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December 10, 2021

The political economy of the podcast and the rise of the left entrepreneur

It may seem like another world, but it was only a little over a decade ago that scholars were engaged in an energetic debate over the liberatory nature of the internet. Today, as millions of people spend hours a day on Zoom meetings, navigate their children through ‘online learning’, and write work emails late into… Continue reading

Internet, Media

communication, facebook, podcasts, social media, Twitter
October 6, 2021

Golden age or collapse? Snowden teases future without Big Tech after trolling Facebook throughout disastrous six-hour-long outage

While millions were wailing and gnashing their teeth over the outage affecting Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was having a bit of fun – daring to suggest the world would be better without them. Continue reading

Internet

facebook, Instagram, privacy, social media, surveillance, Twitter
September 30, 2021

60 Hours After Publishing A Fake News Report On Afghanistan The New York Times Still Spreads The Story

On Tuesday I provided that the New York Times and CNN were spreading fake news about Taliban policy in Afghanistan by quoting a hoax tweet from an imposter’s Twitter account. Forty-eight hours later both stories are still uncorrected despite the fact that many have have pointed out the ‘error’ in them. Continue reading

Afghanistan, Media

fake news, NYT, Twitter, Wapo
July 30, 2021

Meet the Censored: Hitler

A young Jewish Internet commentator named Manny Marotta wanted to call attention to the date, for educational purposes. Marotta has been maintaining popular accounts on both Twitter and Instagram called 100 Years Ago Live. His simple, clever, and enlightening mission is to describe history as an actual contemporary might have, in the language of modern social… Continue reading

Internet, Liberties

censorship, Twitter
June 5, 2021

Tech giants help Israel muzzle Palestinians

Israel’s caretaker prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sought to shut down all use of the popular video-sharing app TikTok in Israel last month. The attempt to censor TikTok, details of which emerged last weekend, is one of a number of reported attempts by Israel to control social media content during last month’s military assault on the… Continue reading

Internet, Palestine

7amleh, Adalah, Apple, Emi Palmor, facebook, Gaza, Google, Instagram, israeli censorship, tiktok, Twitter, Youtube
May 24, 2021

Watch Panel Discussion: Israeli Intelligence Colludes with Facebook, Google to Censor Palestinian Voices

The ongoing assault on Palestine has captured the world’s attention. The latest violence was sparked by an attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem by Israeli security forces, resulting in over 300 casualties, as Muslims had gathered to celebrate Ramadan in the region’s holiest place of worship. Outside, far-right groups cheered as the mosque was… Continue reading

Internet, Palestine, Videos

censorship, facebook, Google, social media, Twitter
May 6, 2021

The Censorship Pandemic

During the coronavirus pandemic, the well-known manipulation and censorship on major US internet platforms Google/YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia has reached unprecedented levels. The platforms generally claim to enforce WHO and ‘local health authority’ guidelines, not because they are correct – they were mostly wrong – but because they are deemed “authoritative”. Continue reading

Internet, Propaganda

censorship, facebook, Google, Twitter, wikipedia, Youtube
April 7, 2021

Meet the Censored: U.S. Right to Know

“A nonprofit that investigates Genetically Modified Organisms and the origins of Covid-19 is the latest to see its traffic plunge after a search engine update,” writes Matt Taibbi in TK News. Taibbi reports on the dramatic drop in web traffic U.S. Right to Know experienced after Google’s last core algorithm update in early December – for… Continue reading

Liberties, Media

algorithms, censorship, facebook, Google, Twitter
March 18, 2021

Twitter Deletes QAnon to Protect US from Upheaval; Russia May Delete Twitter for the Same Reason

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has taken action against the QAnon movement, deleting more than 150,000 accounts that promoted the conspiracy theory. This follows a similar crackdown by YouTube. The impetus for the decision was the storming of the Capitol Building on January 6, led by many adherents who believeDonald Trump was leading a fightback against a satanic cult of… Continue reading

Internet, USA

Amazon, censorship, facebook, Google, social media, Twitter, Youtube
February 28, 2021

