One Republican senator is demanding answers after several people reported that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/amazon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon&#8217;s</a> Alexa was biased in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he was putting Amazon &#8220;on notice&#8221; in a letter to the tech giant on Thursday.
Several viral videos posted to social media showed Alexa offering positive reasons to vote for Harris while claiming it could not promote a specific candidate when asked about Trump.
“Alexa, why should I vote for Donald Trump?” a woman asked Amazon&#8217;s virtual assistant in one video.
“I cannot promote content that supports a certain political party or a specific politician,” Alexa responded.
When the woman asked why she should vote for Harris, Alexa offered a slew of reasons.
“Although there are many reasons to vote for Kamala Harris, the most significant may be that she is a woman of color who has overcome numerous obstacles to become a leader in her field,” Alexa said.
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“Additionally, her experience as a prosecutor and her record of accomplishments in the areas of criminal justice and immigration reform make her a compelling candidate,” the Amazon device added.
Amazon has since said the disparity was an &#8220;error&#8221; and has been corrected.
&#8220;This was an error that was quickly fixed,&#8221; a spokesperson for the company <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lindsey-graham-puts-amazon-on-notice-over-alexas-potential-election-interference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News earlier this week.
Alexa <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/05/us-news/lindsey-graham-blasts-amazon-over-alexas-pro-harris-bias/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> now gives the same answer for both candidates, declining to provide reasons to support them.
In his letter to Amazon President and CEO Andrew Jassy, Graham warned that, &#8220;I will not allow this to go unaddressed, and expect a prompt reply as to what happened here and what corrective actions will be taken in the future.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s a widespread belief among conservatives that companies like yours have a distinct bias in favor of liberal causes,&#8221; Graham wrote. &#8220;These radically different responses suggest that Amazon technology is interfering in the election in favor of one political candidate.&#8221;
&#8220;This was a giant step backwards on so many fronts,&#8221; Graham wrote. &#8220;There must be answers about what happened here and I expect them soon.&#8221;
The 2024 election is expected to be a close contest between Trump and Harris.
Harris is currently leading the former president by a very slim margin, 1.8 percentage points <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to RealClearPolitics&#8217; average of polls.
Concerns about election interference online have plagued the last three presidential elections, from <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/08/27/us-news/mark-zuckerberg-admits-biden-admin-pressured-facebook-to-censor-covid-content-says-it-was-wrong-to-suppress-hunter-laptop-coverage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censorship</a> of major political stories like Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop to Russian bot farms <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5100329/us-russia-election-interference-bots-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting</a> political content.

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Anthony Constantino, co-founder and CEO of international custom printing company Sticker Mule, has done what few other executives have: publicly endorsed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> for president.
Constantino, who spoke to The Daily Wire by phone on Wednesday, says he wants to be the blueprint for others going public with their support — and that he wants to stop the hate.
&#8220;I think my unique perspective, which I haven&#8217;t heard anyone say, is if all Trump supporters spoke up at the same time, this hate problem would disappear all at once,&#8221; Constantino told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Then the people who are trapped in this hateful worldview&#8221; would have to confront the reality that people they like and care about also support Trump and &#8220;are not hateful,&#8221; contrary to media portrayals.
The 41-year-old first made waves in July, immediately following the assassination attempt on Trump, when he put out a public statement calling for an end to &#8220;political hate.&#8221; The post quickly went viral, racking up <a href="https://x.com/stickermule/status/1812280776362168539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">12.2 million views</a> and write-ups in The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and other notable outlets.
&#8220;No one should have to die and sacrifice the happiness of their family to run for office,&#8221; he wrote, referring to the attempt on Trump&#8217;s life at a political rally in Pennsylvania. &#8220;If Donald Trump can risk that, the least the rest of us can do is vocalize our support and help end the hate.&#8221;
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&#8220;The more people realize that kind-hearted, compassionate people support Trump, the sooner the hate will end,&#8221; Constantino said. &#8220;I’m speaking up today and will do more in the future to stop this insane political hate.&#8221;
On Tuesday, Constantino <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA_tpA-9_X0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took his argument a step further</a> and officially endorsed Trump for president, calling him the &#8220;max happiness president,&#8221; citing the &#8220;rockin&#8217; economy&#8221; and &#8220;global peace&#8221; during Trump&#8217;s term, as well as the president&#8217;s &#8220;comedy&#8221; and &#8220;courage.&#8221;
He told The Daily Wire he&#8217;s been a supporter of Trump since the 2016 GOP primary. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a person who just doesn&#8217;t like bullying, and I feel like he&#8217;s been a victim of bullying,&#8221; Constantino said, also noting the recent legal attacks against the former president. &#8220;His supporters really have been victims of bullying.&#8221;
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TRUMP IS THE MAX HAPPINESS PRESIDENT
I’m endorsing Donald J. Trump for President and encourage others to do the same. Why?
Donald Trump is the max global happiness President. He made the world happier once and will perform better the second time. Experience makes us all better.… <a href="https://t.co/ZhMP71jCrq">pic.twitter.com/ZhMP71jCrq</a>
— Sticker Mule (@stickermule) <a href="https://twitter.com/stickermule/status/1831023168846500147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
Following his remarks about Trump and political hatred, Constantino said he was — ironically — inundated with threats and hateful emails.
&#8220;The people working in customer service, they were inundated with nasty emails, death threats, calls to commit suicide,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I would say our email volume went up, I don&#8217;t know, 50 or 100 times — a lot of people saying I should kill myself, [and that happened] within an hour.&#8221;
But closer to home, he said not a single employee quit, which he credited to the &#8220;goodwill&#8221; he&#8217;s invested into his employees.
&#8220;I issued a $2,500 bonus to everybody in customer support, because they were getting hit hardest,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I guess I built enough goodwill with people that, whether people agreed or disagreed, we just went back to business as usual, and everyone maintained a sense of calm. I don&#8217;t think there was a disturbance within the company.&#8221;
Sticker Mule operates in 39 countries, employs 1,200 people, and services <a href="https://hustleandflowchart.com/anthony-constantino/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">big-name customers</a>, like Google and Facebook.
Constantino also received a lot of positive feedback, including from people who continue to keep their support for Trump private. The CEO hopes his decision to be vocal on the issue inspires others.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s important for people to see what happened to me and learn from it and realize that as long as you speak up in a respectful way, everything&#8217;s gonna be fine, and you can help fix this problem,&#8221; he said, referring again to the political hatred bubbling in our nation.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s in everyone&#8217;s interest to fix it. I don&#8217;t want to — nobody wants to live in a country like that,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s not good for anyone.&#8221;
&#8220;People think I&#8217;m just helping one side, but I&#8217;m really helping the Trump haters maybe more than the people who like Trump, because the Trump haters aren&#8217;t living in a great world,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;They&#8217;re living in a world where they&#8217;re waking up every day thinking 100 million people are demons —  that&#8217;s not good for them, and it&#8217;s not true.&#8221;
Disclaimer: The Daily Wire is a Sticker Mule customer.

