Republican Senator Ted Cruz says the secret tool used by the tech industry to censor conservative voices is online service providers, which are systematically “removing infrastructure services that conservative organizations need to operate,” he tells The Daily Wire. 
The Texas Republican says this new breed of censorship is “far less visible” to the public than similar actions taken by platforms such as Facebook, but “every bit as problematic.” An investigation carried out by the Senate Commerce Committee identified companies such as Eventbrite and Slack that have withheld their widely used services from conservatives for political reasons.
“This is a strategy, and it&#8217;s a strategy they&#8217;re deliberately deploying to go after conservatives and silence them,” explained Cruz, whose <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/Commerce_HowOnlineServiceProviders_Report-for-Daily-Wire.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report was obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire</a>.
Cruz’s investigation honed in on Eventbrite’s treatment of events that were centered around “What is a Woman?”, the documentary by 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. 
Though groups were given only broad statements about why their access to Eventbrite was revoked, Cruz’s committee found that action was taken even though nobody at the company even bothered to watch the film. 
“Eventbrite said that its decision to cancel the “What is a Woman?” event was based in a large part on their objection to the film itself,” Cruz said. “But then they couldn&#8217;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.”
Eventbrite also revoked its services from an event on “Protecting Women’s Sports” that featured Riley Gaines, an outspoken female athlete who speaks out against allowing men to participate in women’s sports. Eventbrite, Cruz discovered, based its decision on social media posts by Gaines, chiefly one in which she stated, “real women … lack a Y chromosome.”
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Here’s why Eventbrite canceled seven “What Is a Woman?” events: <a href="https://t.co/wFPF7kA0f6">pic.twitter.com/wFPF7kA0f6</a>
&mdash; The Matt Walsh Show (@MattWalshShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshShow/status/1782868691069047220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Cruz also found that Slack, a communication platform used by companies across the country, revoked access to Libs of TikTok over factual statements it posted to social media that Slack says “incite hatred.” One of the posts from Libs of TikTok cited by Slack stated that Boston Children’s Hospital was “offering gender-affirming hysterectomies for young girls,” which although a statement of fact, generated significant anger towards the hospital. 
Slack told the Committee that “what makes [Libs of TikTok] problematic is that Libs of TikTok has a specific audience, and they are taking this information and posting it to that specific audience so that everyone in that audience sees it at the same time.”
“Understand what they&#8217;re saying: They&#8217;re saying the primary concern is that Libs of TikTok&#8217;s posts are read by a conservative audience,” Cruz explained. “They&#8217;re not even claiming to be upset with Libs of TikTok’s posts, most of which are retweets of posts from leftists. They&#8217;re just saying it&#8217;s objectionable that you actually have conservatives reading or watching what you&#8217;re putting out.”
Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik said that her team used Slack daily, and that its abrupt removal of services was “very difficult” for the company to deal with. Not only did it need to scramble to find a new way to communicate, but it lost all previous communications — without prior notification, and without any opportunity to appeal. 
The report concludes that the termination of service is often disruptive for conservative organizations — when Eventbrite canceled a Stanford University screening of “What Is A Woman?”, 600 students had already registered for tickets to the event. The entire infrastructure for attending the event was built through Eventbrite, and access was revoked just days before it took place, derailing it. 
Matt Walsh, whose documentary film was at the center of Eventbrite&#8217;s actions, says Cruz’s investigation confirms long-held suspicions from conservatives.
“Conservatives have long suspected they’re being deplatformed for fraudulent, politically motivated reasons,” Walsh said on Thursday. “This congressional investigation confirms it.”
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EXCLUSIVE: A lengthy congressional investigation led by <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenTedCruz</a> just exposed the deranged lies of several online services that deplatformed <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@libsoftiktok</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a>, and me. 🧵
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1782868905918119981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Cruz’s report also found that this sort of action is only being levied against conservative groups. While Libs of TikTok no longer has access to Slack’s services, the committee found that there is still an active Slack account for groups such as Antifa and Crimethinc, a group that puts out step-by-step guides for how to commit crimes. 
And Eventbrite since canceling the events for “What Is A Woman?” and Gaines has platformed events celebrating the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel.
“Eventbrite is perfectly happy to host them — they see no conflict with their &#8216;hateful events policy&#8217; having such rabid anti-Semitic, frankly, pro-violence content,” Cruz said. “But on the other hand, Matt Walsh is clearly beyond the pale.”