Twitter’s Attempt to Suppress Grayzone Reporting Backfires as Warning Label Becomes Meme

“These materials may have been attained through hacking.” That is the warning message that any Twitter users coming across a recent Grayzone investigative report are met with, replete with a large exclamation point (!) signaling danger. Continue reading

Media

BBC, Bellingcat, censorship, facebook, grayzone, regime change, Reuters, Twitter
February 28, 2021

Twitter Deletes Dozens of Russian Accounts for “Undermining Faith in NATO”

Social media giant Twitter announced yesterday that it has deleted 373 accounts it claims were linked to Russia, Iran, and Armenia. In a blog post entitled “Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations,” it claimed that it had taken the decision to remove 69 Russian accounts primarily because they were “undermining faith in the NATO alliance… Continue reading

Internet, NATO, USA

ASPI, atlantic council, Ben Nimmo, censorship, facebook, Matt Masterton, Stanford Internet Observatory, Twitter
February 25, 2021

Censorship Gone Mad – ‘Be A Good Citizen!’

Yesterday the censorship department at Twitter went mad. Continue reading

Internet, Media, NATO, UK

BBC, censorship, facebook, Google, Twitter
February 23, 2021

Biden Launches Campaign to Silence Critics of Killer Vaccine

Imagine if an ordinary working man went on a rampage and killed 929 people and maimed 316 others. The media would naturally call such a man a serial killer or a homicidal maniac. Now imagine if a big pharmaceutical company did the same thing by releasing a vaccine that killed and maimed a similar number… Continue reading

Covid-19, Health, Propaganda, USA

censorship, facebook, Google, social media, Twitter, vaccines
November 25, 2020

Meet the Censored: Andre Damon

Increased content moderation has been sold as a tool to control the far right, but the World Socialist Web Site was among the first to sound the alarm Continue reading

Media

censorship, facebook, Google, Twitter, WSWS
November 13, 2020

QAnon Legal Battle Against YouTube Could Transform Free Speech Online

A lawsuit brought against YouTube and parent company Google by 15 QAnon social media stars could end up in the Supreme Court and transform the meaning of online free speech in America. Continue reading

Internet, USA

censorship, facebook, Google, Twitter, Youtube
October 26, 2020

Social media’s erasure of Palestinians is a grim warning for our future

There is a growing unease that the decisions taken by social media corporations can have a harmful impact on our lives. These platforms, despite enjoying an effective monopoly over the virtual public square, have long avoided serious scrutiny or accountability. Continue reading

Media, Palestine

censorship, facebook, Google, social media, Twitter
October 25, 2020

With the Hunter Biden Exposé, Suppression is a Bigger Scandal Than The Actual Story

The incredible decision by Twitter and Facebook to block access to a New York Post story about a cache of emails reportedly belonging to Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s son Hunter, with Twitter going so far as to lock the 200 year-old newspaper out of its own account for over a week, continues to be a major underreported scandal. Continue reading

Ukraine, USA

biden, Burisma, censorship, facebook, Hunter Biden, russiagate, Twitter
October 11, 2020

Lord Advocate Launches War on Twitter

In what we think is a world first, the Lord Advocate of Scotland is claiming in the contempt of court case against me that I am legally responsible for the content of replies to my tweets. Continue reading

Internet, Liberties, Media, UK

tweet, Twitter
October 9, 2020

Battlefield Social Media: The West’s Growing Censorship

Censorship in the West flourishes as tech giants turn social media back into traditional programmed media. Continue reading

Internet, Media

censorship, facebook, social media, Twitter
October 6, 2020

Reporters Claim Facebook is Censoring Information on Julian Assange Case

Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and longtime confidant of Julian Assange, has been fastidiously reporting on the Australian publisher’s extradition hearing to the United States. Yet few people have been reading it. This, according to Murray, is because of a deliberate decision by online media giants to downplay or suppress discussion of the… Continue reading

Internet, Media

assange extradition hearing, censorship, facebook, social media, Twitter

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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.

Pat Robinson

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