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    • Steven Crowder SLAMS Conservative Media For Colluding With Big Tech:

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    As this video says, Crowder may have shot himself in the foot over this. Possibly big time.

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    Google’d method of censorship. Short video, quite interesting. Also explains how society’s divisiveness is being created.


    sorry I cannot get it out of facebook plateform

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    Unavailable?? I just listened to it few minutes ago!! Ok the non embedded link works
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    Propaganda and Censorship Dominate the Information War
    by Dr. Joseph Mercola
    January 27, 2023

    https://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...bid=1705379534

    "STORY AT-A-GLANCE
    Most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by three global news agencies — The Associated Press (AP), Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP)
    Until or unless at least one of these news agencies sends out a notice, national and local media are unlikely to report on an event. Even photos and videos are typically sourced directly from these global news agencies.
    This way, people hear, see and read the exact same message everywhere
    Intelligence agencies and defense ministries are well aware of the power of these news agencies and use them with regularity.
    In 2009, then-president of the AP, Tom Curley, let it slip that the U.S. Pentagon has more than 27,000 PR specialists that spin up stories, and an annual propaganda budget of nearly $5 billion
    The rest of the technocratic apparatus uses these news agencies in the same way and for the same reasons — to proliferate certain narratives while burying or “debunking” others
    The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is partnered with a censorship consortium called the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP).
    Through this consortium, the DHS is illegally censoring Americans

    Google promised to bring us the world, and for decades dished up tens of thousands of results to any given search. It was a clever trap. Get the world's population hooked on an information monopoly, and then, when the time was ripe, funnel everyone toward specific narratives and hide everything else.

    Google can do it because the primary way anyone "researches" a topic online is by using the Google search engine; Google controls well over 95% of the searches done on the internet across the entire planet. A similar trap was laid within the media landscape. As reported by Swiss Policy Research:1

    "… most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris. The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording.

    In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world. A study of the Syria war coverage by nine leading European newspapers clearly illustrates these issues: 78% of all articles were based in whole or in part on agency reports, yet 0% on investigative research.

    Moreover, 82% of all opinion pieces and interviews were in favor of a US and NATO intervention, while propaganda was attributed exclusively to the opposite side."

    Propaganda on the one hand, and censorship on the other, are the primary battle strategies of the information war we now find ourselves steeped in. It's imperative, then, to understand how these "weapons of war" against the public are being used, and by whom.

    News Agencies Are the Invisible Propaganda Nerve Center
    When it comes to the actual dissemination of fake news and propaganda, international news agencies play a central role and, as mentioned, there's only three of them:

    The Associated Press (AP) — Headquartered in the U.S., with more than 4,000 employees worldwide, AP is relied upon by approximately 12,000 international media outlets and reaches more than half of the world's population each day.
    Thomson Reuters — Reuters was originally headquartered in London, U.K., but was acquired by the Thomson Corporation in 2008. The two media companies merged and become the Thomson Reuters Corp., which employs more than 25,000 people in hundreds of locations worldwide.
    Agence France-Presse (AFP) — A quasi-governmental organization based in Paris, France, with about 4,000 employees, according to Swiss Policy Research,2 the AFP sends out more than 3,000 stories and photos each day to media companies around the world.
    As once noted by Wolfgang Vyslozil, former managing director of Austria Presse Agentur (APA, Austria's national press agency):3

    "News agencies are rarely in the public eye. Yet they are one of the most influential and at the same time one of the least known media types. They are key institutions of substantial importance to any media system. They are the invisible nerve center that connects all parts of this system."

    Indeed, until or unless at least one of these news agencies sends out a notice, national and local media are unlikely to report on an event. Even photos and videos are typically sourced directly from these global news agencies. This way, people hear, see and read the exact same message everywhere.

    Even media outlets that have foreign correspondents on their payroll do not expect those correspondents to conduct independent investigations. They too simply report whatever the Big Three news agencies want covered, and from the angle they want it covered.

    What you end up with is a sort of echo chamber where only one view is presented. As one might expect, this setup makes for a perfect propaganda machine. As noted by Swiss Policy Research:4

    "Due to the rather low journalistic performance of the mainstream media and their high dependence on a few news agencies, it is easy for interested parties to spread propaganda and disinformation in a supposedly respectable format to a worldwide audience."

    The Propaganda Multiplier
    Intelligence agencies and defense ministries are well aware of the power of these news agencies and use them with regularity. In 2009, then-president of the AP, Tom Curley, let it slip that the U.S. Pentagon has more than 27,000 PR specialists that spin up stories, and an annual propaganda budget of nearly $5 billion.

    The technocratic apparatus uses these news agencies to proliferate certain narratives while burying or 'debunking' others.
    Curley also stated that high-ranking U.S. generals had threatened to "ruin" him and the agency should AP journalists decide to take a critical stance against the U.S. military.5



    The rest of the technocratic apparatus also uses these news agencies in the same way and for the same reasons — to proliferate certain narratives while burying or "debunking" others. Of course, we now also know that at least some of the world's defense ministries are working on the Deep State's behalf, so there's not much separating them. Their narratives fit together like puzzle pieces.

    In short, the current censoring and labeling of anything that threatens the globalist agenda as "misinformation" and "disinformation" is a top-down scheme, as illustrated6 above. It's not random, by any means, and it's not driven by the opinions of private companies themselves. Social media companies, for example, are mere tools for the technocratic deep state, which operates worldwide.

    That said, many of the key media personalities are also part of the globalist network.7 Just look at the membership rosters of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission, just to name a few.

    You'll find many prominent journalists, editors and publishers. As insiders, they don't have to be told what to report. They already know what the agenda is, and the narrative that will further that agenda.Why News Outlets Don't Let You in on Their Sources
    The reason most people have no idea that their local or favored news media are simply regurgitating the same story as everyone else is because, except for print newspapers, where you'll notice a tiny acronym in parentheses in the dateline, media rarely name their sources. If they did, you'd quickly notice the pattern.

    At that point, you'd realize that few if any news reports have actually been independently researched, and this, of course, is a perception they don't want you to have.

    You can find these sources if you know where to look, but they're still too cryptic to interpret for most. As mentioned, the news agency that circulated the story and occasionally the agency editor that edited the report are typically listed at the top or bottom of the article in abbreviated form, within parentheses.

    Media specialists are usually the only ones who know how to decipher these references, but if you know the abbreviation of three international agencies — AP, Reuters and AFP — you will at least know that a news agency created the story.