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Dozens of decisions from a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice related to his targeting of Elon Musk’s social media platform X have been revealed.
Justice Alexandre de Moraes had barred X from making the decisions public, but the Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee, as a result of committee subpoenas involving X, revealed the decisions in a 541-page staff report, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/brazil-twitter-elon-musk-x-censorship-f51dc67d51c8f5a1cf152ba467f44a8f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>.
“To comply with its obligations under U.S. law, X Corp. has responded to the Committee,” X stated earlier this week.
De Moraes had demanded permanent bans on at least 150 X profiles from elected officials and journalists, according to investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger, who <a href="https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1781047600663122257" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>:
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Given the dependence of elected leaders on social media, these demands for bans may constitute electoral interference. In one case, De Moraes demanded that all major social media platforms, including at least one, Twitter, which did not publish the offending material, ban a federal Congressman, Marcel Van Hattem. The TSE had claimed that Van Hattem had criticized the election results. Not only had Van Hattan’s video not been related to the elections, but it was also a criticism of the Labor Department. It was released one day before the election.
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De Moraes absolutely interfered with the Brazil elections <a href="https://t.co/QYCQf02Vzq">https://t.co/QYCQf02Vzq</a>
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“Musk is indeed a very innovative businessman; he innovated with electric cars, he innovated with rockets and now he invented a new form of non-compliance of a court order, through an intermediary,” Carlos Affonso, director of the nonprofit Institute of Technology and Society, told the AP. “He said he would reveal the documents and he found someone to do this for him.”
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&#8220;About 40 million Brazilians, or about 18% of the population, access X at least once per month, according to market research group eMarketer,&#8221; the AP noted.
After de Moraes ordered X to block the accounts earlier this month, Musk said he would defy the court’s order once his employees were in a “safe place” where they could not be arrested. De Moraes then issued a <a href="https://www.migalhas.com.br/quentes/404983/moraes-inclui-elon-musk-no-inquerito-das-milicias-digitais" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a>  accusing Musk of obstruction of justice and incitement to crime. On April 13, X’s legal representative in Brazil informed de Moraes they would comply with all court orders.

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Dozens of National Public Radio (NPR) employees signed on to a letter suggesting that their now-former senior business editor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Uri Berliner</a> was spot on in his assessment of the liberal bias that has taken over the network.
New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin shared screenshots of the letter, addressed to CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nprs-new-ceo-scolds-25-year-veteran-for-expose-outing-networks-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katherine Maher</a> and Editor in Chief <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-chief-hits-back-at-whistleblower-who-says-colleagues-secretly-agree" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edith Chapin</a>, which claimed that Berliner&#8217;s essay in The Free Press had left many of them feeling as though they&#8217;d been personally attacked.
&#8220;About 50 NPR employees sign a letter to CEO Katherine Maher and top editor Edith Chapin calling for, among other things, a public rebuke of the &#8216;factual inaccuracies and elisions&#8217; in Uri Berliner’s Free Press essay,&#8221; Mullin&#8217;s caption read.
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&#8220;We&#8217;re writing to urge stronger support for staff who have had their journalistic expertise called into question by one of their own in a public forum,&#8221; the letter read. &#8220;We also urge more transparency regarding the consequences of making unauthorized public comments that seek to change NPR&#8217;s editorial direction.&#8221;
The letter went on to say that while both Chapin and Maher had shared their objections to Berliner&#8217;s claims — namely that the outlet been wholly disinterested in presenting stories that might hurt President Joe Biden or help former President Donald Trump — the employees were concerned that their efforts to spur policy changes through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives were being undermined by Berliner&#8217;s public comments.
&#8220;Staff, many from marginalized backgrounds, have pushed for internal policy changes through mechanisms like the DEI accountability committee, sharing of affinity group guidelines, and an ad-hoc content review group,&#8221; they wrote, complaining that Berliner was getting more attention and apparent change from a short essay than they had after years of work.
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Their concern on that point, they said, was that others within the network might get the idea that a pointed editorial was more effective at forcing change than going through proper channels.
They also complained that Berliner&#8217;s essay had &#8220;made their jobs harder&#8221; and called on Maher and Chapin to clearly &#8220;offer public support and defense of those individuals whose work was directly undermined by the opinion piece.&#8221;