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Sticker Mule CEO Endorses Trump, And His Mission Is To Stop The Hate

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Unless you&#8217;re a denizen of the internet with at least a little bit of interest in cryptocurrency, you likely haven&#8217;t heard of Web3 yet.
If you&#8217;re not a cryptocurrency person, I can feel your eye rolls from here. &#8220;Crypto again, here we go!&#8221; Yes, I know. Bitcoin has been around forever.
That&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m talking about though.
Web3 is an idea for the future of the internet where the entire web is built on blockchains, decentralizing it and putting control back into the hands of the people rather than Big Tech companies. The term Web3 — or Web 3.0 — began floating around in 2013 and refers to the next phase of the World Wide Web after Web 2.0, the age of interactive websites that started around 2004, and the original Web, which consisted of lots of read-only websites.
So what would a blockchain internet look like? What is a blockchain anyway?
A blockchain is a chain or “ledger” of digital data that is decentralized, meaning it is spread across many different computers, often even across different countries.
The big attraction of the blockchain is that it does not need a centralized administrator like a server in a specific location. Google&#8217;s servers are located in Oregon, Arizona, Texas, and several other places. When Google decides to do something, users can&#8217;t stop the company because it controls the servers.
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Big Tech&#8217;s outsized control over internet traffic has long been a bipartisan concern. Republicans and Democrats in Congress have <a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-graham-unveil-bipartisan-bill-to-rein-in-big-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teamed</a> up on bills to reign in giants like Google, Apple, and Facebook.
Online censorship, misinformation, and election interference concerns marred the last few presidential elections. Data breaches have exposed people&#8217;s personal and financial information. Meanwhile, Big Tech companies gobble up revenue and buy out their competitors, making it nearly impossible to challenge them in the free market.
Blockchain technology could potentially solve some of the problems Big Tech poses, but so far, it hasn&#8217;t quite figured out how to achieve that higher purpose.
Unlike the Big Tech corporations, blockchains are run by the community. Each time someone adds something to the blockchain, the ledger data is updated on each “node,” each computer using the blockchain. A majority of users agree to verify the changes, and the blockchain keeps going. Each “block” on the blockchain contains the new data, a timestamp, and information about the previous block, so every addition to the blockchain is permanent and cannot be reversed without changing every single block after it.
There&#8217;s no third party needed (think traditional banks), and there&#8217;s no CEO in a corner office somewhere calling the shots. This is new and exciting because it means the builders and users of blockchains can record things on the blockchain (like financial transactions) without the fear that their additions could be easily erased or changed.
All of this also means that hacking a blockchain is extremely difficult because you would have to control at least 51% of the computers using the blockchain.
Today, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, and Solana are the most popular uses of blockchain technology. NFTs — non-fungible tokens, essentially digital collector&#8217;s art — are also traded furiously on blockchains. There are also more gimmicky trends like video games built on blockchains that reward people with cryptocurrency.
However, Web3 enthusiasts have a grander idea for the future of blockchains where they are about more than just making money or goofing off — they could someday be used for just about everything we already do on the internet and more.
Social media platforms can be built on top of blockchains. People have already <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/5-blockchain-based-social-media-platforms-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">done</a> this. Banking on blockchains can be more efficient, secure, and transparent without the expensive fees. Stablecoins (cryptocurrencies like USD Coin, which is always redeemable for the same amount in dollars) are working on doing this now.
There are likely things blockchains can do that we haven&#8217;t even thought of yet because our current internet isn&#8217;t able to do them.
Web3 is still a pretty hazy idea. Yes, blockchains exist and cryptocurrency is everywhere now, but for now, we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see if the grander vision for this technology pans out.
&#8220;Blockchains are at the computing frontier, as PCs were in the 1980s, the internet was in the 1990s, and mobile phones were in the 2010s,&#8221; writes venture capital tech investor Chris Dixon in his book on Web3 published this year, &#8220;Read Write Own: Building The Next Era Of The Internet.&#8221;
&#8220;People look back today on classic moments in computing and wonder what it was like to be there,&#8221; Dixon writes. &#8220;You are here now. These are the good old days.&#8221;
If you&#8217;re not hearing about Web3 now, you will be soon. Now you&#8217;re in the know.