    Fabricated Media Narratives Shape Public Opinion
    Sometimes media companies will use an agency's story without attribution, however, and/or they may simply rewrite it slightly to make it appear like an independent contribution. Still, the vast majority of news stories — including accompanying photos and videos — are sourced from the Big Three.

    "In the end, this dependency on the global agencies creates a striking similarity in international reporting: from Vienna to Washington, our media often report the same topics, using many of the same phrases — a phenomenon that would otherwise rather be associated with 'controlled media' in authoritarian states," Swiss Policy Research writes, adding:8

    "Dependence on global agencies is also a major reason why media coverage of geopolitical conflicts is often superficial and erratic, while historic relationships and background are fragmented or altogether absent …

    Finally, the dominance of global agencies explains why certain geopolitical issues and events … are not mentioned in our media at all: if the agencies do not report on something, then most Western media will not be aware of it.

    As pointed out on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the German DPA [the German national press agency]: 'What the agency does not report, does not take place …

    While some topics do not appear at all in our media, other topics are very prominent — even though they shouldn't actually be: 'Often the mass media do not report on reality, but on a constructed or staged reality. Several studies have shown that the mass media are predominantly determined by PR activities …'"

    'Homeland Security' Is Now All About Propaganda
    In mid-November 2020, then-President Donald Trump fired Chris Krebs, director of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), after Krebs declared the 2020 election "the most secure election in U.S. history."9

    Incidentally, Krebs is a former Microsoft executive, which puts him inside the sphere of the globalist cabal. Krebs also oversaw CISA's change of focus, from one focused on countering foreign disinformation campaigns to domestic censorship. This clearly demonstrates which team he's on, and it's not Team Humanity.

    In 2020, Krebs even launched a "rumor control" website10 to debunk claims of voter fraud — including claims by the sitting president himself. CISA still maintains that site, ostensibly to counter any false claims of voter fraud that might arise in future elections.11

    There are clear problems with this. If there are claims of fraud, both sides need to be allowed to be heard and present their evidence. You can't just have one side saying "there's nothing to see here, move along." Yet CISA is acting as a de facto censorship bureau, using 120 analysts to censor millions of social media posts — not only on elections but also on COVID-19.12

    CISA — A Propaganda and Censorship Platform
    Elon Musk recently called CISA out as a "propaganda platform,"13 and he's correct. We now know that CISA is partnered with a censorship consortium called the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP). The EIP, in turn, is made up of four organizations:

    The Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO)
    The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public
    The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab
    Graphika (a social media analytics company)
    During the 2020 election cycle, the EIP and CISA worked with the State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC) and the DHS-backed Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) to police wrongthink on social media. As reported by Kanekoa News on Substack:14

    "The EIP built communication portals with Big Tech platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Google, TikTok, Reddit, and Discord; and liberal groups NAACP, Common Cause, the Democratic National Committee, and Harvard's Defending Digital Democracy Project, cofounded by former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook, throughout the 2020 and 2022 election cycles, to censor domestic 'mis- and disinformation.'

    They had about 120 analysts monitoring social media for 20 hours a day, forwarding tickets of misinformation to be censored, and this censorship pivoted to COVID vaccines when they started the Virality Project in Feb. 2021.

    A report15 from the Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO), a non-profit founded by Mike Benz, entitled 'DHS Censorship Agency Had Strange First Mission: Banning Speech That Casts Doubt On 'Red Mirage, Blue Shift' Election Events' details this government speech control machine and its ability to control the narrative during the 2020 election …"

    DHS Partners Pressured Private Companies to Comply
    Based on the Foundation of Freedom Online's investigation, the DHS and its partners targeted dozens of "misinformation narratives," all of which were suppressed. They labeled 22 million tweets as "misinformation," along with hundreds of millions of Facebook posts, YouTube videos and TikToks.

    DHS partners also bragged about their ability to get tech companies to change their terms of service to facilitate or allow for this otherwise illegal censoring. As noted by Kanekoa News:16

    "In short, CISA outsourced censorship to a web of like-minded private sector and civil society partners to circumvent unclear legal authorities and violations of the First Amendment."

    Not surprisingly, "Every single 'repeat spreader of election misinformation' … was aligned with the political right," Kanekoa News writes, adding:

    "Krebs and the EIP's decision to completely censor the narrative around voting machine vulnerabilities fails to acknowledge that congressional members aligned with the left, including Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Sen. Ron Wyden, and Sen. Kamala Harris, among numerous computer science professors and election security experts, spent the last four years warning the American people that computerized voting systems are often connected to the internet, compromised, and vulnerable to hackers.

    In effect, the left was allowed to discuss the vulnerabilities of voting machines after the 2016 election and the right was censored for discussing those very same vulnerabilities after the 2020 election."

    Equally hypocritical, many of the individuals in the EIP had promoted the idea that Donald Trump was an illegitimate president because of the accusations raised in the Russiagate "scandal" — all of which later turned out to be intentionally fabricated lies, approved and paid for by Hillary Clinton.17

    Yet, despite delegitimizing the 2016 election and having been proven wrong, those same people then went on to censor anyone who dared "delegitimize" the 2020 election by asking questions and pointing to evidence of foul play.

    Dangerous Hypocrisy
    One player in particular, Renée DiResta, a technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory, epitomizes the EIP's hypocrisy. As explained by the Foundation for Freedom Online:18

    "The prominent role Renée DiResta plays in EIP … is particularly worrisome and disturbing. Before DiResta became research manager at the Stanford disinfo lab, she was research director for a now-notorious, scandal-laden and disgraced political hatchet firm known as New Knowledge LLC.

    In December 2018, the New York Times exposed that DiResta's Democrat donor-funded small cybersecurity firm, New Knowledge, had clandestinely created thousands of fake 'Russian bots' (user accounts generated with a virtual private network (VPN) to simulate a Russian IP address) on Twitter and Facebook then mass subscribed those fake 'Russian bots' to opposition Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore's campaign.

    DiResta did this — or at least the small firm where she was a director did this — in the heat of the Nov. 2017 Alabama special election, which substantially decided the party control of the US Senate. It was a race in which Moore narrowly lost, and for whose loss New Knowledge – in its own report — took credit.

    At the time, mainstream news genuinely thought Roy Moore was being backed by Russians. But it was just DiResta's professional disinformation firm interfering in the election."

    Deep State Actors Say One Thing and Do the Opposite
    A key take-home here is that a great deal of the propaganda war involves people and organizations that say they're one thing but do the complete opposite. For example, DiResta is the head of policy for Data for Democracy,19 while at the same time taking part in a plot to directly circumvent the democratic election process.

