Finally, lawmakers are taking action against TikTok, the social media platform run by the communist Chinese.
No, it&#8217;s not because of all the scantily dressed underage girls dancing about or public school teachers flaunting their transgenderism. Federal lawmakers are finally convinced that the video-sharing app is up to no good.
Last week, in the massive $1.7 trillion omnibus bill, lawmakers included a call to ban TikTok from government devices like phones and computers. The move, signed into law by President Joe Biden, came after reports that TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, improperly used the 
app to spy on reporters covering the company.
&#8220;Forbes first reported the existence of the surveillance scheme, which targeted three Forbes reporters, in October,&#8221; the magazine <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/23/lawmakers-outrage-tiktok-spied-on-journalists/?sh=4903b3025d70">reported</a> last week. &#8220;At the time, TikTok did not deny the report, but tweeted that the app had &#8216;never been used to &#8220;target&#8221; any members of the U.S. government, activists, public figures or journalists.&#8217; TikTok and ByteDance now admit that this was false.&#8221;
In an internal report released to the public, ByteDance confirmed that four of its employees collected data of at least two TikTok accounts belonging to U.S. journalists.
“The individuals involved misused their authority to obtain access to TikTok user data,” TikTok CEO Shou Chew said in his email to employees, according to an excerpt of the email <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/tech/tiktok-bytedance-journalist-data/index.html">reviewed</a> by CNN. “This is unacceptable.”
“The misconduct of these individuals, who are no longer employed at ByteDance, was an egregious misuse of their authority to obtain access to user data,” TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter confirmed to CNN. “This misbehavior is unacceptable, and not in line with our efforts across TikTok to earn the trust of our users.”
When the app was going viral in 2019, TikTok went so far as to claim all data would be secure, vowing that U.S. user data would be kept in the United States and not sent to ByteDance headquarters in China. The revelation that the company was scouring the date of American journalists proves that&#8217;s false.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has led the campaign to ban TikTok from government devices.
“The federal government has yet to take a single meaningful action to protect American users from the threat of TikTok. This isn’t about creative videos — this is about an app that is collecting data on tens of millions of American children and adults every day,&#8221; Rubio <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=D1C2E147-3A23-4F49-AC27-268572AABDCD">said</a> in a press release before lawmakers moved against TikTok.
&#8220;We know it answers to the People’s Republic of China. There is no more time to waste on meaningless negotiations with a CCP-puppet company,&#8221; he said.
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) chimed in. &#8220;TikTok is digital fentanyl that’s addicting Americans, collecting troves of their data, and censoring their news. It’s also an increasingly powerful media company that’s owned by ByteDance, which ultimately reports to the Chinese Communist Party – America’s foremost adversary.&#8221;
Gallagher said that allowing the app to continue to operate in the U.S. &#8220;would be like allowing the U.S.S.R. to buy up the New York Times, Washington Post, and major broadcast networks during the Cold War. No country with even a passing interest in its own security would allow this to happen, which is why it’s time to ban TikTok and any other CCP-controlled app before it’s too late.&#8221;
So finally, the federal government has taken action. But it&#8217;s high time that Americans do the same &#8212; kill the app off your phone so the Chinese can no longer collect your data.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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It's About Time The U.S. Government Shut Down TikTok -- And Americans Should Follow Suit

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a>-based parent company of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> said Thursday that an internal investigation revealed employees obtained private data of four U.S.-based tech journalists and other American users&#8217; information.
ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns the video-sharing app, was accused earlier this year of tracking multiple reporters at Forbes under a covert surveillance campaign, which led to employees gaining access to information such as the IP addresses of some TikTok users connected to the reporters.
Forbes <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/?sh=51bf709f7da5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that ByteDance&#8217;s Internal Audit and Risk Control department was responsible for the alleged plan to monitor the locations of specific American citizens. The person who oversees that department is Beijing-based executive Song Ye, who reports to ByteDance co-founder and CEO Rubo Liang.