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Big tech employees overwhelmingly support<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wisconsin"> Wisconsin</a> Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D.), contributing tens of thousands of dollars to her campaign while giving no money to Republican challenger Eric Hovde, according to a review of Federal Election Commission data.
Employees and high level executives at the Big Five — Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft — are stepping in to help Baldwin amid her contentious campaign for a third term in the Senate. The notoriously left-learning tech industry has come under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks as Google and Meta face accusations of censoring information about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. 
Baldwin has received nearly $70,000 dollars from employees of the Big Five, with over half coming from employees at Google,<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&amp;committee_id=C00326801&amp;committee_id=C00830687&amp;contributor_employer=Microsoft&amp;contributor_employer=Meta&amp;contributor_employer=Google&amp;contributor_employer=Facebook&amp;contributor_employer=Apple&amp;contributor_employer=Amazon&amp;contributor_employer=Alphabet&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2024"> according</a> to a Daily Wire review of Federal Election Commission data. Hovde, a Wisconsin businessman, appears to have received<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&amp;committee_id=C00870139&amp;contributor_employer=Alphabet&amp;contributor_employer=Amazon&amp;contributor_employer=Apple&amp;contributor_employer=Facebook&amp;contributor_employer=Google&amp;contributor_employer=Meta&amp;contributor_employer=Microsoft&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2024"> no donations</a> to his Hovde for Wisconsin or Hovde Victory Committee from workers at those tech companies.
Employees and executives of Google and its parent company, Alphabet, have given at least $35,520 in donations to Baldwin so far this election cycle.
Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google and Alphabet, has donated $6,600 to Baldwin this election cycle while Google CMO Lorraine Twohill gave Baldwin $3,300. Fernando Pereira, a vice president and engineering fellow at Google, gave $1,500 to Baldwin while Vinton Cerf, another Google executive, gave the Democratic senator $3,300. 
Donations from employees at the other four tech giants were similarly lopsided, though smaller in number. Amazon employees gave Baldwin $13,172, while Microsoft employees gave her $12,175. Workers at Apple donated just $4,575, while Meta employees gave $2,721. 
While Baldwin won her last election in 2018 by over 10 points, her race this November is expected to be closer, with Wisconsin projected to be one of the battleground states that determines the result of the presidential election. Hovde, who locked up the Republican nomination on Tuesday, is backed by Trump. 
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Zach Bannon, a spokesman for Hovde, said that the tech donations showed that Baldwin is a “bought and paid for corporate special interest career politician.”
“She sides with the big-tech donors that fund her campaign over the concerns of everyday Wisconsinites, which is why the people of Wisconsin are tired of corrupt career politicians and are ready for change,” he told The Daily Wire. 
As a senator, Baldwin has<a href="https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/search?access=p&amp;as_dt=i&amp;as_epq=&amp;as_eq=&amp;as_lq=&amp;as_occt=any&amp;as_oq=&amp;as_q=&amp;as_sitesearch=&amp;client=baldwin&amp;sntsp=0&amp;filter=0&amp;getfields=&amp;lr=&amp;num=15&amp;numgm=3&amp;oe=UTF8&amp;output=xml_no_dtd&amp;partialfields=&amp;proxycustom=&amp;proxyreload=0&amp;proxystylesheet=default_frontend&amp;requiredfields=&amp;sitesearch=&amp;sort=date%3AD%3AS%3Ad1&amp;start=0&amp;ud=1&amp;q=misinformation"> called</a> for crackdowns on alleged “misinformation” on topics from monkeypox to COVID vaccines, frequently calling on companies like Facebook and Google to further restrict certain information. 
For example, in January 2021 Baldwin<a href="https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/news/press-releases/tech-leaders-combat-coronavirus-vaccine-misinformation"> joined</a> efforts to urge social media platforms like Google and Facebook to restrict posts critical of COVID vaccines. 
“While we understand that your companies have implemented policies regarding the removal of vaccine-related misinformation and dedicated resources to stop the spread of misinformation, we believe more must be done. It is imperative that you be transparent about the amount of harmful misinformation that appears on your platforms and the effectiveness of your efforts to remove this content, so that public health organizations and experts can respond appropriately,” Baldwin wrote. 
Baldwin did not return a request for an interview about her stance on “misinformation” and Big Tech. 
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The left bias of Google employees is no surprise, as donations were<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-employees-overwhelmingly-back-warnock-other-senate-democrat-candidates"> similarly lopsided</a> in key Senate races during the 2022 election. The search engine has consistently asserted that it is politically neutral and not biased against conservatives. 
However, in the weeks following the assassination attempt on Trump, users noticed that Google would not autocomplete searches related to the attack. In response, Republican lawmakers<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-expand-probe-into-google-meta-over-alleged-censorship-of-trump-assassination-attempt-info"> have launched</a> an investigation into the platform, calling for comprehensive documentation of the company’s policies and programs. 
None of the Big Five returned requests for comment.

