Internet Censorship: So it continues...

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• U.S. Constitution Tagged With "Harmful Language Alert" By National Archives:

This alert shows up for many pages of the U.S. National Archives, linking to a page about “NARA’s Statement on Potentially Harmful Content,” criteria which they define as:

– reflect racist, sexist, ableist, misogynistic/misogynoir, and xenophobic opinions and attitudes;
– be discriminatory towards or exclude diverse views on sexuality, gender, religion, and more;
– include graphic content of historical events such as violent death, medical procedures, crime, wars/terrorist acts, natural disasters and more;
– demonstrate bias and exclusion in institutional collecting and digitization policies.

As The National Pulse noted, the warning does NOT appear on some pages that could be considered more appropriate, such as the page about Jim Crow, which uses the N-word at least half a dozen times.

It also doesn’t appear on a page that features a slur for Jewish people.

But the archive thought it prudent to be featured for the U.S. Constitution, one of the most important documents in world history and America’s principles for a limited federal government.

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• Elon Musk Just STOPPED Using Twitter And Here's Why!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wACRz3eCNg0

• He is active again on twitter with 100,000,000+ followers!

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• Elon Musk SLAMS Twitter Over Jordan Peterson Suspension, Midler And Gray FOLD After Woke Backlash:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rj6J-4Gs-5M

• Dave Rubin Savages Twitter After Being Banned for Saying Basic Facts | Direct Message | Rubin Report:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UhCTcU01ikY

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about his Twitter ban, Jordan Peterson’s refusal to take down his tweet referring to Elliot Page as Ellen Page, and Elon Musk’s response; Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino, and Douglas Murray exposing the hypocrisy of Twitter censorship; Lori Lightfoot’s ridiculous calls for civility; Bill Maher roasting Twitter over its handling of the Hunter Biden expose in the NY Post; Karine Jean-Pierre getting confused when confronted about Joe Biden’s lying; and Kari Lake showing how handle a CNN interview request. First, Dave addresses his suspension from Twitter for retweeting Jordan Peterson’s tweet that referred to Ellen Page. Many pointed out the hypocrisy of Jordan Peterson being banned. Even Elon Musk weighed in on the suspension acknowledging that Twitter has gone too far “in squashing dissenting opinions”. Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was stunned into silence when Fox News’ Peter Doocy pointed out that the leaked voicemail of Joe Biden leaving a message for Hunter Biden proves that Joe was lying when he claimed he had never discussed business dealings with his son. Even Bill Maher was livid when discussing how Twitter dealt with the Hunter Biden laptop story. By banning the NY Post and the sharing of the Hunter Biden story Twitter proved that they don’t have the ability to check facts. Finally, Arizona Governor candidate Kari Lake shamed CNN host Kyung Lah when she requested an interview. Lake showed how to expose the media to their audience’s face for the propaganda that they are.

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How the Media Secretly Carries Out Assignments for the CIA
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
July 06, 2022
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...rid=1540561005

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VKZ5ksMg2Q4

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
The “anti-disinformation” industry has nothing to do with protecting a gullible public from information that might cause them to make bad or unhealthy choices.
It’s about creating and directing a narrative for the purpose of controlling the population and hiding truths that might overthrow the ruling cabal and its plans for a one world government
In 1948, the CIA’s Office of Special Projects launched Operation Mockingbird, a clandestine CIA media infiltration campaign that involved bribing hundreds of journalists to publish fake stories at the CIA’s request
During the Cold War, CIA propaganda disparaged communist ideologies.
Today, it promotes radical ideas that bring us closer to The Great Reset — which is based on a technocratic economic system — instead
Most of the organizations claiming to promote truth and counter disinformation are in fact doing the exact opposite.
The latest and most blatant example of this was the Biden administration’s “Ministry of Truth” — the Disinformation Governance Board, set up by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Evidence shows scholars and academics who speak out against the establishment narrative on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine are being targeted by media personalities working hand-in-hand with the intelligence apparatus

The June 21, 2022, Grayzone article,1 “British Security State Collaborator Paul Mason’s War on ‘Rogue Academics’ Exposed,” shines a great big light on what the “anti-disinformation” industry is really all about.

Spoiler alert: It has nothing to do with protecting a gullible public from information that might cause them to make bad or unhealthy choices. No, it’s about creating and directing a narrative for the purpose of controlling the population and hiding truths that might overthrow the ruling cabal and its plans for a one world government.

Operation Mockingbird
Propaganda is as old as humanity itself, but the modern version of it can be traced back to 1948, when the CIA’s Office of Special Projects2 launched Operation Mockingbird,3,4 a clandestine CIA media infiltration campaign that involved bribing hundreds of journalists to publish fake stories at the CIA’s request.