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The House Judiciary Committee on Friday requested a transcribed interview with the head of the World Federation of Advertisers&#8217; Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), a group through which the committee says major corporations colluded to try to bankrupt conservative media outlets by withholding advertising dollars.
In the <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/2024-04-12-JDJ-to-GARM-re-TI-request.pdf">letter</a> obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, asks Robert Rakowitz, the Initiative Lead and Co-founder of GARM, to appear voluntarily before the committee.
&#8220;To advance our oversight and inform potential legislation related to this coordination, the Committee must understand how and to what extent WFA and GARM may facilitate collusion,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;As Initiative Lead and Co-founder of GARM, you possess unique and specialized information that will advance the Committee’s oversight and inform legislative reforms. Accordingly, we request that you appear for a transcribed interview with the Committee.&#8221;
Jordan adds in the letter the committee&#8217;s belief that GARM &#8220;may be acting inconsistent with U.S. antitrust laws and congressional intent by coordinating GARM members’ efforts to demonetize and eliminate disfavored content online.&#8221;
The missive is the latest piece of evidence that Republicans are turning to anti-trust protections — a monopoly-busting tool once heralded by the political Left — to target corporations who, even while nominally competitors, band together to push a political agenda.
GARM has sought to set standards that block major corporations from advertising on media outlets that various partisan ratings firms claim promote &#8220;misinformation.&#8221; Such ratings firms have rated mainstream, center-right publications like Reason Magazine and the New York Post as untrustworthy, while dutifully enforcing government lines such as claiming the coronavirus lab leak theory is a conspiracy theory&#8211;even though the government now says it&#8217;s likely true.
GARM did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
The Judiciary Committee said in an earlier letter that it has already received GARM documents that show that it was targeting media outlets specifically because of their politics, and that those outlets include The Daily Wire, Fox News, and Breitbart.
Previous letters requesting documents “relating to the categorization, demonetization, or elimination of online speech&#8221; went to major corporations on GARM’s “steering committee” — Unilever, Procter &amp; Gamble, GroupM, Diageo, and Mars — saying the documents “directly connect” the companies with such efforts.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/docs-show-corporate-giants-are-colluding-to-demonetize-conservative-platforms-judiciary-committee-says">reported</a>:
<blockquote>WFA announced the GARM’s creation at the 2019 Cannes festival, a gathering of global elites, amidst complaints about “disinformation” and “fake news,” but later that year said it would become a flagship project of the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s “Platform for Shaping the Future of Media, Entertainment and Culture.” &#8230;
GARM says it provides members with “Brand Safety.” For-profit firms like Newsguard have shown what that means in practice: Companies that might buy ads are given lists of what TV programs, channels, podcasts, or newspapers are either safe to advertise on or should be avoided. This is billed as avoiding risks to their reputation or boycotts—essentially saying that if a company wants to avoid boycotts from the Left or smear campaigns, they should not do business with certain media outlets. &#8230;
The challenge of meaningfully steering the entire media ecosystem was “big,” it said, yet GARM included 61 major companies that buy a large portion of the advertising in the world, as well as 35 separate industry associations that represent many more advertisers.
The WFA, along with the Global Disinformation Index, Newsguard, and other firms that would profit from “disinformation” crackdowns, <a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/signatories-2022-strengthened-code-practice-disinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lobbied</a> the European Union for a “Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation” in 2022.</blockquote>

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Congress Calls In Head Of Advertiser Coalition For Interview On Coordinated Targeting Of Conservative Outlets

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Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ripped President Biden for his effort to censor his opposition, calling it “anti-American.”
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6350137083112">Appearing</a> on Fox &amp; Friends, Kennedy was asked about his previous comment that Biden was a “much worse threat to democracy” than former President Donald Trump.
“By the way, I said I could make that argument, and I think it is an argument that we ought to be having,” Kennedy began. “President Biden has done something that no other president in history has done, which is to order media, particularly the social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Google, to censor his political opponents.”
“You know, I can say this because I just won a lawsuit in the federal court of appeals, now before the Supreme Court, because he began censoring me 37 hours after he took the oath of office swearing to defend the Constitution,” he recalled. “White House officials were on e-mail with Facebook, saying to them, &#8216;You have to take down his post.&#8217; Facebook actually pushed back saying, &#8216;There&#8217;s no misinformation here. Actually, what he&#8217;s saying here is accurate,&#8217; and they had to make up a new term called &#8216;malinformation,&#8217; which is information that is accurate, but nonetheless inconvenient to — you know, politically inconvenient.”
“The First Amendment was put in the Constitution —Madison, Hamilton, Adams said, &#8216;We put free expression to guarantee the First Amendment because all the other rights are dependent on it,”&#8217; he noted, adding, “If you have a president who can censor his political opponent, he is licensed for any kind of atrocity. That is a genuine threat to our democracy.”
“I think what President Trump said about questioning the election &#8230; to the extent that he engaged in an effort to overthrow that, of course that&#8217;s a threat to democracy, but it is not the worst threat undermining the First Amendment of our Constitution,” he stated, then turned back to Biden: “And then weaponizing the federal agencies to get his opponents off the ballot, and in my case, I&#8217;ll just say particularly, denying me Secret Service protection, that&#8217;s never happened in history before.”
“Does he know that your dad was assassinated?” Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade asked.
“He has a bust of my father behind him,” Kennedy answered. “It’s just not right &#8230; the use of the courts, the use of prosecutors, the use of all these federal agents to change our political landscape is wrong and we should be debating about it. You know what? What President Biden did with his censorship project is &#8230; he told the social media companies, ‘We’re going to bring anti-trust cases against you and we’re going to withdraw your Section 230 immunity — which is existential for those companies — if you don’t give us a portal to censor.’ And then who did he give access to that portal? The CIA, the FBI, CISA, the IRS, NIA. So you had all these federal agencies that were now able to silence people who were questioning their policies.”
“And that is really anti-American and anti-democratic,” he concluded.
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Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Visits “Fox & Friends”