    This shockingly deceitful behavior becomes easier to understand once you know she's also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the mission of which is to bring about a totalitarian one world government, a New World Order with global top-down rule. How do we know this? Simple, they've admitted it.

    In 1950, the son of one of the CFR's founders, James Warburg, said to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "We shall have world government whether or not you like it — by conquest or consent."20 Similarly, in 1975 CFR insider Admiral Chester Ward wrote that the goal of the CFR was "submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government."21

    According to Ward, the desire to "surrender the sovereignty and independence of the United States is pervasive throughout most of its membership," and "In the entire CFR lexicon, there is no term of revulsion carrying a meaning so deep as 'America First.'" So, DiResta is working on behalf of those who seek to establish a one-world government, and they're not known for their scruples, or for following democratic processes.

    CISA Turned Law Abiding Americans Into Cybercriminals
    As explained by Foundation for Freedom Online founder Mike Benz:22,23

    "DHS insiders' collective justification, without uttering a peep about the switch's revolutionary implications, was that 'domestic disinformation' was now a greater 'cyber threat to elections' than falsehoods flowing from foreign interference.

    So CISA's self-invented censorship powers against 'foreign disinformation' went from being pointed outward against supposed Russian bot accounts to being pointed inwards at tens of millions of US citizens simply talking lawfully about their elections."

    Being Able to Identify Propaganda Is Part of the Solution
    If propaganda is already deeply entrenched in our media structure, and government agencies are engaged in censoring, how do we know what is true and what is not?

    There's no easy answer to this question, but the solution involves first becoming aware of the fact that mainstream media consistently lie to support the cabal's agenda. There is a reason for why the media narrative is what it is. One way to evaluate the news is to ask yourself, "Why might they want me to think of this in this particular way?" Eventually, patterns begin to form.

    Ultimately, to find the truth, you must be willing to look hard for it, and to look in places outside the mainstream media consortium. You will rarely ever find the answer on Google, or even the new Open AI Chatbot. You have to ask questions and reason your way through the information you find. If something doesn't make sense yet you're told to accept it without question, it's probably propaganda.

    Any number of COVID-19 restrictions, for example, have been illogical in the extreme, which tells us they're not about protecting people from infection. It's about something else, and that something else has often been the purposeful destruction of small businesses to facilitate wealth transfer from the middle and lower class to the top echelon. Ultimately, that is the plan, and to stop it, we have to stop believing the propaganda. It's just that simple. And that challenging."

    - Sources and References
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Swiss Policy Research March 2019
    9 NY Post November 27, 2020
    10 CISA.gov Election Security Rumor vs Reality
    11 The Hill September 29, 2021
    12, 13, 14, 16, 23 Kanekoa News Substack December 28, 2022
    15, 22 Foundation of Freedom Online November 9, 2022
    17 WSJ May 20, 2022
    18 Foundation for Freedom Online November 9, 2022
    19 PBS May 17, 2018
    20, 21 Wakeup-World August 31, 2016
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    • Inside Whitehall’s "Ministry Of Truth" – How Secretive “Anti-Misinformation” Teams Conducted Mass Political Monitoring
    INSIDE WHITEHALL’S MINISTRY OF TRUTH – HOW SECRETIVE “ANTI-MISINFORMATION” TEAMS CONDUCTED MASS DOMESTIC POLITICAL MONITORING

    Secretive Whitehall units have been recording political dissent on social media under the guise of tackling misinformation, a Big Brother Watch investigation has found. Politicians, academics, activists, journalists and even members of the public have been subjected to monitoring by Whitehall officials, and an “information warfare machine” in the British Army.
    Key Findings:
    • Anti-fake news units in the Cabinet Office and DCMS spent much of their time monitoring social media for political dissent, under the guise of “counter-disinformation” work.
    • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Conservative MPs David Davis & Chris Green, journalists including Peter Hitchens and Julia Hartley-Brewer, and academics from the University of Oxford and University College London all had comments critical of the government recorded by the anti-fake news units.
    • Soldiers from the Army’s 77th Brigade collated tweets from British citizens about Covid-19 at the start of the pandemic and passed them to the Cabinet Office. Troops also conducted “sentiment analysis” about the government’s Covid-19 response.
    • The Rapid Response Unit [Cabinet Office] pressured a Whitehall department to attack newspapers for publishing articles analysing Covid-19 modelling that it feared would affect compliance” with pandemic restrictions.
    • RRU staff featured Conservative MPs, activists and journalists in “vaccine hesitancy reports” for opposing vaccine passports.
    • The Counter Disinformation Unit [DCMS] has a special relationship with social media companies it uses to recommend content be removed. Third party contractors trawled Twitter for perceived terms of service violations and passed them to CDU officials.
    • Front organisations aimed at minority communities were set up by the Research, Communications and Intelligence Unit [Home Office] to spread government propaganda in the UK.
    Ministry of Truth: The Secretive Government Units Spying On Your Speech is the first look at the government units using the façade of tackling fake news to conceal large-scale monitoring of the British public on social media. The report exposes the controversial activity of the shadowy units during the coronavirus pandemic in particular, during which they recorded the social media posts and press activity of politicians, academics and journalists who criticised the government’s handling of the crisis.

    The units covered in the investigation include the Counter Disinformation Unit, which leads the domestic operational response for countering disinformation across government from the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport, and the Rapid Response Unit in the Cabinet Office – both of which were highly active during the pandemic. It also examines the Foreign Office’s Government Information Cell and the Research, Intelligence and Communications Unit in the Home Office.

    According to the Cabinet Office, staff from the Rapid Response Unit have now been “transferred to the wider team” in government working on “tackling misinformation”. In December, Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee complained of an “erosion of oversight” as the Government is “refusing” to expand its remit to include the Counter Disinformation Unit, among other units, creating a blind spot of secret government activity.

    Some of the units were supported by Army’s 77th Brigade, which conducts information warfare. The investigation contains evidence from a 77th Brigade whistleblower that, in spite of claims to the contrary by senior generals, troops did spy on the British public. He lifts the lid on the “sentiment analysis” the 77th Brigade conducted, looking at how people viewed the government’s handling of the pandemic.

    Big Brother Watch’s “Ministry of Truth” report is based on scores of Freedom of Information requests, and the co-operation of dozens of people in public life who submitted Subject Access Requests to the government to demand copies of their data held by the so-called disinformation units.
    All of the public figures had comments criticising the government collected and analysed by one of the units. These ranged from quotes opposing comments on vaccine passports and travel restrictions to jokes about ministers’ hypocrisy.