The CIA reportedly spent $1 billion a year (about one-third of its entire budget5) on this enterprise. CIA-recruited journalists worked in most major news organizations, including CBS News, Time, Life, Newsweek and The New York Times, just to name a few.6 Later on, the campaign expanded to include foreign media as well.7 As reported by the Free Press:8

“In 1976, Senator Frank Church’s investigation into the CIA exposed their corruption of the media ... The tactic was straightforward. False news reports or propaganda would be provided by CIA writers to knowing and unknowing reporters who would simply repeat the falsehoods over and over again.”

During the Cold War, CIA propaganda disparaged communist ideologies. Today, it promotes radical ideas that bring us closer to The Great Reset — which is based on a technocratic economic system — instead.

Media Is More Controlled Than Ever
While Operation Mockingbird is said to have been officially dismantled, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest it’s still in operation. If anything, the system has only gotten more efficient and effective, as the number of major media outlets has shrunk over these past decades, and a vast majority of journalists and news anchors simply parrot what’s reported by the three global news agencies.

What’s more, the CIA isn’t the only intelligence agency using the media for its own propaganda purposes. The intelligence agencies in other countries do it too.

For example, leaked documents9 reveal Reuters and BBC News received multimillion-dollar contracts to advance a covert propaganda program by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) aimed at weakening Russia’s influence over its neighbors.10 You can learn more about this in “Reuters and BBC Caught Taking Money for Propaganda Campaign.” https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/r...ganda-campaign

One of the biggest changes we’re seeing right now is that most of the world’s intelligence agencies are controlling media in the same direction — toward The Great Reset and the technocratic control of the global population. That’s why we’re seeing the same narratives playing all over the world.

In 1977 Carl Bernstein wrote a 75-page article for Rolling Stone that exposed the CIA’s involvement with the media in even greater detail.11 Those were the days when Rolling Stone actually did decent investigative journalism. Today they are one of the largest spreaders of government disinformation.

It’s the Opposite of What They Claim It Is
It’s no small irony that most of the organizations claiming to promote truth and counter disinformation are in fact doing the exact opposite. The latest and most blatant example of this was the Biden administration’s “Ministry of Truth” — the Disinformation Governance Board,12,13 set up by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

It didn’t quite go as planned though. It was announced and then canceled just as quickly in the face of political and public backlash. The Orwellian connotations were just so blatant, few were able to dismiss them.

Perhaps they overestimated the level of brainwashing achieved over the past two years. They probably thought they could get away with what amounts to ripping up the U.S. Constitution in front of everyone’s face, but the time was not yet ripe for that kind of frontal assault.

If anything, it worked against them because many have suspected government uses media and Big Tech to censor and control narratives, and the past two years have provided undeniable evidence of that reality. So, the attempt to formalize this unlawful influence completely failed — for now.

Covert Assault on Academics
Getting back to The Grayzone story, Paul Mason, “one of Britain’s most prominent alleged left-wing journalists,” and other “covert helpers,” were found to have targeted scholars and academics who spoke out against the establishment narrative on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

As explained by Jimmy Dore in the featured video, Mason is basically pretending to be a left-leaning journalist but is working with the intelligence community to destroy political opponents. Emails obtained by The Grayzone and reviewed by Dore shows Mason is in favor of “relentless deplatforming,” getting people kicked off PayPal, demonetized by YouTube and so on. The Grayzone writes:14

“Amidst his campaign to neutralize the UK antiwar left, Paul Mason declared in an email to several academics willing to inform on and undermine their own colleagues: ‘the far left rogue academics is who I’m after ... The important task is to quarantine their ‘soft’ influencers and expose/stigmatize the hard ideologists.’

Mason’s fishing expedition was conducted in apparent coordination with Andy Pryce, a senior British intelligence official involved in a series of malign information warfare and censorship initiatives.

The journalist’s key academic enabler, self-styled counter-disinformation researcher Emma Briant, not only helped further his campaign to target antiwar figures, but furnished bogus claims about one individual which appears to have inspired a BBC smear piece ... Many of those she snitched on considered her a colleague and even a comrade.”

The Grayzone details how Briant introduced Mason with two individuals who would be able to furnish a meme-tracing tool to determine their source. Mason specifically wanted to find out “who in Britain denies the Bucha massacre” (thinks it’s a false flag) and/or believes Russia’s justifications for the invasion of Ukraine.

Ironically, the people Mason was most eager to trap weren’t falling into it, as they weren’t publicly discussing their views. Briant then offered to provide Mason with the names of the main organizers of an academic mailing list called “Organized Persuasive Communication,” run by Piers Robinson, described by Grayzone as “a dissident academic who has been relentlessly targeted in UK mainstream media.”

