Big Tech Continued Censorship

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Social media platforms target cardiologist who went from booster to critic of COVID vaccines​

Aseem Malhotra, who recently wrote an unusual first-person medical paper calling for a "pause and reappraisal of global vaccination policies for COVID-19," has become increasingly vocal in his skepticism of the jabs since his healthy father's inexplicable cardiac death six months after vaccination.

In a phone interview with Just the News, he called COVID vaccines "one of the worst pharmaceutical interventions in the history of medicine" whose harm is so thoroughly documented that "it shouldn't even be worthy of debate" to pause vaccination campaigns.

The only explanation in his mind is "the increasing unchecked power of Big Pharma over the last two decades" and "willful blindness" of policymakers and regulators.







Malhotra, who previously campaigned to tax sugary drinks and against overprescription of statins, told Just the News he never faced censorship before COVID.

Facebook locked him out of his account for 24 hours after he shared Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo's controversial assessment of post-vaccination cardiac deaths in young men, Malhotra told GB News. Twitter briefly censored Ladapo's tweet thread as well.

Facebook extended the lockout another few days, Malhotra said, after finding a two-week-old video where he called for a pause on COVID vaccination until "all the raw data" on trials "has been released for independent analysis." He accused Facebook of "trawling through" his account "looking for misinformation."

It's not Malhotra's first tiff with social media, he told Just the News. Facebook censored him last year for sharing a Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics study, later retracted, that found dangerously high carbon-dioxide intake in masked schoolchildren. Facebook threatened to penalize users for sharing the paper even before its retraction.

LinkedIn permanently suspended him last year for sharing his appearance on GB News discussing a possible link between mRNA vaccination and heart attacks, Malhotra said.

While LinkedIn said he could appeal the decision, it didn't respond to multiple appeals he filed. "I suspect this is [due to] Bill Gates," a major funder of vaccine research and former chairman of LinkedIn parent Microsoft, he said.

His deplatforming by LinkedIn made Malhotra "a little bit more careful" about what he said, given the anonymous complaints filed against him with the General Medical Council and "trolls" claiming he's spreading misinformation.

But Malhotra is pleased that he has not otherwise been canceled. He remains visiting professor of evidence-based medicine at Brazil's Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, president of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the U.K. Public Health Collaboration charity and a trustee of The King's Fund, which advises the U.K. government and just invited him to its annual conference.

Other medical professionals who challenge COVID conventional wisdom have faced puzzling apparent restrictions on their social media usage.

 

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Google's kryptonite? Law prof tests obscure DC legal path to remedy alleged bias against GOP emails​

A veteran public interest law professor known for his antismoking and "potty parity" legal crusades has filed a complaint against Google with the D.C. Office of Human Rights (OHR), alleging that mass-blocking RNC emails constitutes "unlawful discrimination based upon political affiliation" and denial of the "full and equal enjoyment" of Google's Gmail services.

The complaint by George Washington University's John Banzhaf says he's filed more than 100 successful complaints under the D.C. Human Rights Act, which does not require complainants to be "aggrieved" themselves and offers damages and attorney's fees for violations.

The D.C. law does not require a "place of public accommodation" to maintain a "physical location in the District" or even charge for its services, if it provides them to a person in D.C. That covers Google, which also "maintains a massive and expensive physical lobbying presence in the District," according to the complaint.

 

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Google Caught With Its Algorithms Down in Displaying Search Results for GOP Senate Candidates​

“The Media Research Center is calling upon Google to stop its war on democracy. To regain the trust of conservatives it must provide algorithmic transparency to show that liberal groups and candidates are treated the same way as conservatives,” the MRC stated. “MRC is also calling upon members of Congress to take action protecting American’s free speech liberties. Congress should investigate Google’s search bias and its results on the midterm elections.”

In truth, it’s not even a close call whether Google manipulated the search results. The astounding reporting by MRC has unmasked the tech giant as a partisan player with its thumb on the scale for Democratic candidates.


Fox News:

The findings revealed that campaign websites for 10 Republicans among the 12 tight races were found significantly lower on results pages compared to their opponent’s sites among organic search results.
Seven Republican candidate’s websites were completely hidden from the first page of Google search results, according to the MRC. While Republicans were hidden, eight Democratic candidates had websites that were promoted within the first six results on Google.
“Google’s bias is undeniable when shown in comparison to other search engines. Bing and DuckDuckGo both show, with on (sic) exception, all 12 Democrat and Republican senate candidate’s websites within the top five organic search results,” the Media Research Center said.

For its part, Google looked right into the camera and solemnly swore — no fingers crossed, no fibbing — that they don’t know what happened but it’s impossible for their non-partisan, completely innocent algorithms to be biased against those evil — er, those Republican candidates.


