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We’ve been targeted again

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Friday, 3 May, 2024 — MintPress News

Mnar Adley

Dear supporters,

We are being censored once again!

Without warning or explanation, Instagram removed our ability to go LIVE & collaborate with other accounts for 68 days.

This has significantly decreased our reach by the millions.

We believe we are deliberately being targeted because of our journalism, which is why you should join our ‘Say No to Censorship’ campaign.

Big Tech, which works closely with the Israeli government and military, shouldn’t have this much control over our news feeds.

Our journalists work tirelessly to cover the war state that continues to profit from death and destruction across the Global South, including in Gaza.

Join our ‘Say No to Censorship campaign’ to help us continue our work here at MintPress News.

In solidarity,

Mnar Adley

Founder, Director

MintPress News

Manufacturing Consent

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Monday, 22 April 2023 — MintPress News

Mnar Adley

Dear friends,

🎊 Thank you to the 300+ new supporters who have joined our “Say No To Censorship” campaign since launch.

Feel like you’re missing out? Not to worry…Just add your name right now to our ‘Say No to Censorship’ campaign !

If everyone receiving this email joined our campaign for just $10 per month, we would surpass our goal and be able to continue our exclusive reporting on the ground from Gaza to Yemen & expose the profiteers of war.

We have a limited time left and we need your help so just add your name today to our ‘Say No to Censorship’ campaign !

In solidarity,

Mnar Adley

Director, MintPress News

No Freedom of expression at Bristol’s Arnolfini Gallery

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Sunday, 21 April 2024


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Accountability and freedom of expression at Bristol’s Arnolfini

In December you were among the more than 1000 artists who announced their refusal to engage with Bristol’s Arnolfini until the arts centre took reparative action over the censorship of two cultural events programmed by Bristol Palestine Film Festival in November 2023. Today we are writing to thank you for making this campaign possible and to bring you up to date.

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A Conversation With Daniel Ellsberg: ‘Guilty Of Journalism’ Book Launch

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Tuesday, 7 March 2023 — The Dissenter

By Kevin Gosztola Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg

Shadowproof and Project Censored present a conversation between Kevin Gosztola and Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg to mark the release of Kevin’s book, “Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange.”

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‘Grotesque’: Google, YouTube Invest $12 Million in Global Fact-Checking Media Network

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Wednesday, 30 November 2022 — The Defender

Reacting to Tuesday’s announcement that Google and YouTube will fund a global fact-checking network through the media institute Poynter, media expert Mark Crispin Miller, Ph.D., said, “This is grotesque — almost to the point of comedy, except it’s not funny.”

By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. 

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Claiming that “Combating misinformation is an ongoing global challenge for society,” Google and YouTube on Tuesday said they will spend $12 million to create a Global Fact Check Fund that will support a network of 135 fact-checking organizations operating from 65 countries in more than 80 languages.

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Digital Maps Require Greater Government Oversight

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6 November 2022 — Undark

We rely more on mobile navigation apps than we realize. It’s a mistake to overlook them when regulating Big Tech.

By Benjamin Santos Genta

Even though I have lived in Los Angeles for more than five years, I still regularly open the map on my phone to orient myself, to avoid traffic, and to choose the best restaurants nearby. Anecdotes and data tell me that I’m not alone: The majority of Americans regularly use mobile GPS navigation, even in their own cities. Google Maps, the most popular such app, has more than one billion active monthly users worldwide.

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Biden Sanctions Nicaragua (Again)

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Thursday, 27 October 2022 — MintPress News

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On Monday, President Joe Biden announced new sanctions on Nicaragua’s state-owned mining enterprises. Revenue from these mining operations funds Nicaragua’s social welfare programs. The move comes less than 2 weeks before President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista party is expected to secure major victories in local elections.

Last year, days before Ortega’s re-election, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Nicaragua to intimidate voters into abandoning the Sandinista party. Twitter and Facebook also banned dozens of Nicaraguan activists, influencers, and journalists under the guise of removing botnets.