“Robinson was shocked to learn that a participant on his listserv was ratting out fellow members to a security state collaborator,” The Grayzone writes.15 “‘I’m dismayed that a former colleague whom I have supported over the years appears to have abused an academic listserv,’ Robinson told The Grayzone.

‘Rather than engaging in open debate and critique, which would have been the scholarly and ethical thing to do, Briant has instead sought to support what seems to be underhand and nefarious attempts to damage reputations and silence critics.’”

In the featured Jimmy Dore Show video, Dore interviews Max Blumenthal, a Grayzone contributor, about this and related stories they’ve written about Mason and his covert relationship with the British government. Blumenthal details how The Grayzone was censored by YouTube, for the first time ever, after they started exposing Mason, and it seems clear YouTube was responding to demands by Mason himself.

This suggests he is indeed working for or with British intelligence. We’ve seen the same kind of censoring at the request of the U.S. government.

A Case of the Pot Calling the Kettle Black
One of the people singled out by Briant as a Russian collaborator was Greg Simons, “a communications researcher at Sweden’s Uppsala University specializing in Russian mass media,” whose only crime was filling out and circulating a survey relating to conflicts and war on the behalf of a Russian academic who was working on a research paper.

Not even the Russian academic could be rightly accused of being a threat to democracy, as he’d “played a key role in Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberalization agenda, freeing political prisoners, ending regulations on foreign travel, and enshrining fundamental rights in the country’s new constitution,” The Grayzone writes. Commenting on Briant’s betrayal, Simons told The Grayzone:16

“This puts a big spotlight on the professional integrity and knowledge of Briant, who spreads propaganda and misinformation on people, something claims on her Twitter profile to fight. It also demonstrates a clear lack of personal integrity and deficiency in knowledge on topics that she claims to be an expert in.”

The Spook Behind It All
Behind Mason’s and Briant’s pet project to “neutralize the U.K.’s grassroots antiwar left” is Andy Pryce, founding director of the Counter Disinformation and Media Development (CDMD) program at the British Foreign Office. In 2018, Pryce was also “exposed as a key player in the scandalous MI6/military intelligence project known as the Integrity Initiative.” The Grayzone writes:

“A January 2020 European Commission event listing identifies Pryce as the head of public diplomacy at UKREP, London’s diplomatic mission to the EU.

However, the same month Pryce appeared at the EU event, UKREP was replaced with a new office, the UK Mission to Europe, and Pryce has not been publicly mentioned in any official capacity since. So where did he go?

In his communications with Mason, Pryce mentions his personal involvement in activities placing him at the forefront of London’s public relations strategy on the Ukraine crisis, which is delivered by the recently formed Government Information Cell (GIC) and Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU).

Staffed by spies and charged with disseminating intelligence through the media and other forums for the purpose of information warfare, both the units have operated in highly clandestine fashion. Largely unknown to the public, they have played a pivotal part in NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine.”

‘Conspiracy Theorist’ Is a Propaganda Smear
Over the past two years, the terms “conspiracy theory” and “conspiracy theorist” have become household terms for anything and everyone who doesn’t agree with whatever crazy story the media claim to be fact. Few seem to realize that in using these terms, they’ve fallen for the oldest propaganda methods there is: When you can’t argue with the facts, just attack the person delivering them.

Calling someone a ‘conspiracy theorist’ is a strategy aimed at silencing dissent in general and truth in particular, plain and simple.
Belittling people and making them look silly, stupid, ignorant, gullible or incompetent are classic attack strategies by propagandists who don’t really have a leg to stand on otherwise. It’s all about firing up people’s negative emotions, which makes them less likely to sit back and evaluate both sides.

So, calling someone a “conspiracy theorist” is a strategy aimed at silencing dissent in general and truth in particular, plain and simple. In terms of health, COVID-19 reporting has taken censorship and media manipulation to brand new heights, eclipsing just about all previous propaganda efforts. They don’t even hide the bias anymore.

Many believe that the term “conspiracy theory” was actually created by the CIA in 1967 to disqualify those who questioned the official version of John F Kennedy’s assassination and doubted that his killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, had acted alone. It makes perfect sense since Oliver Stone has shared credible evidence that the CIA was behind the JFK assassination.

When it comes to the COVID jab, for example, we know the U.S. government spent $1 billion on a media campaign to build public confidence in, and uptake of, the injections using mainstream news outlets.17

In return for that paycheck, media rabidly lashed out at anyone who questioned the unsupported claim that the shots were “safe and effective” as either a crazy conspiracy theorist, an ignorant science-denier, a dangerous misinformation agent with a personal profit motive, a domestic terrorist hell-bent on maximizing the death toll, or all four. All the while, media never actually countered the data showing the narrative was riddled with holes and contradictory at its face.