“While we cannot respond to specific claims without seeing the research, there is no validity whatsoever to allegations of political bias on Google Search. As third parties have found, political ideology is not a factor in our search ranking systems. We don’t and would never manipulate search results, modify our products or enforce our policies in any way to promote or disadvantage any particular political ideology, viewpoint, or candidate,” a Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital.


And if you believe that, I’ve got a beautiful old bridge spanning the Chicago River I’d like to sell you.

 

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Google Caught With Its Algorithms Down in Displaying Search Results for GOP Senate Candidates​

“The Media Research Center is calling upon Google to stop its war on democracy. To regain the trust of conservatives it must provide algorithmic transparency to show that liberal groups and candidates are treated the same way as conservatives,” the MRC stated. “MRC is also calling upon members of Congress to take action protecting American’s free speech liberties. Congress should investigate Google’s search bias and its results on the midterm elections.”

In truth, it’s not even a close call whether Google manipulated the search results. The astounding reporting by MRC has unmasked the tech giant as a partisan player with its thumb on the scale for Democratic candidates.


Fox News:





For its part, Google looked right into the camera and solemnly swore — no fingers crossed, no fibbing — that they don’t know what happened but it’s impossible for their non-partisan, completely innocent algorithms to be biased against those evil — er, those Republican candidates.


“While we cannot respond to specific claims without seeing the research, there is no validity whatsoever to allegations of political bias on Google Search. As third parties have found, political ideology is not a factor in our search ranking systems. We don’t and would never manipulate search results, modify our products or enforce our policies in any way to promote or disadvantage any particular political ideology, viewpoint, or candidate,” a Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital.


And if you believe that, I’ve got a beautiful old bridge spanning the Chicago River I’d like to sell you.

Its all coming down to to people they hire. Just like the govt. You are welcome if you are liberal.

 

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For your consideration ...

"But several new studies suggest the heart muscle can take months to heal, ..."

Except that once heart muscle cells die, that's it, they are forever dead, and not replaced, or replaceable. So where exactly does this "heal"ing come from? This is a BS study since it is impossible for heart muscle cells, cardiomyocytes, once dead, to heal or be replaced. What is left is scar tissue for the rest of one's life, until the heart cannot continue operating with the damage and fails.

What happens is that the heart continues to operate with what is left undamaged in a diminished capacity.

"When heart muscle cells die they are replaced with?"

"A heart attack, can cause the loss or damage of up to a billion cardiomyocytes. The damaged cardiomyocytes are replaced by scar tissue, which can no longer help the heart to pump blood and can cause an abnormal heartbeat, which can severely weaken the heart and may cause sudden death." Applies to myocarditis as well.

"What is the death rate of myocarditis?

"Immediate complications of myocarditis include ventricular dysrhythmias, left ventricular aneurysm, CHF, and dilated cardiomyopathy. The mortality rate is up to 20% at 1 year and 50% at 5 years."

 

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A few weeks later on Wednesday, a Twitter user called out PayPal for putting “the $2,500 fine back into its terms of service as soon as the outcry died down,” and called for people to share the information. But this, much like the “error,” is another bit of misinformation.





As Twitter user Kelley K points out, PayPal “never removed the $2,500 fine. It’s been there for over a year. All they removed earlier this month was a new section that mentioned misinformation.”

PayPal ‘Sneaking Back $2,500 Fine’ May Be Another Piece of Misinformation

Social media was again abuzz on Wednesday evening about PayPal Holdings (NASDAQ: PYPL) and its $2,500 fine. The fine made

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Suppressing dissent: DHS, FBI directed "disinformation" censorship on Big Tech platforms after all​

Remember the “Disinformation Governance Board“? At the time, we called that Orwellian project at the Department of Homeland Security by a more accurate name, the “Ministry of Truth,” for all of its 1984-ish fascist implications. After a massive backlash against the proposal, the Biden administration shelved it, although not without media wailing and gnashing of teeth.



Or did they?

According to The Intercept, the board disappeared — but the government/Big Tech censorship combine continued anyway:

Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information.
“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February.
In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. Dehmlow, according to notes of the discussion attended by senior executives from Twitter and JPMorgan Chase, stressed that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.”

Lest anyone thinks that this effort was restrained to mere consultations, Lee Fang and Ken Klippenstein report that Meta/Facebook created a secret portal to allow law-enforcement agencies to demand censorship of public speech on a real-time basis:

There is also a formalized process for government officials to directly flag content on Facebook or Instagram and request that it be throttled or suppressed through a special Facebook portal that requires a government or law enforcement email to use. At the time of writing, the “content request system” at facebook.com/xtakedowns/login is still live. DHS and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, did not respond to a request for comment. The FBI declined to comment.