‘Licensed For Any Kind Of Atrocity’: RFK Jr. Blasts Biden For Censorship, Calls Him ‘Anti-American’

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The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether major advertisers ran afoul of antitrust laws by coordinating about which news outlets to blackball. 
The committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), obtained documents from the World Federation of Advertisers that show how it implemented a strategy to prevent major advertisers from doing business with disfavored news outlets. The coordinated effort could have the effect of bankrupting news organizations that don’t get the stamp of approval.
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&#8220;The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) through its Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) initiative may be acting inconsistent with U.S. antitrust laws and congressional intent by coordinating GARM members’ efforts to demonetize and eliminate disfavored content online,&#8221; Jordan wrote in March 27 <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-03-27%20JDJ%20to%20Crew%20Grimes%20-%20Diageo%20re%20GARM%20steer%20team.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> demanding further documents from advertisers.
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“Evidence the Committee has obtained suggests that GARM members, led by Steer Team members, are colluding to demonetize conservative platforms and voices. Further, this coordination does not always revolve around ‘brand safety’ and ‘harmful’ content as GARM publicly claims, but instead the desire to censor conservative and other views that GARM members disfavor,” Jordan added.
The letters indicate that documents obtained by the committee suggest that the group tried to blackball mainstream conservative news organizations, specifically asking for “communications referring or relating to conservative news outlets, including Fox News, Daily Wire, and Breitbart.”
The letters went to major corporations on GARM’s “steering committee” — Unilever, Procter &amp; Gamble, GroupM, Diageo, and Mars — saying the documents “directly connect” the companies with such efforts. The documents in the active investigation have not been released to the public.
The letters seek communications from the companies “relating to the categorization, demonetization, or elimination of online speech.”
They also ask for communications discussing “changes to X following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company,” when many advertisers left the platform in protest of the left-wing Jack Dorsey being replaced by the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.
The probe suggests that the companies could be held individually responsible for the actions of the group they created, and that GARM may act in a cartel-like manner, even though many of its members are nominally competitors. 
WFA announced the GARM’s creation at the 2019 Cannes festival, a gathering of global elites, amidst complaints about “disinformation” and “fake news,” but later that year said it would become a flagship project of the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s “Platform for Shaping the Future of Media, Entertainment and Culture.”
In an announcement that seemed like something from Darth Vader, the World Economic Forum stated, “<a href="https://www.weforum.org/impact/media-alliance-scales-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Global Alliance</a> is creating a safe media ecosystem.” 
“GARM focuses on viewer safety for consumers, reducing risks for advertisers, developing credibility for digital platforms and, more broadly, ensuring a sustainable online ecosystem,” it said. “Partners involved in the Global Alliance for Responsible Media through the Forum’s Platform for Shaping the Future of Media, Entertainment and Sport include companies such as LEGO Group, Procter &amp; Gamble, Unilever, NBC Universal &#8211; MSNBC, Dentsu Group, WPP (through GroupM), Interpublic Group, Publicis Groupe, Omnicom Group, Facebook and Google.”
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-details-the-global-entities-working-to-demonetize-and-deplatform-conservative-voices">Ben Shapiro Details The Global Entities Working To ‘Demonetize And Deplatform’ Conservative Voices</a>
In 2022, GARM added “misinformation” to the types of online content that it views as unethical to run ads against.
It said companies should look to firms like NewsGuard, the Global Disinformation Index, and the Journalism Trust Initiative to decide which news outlets to do business with, writing that the groups “can help ensure that ad buyers and users looking for news can <a href="https://wfanet.org/knowledge/item/2022/03/07/Navigating-digital-media-safety-and-suitability-in-the-time-of-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">be in safe and suitable places</a>.”
GARM says it provides members with “Brand Safety.” For-profit firms like Newsguard have shown what that means in practice: Companies that might buy ads are given lists of what TV programs, channels, podcasts, or newspapers are either safe to advertise on or should be avoided. This is billed as avoiding risks to their reputation or boycotts—essentially saying that if a company wants to avoid boycotts from the Left or smear campaigns, they should not do business with certain media outlets.
In a <a href="https://wfanet.org/leadership/garm/garm-resource-directory-%28weblog-detail-page%29/2022/06/20/GARM-3-Years-of-Progress#:~:text=GARM's%20launch%20was%20propelled%20forward,had%20been%20no%20established%20protocols.">progress report</a> in 2022, GARM boasted of qualities that, viewed in another light, could show anti-competitive practices.
“GARM’s launch was propelled forward by uncommon collaboration, a unique way of working recognizing that all sectors of the advertising industry and companies benefit from partnering to create new brand safety standards and solutions that could be accepted industry-wide, where there had been no established protocols,” it said.
The challenge of meaningfully steering the entire media ecosystem was “big,” it said, yet GARM included 61 major companies that buy a large portion of the advertising in the world, as well as 35 separate industry associations that represent many more advertisers.
The WFA, along with the Global Disinformation Index, Newsguard, and other firms that would profit from “disinformation” crackdowns, <a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/signatories-2022-strengthened-code-practice-disinformation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lobbied</a> the European Union for a “Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation” in 2022.
Companies that want to advertise are likely to defer judgement to such nominal “experts” about who is credible, leading to wide-scale, coordinated blacklists. But those purported experts have rated even the most measured and staid news outlets as risky if they are conservative, such as the New York Post and Reason Magazine.
Such news outlet raters often assign credibility ratings based on how closely news outlets hew to official government lines, dinging outlets for questioning, for example, whether COVID could have come from a lab — a theory discouraged by the government at the time, but now largely supported by the government.
Newsguard even worked directly with the U.S. government, leading The Daily Wire and the Federalist to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-and-the-federalist-sue-biden-state-department-over-censorship-effort" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sue the State Department</a> in a lawsuit that alleged &#8220;one of the most audacious, manipulative, secretive, and gravest abuses of power and infringements of First Amendment rights by the federal government in American history.&#8221;