How to Identify True Journalism

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nibNhMumtss

An example of how these kinds of smears have been, and continue to be, used by media, consider the June 19, 2022, Guardian article18 by Mark Townsend. He wrote:

“A network of more than two dozen conspiracy theorists, frequently backed by a coordinated Russian campaign, sent thousands of disinformation tweets to distort the reality of the Syrian conflict and deter intervention by the international community, new analysis reveals.”

As reported by The Hill (video above), Townsend identified Grayzone journalist Aaron Maté as “the most prolific spreader of disinformation” about the Syrian conflict “among the 28 conspiracy theorists identified.”

In a tweet, Maté responded to the article, stating Townsend had failed to contact him for comment, failed to provide any example of his alleged “disinformation” on the Syrian conflict, and failed to disclose the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) think tank responsible for the “analysis” is funded by the U.S. and U.K. governments and allied nations.

According to The Hill, Townsend was on vacation and not available for comment, but Katie Halper, who cohosts the “Useful Idiots” podcast with Maté came on to discuss Townsend’s attempted hack job. “Perhaps this can be a teachable moment for Townsend,” she said.

Not only did Townsend violate three basic standards of journalism, but the article’s main premise is also based on a lie, Halper says. The Guardian actually corrected the initial headline, which read “Russia-Backed Network of Syria Conspiracy Theorists Identified.” Since there’s no evidence of Russia backing any of these individuals, the headline was changed to the slightly less libelous “Network of Syria Conspiracy Theorists Identified.”

Townsend’s piece appears to be nothing more than a government-backed “Mockingbird”-style counterattack aimed at silencing Maté, who has been challenging the official narrative about the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria,19 and even delivered remarks to the United Nations Security Council on the matter.20

Considering he’s implicating both the U.S. and U.K., it seems rather obvious that Townsend’s article is an intentional propaganda piece aimed at chipping away Maté’s credibility. It can be helpful to always remember that we are, in fact, at war. It’s an information war, and the ruling powers whose aim it is to usher us into a new system of technocracy have many secrets.

They’ve rigged the game of life in a thousand different ways, and if people understood just how we’ve been robbed and enslaved, they’d become uncontrollable. Hence, the propaganda machine is in full swing, trying to control all aspects and shut down all truth tellers, lest the populace get wise to their games.

Truly, this now applies to just about every part of life. Politics, election integrity, the economy, the food system, energy, health and medicine, wars and conflicts — you name it — it’s all been rigged and it’s all falling apart.

The old guard is shooting for a controlled demolition of the old so they can transition to the new — which will be even more enslaving — but in order for that sleight of hand to work, pesky truth tellers must be silenced and the populace kept intellectually sedated. Don’t fall into that trap. One way to avoid it, is to interpret smears for what they are — attempts to silence. And ask yourself what the propagandists don’t want you to know."

- Sources and References
1, 14, 15, 16 The Grayzone June 21, 2022
2, 6, 8 Free Press July 17, 2013
3, 7 ATI March 12, 2018
4, 5 SGT Report October 7, 2019
9 Telegraph Trojan Horse Undermining Russia
10 The GrayZone February 20, 2021
11 Carl Bernstein, The CIA And The Media
12 The Postmillenial April 27, 2022
13 Daily Mail April 27, 2022, Updated April 28, 2022
17 TheBlaze, March 3, 2022
18 The Guardian June 19, 2022
19 Aaron Mate Substack December 6, 2021
20 Grayzone April 18, 2021

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• Elon Musk Reacts to Jordan Peterson's Twitter Suspension:

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• Jimmy Dore: It's All BULLSH*T:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QEjs_LO9cJo

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• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press' New Filing Demands Transparency in Biden Diary Case:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ud31Q2GH4Nc

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (“RCFP”) has, once again, filed in support of Project Veritas demanding transparency from the Department of Justice.

Almost a year and a half removed from the November of 2021 FBI raids at the homes of Project Veritas journalists, which prompted mass outrage from groups like the ACLU, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the RCFP, the government continues to opt for secrecy.

Just a month after the raids, Magistrate Judge, Sarah Cave, who signed the warrants against
Project Veritas, denied the RCFP request to unseal the affidavits.