&#8220;I was deeply disappointed when I was notified of the situation … and I&#8217;m sure you feel the same,&#8221; Liang said in an internal email to employees shared with Forbes. &#8220;The public trust that we have spent huge efforts building is going to be significantly undermined by the misconduct of a few individuals … I believe this situation will serve as a lesson to us all.&#8221;
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/technology/byte-dance-tik-tok-internal-investigation.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that two employees responsible for obtaining the data were based in China, and two others were based in the United States.
According to the NYT, the company has fired all four employees involved.
ByteDance officials said the targeted reporters included Emily Baker-White, Katharine Schwab, and Richard Nieva — all three of whom wrote for BuzzFeed and are now at Forbes — and Cristina Criddle of the Financial Times.
TikTok General Counsel Erich Andersen wrote in a second internal email shared with Forbes that internal audit groups investigating code of conduct violations are standard practices for companies.
&#8220;However, in this case, individuals misused their authority to obtain access to TikTok user data,&#8221; Andersen said.
ByteDance and TikTok did not deny the surveillance, saying the app &#8220;has never been used to &#8216;target&#8217; any members of the U.S. government, activists, public figures or journalists&#8221; and that &#8220;TikTok could not monitor U.S. users in the way the article suggested.&#8221;
Growing security concerns over the social media platform have caught lawmakers&#8217; attention recently after the Federal Communications Commission said the government agency could not regulate the social media app or control American data from flowing back to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which requires companies to share its data upon request under the country&#8217;s 2017 National Intelligence Law.
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) recently introduced bipartisan legislation prohibiting the video-sharing social media app from all consumer devices.
In a statement about the internal investigation, Rubio told the NYT that &#8220;no one should be surprised or fooled by ByteDance&#8217;s public apology.&#8221;
&#8220;The company is desperate to tamp down growing bipartisan concerns about how it enables the Chinese Communist Party to use — and potentially weaponize — the data of American citizens,” Rubio said. &#8220;Every day it becomes more clear that we need to ban TikTok.&#8221;
U.S. Senators unanimously passed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act, introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), last week.
&#8220;TikTok is a Trojan Horse for the Chinese Communist Party. It&#8217;s a major security risk to the United States, and until it is forced to sever ties with China completely, it has no place on government devices,&#8221; Hawley said in a <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-bill-ban-tiktok-government-devices-passes-senate-unanimously" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on Thursday. &#8220;States across the U.S. are banning TikTok on government devices. It&#8217;s time for Joe Biden and the Democrats to help do the same.&#8221;
Several states in the union have also passed laws prohibiting state employees from using the app on government-owned devices.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/forbes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forbes</a> ran a puff piece Friday about Caroline Ellison, the one-time love interest of disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and the head of Alameda Capital, which allegedly made bets with money deposited by consumers at the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/cryptocurrency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cryptocurrency</a> exchange.
FTX filed for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30-year-old-billionaire-loses-entire-fortune-overnight-as-his-bahamas-based-cryptocurrency-empire-implodes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bankruptcy</a> last week after users&#8217; worries about the arrangement between the two companies triggered a liquidity crisis. Ellison, who was <a href="https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2022/finance?profile=alameda-research" target="_blank" rel="noopener">honored</a> on this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 list, was featured in a Friday <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2022/11/18/queen-caroline-the-risk-loving-29-year-old-embroiled-in-the-ftx-collapse/?sh=15161c95791f&amp;utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> published by the outlet as a “math whiz” with an edgy online persona rather than a possible financial fraudster responsible for losing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-crypto-billionaire-sam-bankman-fried-whose-entire-fortune-just-went-to-zero-is-calling-around-for-new-investors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">billions</a> in clients’ investments.
“While other kids were playing with Lego, Ellison was learning about Bayesian statistics before middle school,” the profile said. “A natural mathematician, high school was a laboratory for Ellison’s love of numbers and she competed multiple times in the Math Prize for Girls, the national contest that draws the country’s brightest young minds. But her interests went far beyond math, and as a senior, she received an honorable mention in a linguistics olympiad.”