    Key examples of public figures caught up in the Whitehall anti-fake news units’ surveillance:
    • David Davis MP featured in a Rapid Response Unit “vaccine hesitancy” report for arguing that vaccine passports were discriminatory and created a false sense of security.
    • Chris Green MP and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham’s opposition to local lockdowns appeared in an RRU update on the Delta variant.
    • Members of the British public discussing the pandemic online were monitored by the Army’s information warfare brigade on topics from government ventilator supplies to expressing fears over Covid-19’s link to blood clots.
    • Cabinet Office officials pressured the Department for Health to attack the Daily Mail for daring to question Covid modelling because they were concerned it could undermine compliance with coronavirus restrictions.
    • A post from UCL academic Dr Alexandre de Figueiredo, who researches vaccine confidence, was flagged by a contractor to the CDU because he argued that mass vaccination of children had risks, including to confidence in vaccines.
    • Rapid Response Unit officials rushed to flag Professor Carl Heneghan’s Spectator article across Whitehall because he questioned whether the “rule of 6” was an arbitrary number.
    • Journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer appeared in a similar report for tweeting about her interview with a woman who had suffered due to the care home policy during the lockdown.
    Director of Big Brother Watch, Silkie Carlo, said:

    This is an alarming case of mission creep, where public money and even military power have been misused to monitor academics, journalists, campaigners and members of parliament who criticised the government, particularly during the pandemic.


    The fact that this political monitoring happened under the guise of ‘countering misinformation’ highlights how, absent serious safeguards, the concept of ‘wrong information’ is open to abuse and has become a blank cheque the government uses in attempt to control narratives online.
    Contrary to their stated aims, these government truth units are secretive and harmful to our democracy. The Counter Disinformation Unit should be suspended immediately and subject to a full investigation.”
    • Legal expert on media and free expression, Gavin Millar KC said:
    The secrecy surrounding the activities of these units is very worrying. Citizens cannot be sure that their rights to freedom of speech, privacy and data protection are being respected by the state unless it tells them what it is doing with their communications and information.

    It is particularly concerning that political speech unwelcome to the government is being targeted, without any apparent safeguards to ensure compliance with the law.
    There are no obvious security or intelligence issues about most of these activities. So there must now be the fullest possible transparency and oversight by Parliament, as well as scrutiny by the courts.”
    • David Davis MP said:
    Big Brother Watch’s findings should set alarm bells ringing for anyone who knows the dangers of the overmighty state. Journalists, politicians and members of the public should all be free to air their views without examination by Government agencies.

    Privacy and free speech are fundamentally important values. But in the war on ‘misinformation’, they are being put at risk. It is time for a serious rethink at the heart of Government.”

    NOTES:
    • Spokespeople are available for interview. Please contact Big Brother Watch’s 24/7 press phone on 07730439257 or email info@bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
    • A copy of the full report, ‘Ministry of Truth: the secretive government units spying on your speech’, can be found here
    • Digital assets accompanying this press release, including images of disclosed documents and a video clip of the 77th Brigade whistleblower, are available for fair use with attribution to Big Brother Watch, here.
    • The 77th Brigade whistleblower’s full testimony is available pp.66-68 of the report. A video interview with the whistleblower will be published on our YouTube channel at 8pm today here.
    • Big Brother Watch is holding an event in parliament to launch the report this evening (30th January 2023), 6-7.30pm. Speakers include David Davis MP, Gavin Millar KC, Julia Hartley-Brewer and Prof. Carl Heneghan. To request to attend, please email mark.johnson@bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
    • The report is based on scores of Freedom of Information requests, Subject Access Requests, and parliamentary questions. All disclosures in the report are footnoted and referenced. A selection of the Freedom of Information requests referred to are linked to in full, here.
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    The Censorship of Mercola — A Timeline
    by Dr. Joseph Mercola
    January 30, 2023
    https://articles.mercola.com/sites/a...-timeline.aspx

    (Let it not be said that Dr. Mercola hasn't done his part in the struggle to get the truth out about the Plandemic!!
    I'd say that he deserves a medal. )

    "STORY AT-A-GLANCE
    While the drug and chemical industries have attacked and tried to discredit me for years, blatant censorship didn’t begin until 2020, after the outbreak of the COVID pandemic
    The timeline of censorship and free-speech right violations against me began in the summer of 2020, when the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to take action against me for recommending vitamin D

    The attacks against me really heated up though after I published a peer-reviewed scientific paper on the benefits of vitamin D at the end of October 2020.
    Christmas Eve 2020, attorney general Letitia James sent a cease and desist notice, demanding we stop sharing information about how immune-boosting nutritional supplements might lower your risk of COVID.
    The FDA also issued us a warning letter about the same
    Fabrications by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) have been the primary “evidence” cited by government officials intent on censoring me.
    The CCDH is linked to a number of technocratic centers within the globalist network through its board members
    In August 2021, after conducting an internal investigation, Facebook’s content policy director called out the falsehoods in the CCDH “Disinformation Dozen” report.
    CCDH preselected the 12 individuals listed in the report, and the narrative was based on nothing more than “a narrow set of 483 pieces of content over six weeks from only 30 groups, some of which are as small as 2,500 users”

    While the drug and chemical industries have attacked and tried to discredit me for years, blatant censorship didn't begin until 2020, after the outbreak of the COVID pandemic.

    For legal and historical purposes, I am sharing a timeline of events with you that document a chain of coordinated events and attacks against me and this website. My first article about the pandemic came out February 4, 2020, in which I predicted that it was a grossly exaggerated threat that would enrich pandemic vaccine makers.

    March 8, 2020, I published an interview with bioweapons expert Francis Boyle, Ph.D., in which he warned that SARS-CoV-2 had all the hallmarks of a genetically engineered bioweapon. Boyle was among the first, if not the first, to suspect the outbreak was the result of a lab leak.

    While every health authority on the planet insisted there was no treatment, and that patients simply go to the hospital to be placed on mechanical ventilation and die, I interviewed medical experts working on early treatment options and published articles detailing the potential benefits of vitamin D, zinc, quercetin and other nutraceuticals that boost immune function, as well as decades-old drugs like hydroxychloroquine.

    I also published the testimony of whistleblowers such as Erin Marie Olszewski, a frontline nurse, who warned that patients were being intentionally killed on ventilators as it quickly proved to be a deadly intervention for COVID-19.

