash. “They sent her home to seek treatment. However, she ran away again. When I saw her in Phuket, I was horrified.”
The Facebook Files
Months ago, I testified before Congress on censorship after Elon Musk’s release of internal Twitter communications, also known as the Twitter Files. I warned that the government was engaging in “censorship by surrogate,” using corporate allies to do indirectly what it is legally prevented from doing directly.
Facebook had refused to open its own files on government censorship efforts. That came to an end when the House Judiciary Committee finally moved to hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress.
The resulting Facebook Files confirmed what many of us have suspected for years. Indeed, the emails proved to be a mirror image of what had occurred at Twitter — a massive effort by the government to pressure the company to censor its critics and other dissenting voices. […]
In an April 2021 email, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s president for global affairs, wrote to colleagues that Andy Slavitt, a senior adviser to Biden who was steering COVID-19 policy, “was outraged — not too strong a word to describe his reaction — that [Facebook] did not remove this post.”
The post was actually a humorous meme shared by a user named Timothy McComas. It featured actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s character from the film “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood,” pointing at a TV with a beer and cigarette in hand. The caption read: “10 years from now, you will be watching TV and hear…. ‘Did you or a loved one take the COVID vaccine? You may be entitled…’”
Slavitt was not amused. More importantly, he was irate that others were amused. Hundreds of thousands of others.
The Most Interesting Man In The World
Breitbart's @EmmaJoNYC Testifies at House Hearing on Censorship of LAPTOP FROM HELL Reporting pic.twitter.com/8VwiJKGzFS
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 20, 2023
10 Absurd Assumptions You Have To Swallow To Believe The White House-Cocaine Failure Theater
Spreading the Wealth
All of those liberals with huge accounts who refused to pay $8 for Twitter Blue are looking silly now.
The payouts for Twitter creators are insane. $5,000 to $20,000 for many.
pic.twitter.com/fMpjDkJZLU— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) July 13, 2023
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I know it’s had its ups and downs, but I don’t care what anyone says – Twitter is still fun.
This is why the internet laughs at you with every new round of newsroom layoffs.
— Katewerk (@katewerk) July 13, 2023
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
From this broader thread on tech-enabled state censorship by Michael Shellenberger, so read it all;
The “FBI, the federal law enforcement agency responsible for disrupting foreign malign influence, facilitated censorship requests to American social media companies on behalf of a Ukrainian intelligence agency infiltrated by Russian-aligned actors.”
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Libs Gotta Lib
National Post- Ottawa, Quebec pull advertising, escalating showdown with Facebook and Instagram
The federal and Quebec governments will stop advertising on Meta-owned platforms Facebook and Instagram as the conflict between the company and Ottawa heats up over legislation that would force web giants to share revenues with news publishers.
Not so fast there buckaroo…
But the Liberal government’s decision does not extend to the party. Liberal Party of Canada spokesperson Parker Lund said in a statement that the party would continue to advertise on Meta-owned platforms. According to the company’s ad library, the party spent nearly $15,000 on over 1,000 ads in the past month.
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Happy birthday, America — and RIP to its newly erected “Ministry of Truth.” That term comes directly from federal Judge Terry Doughty in the Western District of Louisiana, who issued an injunction a couple of hours ago that takes direct aim at the government-media censorship complex. Concluding that plaintiffs in the lawsuit have a strong likelihood of proving that the US government suppressed dissent — and particularly conservative dissent — Doughty ordered the Biden administration and its executive agencies to cease any coordination with social-media companies…