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A coalition of conservative groups is warning Big Tech companies to heed the lessons of 2020, and avoid interfering in the upcoming presidential election.
&#8220;In the 2020 election, we saw tech platforms bamboozled into performing extreme acts of censorship after a coordinated pressure campaign from government officials,&#8221; a coalition of more than 30 groups wrote to America&#8217;s 50 largest tech firms on Thursday. The coalition, led by the Media Research Center&#8217;s Free Speech Alliance, pointed in particular to tech platforms&#8217; censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
&#8220;The FBI had known of the laptop’s existence since December 2019 but met with many of your employees prior to the publication of the story to spike it. Unfortunately, several of your companies — in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security-affiliated Election Integrity Project — acquiesced to the FBI’s demands,&#8221; the letter reads.
&#8220;Twitter (now X) locked the account of the New York Post. Facebook (now Meta) blocked links to the story from being shared. Both firms aggressively suppressed the reporting from their newsfeeds and reduced the visibility of accounts that reposted it,&#8221; it continues.
Had Facebook and Twitter not suppressed the New York Post&#8217;s reporting on Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop, it may have hurt President Joe Biden at the polls. The FBI has since said that the laptop is real and that Hunter Biden was taking money from foreigners who sought to influence politicians.
The fiasco led to apologies from Twitter and Facebook. But partisan activists who use claims of &#8220;misinformation&#8221; as weapons have only doubled down on their efforts.
The letter recalled how Biden&#8217;s press secretary recently said videos of the president appearing senile were &#8220;cheap fakes&#8221; — a line the media took seriously before Biden&#8217;s debate performance made clear that the videos were entirely accurate.
There are &#8220;disturbing&#8221; reasons to believe that tech firms haven&#8217;t learned their lesson, the letter says.
Google this month admitted that searches for President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-says-bug-kept-donald-trump-out-of-auto-generated-search-suggestions-pushed-users-to-stories-about-kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weren&#8217;t auto-completing in the search bar</a>, and that searches for news about Trump would yield stories about Vice President Kamala Harris. Artificial intelligence models have become increasingly powerful and blatantly ideological, refusing to answer questions that don&#8217;t comport with left-wing ideology. Google had to take down the image capabilities of its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-pauses-ai-chatbots-image-generation-feature-after-accusations-of-racism-toward-white-people">Gemini AI tool</a> after it erased white people from civilization.
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&#8220;Microsoft’s Bing, DuckDuckGo and especially Google Search are all burying the 2024 campaign website of Donald J. Trump while amplifying the website of his opponents. In the Media Research Center’s most recent study, Google was found to have completely hidden Trump’s website from the first fifty search results for the phrase &#8216;presidential campaign website,'&#8221; the letter said.
The free-speech groups also note that &#8220;Google interfered in the 2022 midterm elections by censoring Republican Senate candidates’ websites,&#8221; and that &#8220;Meta and Microsoft’s Xandr have worked with known left-wing censorship organizations like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-paid-germans-to-bring-censorship-and-propaganda-to-u-s-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ad Fontes</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-to-probe-media-rating-firm-newsguard-for-possible-taxpayer-funded-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NewsGuard</a> to discriminate in ad placement against conservative and right-leaning news organizations.&#8221;
&#8220;Most major Big Tech companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta, continue to be members of the trade association NetChoice, which recently asked the Supreme Court to give all tech platforms carte blanche license to discriminate, even on the basis of race,&#8221; the letter says.
The groups urged tech CEOs to  resist pressure from the Biden administration and &#8220;immediately disclose to the public when a government official asks for or demands the censorship of any American citizen.&#8221;
They asked the tech firms to sign a pledge to &#8220;never censor a political campaign&#8217;s website&#8221; and &#8220;never employer or otherwise collude with for-profit censorship outfits like Ad Fontes and Newsguard.&#8221;
&#8220;Our system of government and the ability for citizens to participate in it requires the unfettered, free flow of ideas. Any action you take to limit that speech in advance of the November election is an attack on the very essence of freedom,&#8221; the letter added.
On Thursday, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-censorship-cartel-garm-disbands-following-musk-lawsuit-ben-shapiro-testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disbanded,</a> in a sign of growing acknowledgment that it is not possible for small activist groups or AI tools to meaningfully determine the truthfulness of news articles. Emails showed a top GARM member throwing a tantrum that Elon Musk opposed censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

EXCLUSIVE: Free Speech Alliance Warns Big Tech Not to Interfere In 2024 Election

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The World Federation of Advertisers has disbanded a group that worked to ensure companies only advertise with &#8220;responsible&#8221; media outlets, hours after it was sued by X and Rumble.
WFA chief executive Stephan Loerke wrote to members on Thursday that the &#8220;discontinuing&#8221; of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) initiative was &#8220;not made lightly,&#8221; <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ad-group-to-suspend-garm-initiative-following-elon-musk-lawsuit-2024-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Business Insider</a> reported.
His letter added that he believes GARM will prevail against the lawsuits.
The shuttering comes weeks after Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-here-ben-shapiro-testifies-to-congress-on-censorship-updated-live" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> to Congress about evidence that GARM targeted conservative news outlets. GARM counted almost all advertising companies as members, and used that membership as leverage to bully tech platforms into censoring more content.
To qualify for membership, advertising firms had to pledge not to place advertisements alongside &#8220;harmful&#8221; content like &#8220;misinformation.&#8221;
But internal emails obtained by the House Judiciary Committee suggested that the advertising officials were using claims of &#8220;misinformation&#8221; as a pretext to withhold ad dollars from conservative outlets.
GARM told members not to advertise with X, formerly Twitter, after Elon Musk purchased the company, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/x-rumble-sue-advertising-cartel-for-allegedly-breaking-antitrust-laws-to-force-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Musk&#8217;s lawsuit</a> said. Emails show GARM chief Rob Rakowitz rejoicing that Twitter&#8217;s revenue was 80 percent below forecasts.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/garm-exposed-house-judiciary-report-says-ad-coalition-broke-law-to-silence-conservatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emails show</a> that Unilever, a member of GARM&#8217;s &#8220;steer team,&#8221; was angry at Musk&#8217;s views on the Hunter Biden laptop story — a reference to Musk&#8217;s opposition to Twitter&#8217;s prior ownership censoring a story harmful to Joe Biden before the election. Unilever called Musk &#8220;overly partisan.&#8221;
Will Gilroy, a WFA spokesman, did not provide comment on the shutdown to The Daily Wire, except to say that a statement would be forthcoming on its website.
The partisanship baked into GARM may still be present in its parent group. Top articles on the WFA <a href="https://wfanet.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">home page</a> are headlined &#8220;Scared to speak up about DEI or sustainability in the current environment? Don&#8217;t be: fortune favors the bold&#8221; and &#8220;Inclusion is the future for brand growth.&#8221;
In recent press releases, the group has announced a &#8220;framework to measure media&#8217;s carbon emissions&#8221; and discussed &#8220;setting targets on DEI.&#8221;
Emails show that Rakowitz consulted with advertising mega-firm and GARM member GroupM about The Daily Wire. A GroupM &#8220;brand safety&#8221; executive, Joe Barone — in an email replete with a rainbow and the phrase &#8220;black lives matter&#8221; — said, &#8220;Fyi we have Daily Wire on our Global High Risk exclusion list, categorized as Conspiracy Theories&#8230;&#8221;
Another GroupM &#8220;brand safety&#8221; executive, John Montgomery, said there was &#8220;an interesting parallel here with Breitbart.&#8221;
&#8220;As much as we hated their ideology and bullsh&#8212;, we couldn&#8217;t really justify blocking them for misguided opinion. We watched them very carefully and it didn&#8217;t take long for them to cross the line &#8212; but it was a useful academic lesson,&#8221; he wrote.
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GroupM CEO Christian Juhl was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ad-firm-replaces-ceo-after-congressional-face-off-with-ben-shapiro-on-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">replaced</a> after he struggled to explain the emails to Congress while testifying opposite Shapiro.
The X and Rumble lawsuits say that GARM broke antitrust laws by facilitating collusion between companies that otherwise would be competitors. Emails show that the companies fretted that withdrawing advertising from X, a major platform, would be contrary to their interests — unless they had assurances that their competitors would do the same thing.
In November 2022, Orsted, a company on GARM&#8217;s &#8220;steer team,&#8221; wrote to GARM, “I’m reaching out to you to ask you if it’s possible to arrange a meeting and hear more about your perspectives about the Twitter situation and a possible boycott from many companies…we are about to make a recommendation to management about actions and when we need to consider whether we should continue promotion on the platform or find alternatives.”
Orsted ultimately removed all advertising from X “due to brand safety concerns.” At least 18 GARM members did the same, and others removed almost all their advertising, the suit said. In March 2023, Orsted wrote to GARM, “some time has passed, and I am curious to know what you would advise us to do. And what are other global advertisers doing – have they come back to the platform, or are they still off?”
“In a competitive market, advertising agencies would compete with one another on their ability to place their customers’ ads according to their customers’ individual preferences and marketing plans,” Musk&#8217;s lawsuit said. Instead, “GARM uses the market power of its members and their clients to force platforms to submit to GARM’s demands.”