Mars Inc., the company behind M&Ms, is a key member of a group of advertisers seeking to withhold ads from disfavored news outlets.

Docs Show Corporate Giants Are ‘Colluding To Demonetize Conservative Platforms,’ Judiciary Committee Says

NewsGuard

Independent presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-f-kennedy-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a> doubled down Tuesday on his claims that President Joe Biden poses a much greater risk to democracy than former President Donald Trump does.
Kennedy made the initial claim during a recent interview with CNN anchor Erin Burnett, and repeated his assessment during a Tuesday morning appearance on Fox News.
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RFK Jr. doubles down on calling Joe Biden a threat to democracy:
&quot;If you have a president who can censor his political opponents, he has a license for any kind of atrocity! THAT is a genuine threat to our democracy!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/A9HQBJjiPi">pic.twitter.com/A9HQBJjiPi</a>
&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1775167129035149671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Fox News host Lawrence Jones opened the discussion, noting that Democrats and multiple media figures had repeatedly insisted that it was Trump, not Biden, who would pose the greatest risk to democracy as a whole.
&#8220;You raised some eyebrows yesterday when you were comparing the former president to the current president,&#8221; Jones began. &#8220;You said in an interview that you believe that Joe Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump.&#8221;
Jones shared a short clip from Kennedy&#8217;s CNN interview — during which he said he could &#8220;make the argument&#8221; that the threat from Biden was greater — before turning the floor over to the independent candidate.
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&#8220;I said I can make that argument, and I think it&#8217;s an argument that we ought to be having,&#8221; Kennedy replied. &#8220;President — President Biden has done something that no other president in history has done, which is to order media — particularly the social media Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Google — to censor his political opponents.&#8221;
Kennedy then detailed his own experience with the Biden administration&#8217;s alleged attempts to censor him directly.
&#8220;If you have a president who can censor his political opponents, he has a license for any kind of atrocity! THAT is a genuine threat to our democracy!&#8221; Kennedy continued.
He went on to say that he did consider some of Trump&#8217;s actions to be a threat to democracy, but that Biden&#8217;s apparent attempts to undermine the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution were far more damaging.
&#8220;Undermining the First Amendment of our Constitution and then weaponizing the federal agencies to get his opponents off the ballot — and in my case &#8230; denying me Secret Service protection, that&#8217;s never happened in history,&#8221; Kennedy added.

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RFK Jr. Doubles Down On Calling Biden A Threat: ‘He Has A License For Any Kind Of Atrocity’

RFK Jr. Doubles Down On Calling Biden A Threat: 'He Has A License For Any Kind Of Atrocity'