    Summer of 2020 — The Suppression of Vitamin D Begins
    Early on, it became apparent that vitamin D levels and spending time outdoors played an important role in the risk of infection and the ultimate outcomes. This has been true for all respiratory infections, so it should come as no surprise it is also true for coronavirus infections. Despite that, health authorities insisted vitamin D was useless.

    The only way out of the pandemic, they said, would be a vaccine — and this despite the fact that no previous attempts at creating a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine had ever succeeded because of its rapid ability to mutate.

    In June 2020, I launched an information campaign, StopCovidCold, about vitamin D. I released a downloadable scientific report detailing how and why optimizing vitamin D levels among the general population could minimize the impact of the next wave of COVID. Optimizing vitamin D is a rational, safe and inexpensive measure that no sane health official would object to. And yet, they all did.

    July 21, 2020, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) issued a press release1 calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) "to bring enforcement proceedings against Mercola and his companies for their unlawful disease claims that falsely and misleadingly claim to treat, cure or prevent COVID-19 infections."

    CSPI accused me of falsely claiming "that at least 22 vitamins, supplements and other products available for sale on his web site can prevent, treat, or cure COVID-19 infection." This despite the fact that their Appendix of Illegal Claims2 clearly show I made no COVID-19-related claims to any specific products and only referenced published studies and mainstream media articles to support my opinions.

    In an August 12, 2020, email, CSPI president Dr. Peter Lurie — a former FDA associate commissioner — also made the spurious claim that I was "profiting from the pandemic" through "anti-vaccine fearmongering:" 3

    "Mercola brazenly has claimed that many of his products are coronavirus treatments or cures, including vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, selenium, 'molecular hydrogen,' licorice, and other substances.

    Besides profiting from the pandemic, Mercola has seemingly advised people to contract COVID-19 after taking supposedly 'immunity boosting' supplements (which of course he sells). Making matters worse, Mercola is a leading proponent of anti-vaccine conspiracy theories — and has been fearmongering against prospective COVID-19 vaccines even before such vaccines are available!"

    By mid-August, a comprehensive campaign to put an end to Mercola.com had been launched, with Laurie asking CSPI members to flood the FDA and FTC with prewritten Tweets, urging them to take action against us. He also urged "state attorneys general to investigate how they may further protect consumers from Mercola's illegal marketing."4


    Source: https://www.bitchute.com/video/pK38ToYHE7Rt/


    Not surprisingly, CSPI is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Family Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies and other billionaire-owned foundations. It's also partnered with Bill Gates' agrichemical PR group, the Cornell Alliance for Science. Greg Jaffe, who heads up CSPI's Biotechnology Project, is also the associate director of legal affairs at Alliance for Science.

    Winter of 2020 — Vitamin D Attacks Heat Up
    The attacks against me really heated up though after I published a peer-reviewed scientific paper5 on the benefits of vitamin D at the end of October 2020. With that, I established my medical and scientific merit and my right to a professional opinion, which is something the U.S. Constitution absolutely provides for.

    The paper, "Evidence Regarding Vitamin D and Risk of COVID-19 and Its Severity," published in the journal Nutrients, was coauthored by William Grant, Ph.D., and Dr. Carol Wagner, both of whom are part of the GrassrootsHealth expert vitamin D panel.

    As noted in that paper, dark skin color, increased age, pre-existing chronic conditions and vitamin D deficiency are all features of severe COVID disease, and of these, vitamin D deficiency is the only factor that is modifiable. As such, it would be foolish to ignore, especially since vitamin D supplements are readily available and low cost.

    Christmas Eve 2020, attorney general Letitia James sent us a cease and desist notice, demanding we stop sharing information about how immune-boosting nutritional supplements might lower your risk of COVID, including vitamin D, zinc, NAC and vitamin C.





    February 2021, FDA Tries to Silence Protected Speech
    After the new presidential administration took over, on February 18, 2021, the Rockefeller-funded CSPI and AG James got their wish, as the FDA sent us a warning letter for "Unapproved and Misbranded Products Related to Coronavirus Disease 2019."6 Laurie even publicly bragged7 about his ability to influence the FDA to take action against us.

    The FDA's letter highlighted statements in articles on my website that were fully referenced and supported by published science, and none of the articles cited had any commercial advertising linking the information to my products, as per the law. We had done nothing illegal or irregular in that regard, and my professional opinions are protected under the U.S. Constitution.

    Needless to say, we fully addressed both James' cease and desist notice and the FDA's warning letter, putting them both on notice that they cannot censor protected speech simply because they don't like what's being said.

    On a side note, William Correll, the director of the Office of Compliance at the FDA who signed the warning letter, sadly "passed away suddenly" just two months later, on April 18 "after a short battle with COVID-19."8

    Gates-Funded Front Group Gets on the Bandwagon
    The agrochemical front group Cornell Alliance for Science (CAS),9 the primary funding for which comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,10 also jumped on the bandwagon, falsely stating11 that "pages advertising vitamin C and quercetin as having 'synergistic effects that make them useful in the prevention and early at-home treatment of COVID-19'" were still available on my website nearly a month after the FDA's warning letter.

    To be clear, we had fully referenced scientific news articles. News articles are NOT "advertising," as they do not link to any specific products, nor do they refer to or recommend any specific brands. In the case of the warning for vitamin C, the article discussed hospitals utilizing IV vitamin C for the treatment of COVID-19 and sepsis.

    Such coordinated attacks are to be expected, though, considering Gates' influence over the operation, and seeing how CAS and CSPI work closely together — a fact CAS admitted in its hit piece.12

    March 2021, Booksellers Urged to Ban My Book
    Around that same time (February 11, 2021), my book "The Truth About COVID-19" also went up for presale, and by early March, booksellers in the U.S., U.K. and Australia were being pressured not to sell it, or to add some sort of misinformation warning label to it. As reported by Sky News March 5, 2021:13

    "In the UK, more than 20 million vaccine doses have been administered as part of efforts to defeat COVID-19, but worries continue that misinformation is stopping some people from having the jab. Shadow health minister Alex Norris told Sky News:

    'Getting our population vaccinated is a massive priority and it is very sad to see these things so freely available. We would hope that retailers would act responsibly and have a look at whether they want to be associated with such products and whether they want to be seen to be profiting off such products.'"

