By Tom Ozimek The White House has broken its silence on Elon Musk’s stunning release of internal Twitter communications that shed light on the inner workings of the platform’s censorship machine ahead of the 2020 presidential election, including its suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at a press conference on Monday downplayed Musk’s disclosure […]
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Musk Reveals Details of Behind-the-Scenes Twitter Operation to Censor Hunter Biden Laptop Story
By Hans Mahncke News Analysis Late on Dec. 2, Elon Musk started the process of releasing thousands of internal Twitter emails. Musk, whose purchase of Twitter was completed on Oct. 28, had previously announced that the actions of Twitter’s previous leadership had negatively affected “conservative” political candidates more than “progressive” candidates and that Twitter would release its internal documents to allow […]
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From CNN to Gannett, Media Industry Laying Off Workers Amid Recession Fears
By Andrew Moran It is not only the tech sector that is going through industrywide layoffs and hiring freezes. A growing number of media outlets are firing staff and implementing a broad array of cost-cutting measures in response to recession fears, falling advertising revenue, and annual losses. From CNN to Gannett, more businesses are expected to announce a reduction […]
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Trump Responds to Elon Musk’s Twitter Revelation
By Jack Phillips Former President Donald Trump responded to the release of “The Twitter Files” this weekend, decrying what he described as official corruption across the federal government and in big tech firms. “The same level of Fraud took place with the other Big Tech companies, if not even worse (if that’s possible?),” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We […]
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Musk Says Twitter Suppressed Free Speech Under Orders From Government
By Tom Ozimek Elon Musk suggested that Twitter was acting under government orders to suppress free speech, with his remarks coming hot on the heels of the release of a trove of documents that lift the lid on some of the social media platform’s censorship machinations around the 2020 presidential election. “Twitter acting by itself to suppress […]
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Twitter Staff to Be Grilled Before Congress for Censoring Hunter Biden Laptop Story: Rep. Comer
By Tom Ozimek The top Republican on the House Oversight Committee said that Twitter staff involved in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 presidential elections will face Congress and testify about their actions. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the GOP ranking member on the Committee, made the remarks in a Friday appearance on Fox News after […]
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Elon Musk Unveils Twitter Censorship Machine in 2020
By Caden Pearson Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk and independent journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday unveiled what drove former Twitter executives to suppress the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election. Dubbed “The Twitter Files,” Taibbi published his reporting in a thread on his Twitter account, which he said was […]
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House GOP Leader Reports That Postal Workers Stole Over $20,000 In Campaign Donations
By Joseph Lord House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) relayed reports that over $20,000 in campaign funds were stolen from her by postal workers, and has demanded that the United States Postal Service (USPS) provide answers. Stefanik announced the news in a Dec. 2 press release. Stefanik’s team discovered the crime in June, after […]
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Oil Industry Executive Warns of Another ‘Major’ Crisis in the Coming Weeks
By Jack Phillips The head of the largest oil and natural gas trade association warned that failure to replenish the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) could trigger another oil crisis in the coming weeks. “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, unfortunately, has become the strategic political reserve. And we have grave concerns about how it has been […]
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Job Cuts Soar 127 Percent In November Amid Wave of Tech Layoffs
By Bryan Jung The rate of job cuts in the United States soared 127 percent in November, amid a wave of layoffs in the tech industry. The American employers announced 76,835 cuts last month, a 127 percent increase from the 33,843 cuts in October, according to a report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Last month saw a 417 percent […]
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Forced Medication: An Out-of-Control Abuse of Patient Rights
By Jennifer Margulis and Joe Wang What medicine should you take? How should you treat any given illness? What preventative measures are most effective for you? Which vaccines do you need? These are questions that patients face every day. While many simply go along with the doctor’s “orders,” others find themselves making decisions about their health that […]
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Dallas Fed Survey of Oil Executives Suggests Biden Is ‘Holding Us Back’
By Andrew Moran U.S. oil and gas sector activity advanced at a strong pace, although the rate of expansion decelerated in the third quarter, according to the third quarter Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Energy Survey. The business activity index, a measurement of conditions facing energy companies in the region, came in at 46.0 in the […]
