Social Media: Ground Zero for the War on Ideas
Julian Glassford This time last year I cautioned, in a commentary for the libertarian e-zine Spiked, that Twitter’s leadership had finally sold-out on free speech. Much to the consternation...
Twitter Executive is Psy-Op Soldier – Middle East Eye
Middle East Eye are reporting a striking story that, if true, should be circulated widely as possible. It sheds a whole new light on just how deeply interwoven the...
Boycott All U.S.-Corporate Media!
Eric Zuesse Now Twitter is just as corrupt as Google and Facebook and MSNBC and CNN and Fox and the Washington Post and The Atlantic and all the rest....
Amazon Burning? – well maybe not so much
Today on Twitter OffG stepped into the current panic-inferno and thick forest of screaming hashtags that is the "Amazon Forest Fire Crisis." The results were thought-provoking. The mainstream media...
The War on Social Media
For a long time now, bubbling away on the mainstream media's back-boiler, there's been an on-going campaign to attack and undermine social media. It is multi-faceted, and unfocused, but...
Censorship and Arrests in Wake of Christchurch Attack
No matter the source of the violence, no matter the politics or casualties or the location, it seems the reaction of governments in the face of "terrorism" is virtually...
gab.com & the Great Purge on the Horizon
gab.com is an alternative social network, set up and launched in 2016. It's founder, Andrew Torba, stated he wanted to create a home for free speech, and counter what...
The latest (but likely not last) social media purge
In case it passed you by, on October 11 Facebook shut down several hundred alternative media pages, some of which had hundreds of thousands, o even millions, of subscribers...
Small Blue Bird Scares Centrist Hack
Ducksoap Guardian columnist Rafael Behr is fearful. He is frightened by little blue birds pecking at the media bubble. He is absolutely terrified of the success of twitter as...
When Social Networks Care About National Security
Harry Bentham Controversies surrounding online fake news, having alarmed political activists in Britain and the US, are prompting social media companies to be more active in combating the alleged...
What is the Real Agenda Behind the Great “Twitter Purge”?
Kit On July 12th, Twitter launched their announced “purge”. Stripping roughly six percent of all the followers on the platform. Barack Obama lost millions, so did Katy Perry. The...
How Social Media Platforms Suppress Key Truths
by Eric Zuesse On April 23rd, the great independent investigative journalist, Craig Murray — a former British diplomat — headlined at his blog, “Condemned By Their Own Words”, and...
WATCH: The Weaponisation of Social Media
Now openly admitted, governments and militaries around the world employ armies of keyboard warriors to spread propaganda and disrupt their online opposition. Their goal? To shape public discourse around...
Of course Donald Trump’s phones were tapped!
The ongoing clashes between the factions that make up the US political elite keep getting more and more absurd. And annoyingly, as no particular fan of Donald Trump, I...
The Web They Want: How a twitter wordsearch justifies internet censorship
Kit Knightly Earlier this year the Guardian launched their new campaign – “The Web We Want”. It’s an agenda driven campaign to suppress free speech and protect the ancien...