Speculation about Ellison’s true quantitative abilities circulated last week as social media users shared a <a href="https://twitter.com/QntRetirement/status/1591467833074098181" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> where she had claimed to use nothing more than “elementary school math” while running Alameda Research.
Ellison, alongside Bankman-Fried and their colleagues, expressed an affinity for “effective altruism,” which encourages adherents to grow wealthy and donate heavily to charitable causes, during her time at Stanford University. Although Bankman-Fried has since admitted that he embraced the philosophy as “mostly a front,” as revealed in a <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Vox, the authors at Forbes wondered aloud whether Ellison “actually believed in the tenets of effective altruism, or if it served as an effective way to shield their alleged wrongdoing.”
Bankman-Fried also emerged as the second-largest donor to the 2020 campaign of President Joe Biden and among the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-democrats-and-republicans-who-received-campaign-cash-linked-to-bankrupt-crypto-empire-ftx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">largest contributors</a> to Democratic candidates in the 2022 midterm elections. Yet the Forbes article claimed that Ellison has found support among members of alt-right online communities since the implosion of the cryptocurrency empire, citing her alleged views on race and marriage.
Fallout from the bankruptcy of FTX has provoked calls in the United States for greater regulations on the cryptocurrency sector and will be the subject of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bipartisan-committee-to-hear-from-sam-bankman-fried-and-crypto-allies-next-month" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bipartisan hearing</a> hosted by the House Financial Services Committee next month. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler, whose agency is investigating the situation, works as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Glenn Ellison, the father of Caroline Ellison and the economics department head at the prestigious university.
Bankman-Fried and nine other executives reportedly lived together in the Bahamas in a luxury penthouse, which might have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ftx-executives-reportedly-bought-themselves-real-estate-in-the-bahamas-with-corporate-funds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">purchased using company dollars</a>. All of the individuals “are, or used to be, paired up in romantic relationships with each other,” a <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/10/bankman-frieds-cabal-of-roommates-in-the-bahamas-ran-his-crypto-empire-and-dated-other-employees-have-lots-of-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from CoinDesk claimed on the basis of unnamed sources. Forbes discussed Ellison’s online musings expressing her desire to live in a romantic arrangement resembling an “imperial Chinese harem” where “everyone should have a ranking of their partners, people should know where they fall on the ranking, and there should be vicious power struggles for the higher ranks.”
Forbes, however, was not the only mainstream media outlet to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shameless-media-just-cant-quit-love-affair-with-crypto-creep-sbf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">run a puff piece</a> that downplayed possible fraud at the companies. An <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/technology/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-crypto-bankruptcy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from The New York Times minimized the allegations of wrongdoing and postulated that Bankman-Fried’s “ambitions exceeded his grasp.”

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Steve Forbes, the chair of Forbes Media and editor-in-chief of Forbes Magazine, argued on Monday that monetary policymakers are neglecting currency stabilization as a tool to combat <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/inflation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflation</a>.
Price levels between August 2021 and August 2022 rose 8.3%, according to <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm">data</a> from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, marking a slight moderation from an 8.5% year-over-year increase in July and a 9.1% year-over-year increase in June. The <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/federal-reserve">Federal Reserve</a> responded on Wednesday by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-the-federal-reserves-recent-rate-hike-means-for-the-economy">increasing</a> the target federal funds rate by 0.75% — a move that mirrored identical aggressive rate hikes in June and July.
Raising interest rate targets has the effect of discouraging economic activity by increasing the cost of borrowing money. During the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore, Forbes questioned the logic of sending the economy into a recession in order to reduce inflationary pressures, according to a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/26/the-real-cure-for-inflation-has-gone-ignored-forbes-says.html">report</a> from CNBC.
“No central banker today — hardly any — talks about stable currencies. It’s about depressing the economy to fight inflation,” he remarked. “With unstable currencies you get less productive long-term investments, which is key to economic growth.”