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An online <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/books">bookstore</a> that advertised itself as being committed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/free-speech">sharing ideas</a>, even those which are deemed controversial, has removed titles from conservative authors amid backlash.
Television host and activist RuPaul is a co-founder of the “all-inclusive” online bookstore Allstora, according to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/rupauls-all-inclusive-anti-censorship-book-store-immediately-removes-right-wing-titles/">National Review</a>. He started the online store with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">LGBTQ</a> advocate and author Eric Cervini and drag performer Adam Powell.
The site advertised that they would carry titles from authors of all points of view, and books for sale on the site initially ranged from Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” to the graphic, controversial coming-of-age book “Gender Queer.”
“We’re a marketplace for all books and all stories, with a focus on elevating marginalized voices,” the site originally touted, according to NR. “You may find books you disagree with,” a pop up ad warned, while the FAQ page said, “Allstora has made the decision to carry all books” and “censorship of any book, perspective, or story is incompatible with the survival of democracy.”
“Banning books is never the answer,” the site&#8217;s messaging, which has since been deleted, said, according to <a href="https://www.themarysue.com/rupauls-online-bookstore-controversy-explained/">The Mary Sue</a>. “We cannot fight the ideologies of hate if we lack the ability to study, understand, and react to them. We do that by reading books.”
However, left-wing activists were outraged that Allstora offered titles by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Matt Walsh, Riley Gaines, and Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik, among others. At first, the website&#8217;s founders attempted to diffuse tension by promising to create “a community-led flagging system for titles that are contrary to our core values” and subsequently “donating all proceeds from these titles to fight book bans,” National Review noted.
But that wasn’t enough. After three days of critics railing against Allstora for selling “homophobic,” “transphobic,” “anti-woke,” and “Nazi” books, the founders relented and removed all free speech messaging from the page, according to National Review. Many works by conservative authors were removed from the page, while some other titles remained available.
The drama comes on the heels of RuPaul announcing a “Rainbow Book Bus” that seeks to distribute “diverse books to communities facing book bans and censorship, especially in LGBTQ+ communities.” The bus will embark on a cross country tour later this year, the “Drag Race” host told <a href="https://people.com/rupaul-launches-new-online-book-marketplace-and-book-club-8603704">People</a> during an interview this month.
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“I started reading books at a very early age, and they were a lifeline to the rest of the world for me,” RuPaul told the outlet. “I loved the idea of knowledge is power, and knowledge is a way to transport yourself to wherever you wanna be.”

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‘All-Inclusive’ Bookstore Co-Founded By RuPaul Yanks Conservative Titles Following Backlash

RuPaul's 'All-Inclusive' Bookstore Yanks Conservative Titles Following Backlash

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A left-wing legal analyst claimed this week that the First Amendment makes the U.S. &#8220;vulnerable&#8221; and makes it hard for Democrats to be able to &#8220;regulate speech&#8221; without being accused of censorship.
The Friday remarks from former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade on MNSBC came while she was discussing a book that she wrote about &#8220;disinformation.&#8221;
&#8220;Barb, you write about the United States extensively and with a lot of detail, but you also draw in comparisons from other countries, you talk about other strongman leaders, countries who have transitioned from a mostly democratic form of government to a less democratic form,&#8221; said host Rachel Maddow. &#8220;Do you believe the U.S. is particularly vulnerable to disinformation or that we&#8217;re kind of unexceptional and it&#8217;s the same? We&#8217;re as susceptible to it as every other country?&#8221;
McQuade responded, &#8220;Actually, I think we&#8217;re more susceptible to it than other countries. That&#8217;s because some of our greatest strengths can also be our Achilles heel. So, for example, our deep commitment to free speech in our First Amendment. It is a cherished right. It&#8217;s an important right in a democracy, and nobody wants to get rid of it.&#8221;
&#8220;But it makes us vulnerable to claims that anything we try to do to regulate speech is censorship,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The Supreme Court has held that all fundamental rights, even the right to free speech, can be limited as long as there is a compelling governmental interest and the restriction is narrowly tailored to achieve that interest.&#8221;
&#8220;I think any time someone tries to do anything that might limit free speech, people claim censorship,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Just look at the case the Supreme Court heard today about efforts by the states of Florida and Texas to prevent social media companies from moderating content online. And they call it censorship, that they&#8217;re trying to silence conservative voices. Of course, social media companies are private actors who are not bound by the First Amendment. So we need to have a conversation and common sense solutions to these things. Instead, we throw out terms like censorship, call each other names and use labels and we all retreat to our opposite sides. We need to be pragmatic and come up with real solutions. It is, I think, one of the things that makes America particularly vulnerable to disinformation.&#8221;
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Left-Wing Ex-Federal Prosecutor: First Amendment Makes U.S. ‘Vulnerable’, Harder To ‘Regulate Speech’

Left-Wing Ex-Federal Prosecutor: First Amendment Makes U.S. 'Vulnerable', Harder To 'Regulate Speech'