Then, on May 13, 2022 the ACLU felt compelled to join the fight and wrote a letter to Federal District Court Judge Analisa Torres. In that letter, the ALCU wrote, “Even if Judge Cave's order were correct when it was issued, the light subsequently shed on the government's investigation may have diminished the need for continued secrecy with respect to substantial portions of the search warrant materials, making redaction more feasible than it might have appeared previously.”
Now, the RCFP has appealed the denial to Federal District Court Judge, Analisa Torres.
The government, once again, argued against both the RCFP’s and the ACLU’s request to unseal
the affidavits that led to the FBI raids.

In a new video, Project Veritas founder and CEO, James O’Keefe, dissects the government’s argument that have been able to identify any instance in which a federal court granted the extraordinary relief they seek.

O’Keefe notes, “Well, that's because it never f**king happened before. Of course, there's no instance. You've never raided the New York times. You've never raided CNN. Because that's not allowed under United States law. You broke the law so egregiously, and then you say, ‘there's never been an instance where we've done this before.’ That's tautological.”

Additionally the in their new filling, RCFP rejected the argument that an “ongoing investigation” is enough to justify keeping the government's misdeeds hidden from the public.
“When the government resists disclosure of search warrant materials, courts have generally required it to submit evidence and argument specifically addressing the factual circumstances at hand,” RCFP argued.

The government’sposition is, “The requirement that a court makes specific findings supporting ceiling does not mean that the findings must be unique to that particular case.”
The government also argued, “There's a vast gulf between a news outlet reporting a particular fact and the government disclosing that fact.” The RCFP argued in response, “Much of the reporting on the government's investigation appears to be based in part on disclosures made by the government itself to members of the news media, See, Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt, How Ashley Biden’s Diary Made Its Way to Project Veritas, N.Y. Times (December
16, 2021), nyti.ms/3rZSetJ (stating that the Times’s reporting was based on ‘[e]xtensive interviews with people involved in or briefed on the investigation’ as well as “a review of court filings, police records, and other material . . . .’”).

At the end of Project Veritas’ new video O’Keefe ends with this:

Does it not matter that unsealing the affidavit is likely to prove the government violated the law in raiding me and my journalists and would prove Project Veritas’ innocence? What are they hiding? Why are they afraid of this affidavit being unsealed? And just who are they protecting? Now, federal judge Torres must decide if the government can simultaneously disclose only their favorite details of their ‘super-secret investigation’ to the New York Times, while simultaneously shielding their unconstitutional actions from the public's view. For federal judge Torres to rule against Project Veritas, and to rule against the press itself, as well as the ACLU and the Reporters Committee would be the greatest authoritarian power grab by the government in United States history.

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• JP Reacts to Jordan Peterson's Twitter Ban:

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• Freedom Fest Highlights: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction - Adventures In Investigative Journalism:

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• Project Veritas Takes CNN to 11th Circuit Court in Defamation Lawsuit:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hqsKgx8uW5g

• Project Veritas is appealing a decision from a federal judge who sided with CNN’s request to dismiss a defamation case against them despite that judge agreeing that there was a difference between the facts and what CNN reported.

• Last year, Project Veritas sued CNN for defamation claiming the journalist organization was suspended from Twitter for “misinformation,” despite CNN knowing that Project Veritas was suspended for inadvertently displaying a lamppost with a house number (but nothing else) on it.

• In a video breaking down the decision to appeal the judge’s decision in this suit, Project Veritas Founder and CEO, James O’Keefe, attributed the dismissal to “flawed caselaw” and “mental gymnastics.”

• Federal Judge Steve Jones’ decision: “While there is some difference between violating a policy by providing incorrect or misleading information and violating a policy by truthfully providing someone’s private information... the distinction is not enough to make the statement at issue actionable as both violations are similarly damaging to the journalist’s reputation.”

• Project Veritas has appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and their lawyers argue that accusing a journalist of publishing something false is substantially different, and damaging, than accusing a journalist of publishing the truth.

[NEW YORK – JULY 20, 2022] Project Veritas announced in a new video that they have appealed Federal Judge Steve Jones’ decision to dismiss a defamation suit against CNN.

Project Veritas’ defamation suit against CNN stems from the network’s knowingly false claim that the nonprofit journalist organization was suspended on Twitter because of “misinformation.”

In reality, Twitter banned Project Veritas because the organization inadvertently failed to blur a lamppost in a video posted to the platform.

CNN knew this. Days before CNN’s false broadcast aired, CNN Business’ Brian Fung correctly reported the facts, citing the Twitter policy and even sought comment from a Twitter spokesperson. Even anchor Ana Cabrera tweeted the correct facts out, but days later, Cabrera incorrectly stated on-air that Project Veritas was banned for spreading misinformation while CNN anchor Brian Stelter, who hosts a show called Reliable Sources, backed her up during the same show segment. In their Motion to Dismiss Project Veritas’ lawsuit, CNN defended their publication of false information.