The link goes to a cached version of a classified briefing document (“CONFIDENTIAL”) on how to use the portal. That is to say: The government has classified its censorship program for public speech to keep it from the public. And lest one think that this was a program designed for a narrow and arguably legitimate purpose, such as foreign-intel disruption of elections, DHS and the Biden administration had far broader plans for this program:

According to a draft copy of DHS’s Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, DHS’s capstone report outlining the department’s strategy and priorities in the coming years, the department plans to target “inaccurate information” on a wide range of topics, including “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.”

 

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Last week, Google barred ads for Patel’s “The Plot Against the King 2,000 Mules,” insisting in a notice to the publisher that the book was ineligible to advertise due to “unreliable claims.”

“The following is not allowed,” Google explained, “making inaccurate claims or claims that entice the user with an improbable result (even if this result is possible) as the likely outcome a user can expect.”

Google did not respond to The Federalist’s repeated inquiries about what claims were unreliable but allows books with wildly unreliable claims related to transgenderism to be promoted across the platform. Books teaching children lies about the sexes, such as “Bye Bye Binary,” or that they were born in the wrong body, such as “I Am Jazz,” don’t appear to be censored.

Patel published his second children’s book in late August as a sequel to “Plot Against the King,” which came out in April and chronicles the Russia hoax orchestrated against former President Donald Trump. Patel’s latest book outlines malfeasance in the 2020 election.

A spokesman for the book publisher told The Federalist that ads for Patel’s latest book remain allowed on Twitter but are banned across Google.

Google Bans Ads For 2020 Election Children's Book By Kash Patel

Ads for Kash Patel's latest children's book, 'The Plot Against the King 2,000 Mules,' are allowed on Twitter but blocked on Google.

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Censorious Cowards at LinkedIn Refuse to Explain Their Trashing of First Amendment, Free Speech​

“*Every* social media company is engaged in heavy censorship, with significant involvement of and, at times, explicit direction of the government,” Musk tweeted recently.

Think about that for a second: Government officials routinely reach out to Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other social media to censor your posts. It matters not that you are expressing your opinion, your right to which is constitutionally guaranteed by the First Amendment, and/or facts that members of the public have the same right to read or hear.

The essence of tyranny is the power of one or a few to decide what the rest of us can hear, read, or say without having to justify their actions.

Musk could have included LinkedIn on his list of willing censorship tools for Democrats in government. If you aren’t familiar with LinkedIn, it is a website used by millions of people, especially in professional and corporate communities, to network, seek, or offer jobs and express their opinions about political issues.

But try to post something contrary to the Democrats’ approved opinion and narrative, and you may well find yourself being accused of peddling “misinformation” and having your post disappeared.

That happened to me recently when I posted the following on LinkedIn:

If George Santos must resign for lying about his past, why shouldn’t the mainstream media at least apologize for six years of “news” stories based on the Russiagate Conspiracy theory that six academic data wonks now say was based on no evidence? #russiagate #santos #politics #media #mediaethics https://lnkd.in/e6XzssFA

 

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Tech CEO pats himself on the back, claiming to have prevented election of 'right-wing governments' in Europe​

By Monica Showalter

So migrants do indeed enter countries illegally and bring with them a lot of crime.

That's what anyone who lives in a migrant zone, which includes Europe, already knows, given the scope of soaring crime in such areas.

A recent Swedish study, cited below, certainly found a link:

According to a RealClearPolitics investigation, by respected researchers John R. Lott, Jr. and James Varney, a Swedish study has proven that there is a significant link between illegal immigration and violent crime, noting Sweden's sudden upsurge in violent crime traced to unassimilated illegal immigrants.
RCI collected homicide data for the European Union from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for 11 years, from 2010 to 2020, and compared it to rising percentages of each country’s foreign-born population. Even after accounting for variations among countries, the data show that each one percentage point increase in immigrant population is associated with a 3.6 percent increase in the homicide rate.

The Swedes who wrote it, of course, were prosecuted as racists.

Now we have a Silicon Valley tech baron admitting the same, with no prosecution in sight.

Why's that? Perhaps because of how he contexted it. Alex Karp, the head of the Silicon Valley tech company, Palantir, was in Europe for the Davos conference and whipped out some of his artificial intelligence (AI) gizmos, telling a reporter there:

“This product has stopped major terror attacks multiple times every year… And I believe… One of the things I’m most proud of is that… if those terror attacks had happened, you would have a far-Right government in every single country in Europe… and especially in the [Nordic countries].”
Presumably, Karp is saying that migrants would have caused so many terror attacks that every country in Europe would elect a “far-Right” government to end the madness.

