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October 27, 2022

Biden Sanctions Nicaragua (Again)

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. Continue reading

Nicaragua

censorship, facebook, Sanctions, Sandinista, Twitter
October 22, 2022

How the pro-Ukraine NAFO troll operation crowd-funds war criminals

Celebrated in mainstream US media for its anti-Russian trolling, the Twitter operation known as NAFO was founded by a Polish antisemite to raise money for a militia that has hosted war criminals, white nationalists and wanted murderers. Continue reading

NATO, Propaganda, Russia, Ukraine

fascism, internet trolls, NAFO, neo-nazis, trolls, Twitter
September 7, 2022

Ukraine: How British Intelligence Globalized Online Trolling

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… Continue reading

UK, Ukraine

77th brigade, Apple, censorship, disinformation, facebook, Google, Integrity Initiative, Lithuanian Elves, Propastop, social media, StopFake, Twitter
August 23, 2022

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

Alan Macleod’s latest investigation with MintPress delves into the relationship between Western intelligence agencies, the corporate social media giants, and the Department of War Studies at the King’s College of London Continue reading

NATO, UK

CIA, Department of War Studies, facebook, Google, King’s College, MI5, MI6, tiktok, Twitter
August 22, 2022

What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok All Have in Common?

The social media outlets are an open door to organizations like NATO, military suppliers, and the Atlantic Council, with executives making decisions about what content is allowed to circulate widely on social media and what content is encouraged to support U.S. foreign policy goals. Continue reading

Media, Propaganda, Ukraine, USA

azov battalion, euromaidan, Euromaidan Press, facebook, Kiev Independent, NED, New York Times, reddit, Twitter
August 10, 2022

US GOVERNMENT Funds Groups ‘Fact-Checking’ Ukraine Information On Facebook: Alan MacLeod

Staff writer at Mintpress News, Alan MacLeod, discusses the fact-checking organizations that Facebook uses to monitor information about Ukraine that are directly funded by the U.S. government. About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like… Continue reading

Ukraine, USA, Videos

facebook, Google, privacy, social media, surveillance, Twitter
August 3, 2022

Most of the “Fact-Checking” Organizations Facebook Uses in Ukraine Are Directly Funded by Washington

Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Continue reading

Propaganda, Ukraine, USA

Delfi, Demagog, facebook, Fact Check Georgia, fact checkers, Google, Lead Stories, Myth Detector, NED, Patikrinta 15min, Re:Baltica, StopFake, Twitter, VoxCheck
July 26, 2022

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

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… Continue reading

Internet, USA

censorship, CIA, facebook, Google, social media, surveillance, Twitter
July 23, 2022

How The CIA Made Google

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… Continue reading

Europe, Internet, USA

censorship, CIA, DARPA, facebook, Goldman Sachs, Google, Highlands Forum, NSA, surveillance, Twitter
June 22, 2022

The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents

SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment and recruitment websites, MintPress has ascertained that the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust, safety… Continue reading

Internet, USA

censorship, CIA, facebook, FBI, Google, social media, surveillance, Twitter
June 1, 2022

Elon Musk Is Not a Renegade Outsider – He’s a Massive Pentagon Contractor

AUSTIN, TEXAS – Elon Musk’s proposed takeover of Twitter has ruffled many feathers among professional commentators. “Musk is the wrong leader for Twitter’s vital mission,” read one Bloomberg headline. The network also insisted, “Nothing in the Tesla CEO’s track record suggests he will be a careful steward of an important media property.” “Elon Musk is the last person who should take… Continue reading

USA, War

elon musk, Twitter
May 20, 2022

Twitter To Ramp Up Censorship Of ‘Misinformation’ About The Ukraine War

Twitter has published what it calls a “crisis misinformation policy” announcing that it will be actively reducing the visibility of content found to be false which pertains to “situations of armed conflict, public health emergencies, and large-scale natural disasters.” Continue reading

Internet, Media

censorship, Twitter
April 26, 2022

Billionaires Only Come To The Rescue In Movies And Comic Books

Rightists are having a merry old time making fun of the melodramatic reactions from high-profile liberals who fear Elon Musk’s purchase will lead to more free speech on the platform for people who don’t align with them politically, and many of the blue-checkmarked commentariat who live on Twitter and can’t go five minutes without checking their notifications… Continue reading

Media

Twitter
April 15, 2022

More Escalations In Online Censorship

YouTube has been deleting videos disputing the US government narrative about Russian war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, validating concerns we’ve discussed previously that Silicon Valley platforms would begin censoring anyone who challenges the authorized version of events in this war. Continue reading

Media

Amazon, Bucha, censorship, Google, Twitter, Youtube
March 18, 2022

Information Sovereignty More Important Than Ever

The elimination of Russian media across the West and to a greater extent from across US-based social media platforms used worldwide, is a stark demonstration of the power the West still wields within global information space. Continue reading

Media, Propaganda

censorship, facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter
February 27, 2022

‘Russian Propaganda’ Is The Latest Excuse To Expand Censorship

“I’m concerned about Russian disinformation spreading online, so today I wrote to the CEOs of major tech companies to ask them to restrict the spread of Russian propaganda,” US Senator Mark Warner tweeted on Friday. Continue reading

Propaganda

censorship, facebook, Google, Meta, social media, Twitter, Youtube
January 27, 2022

Is it already too late to say goodbye?

It seems we may have reached the moment when it is time to say goodbye. It has been fun, educational and sometimes cathartic – for me at least. I hope you got something from our time together too. I am not going anywhere, of course. Not for now at least. I love to write. For… Continue reading

Media

censorship, facebook, journalism, social media, Twitter
January 20, 2022

ASPI – The Gov’t-Funded Conspiracist Think Tank Now Controlling Your Social Media Feed

That ASPI is now partially in charge of Twitter’s moderation, influencing what hundreds of millions of people see daily, is a grave threat to the free flow of information, as well as to the chances for a peaceful 21st century. Continue reading

Australia, Internet, Propaganda

ASPI, facebook, Google, social media, Twitter
January 3, 2022

Those Who Support Internet Censorship Lack Psychological Maturity

Twitter has permanently suspended the personal account of Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for what the platform calls “repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,” much to the delight of liberals and pro-censorship leftists everywhere. This follows the Twitter ban of Dr Robert Malone on the same grounds a few days prior, which followed an unbroken pattern of continually… Continue reading

Internet

censorship, facebook, Twitter
December 26, 2021

Twitter: Singing in the Rain

Barely two years after becoming a major Twitter shareholder, US hedge fund billionaire Paul Elliott Singer has managed to oust Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. For Twitter users, this will likely mean more aggressive advertising and more political censorship. How can advanced Twitter users respond to this development? Ten suggestions. Continue reading

Internet

censorship, censorship algorithms, Twitter

BOYCOTT TWITTER & FACEBOOK

The richest 1% owns more than TWICE as much wealth as 6.9 billion people and the super-rich one percent of the world’s population has accumulated twice as much wealth as the remaining 90 percent, global charity Oxfam said in a newly-released report. The world’s richest 1% emit double the carbon of the poorest 50%, the 2020 Oxfam study found.

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