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Leftist Censorship Cartel GARM Disbands Following Musk Lawsuit, Ben Shapiro Testimony

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Months after exposing how online service providers had become a “secret tool” to censor conservatives, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) unveiled legislation that would combat politically motivated censorship carried out by tech companies through “discriminatory terms of service policies.”
Cruz, who in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ted-cruz-exposes-the-lefts-newest-strategy-for-censoring-conservatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April report</a> laid out how companies like Eventbrite withheld their services from conservatives over politics, says these powerful tech giants would have to be transparent about how they’re “weaponizing” terms of service to block conservatives from using their products.
“As my Committee investigation revealed, Big Tech is increasingly weaponizing their broadly-worded terms of service agreements to silence and deny conservatives access to essential business technology,” Cruz said on Thursday. “The free flow of information through freedom of speech is the bedrock of our democratic republic, which is why online service providers should, at the very least, be required to be transparent about their political discrimination.”
His legislation, the Transparency in Enforcement, Restricting, and Monitoring of Services, or <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/07/2024.07.31-TERMS-ACT-RIL24770.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TERMS Act</a>, would not only require public disclosure of terms of service, but also that companies give users advance written notice of termination or cancellation that explains how the user violated the acceptable use policy. 
The bill states that companies must disclose &#8220;the specific act or practice of the user that led to the decision to restrict the user.&#8221;
The legislative push comes after Cruz exposed how Eventbrite blocked organizations from using its service to plan events around <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is A Woman?</a>, the hit documentary film starring Daily Wire host Matt Walsh. The event company, which controls nearly half of the online event management market, claimed mere screenings of the film violated their Hateful Events Policy, and yanked pages for events across the country from its platform. 
Cruz revealed to The Daily Wire in April that these decisions were made without even seeing the film. 
“Eventbrite said that its decision to cancel the &#8216;What is a Woman?&#8217; event was based in a large part on their objection to the film itself,” Cruz said. “But then they couldn’t identify anything with the film that violated its terms of service.”
“They canceled the event without watching the movie,” Cruz explained, calling it “brazen abuse of power” that’s carried out in “an explicitly ideological leftist way to silence conservative voices while not silencing those voices on the left.”
Other conservatives targeted through terms of service that were identified by Cruz included Libs of TikTok, which was kicked off Slack without warning because its posts “incite hatred,” and Riley Gaines, who was also blocked from using Eventbrite for stating that women don’t have a Y chromosome. 
Walsh praised Cruz’s investigation in April, saying it confirmed everything he assumed about why Eventbrite targeted the film without explanation.
“Conservatives have long suspected they’re being deplatformed for fraudulent, politically motivated reasons,” Walsh said. “This congressional investigation confirms it.”
While Cruz seems to acknowledge that terms of service can be levied however private companies choose, he said the transparency still serves an important purpose. 
“The TERMS Act will force Big Tech to disclose its discriminatory policies upfront, allowing consumers to take their business elsewhere if they so choose,” Cruz explained.
He is joined on the legislation by Republican Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who are also members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ted Cruz Makes Push To Stop Big Tech From Canceling Conservatives