 

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Facebook And Instagram Threaten To Permanently Ban Project Veritas​

Jordon Trishton Walker, an official who leads research and development for mRNA projects, recently said to an undercover Project Veritas journalist that the company uses “directed evolution” to mutate coronaviruses and create more potent variants and vaccines. More footage captured by the journalist and released on Thursday evening shows the embattled official revealing that Pfizer is not entirely sure why the vaccines are impacting women’s menstrual cycles, postulating that the effects could be evidence of hormonal disruptions.

“I hope we don’t discover something really bad down the line. I hope we don’t find out that somehow this mRNA lingers in the body,” he continued, “because it has to be affecting something hormonal to impact menstrual cycles.”

 

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The retirement comes months after PayPal, which has deplatformed multiple organizations and commentators for their political views, had unveiled an upcoming change to its acceptable use policy that would have banned the promotion of “misinformation,” as well as “hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory.” Within one day of The Daily Wire reporting on the policy change, which would have imposed $2,500 penalties on users for each violation, PayPal claimed that the guidelines were published “in error.”

PayPal lost $6 billion in valuation during a subsequent stock market selloff as thousands of users canceled their accounts. An interview between Schulman and the World Economic Forum published months earlier showed that the executive’s approach to business had long involved moving the needle on social issues as well as earning profits.

“Trust extends well beyond whether you deliver an excellent product or service. Doing that is very necessary, but it’s not sufficient,” asserted Schulman, who currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council and Board of Governors. “To be a company that embodies trust, your mission and values should make it clear that you stand for more than just maximizing profit. That you stand up for social issues that are important, and you do the right things to help create a better world.”

PayPal CEO Dan Schulman Announces Resignation Months After Controversial ‘Misinformation’ Policy | The Daily Wire

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Businesses need to be mindful of their fiduciary responsibility and keep in mind that all customers are just one color...

 

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Businesses need to be mindful of their fiduciary responsibility and keep in mind that all customers are just one color...

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The Big Tech overlords at Google were at it again on Thursday, flagging a column written by Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul warning about the threats posed by gain of function research.

As happens with too many stories and columns at Townhall, our team was notified by Google that Senator Paul's op-ed — Gain of Function Research: A Death Wish for the World — was flagged for containing "unreliable and harmful claims."

According to Google, its "unreliable and harmful" flag is applied to content "that makes claims that are demonstrably false and could significantly undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process," "promotes harmful health claims or relates to a current, major health crisis and contradicts authoritative scientific consensus," or "contradicts authoritative scientific consensus on climate change."

So public health officials, federal agencies, and Columbia University professors are "unreliable" now that Senator Paul is highlighting their statements and findings that suggest tinkering around with viruses can have negative consequences. As for being "harmful," it's abundantly clear that the only harm done by Senator Paul's column is to the narrative Dr. Fauci tried to establish — along with the Big Tech overlords who will stop at nothing to protect him as Science itself.

Google Flags Rand Paul's Townhall Column for 'Unreliable and Harmful Claims'

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YouTube stands by decision to slap age restrictions on Catholic League video slamming Disney​

In an interview with Just the News, Catholic League Communications Director Mike McDonald recapped the events surrounding the release and subsequent regulation of the online video.

"We came into work a few weeks ago, and I noticed that YouTube had an age restriction up," he began. "We had it embedded on our website, but when Youtube puts age restrictions on it, you can't watch it as an embedded video. They said it wasn't appropriate for children."

During the YouTube appeals process, McDonald recounted, he reminded the video-sharing platform it has "a carve-out for education and documentary materials," telling them: "This is what that video is. The documentary was vetted by lawyers ... There's nothing in this film that's objectionable. No cursing, no nudity, no gratuitous violence. Just people talking about Disney."

YouTube's response, he recalled, "was pretty much: 'Thank you for your appeal, but no.'"

 

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How Trump Derangement Gave Birth To The Censorship-Industrial Complex​

This Censorship Complex is bigger than banned Twitter accounts or Democrats’ propensity for groupthink. Its funding and collaboration implicate the government, academia, tech giants, nonprofits, politicians, social media, and the legacy press. Under the guise of combatting so-called misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information, these groups seek to silence speech that threatens the far-left’s ability to control the conversation — and thus the country and the world.

Americans grasped a thread of this reality with the release of the “Twitter Files” and the Washington Examiner’s reporting on the Global Disinformation Index, which revealed the coordinated censorship of speech by government officials, nonprofits, and the media. Yet Americans have no idea of the breadth and depth of the “Censorship Complex” — and how much it threatens the fabric of this country.

In his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower cautioned against the “potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power” via the new sweeping military-industrial complex. Its “total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — [was] felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government.” Replace “military-industrial” with “censorship,” and you arrive at the reality Americans face today.