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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says his government’s crusade against Elon Musk and X should be an example to the world.

Brazil has blocked Elon Musk’s X social media platform after the SpaceX and Tesla CEO refused to comply with the nation’s demands to blacklist certain accounts. Musk claimed on his platform that the country also froze the assets of Starlink, his satellite internet company.

Breitbart News has compiled a list of 31 questions that CNN’s Dana Bash should ask Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in their first interview.

Breitbart Politics Editor Emma-Jo Morris responds to Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to the House Judiciary Committee acknowledging that Facebook censored her Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” reporting in 2020.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee that the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor certain Covid-related content in 2021, including “human and satire,” expressing regret for not being more outspoken against the government’s actions.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that Facebook killed the Hunter Biden laptop story after the FBI “warned” of a “potential Russian disinformation operation,” and acknowledged that it “shouldn’t have demoted the story.”

Alexander Vindman issued X owner Elon Musk a warning following the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, saying he “should be nervous.”

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France on Saturday after his private jet landed at Le Bourget Airport, French media reported.

Robert F. Kennedy blasted media, who he said have abandoned their role of challenging power to shill for Democrats and suppress political opposition. 

Tim Walz repeated a lie told by California’s Gavin Newsom. Curating age-appropriate material for children is not the same as “banning” books.

Multinational entertainment companies want to move everyone to digital, which gives them control (and ownership) of what we collect.

A leading EU parliamentarian warned Elon Musk that X could be shut down entirely in the bloc over “disinformation and hate speech”.

Chinese censors began deleting coverage of a gruesome story about corpses stolen to provide raw materials for bone grafts.

Court hears of arrest of an internet user for “anti-Muslim and anti-establishment rhetoric” on Sunday.

Free speech advocates struck a critical blow in the war against Big Tech and global elites’ censorship of conservative voices, including Breitbart News, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow explained on Real Talk with Marissa Streit.

Matt Gaetz and Mike Lee plan to hold Google accountable should it try to avoid a court-ordered remedy to address its monopolistic status.

Left-wing “Primal fear” drives them to believe Elon Musk is a greater threat to democracy than “totalitarian censorship” in name of freedom.

The EU distanced itself from censorship threats made by Brussels’ speech code arbiter over Elon Musk’s interview with former President Donald Trump.

A recent study conducted by Accountable Tech, a social media integrity nonprofit, has shed light on the impact of Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to reduce the spread of political content on Instagram.

The EU demanded Monday that X owner Elon Musk abide by its speech restrictions during his planned uncensored interview with Donald Trump.  

Nigel Farage has warned that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer represents the “biggest threat to free speech” in the history of the UK.

Legacy media outlets have blamed Elon Musk and social media for the anti-migration riots and called for more censorship in Britain.

Turkey has blocked access to the children’s online video game “Roblox” because it can allegedly lead to the abuse of children.

UK eyes crackdown on social media, while a Covid-era government spy team monitoring the public for “disinformation” has been brought back. 

A female resident of Beijing was arrested for allegedly making “defamatory claims” about a Chinese Olympic athlete and her coach.

The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) has announced it is shutting down the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) initiative, which organized advertising blacklists to censor conservatives, in response to an antitrust lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X/Twitter earlier this week.

A full-on ‘Twitter beef’ has erupted between X owner and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and the leftist British government.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro announced on Monday that he would “break ties” with WhatsApp, effectively declaring it illegal.

In a recent interview, Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski says that his platform has left markets including Russia, France, and Brazil because the governments are attempting to censor free speech. Meanwhile, competitors including Google’s YouTube go along with countries intent on silencing free speech.

Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis ordered the state’s Department of Financial Services to halt contracts with groups involved in news censorship or blacklisting activities, including media censor NewsGuard.

The Foundation for Freedom Online reports that the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) members, which have been accused of censoring online speech and attempting to silence media outlets including Breitbart News, have received billions in federal contracts.

Meta’s AI assistant and Google’s search autocomplete feature have come under scrutiny for providing inaccurate information related to the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. While Google claims it is trying to improve its feature, Meta has a different excuse for covering up the assassination attempt — its AI was “hallucinating.” 

Tech giant Google has addressed concerns raised by prominent conservatives regarding its search autocomplete function, particularly its censorship of searches related to the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The masters of the universe claims they are “working on improvements” including the autocomplete function.

Facebook has acknowledged an alleged “mistake” in censoring an iconic image of former President Donald Trump following the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, sparking renewed debate over social media content moderation practices. Meta labeled the famous photo as an “altered image,” only later admitting it was a “mistake.”

A 76-year-old pro-life activist from Florida has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging the tech giant violated state law by abruptly shutting down her account without warning or allowing her to save her data.

Renowned legal expert Johnathan Turley has sounded the alarm on the potential threats to free speech posed by media rating systems, particularly focusing on the operations of NewsGuard.