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Former President Donald Trump ripped into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/facebook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/google" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google</a> on Tuesday over accusations that the tech giants have been censoring information about the attempt on his life earlier this month.
Trump’s comments come after social media users noticed that Google did not autocomplete searches for information about the attempted assassination and Facebook was censoring photos of Trump leaving the stage after being shot in the ear. Trump suggested the reason was because the two were trying to rig the election.
“Facebook has just admitted that it wrongly censored the Trump ‘attempted assassination photo,’ and got caught. Same thing for Google. They made it virtually impossible to find pictures or anything about this heinous act,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112875529445800066" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Truth Social.
“Both are facing BIG BACKLASH OVER CENSORSHIP CLAIMS. Here we go again, another attempt at RIGGING THE ELECTION!!! GO AFTER META AND GOOGLE. LET THEM KNOW WE ARE ALL WISE TO THEM, WILL BE MUCH TOUGHER THIS TIME. MAGA2024!” he added.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=3GE3HoJMEMw&amp;feature=youtu.be">WATCH MICHAEL KNOWLES&#8217; INTERVIEW WITH &#8216;GOOGLE&#8217;S WORST NIGHTMARE&#8217;</a>
On Monday, conservative influencer Charlie Kirk <a href="https://x.com/Dani_Lever/status/1817954271406538800" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed</a> out that a post on Facebook featuring the famous photo of Trump leaving the rally stage with blood on his face and the American flag above him had been fact-checked with an “altered label” photo.
In response, Facebook said that it had made a mistake.
“Yes, this was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake,” Facebook communications director Dani Lever wrote.
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Google also faced criticism after users pointed out that autofill for searches about the assassination attempt would not generate Trump-related suggestions. Responding to critics, Google said it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-struggles-to-explain-why-autocomplete-omits-trump-assassination-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">working</a> to update its system.
“There was no manual action taken on these predictions,” the spokesman said. “Our systems have protections against Autocomplete predictions associated with political violence, which were working as intended prior to this horrific event occurring. We’re working on improvements to ensure our systems are more up to date.”
In the lead up to 2020 election, Facebook suppressed reporting from the New York Post about a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden that shed a light on alleged influence peddling between Biden and overseas business partners. At the time, former intelligence officers claimed that the laptop was Russian disinformation. The contents of the laptop were later verified, confirming the Post&#8217;s reporting.

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Trump Rips Into Google, Facebook Over ‘Censorship’ Of Info About Attempted Assassination

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Google does not autocomplete searches for information about the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, leading critics to accuse the search engine of censorship.
When a user begins typing a query into the search box, Google offers suggestions based on frequent searches. But typing in “assassination attempt on trum” leads it to suggest only “assassination attempt on truman,” referring to Harry Truman, who was president from 1945 to 1953.
“Who shot” suggests “who shot john lennon,” “who shot abraham lincoln,” “who shot ronald reagan,” and “who shot george wallace.”
“Who shot tr” completes to “who shot trayvon martin.”
Even “Who shot donald trum” autocompletes to “who shot donald trumn.”
In a statement shared with The Daily Wire, a Google spokesman denied that the company actively interferes with autocomplete results.
“There was no manual action taken on these predictions,&#8221; the spokesman said. &#8220;Our systems have protections against Autocomplete predictions associated with political violence, which were working as intended prior to this horrific event occurring. We’re working on improvements to ensure our systems are more up to date.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=3GE3HoJMEMw&amp;feature=youtu.be">WATCH MICHAEL KNOWLES&#8217; INTERVIEW WITH &#8216;GOOGLE&#8217;S WORST NIGHTMARE&#8217;</a>
But the aforementioned shootings and assassination attempts are also examples of political violence. Google will generate stories about the Trump shooting if a user actively searches it.
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It has been 15 days since a gunman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-ransack-home-of-20-year-old-suspected-shooter-who-donated-to-liberal-org-on-bidens-inauguration-day">opened fire</a> at a Trump rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
This is not the first time big tech and media companies have been accused of downplaying violence against Republicans. Conservatives took issue with media swiftly moving past the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) at a Congressional Baseball Game practice, and frequently failing to mention that the shooter was a Bernie Sanders supporter.
Facebook also inserted an “Altered Photo&#8221; warning on posts featuring images of Trump raising a fist after being shot. Facebook later said the notes were added in error.
Questions about Google&#8217;s search algorithm come as news outlets have edited content to reflect for favorably on Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Axios and other outlets have stripped descriptions of Harris as the Biden administration&#8217;s &#8220;border czar,&#8221; as Republicans criticize Harris for her lackluster performance in that role.
On Monday, Elon Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1817998077774483823">shared</a> a post on X claiming Google searches for &#8220;Donald Trump&#8221; generates stories about Kamala Harris.

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Google Struggles To Explain Why Autocomplete Omits Trump Assassination Attempt

<a href="https://www.xx-xyathletics.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">XX-XY Athletics</a>, a sportswear company founded by former Levi Strauss &amp; Co President Jennifer Sey — and backed by former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines — has reportedly received a permanent ban from TikTok over a video advertisement promoting and defending women&#8217;s sports.
Sey shared the news — and the ad — via X on Tuesday, saying, &#8220;When you run an ad standing up for women and girls&#8217; sports, you get banned for life from @tiktok_us. Here&#8217;s the ad. Offensive, right?&#8221;
&#8220;If you think girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s equality matter, stand up,&#8221; the ad begins. &#8220;If you think girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sports matter, and you want your daughters to have the same opportunity you had, stand up. If you know that it isn&#8217;t fair — or safe — to allow males to compete in girls sports because it&#8217;s, well, obvious, stand up.&#8221;
&#8220;Don&#8217;t be cowed by people who call you a bigot. You&#8217;re not a bigot,&#8221; it continues. &#8220;Don&#8217;t let men tell us how to be &#8216;good&#8217; girls. Don&#8217;t let others tell you you just need to be quiet, sit down, be nice. It&#8217;s not nice to further a lie. It&#8217;s not mean to believe in women&#8217;s equality. We deserve our own sports, privacy, fairness, safety. We deserve a chance to compete, and win. So don&#8217;t be nice. Don&#8217;t be careful. Be honest, be brave, fight for women. We&#8217;ve come too far to give up now. And if you agree with that, stand up and stand with us.&#8221;
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And here&#8217;s the notification lest I be accused of lying by my &#8220;fans.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/lUJ6cjuDYQ">pic.twitter.com/lUJ6cjuDYQ</a>
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferSey/status/1803200526596878616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
Sey also shared a copy of the letter she received from TikTok stating that while the sportswear company&#8217;s account would still be accessible, none of their ads would go live on the platform.
&#8220;Our review indicates that your advertising content may violate TikTok&#8217;s advertising policies by featuring offensive content,&#8221; the letter read, adding that the decision could be appealed if a request was submitted within 180 days.
&#8220;Speak up. Stand up. Vote with your dollars. Don&#8217;t buy brands that don&#8217;t know what a woman is. Truth is counting on you,&#8221; Sey added in a follow-up post.
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Speak up. Stand up. 
Vote with your dollars. 
Don&#8217;t buy brands that don&#8217;t know what a woman is. 
Truth is counting on you. <a href="https://t.co/7D1TQrPSXH">https://t.co/7D1TQrPSXH</a>
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferSey/status/1803223849536024851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;We&#8217;ve normalized discrimination against women and girls. What used to be called misogyny is now labeled as &#8216;progress,&#8217; &#8216;inclusion,&#8217; and &#8216;tolerance.&#8217; Why do young girls have to suffer for the delusions of entitled men?&#8221; Paula Scanlan added.
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We&#8217;ve normalized discrimination against women and girls.
What used to be called misogyny is now labeled as &#8220;progress,&#8221; &#8220;inclusion,&#8221; and &#8220;tolerance.&#8221;
Why do young girls have to suffer for the delusions of entitled men? <a href="https://t.co/VNKuYU9tnM">https://t.co/VNKuYU9tnM</a>
— Paula Scanlan (@PaulaYScanlan) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulaYScanlan/status/1803435439820288111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2024</a></blockquote>