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The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is facing pressure from Senate Republicans after a report revealed efforts to combat alleged misinformation.
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) sent a letter to NSF Director Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan on Friday requesting a “comprehensive list of projects funded by the NSF Convergence Accelerator Track F.” Through the program, the NSF has spent tens of millions of dollars to “combat mis- and disinformation,” according to <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/19/nsf-funding-misinformation-disinformation-research-grants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Caller News Foundation</a>.
“To say that NSF’s reported involvement in funding research projects aimed at developing AI tools for identifying and combating alleged misinformation is un-American would be an understatement,” Schmitt wrote in the letter, obtained by The Daily Wire. “This seems to be yet another brazen attempt by your agency and the Biden Administration to collude with Big Tech to silence those who eschew the thoughts and ideals of the political Left.”
Schmitt’s request follows a report on the NSF program by the House Judiciary Committee.
 “The purpose of these taxpayer-funded projects is to develop artificial intelligence (AI)- powered censorship and propaganda tools that can be used by governments and Big Tech to shape public opinion by restricting certain viewpoints or promoting others,” the report said according to the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/06/emails-show-how-biden-officials-considered-covering-up-censorship-activities-in-the-wake-of-dcnf-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DCNF</a>.
The NSF has dolled out sizeable grants to top U.S. universities to track and study online discourse for examples of misinformation and disinformation. Syracuse University received nearly $500,000 to study how “misinformation becomes woven into narratives online, how technology influences this process, and how design might be used to alter it.”
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology received $750,000 from the program. One of the researchers wrote in a project proposal summary to the NSF that “broad swaths of the public cannot effectively sort truth from fiction online.”
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The NSF program has already been the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/02/06/jim-jordan-subpoenas-national-science-foundation-communications-discussing-content-moderation-social-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">target</a> of subpoenas by Republicans in the House. 
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“The Biden Administration has shown a stunning disregard for Americans’ freedom of speech online and has gone as far as to coerce social media companies to censor Americans online,” Schmitt told The Daily Wire in a statement. “With the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in the public and commercial sector, we have a duty to ensure AI is used responsibly and not weaponized against Americans’ constitutional rights.”

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Senate GOP Probe National Science Foundation Over ‘Brazen Attempt’ To Censor Free Speech