Currency appreciation leads to more costly exports for overseas buyers, according to an <a href="https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/basics/monpol.htm">analysis</a> from the International Monetary Fund. The dollar has appreciated rapidly against foreign currencies <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/global-turmoil-makes-euro-cheap-for-americans">such as the euro</a> amid the repeated interest rate hikes, decreasing demand for American products and lowering economic output.
“Today, unfortunately, not only is the Biden administration putting up obstacles to deal with supply-side problems, but also the Federal Reserve and other central banks think you have to depress the economy to bring inflation down,” Forbes added. “The real cure is to stabilize the currency. You don’t have to make people poor to conquer inflation.”
Forbes cited former President Ronald Reagan’s efforts to bolster American reserves of foreign currencies — a move that increases the supply of the dollar on foreign exchange markets, thereby decreasing exchange rates. Unpredictable exchange rates also increase currency risks for overseas investors, leading to less foreign direct investment into the United States.
Forbes, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000, likewise suggested a return to the gold standard. “Gold holds its intrinsic value better than anything else on earth… gold is not perfect as a stable value, but it is better than anything we have found in over 4,000 years,” he explained.
To stimulate the economy during the lockdown-induced recession, the Federal Reserve had initially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-reserve-releases-plan-to-more-urgently-address-high-inflation">pegged</a> a near-zero target interest rate and acquired government bonds from the market. The rollback of the stimulus from policymakers occurs as price levels rise at the fastest rate in four decades.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said during a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jerome-powell-vows-to-restore-price-stability-even-though-federal-reserve-must-first-bring-some-pain">hawkish speech</a> at the central bank’s symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that officials are prepared to “bring some pain” to combat rising price levels and return inflation to the long-term target of 2%. “Price stability is the responsibility of the Federal Reserve and serves as the bedrock of our economy,” he asserted. “Without price stability, the economy does not work for anyone. In particular, without price stability, we will not achieve a sustained period of strong labor market conditions that benefit all.”
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which tracks 30 of the most prominent companies on American exchanges, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-reserve-announces-rate-hike-of-0-75">tumbled</a> more than 500 points after the Federal Reserve hiked interest rate targets last week.

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An article by an ex-ABC News journalist &#8212; who has changed sex identities multiple times &#8212; attacking a detransitioned woman-turned activist against radical gender theory was taken down by Forbes one day after publication.
The article, by Dawn Ennis, a biological male who identifies as transgender, originally ran as an <a href="https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/09/11/california-ex-trans-teen-is-national-right-wing-medias-darling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> in the Los Angeles Blade on Sunday. When it was <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnstaceyennis/2022/09/11/ex-trans-activist-chloe-cole-in-her-own-words-im-autistic/?sh=265053d4392f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">republished</a> by Forbes the same day, it drew widespread criticism for factual inaccuracies and its allegedly defamatory treatment of Chloe Cole, an 18-year-old detransitioned autistic woman. By Monday evening, clicking on the link led to an error page.
&#8220;We removed that article because it violated our editorial guideline of publishing work that was published elsewhere in advance,&#8221; a spokesperson for Forbes told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We only accept original content.&#8221;
Cole, a California native, has become a target for supporters of radical gender theory since April, when she began speaking out about her experience medically transitioning. Cole began identifying as transgender at 12 years old, was prescribed puberty blockers and testosterone at 13, and obtained a double mastectomy surgery to remove her breasts at 15. Two years later, Cole realized she had made a mistake, and has since become a leader in the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">growing movement</a> of young, outspoken detransitioners who claim they were pushed into irreversible medical interventions.
In the article, Ennis called Cole’s negative experience an “outlier,” but supports the claim with statistics on transition regret in adults, rather than the current cohort that Cole and others are most concerned about: adolescents with rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD). A recent UCLA <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> found that the number of trans-identified teens ages 13-17 doubled to approximately 300,000 in the last five years. For activists like Cole, who believe minors are unable to give meaningful consent to sex-change surgeries, data on adult regret is not revelatory.