In his decision, Federal Judge Steve Jones agreed that CNN misreported the facts yet sided with CNN’s motion to dismiss.

In a video breaking down the decision to appeal the judge’s decision in this suit, Project Veritas Founder and CEO James O’Keefe attributed the dismissal to “flawed case law” and “mental gymnastics.”

Judge Jones’ decision was based on his interpretation of harm: While there is some difference between violating a policy by providing incorrect or misleading information and violating a policy by truthfully providing someone’s private information... the distinction is not enough to make the statement at issue actionable as both violations are similarly damaging to the journalist’s reputation.

When now-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch served on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, he criticized the approach this district court has taken in saying a lie is equally damaging as the truth.

Such an approach “…asks courts to compare harms flowing from statements on radically different matters that may even be incommensurable,” wrote Gorsuch in Bustos v. A & E Television Networks.

As noted in American Muckraker, Neil Gorsuch highlighted the media’s propensity for libel in a recent criticism of New York Times v. Sullivan saying that the published falsehoods are on a scale so great, “it has come to leave far more [Americans defamed] without redress than anyone could have predicted.”

Project Veritas has appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on similar merits, and its lawyers argue that accusing a journalist of publishing something false is substantially different, and damaging, than accusing a journalist of publishing the truth.

• From the Project Veritas Appellate Brief:

Cabrera thus accused Veritas of an act of misconduct (publishing false information) when Veritas had in fact engaged in a completely different act (publishing truthful but (supposedly) private information). Under a straightforward application of settled law, Cabrera’s statement was thus not ‘substantially true,’ and the district court erred in holding otherwise…The district court’s opinion makes clear that in holding Cabrera’s defamatory statement ‘substantially true,’ it is fundamentally misconstrued the substantial truth inquiry. Rather than comparing the ‘gist or substance’ of Cabrera’s statement of the true facts, the district court compared the magnitude of harm that it believed Veritas suffered from Cabrera’s defamatory statement to the magnitude of harm it believed Veritas would have suffered if Cabrera had instead reported the truth.

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Fauci, Top Biden Officials Subpoenaed in Lawsuit Alleging They Colluded With Social Media to Suppress Free Speech
By Megan Redshaw
07/21/22
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/d...4f7-4ec7-9b67-

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"Top-ranking Biden administration officials — including Dr. Anthony Fauci — and five social media giants have 30 days to respond to subpoenas and discovery requests in a lawsuit alleging the government colluded with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech “under the guise of combatting misinformation.”

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on Wednesday served third-party subpoenas on Twitter, Meta (Facebook’s parent company), Youtube, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Schmitt and Landry on Tuesday filed discovery requests seeking documents and information from the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Fauci, its director; White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre; Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy; and former Disinformation Governance Board executive director Nina Jankowicz.

Discovery requests also were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its director, Jen Easterly; the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

“In May, Missouri and Louisiana filed a landmark lawsuit against top-ranking Biden Administration officials for allegedly colluding with social media giants to suppress free speech on topics like COVID-19 and election security,” Schmitt said in Tuesday’s press release.

Schmitt added:

“Earlier this month, a federal court granted our motion for expedited discovery, allowing us to collect important documents from Biden Administration officials. Yesterday, we served discovery requests and today served third-party subpoenas to do exactly that.

“We will fight to get to the bottom of this alleged collusion and expose the suppression of freedom of speech by social media giants at the behest of top-ranking government officials.”

Schmitt announced in a July 12 statement that Terry Doughty, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, ruled in favor of a June 17 motion for expedited preliminary injunction-related discovery and set a timetable with specific deadlines for depositions.

According to Schmitt, government officials “both pressured and colluded with social media giants Meta, Twitter and Youtube to censor free speech in the name of combating so-called ‘disinformation’ and ‘misinformation,’ which led to the suppression and censorship of truthful information on several topics, including COVID-19.”

“The Court’s decision cleared the way for Missouri and Louisiana to gather discovery and documents from Biden Administration officials and social media companies,” Schmitt said in a press release on Tuesday.

“The order states, ‘The First Amendment obviously applies to the citizens of Missouri and Louisiana, so Missouri and Louisiana have the authority to assert those rights,’” he said.

In a statement on Twitter announcing the court’s decision to grant the attorneys general’s request, Schmitt said, “No one has had the chance to look under the hood before — now we do.”

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Children’s Health Defense (CHD) President Mary Holland, who also serves as CHD general counsel, praised the ruling:

“CHD welcomes this groundbreaking ruling from Judge Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana to discover whether the Biden administration has violated the First Amendment through censorship.

