John & Nisha Whitehead “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington What the police...
Iain Davis So-called conspiracy theories abound, especially among those who attack others by calling them conspiracy theorists. There are official conspiracy theories, such as the government-approved stories about 9/11,...
CJ Hopkins And so the “Twitter Files” Limited Hangout has come to its inevitable, ignominious end. It is over. The Twitter-Files story is dead. It isn’t pining for the...
CJ Hopkins I think something is seriously wrong with my brain. Yesterday, I hallucinated that Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified before a subcommittee of the US House of...
So, Matt Taibbi is going after the Consent Factory. No, not my blog. The actual Consent Factory. The unimaginably powerful, mostly decentralized, global-capitalist propaganda apparatus that manufactures what passes...
CJ Hopkins So, Elon Musk’s new free-speech Twitter appears to be going extremely well. Critics of the official Covid narrative, and the official Ukraine narrative, and Elon Musk, are...
CJ Hopkins Everyone is going to hate this column. Musk worshipers are going to hate it because I’m going to blaspheme against Elon Musk. Musk demonizers are going to...
Censorship and OffG are old friends at this point, across most social media platforms but especially Twitter. Aside from the covert actions – shadow-banning, follower trimming, the sort of...
A new Twitter “whistleblower” has come forward. Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, allegedly a former hacker and Twitter’s ex-head of security, testified in front of congress today, with dire warnings about...
Even the Big Techers admit it: social media is ripping apart the fabric of our society. So the solution is simple, right? Delete your social media! Or is it...
Abir Ballan, for PanData.org Dear Elon, Congratulations on the acquisition of Twitter. We hope this will help put the world on track to be a better place. You stated...
Margaret Anna Alice “Free inquiry on a free platform is the only practice that distinguishes a free from a slave society.” Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans,...
Julien Charles “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a...
CJ Hopkins The column you are about to read is propaganda. Yes, that’s right … propaganda. It isn’t political satire or commentary, or objective news or information, or unbiased,...
“New Normal Newspeak” is a series of short articles highlighting how our language has come under assault in the past eighteen months. * We have a backlog for these...
Yesterday, the Scottish government put out a tweet containing potentially dangerous medical misinformation. We at OffGuardian did our civic duty and corrected them, citing non-controversial proven facts available from...
Government agencies are flagging posts as “misinformation” for Facebook. Essentially telling internet companies who to censor. We’ve always suspected as much, but now they’ve actually admitted it. Jen Psaki,...
Have you been reading things you shouldn’t online? Have you found yourself feeling frustrated and angry at the corruption of the ruling class, wealth inequality or the general state...
CNN's recent report that the US' security services are considering contracting the services of so-called “researchers” as a legal workaround for spying on average Americans confirms that Biden's dystopian...
David Perez Hardly a day goes by without news of the multi-sided impact of the digital world, how it shapes our individual lives and our collective future. Curse and...