Ennis calls puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries “lifesaving medical treatments” in the article, which refers to the “affirm-or-suicide” myth, a <a href="https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/pediatric-gender-medicine-and-the" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debunked claim</a> that says trans-identified minors are more likely to commit suicide if they are denied medical treatments. Studies claiming that &#8220;trans&#8221; youth are at elevated risk of suicide commonly compare their “trans” cohort to mentally healthy teenagers who don’t identify as trans. When researchers <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33165650/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compared</a> &#8220;trans&#8221; youth to teens with similar mental health problems, but not including gender dysphoria, there was little difference in suicide rates.
Ennis, who is not a trained biologist, also claimed that the terms “‘biological male,’ ‘biological female’ and ‘biological sex’ are nonsense words” invented “specifically to oppress trans people.” Many biologists disagree. According to developmental biologist Emma Hilton in a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dangerous-denial-of-sex-11581638089" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a> article titled “The Dangerous Denial of Sex,” the concept of biological sex was not invented to oppress transgender people, but represents an objective scientific fact, and one that needs to be acknowledged in order to protect the sex-based rights of women, gays and lesbians, and children.
In the article, Ennis attempted to discredit Cole by accusing her of changing parts of her story when she met in July with Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a fierce critic of radical gender theory, after testifying in favor of a state law barring the use of Medicaid funds to pay for medical interventions for gender dysphoria. Cole maintained that her testimony has remained consistent with her life story.
 “It’s still my life and it’s never changed. Not a single detail,” Cole told The Daily Wire. 
Ennis also attempted to forge a connection between Cole and Libs of TikTok, the social media account that has been a frequent target of left-wing publications. Ennis wrote that minors are not obtaining genital surgeries, yet appeared to contradict the claim in the very next sentence.
“But it’s a campaign based on lies; <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/12/tweets/no-boston-childrens-hospital-doesnt-provide-hyster/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The factchecking team at Politifact</a> determined [the] viral claim was false,” Ennis wrote. “While there have been exceptions for some 15, 16 and 17-year-olds, most surgeons won’t operate on anyone younger than 18.”
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“Minors aren’t getting “gender affirming” surgery except for when they are.” Just incredible journalism <a href="https://t.co/u9UtRuomVX">pic.twitter.com/u9UtRuomVX</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1569091591666548736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Ennis has also attempted to sow doubt in the validity of Cole’s medical transition. “Some note the fact that <a href="https://twitter.com/FreiKrystian/status/1568307559341391872?s=20&amp;t=KlTaT81p_sFj1kuwU-Te_Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surgery takes years of planning and preparation</a> and is not done on a whim or under pressure,” said Ennis. But according to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care (WPATH), the world’s leading transgender healthcare association, their own <a href="https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/SOC%20v7/SOC%20V7_English.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guidelines</a> recommend “one year of testosterone treatment” and a mental health professional’s letter of support, in order for a 15 year old — like Cole at the time — to obtain a double mastectomy surgery.  
Ennis lacks a medical license but asserts that endocrinologists do not generally prescribe puberty blockers and testosterone at the same time.
“Still others have doubted her account because of medical inconsistencies in her treatment and subsequent health conditions,” said Ennis. “Endocrinologists generally do not prescribe puberty blockers and testosterone simultaneously; typically, someone would get puberty blockers prior to experiencing puberty, and testosterone would be prescribed thereafter.” 
Endocrinologist Dr. Mike Laidlaw supports the testimony of Cole, who said her doctor did not follow the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care.
“My experience in reviewing transitions and detransitions is that the clinicians and other healthcare providers involved in medical care often do not follow even WPATH’s ill-conceived guidelines,” Laidlaw said. “Some of these doctors follow their own recipes and provide puberty blockers at the same time as testosterone. These gender quacks don’t understand basic endocrine physiology and prescribe whatever toxic concoctions they dream up. Unfortunately young people like Chloe pay a heavy price for this experimentation on our youth.”