“We battled the algorithm and won”

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Wednesday, 28 September 2022 — The Electronic Intifada

Omar Zahzah

Meta and Twitter have been accused of censoring Palestinian voices. alexskopje/Newscom

Social media juggernaut Meta Platforms lists “Give People a Voice” as one of the principles on its website.

“People deserve to be heard and have a voice – even when that means defending the right of people we disagree with.”

It seems that Meta employees should have added “fiction writing” to their job description, however. A number of damning recent articles exposing patently unjust experiences of censorship have revealed the company to be more concerned with silencing voices – particularly Palestinian ones.

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Ukraine: How British Intelligence Globalized Online Trolling

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Tuesday, 6 September 2022 — Internationalist 360°

Kit Klarenberg

Since the conflict in Ukraine began, numerous commentators have drawn attention to the blatant weaponization of social media in service of the proxy war.

Legions of users on Facebook, Twitter, and other major platforms, many anonymous and recently registered, have relentlessly propounded pro-intervention, pro-Ukraine propaganda, viciously attacking all those deviating even slightly from established Western narratives. It has created an unprecedented situation, which writer Caitlin Johnstone calls “the most aggressively trolled war of all time.”

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Journalists who challenge NATO narratives are now ‘information terrorists’

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Tuesday, 23 August 2022 — Vanessa Beeley

Vanessa Beeley 

We will have to answer to the ‘law’ as ‘war criminals’

Nazis congregate on Google Plus 2019.

A US state department sponsored round table on ‘countering disinformation’ was recently held at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. 

“Information terrorists should know that they will have to answer to the law as war criminals” Andrii Shapovalov

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How One Spook-Run London College Department Is Training the World’s Social Media Managers

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Monday, 22 August 2022 — MintPress News

Staffed by NATO military officers and former government ministers and notorious for training the West’s top spies, the Department of War Studies at King’s College London is also providing the workforce for many of the largest social media companies. This includes Facebook, TikTok, Google, and Twitter.

A MintPress study of professional databases and employment websites reveals a wide network of War Studies alumni holding many of the most influential jobs in media, constituting a silent army of individuals who influence what the world sees (and does not see) in its social media feeds.
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Independent Journalist Facing 3 Years Prison in Germany For Reporting Truth From Ukraine

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2 July 2022 — News Punch

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German independent journalist Alina Lipp has been defying mainstream media by bravely reporting from Ukraine’s Donbass region. Now the reporter, who has been based in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region for six months, is facing three years in prison in her home country for her “crimes.”

CBS Wanted To Do Critical Reporting On Ukraine’s Government But Ukraine’s Government Said No

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Wednesday, 10 August 2022 — Caitlin Johnson

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Following objections from the Ukrainian government, CBS News has removed a short documentary which had reported concerns from numerous sources that a large amount of the supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t making it to the front lines.

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National Security Search Engine: Google’s Ranks are Filled with CIA Agents

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Monday, 25 July 2022 — MintPress News

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Google – one of the largest and most influential organizations in the modern world – is filled with ex-CIA agents. Studying employment websites and databases, MintPress has ascertained that the Silicon Valley giant has recently hired dozens of professionals from the Central Intelligence Agency in recent years. Moreover, an inordinate number of these recruits work in highly politically sensitive fields, wielding considerable control over how its products work and what the world sees on its screens and in its search results.

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How The CIA Made Google

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26 Januar 2015 — MintPress News

Google ciaThe Google campus-network room at a data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Photo: Connie Zhou/A

Originally published on Medium.

INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora of private sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority.’

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Canada: Government Censorship Rebrands with “Disinformation” Campaign

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Wednesday, 20 July, 2022 — Dissident Voice

by Yves Engler

Last week the Social Media Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Management released a report titled “The reach of Russian propaganda and disinformation in Canada”. According to lead author Anatoliy Gruzd, “the research provides evidence that the Kremlin’s disinformation is reaching more Canadians than one would expect. Left unchallenged, state-sponsored information operations can stoke societal tensions and could even undermine democracy itself.”

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