    Shady 'Anti-Hate' Outfit Publishes Hit List
    March 3, 2021, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) — a shady U.K.-based organization with anonymous funding led by Imran Ahmed — also got in on the action, publishing a hit list14 of the "Top 10 anti-vaxxers" it wanted permanently silenced and eradicated from public forums. The list showed, by way of crossing out names, which had already been successfully deplatformed, and from which social media.

    facebook instagram top 10 anti-vaxxers
    While precious little was (and still is) know about the CCDH, some digging revealed Ahmed had been appointed to the steering committee of the U.K. government's Commission on Countering Extremism Pilot Task Force in April 2020, just as fearmongering about the COVID-19 pandemic was ramping up. The CCDH is also linked to a number of technocratic centers within the globalist network through its board members.15

    More Fabrications and Lies From the CCDH
    A couple of weeks later (March 15), Ahmed somehow managed to get an article titled "Dismantling the Anti-Vaxx Industry"16 published in the journal Nature Medicine. In it, Ahmed lied, claiming he'd "recorded a private, three-day meeting of the world's most prominent anti-vaxxers," when in fact it was a public, international conference given online, attended by thousands around the world, all of whom had access to the recordings.

    He could have done the normal, ethical and truly journalistic thing and admitted he simply attended a public virtual conference, but instead he twisted it into some risky undercover agent mission where he secretly recorded private discussions that revealed the inner workings of "the opposition."

    Then, March 21, 2021, the CCDH published the fabricated "Disinformation Dozen" report,17,18,19 in which Ahmed falsely claimed 12 people and/or organizations, including yours truly, were responsible for 65% of all anti-vaccine content on social media.

    March 24, 2021 — AGs Try to Censor Protected Speech
    March 24, 2021, 12 attorneys general sent a letter20 to the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook, seeking their "cooperation in curtailing the dissemination" of COVID jab "misinformation" — all based on the fabrications of the CCDH. According to the AGs:

    "The people and groups spreading falsehoods and misleading Americans about the safety of coronavirus vaccines are threatening the health of our communities, slowing progress in getting our residents protected from the virus, and undermining economic recovery in our states.

    As safe and effective vaccines become available, the end of this pandemic is in sight. This end, however, depends on the widespread acceptance of these vaccines as safe and effective. Unfortunately, misinformation disseminated via your platforms has increased vaccine hesitancy …

    According to a recent report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, so-called 'anti-vaxxer' accounts on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter reach more than 59 million followers … Given 'anti-vaxxers' reliance on your platforms, you are uniquely positioned to prevent the spread of misinformation about coronavirus vaccines …"

    Facebook Set the Record Straight
    August 18, 2021, after conducting an internal investigation, Monika Bickert, vice president of Facebook content policy, publicly called out the falsehoods in "The Disinformation Dozen" report, stating:21

    "In recent weeks, there has been a debate about whether the global problem of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation can be solved simply by removing 12 people from social media platforms. People who have advanced this narrative contend that these 12 people are responsible for 73% of online vaccine misinformation on Facebook.

    There isn't any evidence to support this claim … In fact, these 12 people are responsible for about just 0.05% of all views of vaccine-related content on Facebook. This includes all vaccine-related posts they've shared, whether true or false, as well as URLs associated with these people."

    Bickert highlighted the fact that Ahmed had preselected the 12 individuals listed in the report, and that his "faulty narrative" was based on nothing more than "a narrow set of 483 pieces of content over six weeks from only 30 groups, some of which are as small as 2,500 users."

    "Further, there is no explanation for how the organization behind the report identified the content they describe as 'anti-vax' or how they chose the 30 groups they included in their analysis," Bickert noted. "There is no justification for their claim that their data constitute a 'representative sample' of the content shared across our apps."

    Apparently, no one in government was smart enough to see the flaws in the CCDH's report though, and a long list of officials cited the CCDH's fabricated claims throughout the remainder of 2021, even long after Facebook denounced its claims. What's more, even though Facebook admitted the CCDH's claims were bogus, they still took action against accounts by applying penalties and/or bans.

    April 8, 2021 — AGs Call on Social Media to Ban 'the 12'
    April 8, 2021, attorneys general James and William Tong published an op-ed in The Washington Post,22 again calling on social media companies to ban the "disinformation dozen" identified by the CCDH. The lack of acceptance of novel gene therapy technology, they claimed, was all because a small group of individuals with a social media presence — myself included — were successfully misleading the public with lies about nonexistent vaccine risks.

    April 27, 2021 — Dr. Hotez Calls for Cyberwarfare
    April 27, 2021, Dr. Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute23 — which has received tens of millions of dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,24,25 — escalated the threat even further in an article published in the journal Nature.

    Citing the CCDH's findings, Hotez called for cyberwarfare experts to be enlisted in the war against vaccine safety advocates and people who are "vaccine hesitant." He wrote:26

    "Accurate, targeted counter-messaging from the global health community is important but insufficient, as is public pressure on social-media companies. The United Nations and the highest levels of government must … move to dismantle anti-vaccine groups in the United States.

    Efforts must expand into the realm of cyber security, law enforcement, public education and international relations. A high-level inter-agency task force reporting to the UN secretary-general could assess the full impact of anti-vaccine aggression, and propose tough, balanced measures.

    The task force should include experts who have tackled complex global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks and nuclear armament, because anti-science is now approaching similar levels of peril. It is becoming increasingly clear that advancing immunization requires a counteroffensive."

    In short, Hotez called for the use of warfare tactics on law abiding American citizens, and the Nature journal actually published this blatant threat. One day later, April 28, the CCDH published a second report, "Disinformation Dozen: The Sequel,"27 which focused on Big Tech's failure to get rid of us "despite bipartisan calls from Congress."

    To understand the massive reach the CCDH gained, despite no one having heard of them before COVID, consider this: By the end of August 2021, there were 84,700 Google search results for CCDH's defamatory phrase "disinformation dozen," including 16,000 news stories in the international press, nearly all of which parroted the CCDH's defamatory statements verbatim and reported them as fact.

    May 2021 — Financial Warfare Led to Removal of COVID Articles
    Shortly after the op-ed by AGs James and Tong appeared, our business bank accounts were abruptly shut down and our credit cards canceled. Our business partners also had their PayPal accounts shut down.

    This new threat, which I could not defend against in a court of law, led to my May 4 decision to remove all articles related to vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc and COVID-19 from my website.

    July 2021 — The White House Publicly Calls for Censorship
    In mid-July 2021, the White House stepped in to pressure Facebook to purge "anti-vaxxers" from its platform. Then-press secretary Jen Psaki regurgitated the CCDH's false claims, saying:28

    "There's about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms. All of them remain active on Facebook, despite some even being banned on other platforms, including ones that Facebook owns.

    Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove harmful, violative posts. Posts that would be within their policy for removal often remain up for days, and that's too long. The information spreads too quickly."

    In another mid-July press conference, President Joe Biden himself demanded social media take action against "the disinformation dozen," claiming our "misinformation" was "killing people."29,30 None of these officials ever questioned the authority of the CCDH. Facebook spokesperson Dani Lever responded to the White House's demands, saying:

    "We will not be distracted by accusations which aren't supported by the facts. The fact is that more than 2 billion people have viewed authoritative information about COVID-19 and vaccines on Facebook, which is more than any other place on the internet … The facts show that Facebook is helping save lives. Period."

    Summer of 2021 — A Parade of Hit Pieces



    July 24, 2021, The New York Times named me the No. 1 superspreader of COVID misinformation online.31 According to the NYT itself, this was the most-read article of the year up to that point. Penned by Sheera Frenkel, it was so littered with blatant lies, my attorneys sent her a retraction demand.32

    For example, she claimed the FDA has levied multimillion-dollar fines against me. This is a complete fabrication, as I've never been fined by the FDA. She also implied that I misrepresented myself as a published author of a paper on vitamin D for COVID-19, stating she was "unable to verify" my claim. This despite being given a direct link to the paper! My paper can also be located on PubMed.gov in seconds by searching my name.

    Frenkel boldly claimed that I am the No.1 spreader of misinformation online, but she didn't even qualify what "misinformation" actually is. Without qualifying what it is you're looking for, how can you quantify it? She also provided no proof that I in fact had the greatest reach of all the individuals reporting on COVID injections. My name didn't even show up in the Top 15 in a Crowdtangle search for anti-vax Facebook posts.

    Frenkel's hit piece was followed up by CNN, which August 4 aired a segment show CNN reporter Randi Kaye stalking me across central Florida. And, of course, Kaye's primary citation for her accusations against me was the CCDH.

    August 4, 2021 — Mercola Deletes Articles After 48 Hours
    August 4, 2021, I also implemented yet another change on my website. I had already removed all articles relating to COVID-19 and vitamin D. At this point, I deleted over 15,000 articles from the past 20-plus years from my website as the business and personal threats grew out of hand.

    After 48 hours, articles were instead migrated over to Substack, where only paid members through a private membership agreement have access to them. This was a painful but necessary workaround, as the paid subscription provides a layer of protection against these threats.

    September 7, 2021 — Senator Warren's Book Burning Campaign
    September 7, 2021, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a letter33 to Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon.com, demanding an "immediate review" of Amazon's algorithms to weed out books peddling "COVID misinformation."34,35,36

    While she didn't spell out what laws Amazon might be breaking, she warned Jassy that the company may be held legally responsible for wrongful death and homicide by selling books that "misinform" readers about COVID-19, and she specifically singled out "The Truth About COVID-19" as a prime example of the kinds of books she wanted banned.

    Warren again relied on the fabrications of the CCDH, even though Facebook had refuted the CCDH report as baseless three weeks before she sent that letter.

    "Dr. Mercola has been described as 'the most influential spreader of coronavirus misinformation online,'" Warren wrote, adding: "Not only was this book the top result when searching either 'COVID-19' or 'vaccine' in the categories of 'All Departments' and 'Books'; it was tagged as a 'Best Seller' by Amazon and the '#1 Best Seller' in the 'Political Freedom' category.

    The book perpetuates dangerous conspiracies about COVID-19 and false and misleading information about vaccines. It asserts that vitamin C, vitamin D and quercetin … can prevent COVID-19 infection … And the book contends that vaccines cannot be trusted, when study after study has demonstrated the overwhelming effectiveness and safety of COVID-19 vaccines.

    It should come as no surprise that the book is rife with misinformation. One of the authors, Dr. Mercola, is one of the 'Disinformation Dozen,' a group responsible for 65% of anti-vaccine content on Facebook and Twitter …"

    YouTube Deplatforms Mercola in Breach of Contract
    Warren's attempt at getting Amazon to ban my book was swiftly followed up by YouTube, which deleted my account September 29, 2021, allegedly for violating community guidelines. The problem was, they'd published and implemented those new guidelines that very morning.

    While I disagreed with YouTube's censorship, when its "COVID-19 misinformation" policy was implemented back in April 2021, I carefully avoided posting any content on YouTube that might violate that guideline. At no point had I ever received a violation notice from YouTube.

    On the morning of September 29, 2022, at 9 a.m. EDT, The Washington Post published an article titled "YouTube Is Banning Joseph Mercola and a Handful of Other Anti-Vaccine Activists." According to the WaPo:37

    "YouTube is taking down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including Joseph Mercola … As part of a new set of policies aimed at cutting down on anti-vaccine content on the Google-owned site, YouTube will ban any videos that claim that commonly used vaccines approved by health authorities are ineffective or dangerous.

    The company previously blocked videos that made those claims about coronavirus vaccines, but not ones for other vaccines like those for measles or chickenpox."

    In short, as of September 29, 2021, you could no longer post any video discussing or stating that any vaccine is dangerous or ineffective. Six minutes after the publication of that WaPo article, I received an email from YouTube informing me that my entire channel had been deplatformed, having been found in violation of this new policy.

    October 2021 — CNN's Second Hit Piece
    October 4, 2021, two months to the day after their first attempted hit piece against my book, "The Truth About COVID-19," CNN aired a follow-up in which they echoed Warren's call for Amazon to ban the sale of my book.

    Like something straight out of George Orwell's "1984" newsspeak dictionary, CNN host Anderson Cooper said my book is loaded with "mistruths" about COVID. Yet he failed to present a single piece of evidence to back up that claim.

    This is one of the oldest propaganda trick in the book. If you just spew out enough derogatory terms about your opponent, people will forget the fact that you provided zero proof to back up your position.

    November 2021 — Mercola Sues Sen. Warren
    November 7, 2021, two months after Warren tried to get my best-selling book "The Truth About COVID-19" banned from Amazon, I, my coauthor Ronnie Cummins, my publisher and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who wrote our foreword, sued Warren,38 both in her official and personal capacities, for violating our First Amendment rights and scaring book sellers into pulling and/or suppressing sales.

    As a government official, it is illegal for her violate the U.S. Constitution, and pressuring private businesses to do it for her is not a legal workaround.

    February 2022 — NIH Director Blames Mercola For Pandemic Continuation
    In February 2022, former National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins blamed me personally for the government's inability to bring the COVID pandemic to a close. This despite the fact that I was by then heavily censored just about everywhere. The only people, really, who could see my information were those who subscribed to my newsletter and received it by email.