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BlazeTV founder Glenn Beck is sounding the alarm on a new push to demonetize and censor even more content concerning <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change">climate change</a>, with specific targets including BlazeTV and Daily Wire host and author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson">Jordan Peterson</a>.
A controversial British group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which has <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/jim-jordan-subpoenas-center-countering-digital-hate-org-behind-bidens">reportedly</a> already worked with the White House, is pressuring Big Tech companies in the U.S. to target so-called &#8220;<a href="https://counterhate.com/research/new-climate-denial/">New Denial</a>&#8221; of climate change.
This would include discussing information that challenges the left-wing narrative on the impacts of &#8220;global heating,&#8221; suggesting that some policies billed as climate solutions &#8220;won’t work,&#8221; and arguing that &#8220;climate science and the climate movement can’t be trusted,&#8221; a <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/youtube-google-social-media-misinformation-b2478978.html">report</a> from The Independent highlighted.
So-called &#8220;old denial,&#8221; which is already being censored by Google and YouTube, includes arguments that &#8220;global heating&#8221; is not currently happening and &#8220;burning fossil fuels is not the cause.&#8221;
According to the report, CCDH is calling on Big Tech &#8220;to update policies to keep up with new forms of climate crisis denial along with removing financial incentives, and reducing its reach and visibility.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, I&#8217;m not sure how questioning the global elites is a form of &#8216;global hate,&#8217; but apparently now it is,&#8221; Beck <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgUn5PYRURM">said</a> in a video released Friday. &#8220;Because, that guy at the CCDH [Chief Executive Imran Ahmed], has spoken, and the White House will partner with him.&#8221;
&#8220;Remember, this is one of the White House&#8217;s go-to experts on &#8216;disinformation,'&#8221; Beck emphasized. &#8220;It&#8217;s a good thing the White House doesn&#8217;t have a record of telling social media companies who to censor, right? Oh wait, we just learned in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter-files">Twitter Files</a>, that&#8217;s exactly what they&#8217;ve been doing for years.&#8221;
The CCDH produced a report on the &#8220;<a href="https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/210324-The-Disinformation-Dozen.pdf">disinformation dozen</a>,&#8221; which was a list of people who supposedly spread COVID &#8220;disinformation.” The group has also <a href="https://counterhate.com/blog/our-campaigning-resulted-in-the-online-safety-act-in-the-uk/">claimed credit</a> for getting the controversial <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/british-lawmakers-want-to-jail-internet-trolls-for-causing-emotional-psychological-or-physical-harm">Online Safety Act</a> passed in the U.K. 
That “disinformation dozen” list was apparently used by the Biden administration to pressure Big Tech into censorship. House Judiciary Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH), releasing the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-unleashes-the-facebook-files-social-media-giant-censored-americans-because-of-biden-white-house-pressure">Facebook Files</a>, said over the summer that Facebook &#8220;changed its policies in direct response to pressure from Biden’s Surgeon General, censoring members of the ‘disinformation dozen.'&#8221;
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Continuing in his video, Beck said one of the goals of the CCDH is to get YouTube and other platforms to &#8220;limit the monetization of any content that goes against the global elites&#8217; narrative. And if I, in general, am against the global elites&#8217; narrative, then you wouldn&#8217;t want any of my content monetized.&#8221;
The host further explained that by demonetizing narrative-challenging content or figures, you&#8217;d be effectively contributing to their censorship, too, since putting up the content costs money.
&#8220;A subscription model is the best way to function,&#8221; Beck said, but added that it&#8217;s &#8220;wildly expensive to do what we do&#8221; and therefore, advertisers must be taken on, too.
Notably, Google already has a policy to &#8220;de-monetize and de-amplify climate misinformation,&#8221; YouTube has policies to ban ads on &#8220;old forms of climate crisis denial,&#8221; and Google said in 2021 &#8220;that it would stop monetizing climate crisis denial content,” according to CCDH.
For CCDH, though, these policies do not go far enough, and therefore the expansion of &#8220;<a href="https://counterhate.com/research/new-climate-denial/">New Denial</a>&#8221; must be included in the censorship efforts.
CCDH’s &#8220;study,” used to advance such censorship goals, specifically named Peterson as a promoter of such &#8220;new denialism,&#8221; citing videos titled “The Great Climate Con&#8221; and “Killing the Poor to Save the Planet.&#8221;
Beck, too, was named. For evidence that he&#8217;s a &#8220;denier,&#8221; the CCDH highlighted the host saying in one video, “They don’t care about saving the planet, they know climate change is not going to kill millions around the world, this is all about gaining power and control over you &#8230; they are using this so-called emergency to justify a reset.&#8221;
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) posted a thread on X Monday he titled &#8220;The Amazon Files,” revealing emails he said show the tech company caved to pressure from the Biden administration &#8220;to censor books.&#8221;
The emails sent from the Biden administration to Amazon and internal messages from the company showed that on the same day that Amazon met with the White House in March 2021, the company “enabl[ed] Do Not Promote” for books that expressed hesitancy about the COVID vaccines, Jordan said.
According to emails the White House sent to Amazon nearly three years ago, then-senior White House advisor Andy Slavitt — who at the same time was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-admin-praised-youtubes-censorship-used-it-to-pressure-facebook-to-intensify-suppression-of-vaccine-stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressuring Facebook</a> to suppress vaccine-related stories — asked who he could talk to at “the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation” at Amazon. Slavitt added in his email that a search for “vaccines” under books on Amazon yielded “concerning” results.
“How did the Biden White House conclude that there was ‘propaganda and misinformation’ in books sold in Amazon’s bookstore? The White House ran keyword searches for controversial topics, such as ‘vaccine,’ and emailed Amazon when it didn’t like how the search results appeared,” Jordan <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1754637211469766809" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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THE AMAZON FILES – “feeling pressure from the White House”
Internal docs subpoenaed by <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JudiciaryGOP</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/Weaponization?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Weaponization</a> indicate that <a href="https://twitter.com/amazon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amazon</a> bowed down to Biden White House pressure to censor BOOKS.
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In response to the Biden administration’s request, Amazon appeared to discuss taking action but held off on “doing a manual intervention” because the company’s PR team was afraid such a move would be “too visible” and would be picked up by news outlets, such as Fox News.
“Why was the Biden White House so upset with Amazon?” Jordan <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1754637215223746874" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>. “Because Amazon believed ‘retailers are different than social media communities’ &amp; provided their ‘customers with access to a variety of viewpoints.’ For the Biden Admin, letting Americans think for themselves was unacceptable.”
Jordan wrote that on March 9, 2021, a week after the initial email, the White House met with Amazon. Internal documents <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1754637216876208628" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that one of Amazon’s main questions for the administration was, “Is the Admin asking us to remove books, or are they more concerned about search results/order (both)?” In the internal documents revealed by Jordan, Amazon also admitted that it was “feeling pressure from the White House” as the company also anticipated a “negative story” published by <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/amazon-covid-conspiracy-books" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BuzzFeed</a> on books sold on Amazon “related to vaccine misinformation.”
On the same day as its meeting with the White House, Amazon said in internal discussions that it enabled its “Do Not Promote” for books that questioned the efficacy of the COVID vaccines, and the tech giant “also considered other ways ‘to reduce the visibility’ of certain books that the Biden White House disliked,” Jordan said.
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“That’s right. Amazon caved to the pressure from the Biden White House to censor speech,” the judiciary committee chairman added.
Jordan concluded the thread by saying that the Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government are investigating the Biden administration’s effort to pressure Amazon to enforce more censorship.
The congressman’s findings add yet another company to the list of tech giants pressured by the Biden administration to censor vaccine-related information. Last summer, Jordan began releasing what he called the “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-releases-new-facebook-files-highlights-how-biden-admin-sought-to-suppress-daily-wire-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook Files</a>,” saying the Biden administration pressured Facebook to stifle speech the White House didn’t like, including limiting The Daily Wire’s reach on the platform. Then in December, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-admin-praised-youtubes-censorship-used-it-to-pressure-facebook-to-intensify-suppression-of-vaccine-stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that YouTube went along with the White House’s censorship requests before Facebook was pressured to follow suit, according to documents shared with Jordan.

‘Amazon Caved’: Jim Jordan Posts Evidence WH Pressured Amazon ‘To Censor Books,’ Amazon Complied

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