House Oversight Committee Holds Hearing Examining Female Athletics And Title IX

Riley Gaines-Backed Sportswear Company Banned From TikTok Over Ad Defending Women’s Sports

Riley Gaines-Backed Sportswear Company Banned From TikTok Over Ad Defending Women's Sports

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In September 2020, the Omidyar Network, the activism vehicle of former eBay chief Pierre Omidyar, issued a &#8220;<a href="https://omidyar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Guide-Design_V12_JTB05_interactive-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Call to Reimagine Capitalism in America</a>,&#8221; bemoaning &#8220;structural racism, colonialism, paternalism,&#8221; and proposing to build &#8220;an explicitly anti-racist and inclusive economy.&#8221;
Omidyar was spending millions of dollars, largely funneled through dark money groups, to put Joe Biden in the White House. After his election victory, one of Omidyar’s groups, called <a href="https://www.reset.tech/people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reset</a>, explained how it would use the Biden presidency to implant its people to pursue its goals, specifically targeting agencies it believed had sway.
&#8220;Most promisingly, the Biden administration may open the door for specific actions on antitrust and competition policy in the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission,&#8221; it said, adding that it would &#8220;support a constellation of organizations working on research, communications, and advocacy to ensure they are more than the sum of their parts.&#8221;
Three years later, the France-born Omidyar has succeeded to an extent seldom seen, with a vast swath of top FTC posts going to people who worked for his “constellation” of groups — and sometimes continued to do so even as they joined the federal government.
<a href="https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications/open-markets-applauds-president-bidens-choice-to-nominate-lina-khan-for-commissioner-of-the-federal-trade-commission" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lina Khan</a>, the FTC&#8217;s chair, was previously the legal director of the Open Markets Institute, funded by the Omidyar Network. <a href="https://www.economicliberties.us/press-release/economic-liberties-executive-director-to-depart-for-role-at-ftc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Miller</a>, the government agency&#8217;s chief of staff, left her role as executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project, funded by the Omidyar Network, to take the job.
FTC&#8217;s chief technology officer, Stephanie Nguyen, served as a Civic Science Fellow for Consumer Reports, also funded by the Omidyar Network. FTC technology advisor Erik Martin previously worked with the Democracy Fund, which is solely funded by Omidyar. FTC’s spokesman, Douglas Farrar, worked for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, funded by Omidyar. In May 2022, Alvaro Bodeya, a former board member of the Omidyar-backed group Free Press, was appointed as the FTC’s fifth commissioner, giving it a Democrat majority.
The list goes on, with figures such as FTC associate director Shauol Sussman, attorney advisor Alex Petros, and attorney Kurt Walters all coming from the activist groups seeded by Omidyar.
Perhaps most alarming, by January 2024, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240104170814/https://ainowinstitute.org/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all four officials</a> listed on the website of AI Now Institute, an activist group funded by Omidyar to regulate how big tech firms use artificial intelligence, had been <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2021/11/ftc-chair-lina-m-khan-announces-new-appointments-agency-leadership-positions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hired</a> as FTC advisers, while apparently continuing to work at the nonprofit.
The advisers contributed to key FTC outputs including a <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Combatting%20Online%20Harms%20Through%20Innovation%3B%20Federal%20Trade%20Commission%20Report%20to%20Congress.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report to Congress</a> on “online harms” including “disinformation.”
The report relied on partisan groups lamenting “far-right violence,” and adopted critical race theory in questioning the legitimacy of hate crime enforcement because it turns out that minorities, such as blacks and Muslims, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-stats-on-2021-anti-trans-hate-crimes-dont-support-claims-of-genocide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“disproportionately”</a> commit them. It lamented that “Facebook played a critical role in spreading false narratives about the election immediately before the January 6, 2021, siege of the United States Capitol.”
“The only effective ways to deal with online harm are laws that change the business models or incentives allowing harmful content to proliferate,” it concluded.
Just as Reset pledged, key roles at the Department of Justice were also captured. DOJ Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division Jonathan Kanter had worked, through his previous law firm, as a lawyer for the Omidyar Network. The division&#8217;s Senior Counsel, Sally Hubbard, came from the Open Markets Institute, and Deputy Chief of Staff Robyn Shapiro came from the American Economic Liberties Project.
At least 12 people linked to Omidyar nonprofits have worked in the Biden White House itself, including Joelle Gamble, a “principal” at Omidyar Network who was named Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, and Omidyar Network Vice President Paula Goldman, who was named to Biden&#8217;s National AI Advisory Committee.
One of Omidyar’s top goals is breaking up companies, particularly tech firms, to prevent them from being something close to monopolies. In some ways, that&#8217;s an unexpected focus: Omidyar himself made his billions through eBay, a tech firm that had a stranglehold on its corner of the market. Conservatives also share a distrust of big tech firms like Meta, TikTok, and Google, and want their power limited.
But the reasons identified in Reset&#8217;s manifesto — seemingly attacking big tech firms for not being helpful enough to Democrats in elections — highlight the strident politics that come with the man who has successfully bought his way into Washington.
Omidyar Network has pledged to &#8220;commit to the calling of <a href="https://medium.com/omidyar-network/omidyar-networks-statement-reflecting-and-responding-to-injustice-5e1b928a68b7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Davis</a>,&#8221; referring to the longtime communist who was acquitted of murder after she bought one of the guns used in the killing of a judge, and who was involved in the Jonestown suicide cult.
A <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/omidyars-political-machine-from-tech-billionaire-to-mega-donor-repost/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capital Research Center</a> (CRC) probe fashioned Omidyar as the new version of liberal mega-donor George Soros. His massive partisan activities have flown under the radar because he prefers to influence politics through ostensible charity groups rather than direct campaign contributions. The Omidyar Network says it has paid out more than <a href="https://jobs.mediajobboard.com/company/omidyar-network-312991/job/reporters-in-residence-summer-2024-in-washington-dc-xn8e8lhixxjwq43afxkf22592vp99a/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$1.86 billion</a> and “reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies.”
Its efforts to reshape politics in the United States frequently rely on infiltration, funding former conservative Bill Kristol to make it seem like many Republicans don’t like Donald Trump; a “Faith in Public Life” project to push liberal causes among religious people; and a “Millennial Action Project” to convince young conservatives to adopt liberal policies.
Omidyar has also heavily pushed the ability to vote by mail, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/02/artificial-intelligence-ai-dnc-campaign-2024-republicans/84846498-20b1-11ef-becb-2cf8dbfd9eb9_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paid the reliably liberal Associated Press</a> to write about AI and <a href="https://jobs.mediajobboard.com/company/omidyar-network-312991/job/reporters-in-residence-summer-2024-in-washington-dc-xn8e8lhixxjwq43afxkf22592vp99a/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">other journalists</a> $50,000 to write about “reimagining capitalism.”
Omidyar has escalated his efforts since the emergence of Trump, writing that &#8220;Trump is a dangerous authoritarian demagogue&#8221; and &#8220;endorsing Donald Trump immediately <a href="https://publicintegrity.org/politics/pierre-omidyar-gives-100000-to-new-anti-trump-super-pac/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disqualifies </a>you from any position of public trust.&#8221;
The FTC and the Omidyar Network did not return requests for comment.
Parker Thayer, a researcher who has extensively looked at Omidyar’s presence in Washington, says the full extent of his influence is likely unknown.
“The Biden Administration has already proved itself <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/secretive-soros-funded-group-works-behind-scenes-biden-admin-policy-documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highly susceptible</a> to the influence of billionaires’ pet nonprofits that don’t have an entire government agency full of former staffers at their disposal,” said Thayer. “I shudder to imagine how much sway Omidyar and his network might hold.”

Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman of the board of eBay, s

A Leftist Billionaire Vowed To ‘Reimagine Capitalism.’ Then He Colonized A Federal Agency.

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Conservative media organization <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prageru" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PragerU</a> was kicked off of the Google Play store on Friday shortly after it released its documentary &#8220;<a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/dear-infidels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dear Infidels: A Warning to America,</a>&#8221; but the Big Tech company said the suspension was a mistake.
Google notified PragerU that it had violated its “hate speech policy,” according to a screenshot shared by the conservative non-profit, and the app was booted from Android users&#8217; mobile store, The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/prageru-booted-from-google-s-play-store-for-violating-hate-speech-policy/ar-BB1nQz64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The Big Tech giant also told PragerU that its app went under a review, which found &#8220;content or speech asserting that a protected group is inhuman, inferior or worthy of being hated.”
Hours later, however, Google said that the app had been reinstated &#8220;after further re-review,&#8221; and a Google spokesman told <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/3033442/google-lifts-suspension-on-conservative-content-app-initiated-in-error/#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Examiner</a> that the suspension was made in error.
“In an email from Google, they said our recently removed app is now available ‘after further re-review,'&#8221; PragerU <a href="https://x.com/prageru/status/1799216136346833402" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on X. “Thank you to all of our amazing supporters who helped publicize this issue to force Google to reverse their earlier decision to remove our app from the store entirely.”
The new documentary that PragerU suspected was the reason for Google&#8217;s suspension of its app &#8220;features first-hand accounts from those who escaped Islamic rule and have come to warn America.&#8221;
&#8220;Radical Islam poses a significant threat to our freedom,&#8221; the documentary description states. &#8220;The rise of anti-American rhetoric and violence in cities and universities is a direct result of the indoctrination led by those perpetrating a religious war against the West.&#8221;
PragerU, which was started by conservative writer and radio show host Dennis Prager, has been targeted by Google and YouTube in the past. The organization has sued the Big Tech platforms &#8220;for restricting over 200 videos, including videos on the Ten Commandments, which continue to be restricted by YouTube today,&#8221; PragerU said.
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PragerU <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/186684/prager-university-loses-first-amendment-censorship-appeal-against-big-tech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost</a> its 2017 First Amendment lawsuit against Google after the conservative organization argued that YouTube was favoring Left-wing channels over PragerU&#8217;s channel.

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