    August 2022 — NYT Airs Hit Piece Documentary
    Fast-forward to August 2022, The New York Times published the documentary "Superspreader," featuring yours truly, on FX and Hulu (both of which are owned by Disney). They clearly went through a lot of trouble, trying to dig up dirt from anyone they could find from my past — some going back 40 years, to my medical school days — who would be able to share some tidbit with which they could discredit me with.

    But it seems they came up empty handed: After a year of investigation, they couldn't come up with anything. Surprisingly, they even showed two people who claimed I'd saved their lives. All the other interviews were with people who don't actually know me. One was with a Chicago journalist who interviewed me once — 13 years ago. Two classmates from med school, whom I haven't seen in over 40 years, also described their impressions.

    Ironically, yet again, just one week before the "Superspreader" program aired, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed all of its COVID-19 guidelines, thereby proving my position on COVID was correct all along. Of course, this was never mentioned in their program though.

    September 23, 2022 — Mercola Website Taken Down in Cyberattack
    Next up was a cyberattack that took down my entire website and destroyed our servers. Cyberattacks have been ongoing for the past six years, but the one that took place September 23, 2022, finally got through our defenses. By that time, my reach on social media had been throttled back to next to nothing, and my website was about the only place you could find my articles (with the exception of republications, which I allowed).

    September 28, 2022 — Mercola Sues Google and YouTube
    Warren isn't the only one I've had to sue to protect my First Amendment right. In September 28, 2022, I also filed a lawsuit39 against Google, YouTube and Alphabet Inc. for breach of contract.40

    As detailed in my complaint, YouTube unilaterally amended the contract without notice, which is a violation of its own terms of service, and then used this last-minute amendment to justify removing my content, which went back to 2005, the same year YouTube was founded. At the time YouTube deleted my content, I had more than 300,000 subscribers, and my videos had collectively garnered more than 50 million views.

    The WaPo article was embargoed until the morning of September 29 in order to prevent me (and anyone else affected by this change) from reviewing the new policy, take steps to bring my channel into compliance, or move my content to another platform. Instead, they simply deleted 16 years' worth of intellectual property, without warning.

    This is a clear violation of its own terms of service, which state that YouTube "will provide reasonable advance notice" of any changes to the terms of service, and that users will have "the opportunity to review them" and to remove content if they do not agree to the new terms.

    YouTube's terms of service also include a "three strikes" policy, where users are given three warnings and opportunities to remove content that violates the guidelines before being banned. I had no "strikes" against my channel on the day I was deplatformed and deleted.

    I'm also suing YouTube for unjust enrichment, as for the last 16 years, my video content, having generated in excess of 50 million views, has been of great financial benefit to YouTube, allowing them to increase advertising revenue on the site. Additionally, they've refused to allow me to retrieve any of this content, which they still have in their possession. So, YouTube has unjustly benefited at my expense.

    January 2023 — Third Lawsuit Filed to Protect Free Speech
    January 10, 2023, I, along with several other plaintiffs, also filed a lawsuit41 against The Washington Post, the BBC, the Associated Press and Reuters — also known as the Trusted News Initiative (TNI),42 a self-appointed Pharma and Big Tech industry partner that has spent the past couple years playing judge and jury of news.

    It has been doing everything it can to censor what it doesn't want the public to hear. As noted in the complaint, the TNI has not only censored free speech, it has also engaged in antitrust activity. Specifically, "Federal antitrust law has its own name for this kind of 'industry partnership': it's called a 'group boycott' and is a per se violation of the Sherman Act."

    As evidence of this allegation, our complaint references multiple public statements by TNI partners, including a March 2022 statement by Jamie Angus, then-senior news controller for BBC News, who explained TNI's "strategy to beat disinformation."

    The Fight for Truth and Freedom Continues
    The globalist cabal is extremely coordinated, as you can see. What's more, they play dirty. But we will not give up, nor give in. Our freedom is far too precious for that, and freedom depends on getting the truth out. So, I will continue doing my part. You can help by sharing articles you think are important with family and friends, in whatever ways are available."

    Sources and References
    1 CSPI July 21, 2020
    2 Illegal Claims Pertaining to Mercola Group Products (PDF)
    3 CSPI July 19, 2017
    4, 7 SCPInet.org March 4, 2021
    5 Nutrients October 31, 2020;12, 3361; doi:10.3390/nu12113361
    6 FDA Mercola Warning Letter February 18, 2021
    8 Sun Gazette April 24, 2021
    9 USRTK September 23, 2020
    10 Cornell Alliance for Science Our Funders
    11, 12 Cornell Alliance for Science, March 2021, FDA Warns Mercola
    13 Sky News March 5, 2021
    14 Twitter CCDH March 3, 2021
    15 In-this-together.com, CCDH The Center for Cancel Culture and Digital Hypocrisy Part 2
    16 Nature Medicine March 15, 2021
    17 Counterhate.com Disinformation Dozen March 21, 2021
    18 The Disinformation Dozen
    19 PR Newswwire March 24, 2021
    20 Letter to Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg March 24, 2021
    21 Facebook August 18, 2021
    22 Washington Post April 8, 2021
    23 Texas Children’s Hospital Peter Hotez
    24 PND July 1, 2011
    25 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
    26 Nature April 27, 2021
    27 CCHD Disinformation Dozen: The Sequel April 28, 2021
    28 Reason July 15, 2021
    29 CNN July 16, 2021
    30 AP July 16, 2021
    31 New York Times July 24, 2021 (Archived)
    32 Twitter Dr. Joseph Mercola July 26, 2021
    33 Warren’s letter to Andy Jassy September 7, 2021
    34 National Interest September 12, 2021
    35 The Guardian September 13, 2021
    36 New York Times September 8, 2021
    37 Washington Post September 29, 2021
    38 US District Court Western District of Washington Case: 2:21-cv-01508
    39 Complaint for Contract Breach Mercola vs Google, YouTube, Alphabet Inc. September 28, 2022
    40 Reuters September 29, 2022
    41 US District Court Northern District of Texas Case: 2:23-cv-00004-Z
    42 The Defender January 10, 2023
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    • JUST IN: Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out Hillary Clinton And Mitt Romney For 'Baseless Smear':

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    • Tulsi Gabbard Testifies on the Weaponization of Federal Government:

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    • 'The Twitter Files Are just The Tip Of The Iceberg': Elise Stefanik Details Twitter, FBI Cooperation:"

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