Ennis capped the article by accusing Cole and other detransitioners of causing “deliberate harm to trans and nonbinary youth,” but did not provide any supporting evidence to substantiate that claim.
Ennis, who previously went by Don, made headlines in 2013 after transitioning, detransitioning, and then re-transitioning while working as a night-time editor at ABC News. The &#8220;paunchy, balding father of three” as the <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/08/06/im-a-guy-again-abc-newsman-who-switched-genders-wants-to-switch-back/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> described him, publicly announced on Facebook in May of 2013, at age 49, that he was leaving his wife of 17 years to become a full-time woman, and would assume the name “Dawn.” Ennis reportedly later posted a memo on the newsroom bulletin board which read: “I accused my wife of playing some kind of cruel joke, dressing me up in a wig and bra and making fake ID’s with the name ‘Dawn’ on it. Seriously.”
 Ennis claimed the gender flip-flopping was due to “transient global amnesia,” and at the time, in 2013, believed it was the year 1999. ABC News later fired Ennis for “performance related issues.”
Reached by The Daily Wire, Ennis declined to answer specific questions, but claimed to be working on a follow-up article for Forbes.
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At the NCAA swim finals Kellie Jay Keen takes on transgender activist who lived nearly 50 years as a man, fathered three children, and now says “I’m a mother.” <a href="https://t.co/7vPadNbW2g">pic.twitter.com/7vPadNbW2g</a>
&mdash; Madeleine Kearns (@madeleinekearns) <a href="https://twitter.com/madeleinekearns/status/1505892843247841288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Cole said her focus is on protecting confused adolescents and children from radical gender theory and what advocates call &#8220;gender-affirming care.&#8221; Ennis, she said, is not someone that community should heed.
“Although I do respect Dawn for at least reaching out to me before my hit piece, her past does call into question her judgment,” Cole told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>. “She probably shouldn’t be regarded as a credible voice for medical transition in youth.”

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nebraska">Nebraska</a> teenager allegedly aborted, burned, and buried her baby with the help of her mother. Major media outlets that covered the story obfuscated these key facts, instead highlighting that Facebook assisted law enforcement in uncovering the alleged crimes by providing the duo&#8217;s messages.
Forty-one-year-old Jessica Burgess and her 17-year-old daughter, Celeste Burgess, face felony charges: Jessica Burgess pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial, while her daughter also pleaded not guilty to three charges that included a felony, <a href="https://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/norfolk-mother-and-daughter-accused-of-illegal-abortion-burning-and-burying-body/article_ff99fd49-a710-5ec3-8d51-5aced3001c71.html">according to the Lincoln Journal Star</a>.
A 22-year-old man (Tanner Barnhill, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-fuels-abortion-charges-against-celeste-burgess-and-jessica-burgess-in-nebraska">according to The Daily Beast</a>), who was accused of helping the mother-daughter duo bury the baby, has also pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor. He will be sentenced later this month, the Lincoln Journal Star reported.