“For two years, CHD and many other media outlets have not been able to comprehend the mechanisms whereby our major media platforms have ruthlessly censored, suppressed and distorted our information.

“Now, through the discovery process that the judge has allowed, we’ll find out how Meta, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube have been colluding with the federal government to curb so-called ‘disinformation’ and ‘misinformation.’ This is a new day.”

Fauci, CDC, White House press secretary and more must turn over documents

According to the press release, Fauci, chief medical advisor to President Biden and director of the NIAID, was asked to turn over any communications with social media platforms related to content modulation and/or misinformation, and to disclose all meetings with any social media platform related to the subject and to provide all communications with Mark Zuckerberg from Jan. 1, 2020, to the present.

Fauci also must turn over all communications with any social media platform related to the Great Barrington Declaration; the authors and original signers of the Great Barrington Declaration; Dr. Jay Bhattacharya; Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D.; Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Sunetra Gupta, Ph.D.; Dr. Scott Atlas; Alex Berenson; Peter Daszak, Ph.D.; Shi Zhengli, Ph.D.; the Wuhan Institute of Virology; EcoHealth Alliance; and/or any member of the so-called “Disinformation Dozen,” including CHD chairman and chief legal counsel Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is required to identify every officer, official, employee, staff member, personnel, contractor or any other person associated with the White House communications team who communicated or is communicating with any social media platform related to content modulation and/or misinformation — and to turn over those communications.

Jean-Pierre also must identify all persons who “engage[s] regularly with all social media platforms about steps that can be taken” to address misinformation on social media, which engagement “has continued, and … will continue,” as stated during an April 25 White House press briefing — and turn over all communications with any social media platform involved in such engagement.

Defendant Nina Jankowicz, who was tasked with heading up the Biden administration’s “Disinformation Governance Board” must provide all documents related to communications with social media platforms and content modulation and/or misinformation.

Jankowicz is required to identify the nature, purpose, participants, topics to be discussed and topics actually discussed at the meeting between DHS personnel and Twitter executives Nick Pickles and Yoel Roth scheduled on or around April 28.

The CDC is required to provide the names of every officer, official, employee, staff member, personnel, contractor or agent of CDC or any other federal official or agency who communicated or is communicating with any social media platform regarding content modulation and/or misinformation.

The CDC must disclose communications with any social media platform related to content modulation or misinformation, any meetings that took place with social media platforms related to content modulation and/or misinformation, and must identify all “members of our senior staff” and/or “members of our COVID-19 team” who are “in regular touch with … social media platforms,” as “Jennifer Psaki [former White House press secretary] stated at a White House press briefing on or around July 15, 2021.”

The agency must also disclose all “government experts” who are federal officers, officials, agents, employees or contractors, who have “partnered with” Facebook or any other social media platform to address misinformation and/or content modulation, including all communications relating to such partnerships.

Like Fauci, the CDC must turn over information and communications on the “so-called disinformation dozen,” Great Barrington Declaration, alternative news outlets and key experts and scientists who have spoken out against the government’s approach to treating COVID-19 or mandating face masks and lockdowns.

Meta (Facebook) was “commanded” to produce all communications with any federal official relating to misinformation and/or content modulation, to produce all documents and communications-related actions taken based in whole or in part on information received, directly or indirectly, from any federal official and to produce all communications and documents related to a list of search terms that include Kennedy’s name and/or the names of prominent doctors and physicians who were censored for their views on COVID-19.

Facebook also must disclose meetings, communications and documents related to remarks made by Psaki, who said the White House is “in regular touch with these social media platforms, and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff, but also members of our COVID-19 team,” and regarding the White House’s efforts to flag “problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.”

Similar requests were made to other government officials and social media platforms, including Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Lawsuit alleges collusion to suppress disfavored speakers and viewpoints

Attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri in May filed a lawsuit alleging government defendants “colluded with and/or coerced social media companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content on social media platforms by labeling the content ‘disinformation,’ ‘misinformation’ and ‘malinformation.’”

The count lawsuit alleges social media companies falsely labeled truthful content “disinformation” and “misinformation” and contends the suppression constitutes government action, violating free speech protected by the U.S. constitution.

The complaint also alleges that DHS’ Disinformation Governance Board was created “to induce, label, and pressure the censorship of disfavored content, viewpoints and speakers on social-media platforms,” and that HHS and DHS violated the Administrative Procedure Act to “hold unlawful and set aside final agency actions” that are deemed to be an abuse of power and arbitrary and capricious.

The lawsuit provides several examples of truthful information that was censored by social media companies who later admitted the content was truthful or credible.

