Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is demanding PayPal provide answers about new language added and then removed from its user agreement — asking specifically if the payment processing giant consulted with the Biden administration on the policy.
While discussing The Washington Post’s report on federal agents believing that there is sufficient evidence to bring charges against Hunter Biden and the letter written by former intelligence officials that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian misinformation on Thursday’s
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said the JCPA would create a cartel between government, Big Tech, and media to censor outlets such as Breitbart News.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called for more “collective” action in her address to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, especially on the issues of climate change, nuclear non-proliferation, pandemic response, and opposing wars of aggression like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Brazil’s Federal Police requested authorization from the nation’s Federal Supreme Court this week to formally indict President Jair Bolsonaro with a Chinese coronavirus-related crime, accusing Bolsonaro of having disseminated false information about coronavirus vaccines and for discouraging the use of masks.
The New York Times announced Thursday that it has hired Buzzfeed News’ Ken Bensinger to “pioneer a new beat” covering right-wing media — the same Ken Bensinger, which the Times omits in its announcement, who reported the Steele Dossier.
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), an obstetrician and gynecologist (OB-GYN), wrote an op-ed for Fox News telling Americans to “ignore myths from the left on ectopic pregnancy” following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.
Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) is launching a “disinformation” reporting team, prompting mockery online by those who pointed out the liberal network’s long, sordid history of suppressing information it did not want the public to hear.
A report conducted by a number of think tanks has found that so-called “disinformation” had little effect on recent elections in France.
The Republican Party “systematically undermines democracy,” and the establishment media must call it out, according to a recent Washington Post piece calling on media outlets to stop treating Republicans as “normal politicians” and recognize the GOP for the threat it poses to American democracy.
Big Tech should step in and censor individuals who oppose President Biden’s climate change agenda, National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy told Axios’s Alexi McCammond in an interview last week.
Documents obtained by Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) reveal that the DHS had plans for its Disinformation Governance Board to partner with Big Tech to monitor domestic speech on topics including election security and COVID-19.
Despite having long left the European Union, Brussels appears to now be scheming about bringing the UK back into the bloc’s military ambitions by integrating the country into a common defence framework.
CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy is getting ripped on social media for encouraging the spread of second amendment disinformation regarding secret service security measures for former President Donald Trump’s appearance at the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention Friday.
The alleged hacking of the ProtonMail accounts of Brexit supporters including a former spy chief and leading Members of Parliament (MPs) was the work of Russian hackers, an official from ProtonMail competitor Google has claimed.
Democrats invented the threat of “disinformation” to cope with the psychological pain of their 2016 defeat by Donald Trump, says a liberal New York magazine.
Brandi Buchman, a leftist who self-identifies as a “senior staff writer” for leftist blog Daily Kos “covering Jan. 6 probe,” has been caught spreading disinformation about the January 6 investigation, Breitbart News has learned.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board and argued that the agency’s definition of disinformation could be applied to former President Barack Obama’s promise that people who liked
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), who is a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Advisory Council, said that she doesn’t understand why the agency is creating the Disinformation Governance Board and
Incoming White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who takes over from Jen Psaki at the end of the week, has a history of spreading disinformation and false claims that elections had been stolen when Republicans happened to have won.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News Saturday that the Biden administration is trying to “police speech” with its Disinformation Governance Board, or “DGB,” which she said “sounds a lot like the KGB from the Soviet era.”
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized pushes to deal with social media disinformation for always focusing “on the producers, never the consumers, as if we’re all helpless, dumb blondes ready to believe anything” and said
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) this week introduced a bill designed to dissolve the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board, deeming it unconstitutional in nature.
Nina Jankowicz, the newly-appointed head of the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board, told Congress in October 2020 that she saw no role for the federal government in policing disinformation online.
Nina Jankowicz, Biden’s truth czar, told the new president in 2020 that he should fight disinformation by giving the feds more power.
“I want to be rich famous and powerful! Step on all my enemies and never do a thing,” Jankowicz sings as a piano plays in the background.
Thursday on FNC’s “Hannity,” former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) criticized the Department of Homeland Security’s announcement it was taking measures to crack down on so-called misinformation and disinformation.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday had no idea President Biden’s “Ministry of Truth” suggested Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” was Russian disinformation.
Democrats only understand the danger of their own totalitarian ideas, like a “disinformation” agency, when the partisan shoe is on the other foot.
President Joe Biden’s new disinformation chief Nina Jankowicz argued online mockery of Vice President Kamala Harris and other women in public life was a threat to national security.
Republican officials ripped recent plans of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to set up a “Disinformation Governance Board” intended to combat “misinformation” online, describing it as an “Orwellian abuse of power” and calling to defund it.
Another big tech clampdown on free speech online appears to be forthcoming after the European Union agreed in principle more online censorship laws on Saturday.
Pope Francis has sharply censured journalists for falling into four “sins,” namely “disinformation, slander, defamation, and coprophilia.”
Anne Applebaum of the Atlantic, who helped develop the original “Russia collusion” hoax, told an audience at a University of Chicago “disinformation” conference this week that Hunter Biden’s laptop, which she once dismissed, should be ignored even after it has been authenticated because the president’s son’s business dealings aren’t “interesting.”
A Russian newspaper called Komsomolskaya Pravda, previously noted for its staunch loyalty to the Kremlin, published an article that quickly disappeared from the site on Sunday claiming 9,861 Russian troops have been killed during the invasion of Ukraine.
An investigation has been launched after Ben Wallace MP was fooled into speaking to an impersonator of Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal.
Then-President-elect Joe Biden in 2020 laughed when questioned if Hunter’s laptop is Russian disinformation.
Press freedom advocates report 2021 was another dismal year for journalism around the world. Few of those advocates have examined how the antics of politically biased American corporate media are hurting their cause.
The coronavirus pandemic has been an indisputable boon for authoritarianism. Individual liberty and personal sovereignty are in retreat around the world. Tyrannical China is rising as the dominant world power, having paid no price for unleashing the disease, while the United States and its allies are having deep second thoughts about economic freedom, free speech, and other bulwarks against authoritarian control.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated that the department is working with tech companies “that are the platform for much of the disinformation that reaches the American public, how they can better use
