On September 7, 2020, Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that will determine his fate. After a long period of isolation, he was finally able to meet ...
“If wars can be started by lies then they can be stopped by truth.” ~ Julian Assange “That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.” ~ P C Hodgell (Caitlin Johnstone) Human life ...
YouTube’s decision to ban discussion of hacked information on its platform is unlikely to improve election integrity in the US, it will, however, continue to tilt the balance in favor of established corporate-funded outlets like ...
The list is growing: several long-running TV shows or movies recently announced major changes or cancellations in their programming, in the wake of the cultural unrest in America. Even cartoon characters were not spared. Earlier ...
“One has to wonder how long China would have kept up their false narratives if not for whistle-blowing medical professionals and personal accounts of citizens on the ground in Wuhan.” Americans are often quick to ...
“But for them to go under oath and say that theses blacklists don’t exist, well employees like me are able to just search through the internal search engine of the company and see that they ...
“We reject in the strongest possible terms the decision to pander to local laws and censor Rocketman for the Russian market.” As a famously anti-gay nation, it’s no surprise that Russia is censoring the new ...
The FBI released Marzieh Hashemi, 59, an American-born Iranian journalist from a 10-day detention in Washington, DC, as a material witness in a criminal matter before a grand jury.
Well, as you probably know already, Alex Jones has been banned from everywhere – at least everywhere that Palo Alto can control. Outraged YouTube-izens are screaming about censorship. They point to Nazi Germany as an ...
What can you say about free speech and the internet these days? How many times can you say free speech is free speech? It’s a waste of time to keep talking when you say it ...
Facebook has taken down over 80 pages devoted to alternative health in an effort to clamp down on fake news. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently vowed to purge fake news from the social media platform, ...
“Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat.” (Common Dreams) During a closed-door and off-the-record meeting last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown reportedly warned news publishers that refusal ...
A conspiracy theorist was banned from several social media outlets–is this a cause for concern for Americans’ right to free speech? Last Thursday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars news network were banned from ...
Better ingredients, better pizza, more racism? Outrage erupted on Twitter, Facebook and around the nation as it was discovered that John Schnatter, the founder of Papa John’s, one of America’s top pizza chains, had used ...
“We consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues…may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.” (New ...
Popular children’s book author Laura Ingalls Wilder will have her name removed from a major children’s book award, after concerns over potentially offensive racial depictions in her books, which were first published in the 1930s. The ...
Thursday, May 3, 2018, is World Press Freedom Day and we are honoring all journalists and media professionals who have lost their lives in their pursuit of press freedoms. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ...
The launch of a new community radio program is a significant step towards more open Myanmar press freedom, but the arrest of two Reuters journalists is a step back. Despite restrictive press access to Myanmar’s ...
Secret Facebook Censorship: a trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression. (ProPublica by Julia Angwin and Hannes Grassegger) In the ...