According to The Epoch Times, the lawsuit could help bring to light the Biden administration’s “behind-the-scenes efforts” to discourage the dissemination of information related to the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins and the efficiency of masks and lockdowns."

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• The Truth About Cancel Culture:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jflsEm_3Mwk

• full show

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• NYT Admits It Was ‘Wrong’ About Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax Reporting:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wpLWhWtKhc4

A New York Times columnist has published an article detailing his “wrong” and regretful reporting of Donald Trump voters before the 2016 election – admitting the Russia collusion story was “bogus” and a “hoax”.

[Bill Ryan]

This video by Chris Martenson (still up on Odysee, link below) was deleted by YouTube from his YT account.

The title was: Farmer Rebellion!!

https://odysee.com/@Chris_Martenson:...-rebellion!!:d

Chris wrote on his email weekly news feed:

https://peakprosperity.com/censored-again

Censored Again!



Well, we just received a YouTube “strike” for allegedly spreading “medical disinformation.” This means we are unable to post anything for a week to our channel and raises the prospect of losing the entire channel permanently.

My crime?

“Medical misinformation.”



And this was on top of a warning and the automatic removal last week of my interview with Dr. Pierre Kory also on Informed Consent (our LiveCast offering).



So, the heat is back on. We’re being actively targeted for removal due to my insistence on saying relatively tame things about vaccines and Covid. Things that often do go against “expert consensus.”

That often translates into “saying things about 1-8 months before the experts finally figure out the very same things.”

My first strike, received in December 2021, was because I posted a video that covered the exceptional number of women who were reporting menstrual irregularities after vaccination.

Now, that’s an accepted fact many months after I was censored for saying the exact same thing using data and logic to say “Hey, there’s a signal here.”

Given that Youtube is trying to pretend it is a “woke” corporation and is also therefore pretending it cares about women, it’s a real mystery as to how they can stifle such an important women’s issue as interfering with reproductive health and fertility and still pretend to the self-image that they care about women.

My Reaction

Obviously, I take it very seriously when someone tried to stifle free speech or legitimate scientific inquiry. The very policy of YouTube is conflict with itself by stating they “don’t allow claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus…”

That’s not how science works. Not now, not ever. Science doesn’t work by consensus until a huge amount of time and supporting data have managed to accrue. And even then, the consensus needs to be open to the idea of new data. All it takes for a thousand-year-old theory to die a sudden death is for a single data point to come along and make it invalid.

For example, the speed of light is a known quantity. But if our solar system wandered through a region of space that caused that to change, then we’d have to review the entire concept and everything related to the speed of light and everything we thought we knew about space, time and matter.

That’s how science is supposed to work.

For YouTube to pretend that there’s anything like a legitimate scientific consensus around a brand-new vaccine platform, using a known toxic spike protein, with a huge rash of as-yet-unexplored side-effects, and which has not yet been fully tested on animals or for a very long time period, is frankly as dangerously arrogant as it is ignorant.

Scientific consensus is simply not the case. Stifling legitimate questions or concerns (or even opinions) is holding us all back and, in my view, harming people, children and babies.

But it goes further than little old me. Yesterday, Jack Spirko’s YouTube channel (Survival Podcast) got a strike as did Masako Ganaha, a Japanese investigative reporter currently covering the farmer rebellion in The Netherlands. And those are just the one’s I’ve randomly heard about.

The pattern seems to be targeting people who dare to question authority. A pogrom enacted by the cheerless woke mobs who increasingly resemble corporate authoritarians and who openly copy the tactics of various communist regimes.

No Public Videos This Week

Because I cannot determine why there’s been a renewed push towards censorship, and I don’t yet know who our enemies are, or their aims, I am going to only post my usual content behind our paywall.

This keeps us free from prying eyes, Google crawlers, and allows us to moderate the discussion to assure civility and free expression.

I will have my usual copious amount of material this week but all of it will be reserved for paying members until I figure out where the new battle lines have been drawn, and why.

[onawah]

Twitter locks out Moms for Liberty account for speaking out against California gender bill
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"On Tuesday's 'American Agenda', Moms for Liberty Co-founder Tina Descovich reacts to Twitter locking her group out for speaking out against California's gender bill. "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tadNO60_zoU

[ExomatrixTV]

• “They Came After Me”:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zMbxATXqbUk

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• “The View” Forced To Apologize For Calling Conservative Group “Nazis”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IYXBpzyClDw

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• Gizmodo Reporter Tom McKay RETRACTS Multiple False Statements About Project:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dby-KFhXDL4

[Bill Ryan]

Facebook censors top economist for defining recession

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rDSRTc7aKvc