Media that covered the story were quick to emphasize the disclosure of the Facebook messages to authorities, to bury the accusation that the baby was burned, and to refer to the baby&#8217;s death using the lingo pushed by abortion groups, as a &#8220;self-managed abortion”:
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<li>Forbes <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/08/08/facebook-abortion-teen-dms/?sh=7b69fc39579c">headlined its story</a>: &#8220;Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen&#8217;s DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion.&#8221; The story&#8217;s lede makes no mention of the fact that the mother and daughter allegedly burned and buried the baby — in fact, the Forbes story does not once mention the word &#8220;burn.&#8221;</li>
<li>NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-turned-chat-messages-mother-daughter-now-charged-abortion-rcna42185">headlined its story</a>: &#8220;Facebook turned over chat messages between mother and daughter now charged over abortion.&#8221; Neither the story&#8217;s lede nor its subhead mentions that the baby was allegedly burned and buried. The story does not mention once that the women allegedly burned the baby.</li>
<li>The Huffington Post <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nebraska-teenager-abortion-facebook-messages_n_62f2aceae4b0acf9d0029190">headlined its story</a>: &#8220;Facebook Gave Cops Data To Prosecute Nebraska Teenager Who Allegedly Had An Abortion.&#8221; The story mentions later on that the duo allegedly burned the baby.</li>
<li>The Cut <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2022/08/nebraska-mom-daughter-charges-illegal-abortion-facebook-chat.html">headlined its story</a>: &#8220;Mom and Teen Daughter Accused of Illegal Abortion Based on Facebook Messages,&#8221; while CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/facebook-nebraska-abortion-police-warrant-messages-celeste-jessica-burgess-madison-county/">headlined its story</a>: &#8220;Nebraska mother, teenager face charges in teen&#8217;s abortion after police obtain their Facebook DMs.&#8221; Both of these outlets mentioned that the baby was allegedly burned.</li>
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&#8220;This marks one of the first instances of a person’s Facebook activity being used to incriminate her in a state where abortion access is restricted — a scenario that has remained largely hypothetical in the weeks following the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade,&#8221; the Forbes story notes — a sentiment <a href="https://twitter.com/0liviajulianna/status/1557049538153693185?s=20&amp;t=WwVAVdNkKhuevwOaG88kKQ">echoed</a> by those who shared the publication&#8217;s story.
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A mother performed an abortion on her 23-week pregnant daughter at home.
They burned and buried the body.
They then talked about the horrific crime they committed over Facebook dms, which were obtained by a search warrant.
This is how the liars in the media frame the story. <a href="https://t.co/Zwfi8nqZ6S">pic.twitter.com/Zwfi8nqZ6S</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1557121232197255168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<h3>Hiding The Aborted Baby</h3>
A search warrant affidavit reviewed by the Lincoln Journal Star reveals that a Norfolk police detective launched an investigation into the death of the baby pursuing a tip that the daughter had buried a miscarried baby with her mother — possibly violating the state&#8217;s pre-Roe ban on abortions after 20 weeks.
The publication reported that after obtaining her medical records and establishing that she was more than six months (23 weeks) pregnant, the detective met with Celeste Burgess and her mother.
The two claimed that Celeste Burgess had suddenly birthed her stillborn baby in the shower in the middle of the night, the Lincoln Journal Star reported that court records show, woken her mother, stowed the baby in a bag in the back of their van, and later buried the baby with the help of the 22-year-old man.
That man revealed to police on April 29 that Celeste and Jessica Burgess had tried to burn the baby&#8217;s body before burying it on his parents’ property — and authorities who examined the baby&#8217;s body found &#8220;thermal wounds,&#8221; the Lincoln Journal Star reported.
The baby was indeed stillborn, <a href="https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/2-adults-and-1-teen-concealed-death-of-baby-norfolk-police-says/">an April 30 autopsy found</a>.
Authorities — unaware that the baby had been illegally aborted — reportedly charged the women in early June with removing, concealing, or abandoning a dead human body, as well as concealing the death of another person and false reporting.
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But the detective then served a search warrant on Facebook and found messages indicating that the mother had bought or obtained abortion pills for her daughter and told her how to take them, the publication reported.
“When I conducted the interview with C. Burgess I wanted to try and figure out when the miscarriage occurred,” the detective said, according to a complaint obtained by The Daily Beast, adding, “C. Burgess scrolled through her messages on her Facebook Messenger account,&#8221; trying to show detectives that she had messaged her mom on the night of the incident.
<h3>The Messages</h3>
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&#8220;Are we starting it today?&#8221; Celeste Burgess allegedly <a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/08/COURTDOC-comp.jpg">asked</a> her mother in April 20 Facebook messages, according to records posted by the New York Post, to which her mom replied, &#8220;We can if u want,&#8221; adding, &#8220;the one will stop the hormones.&#8221;
The two discuss the process of taking the abortion pills before Celeste Burgess reminds her mother, &#8220;Remember we burn the evidence.&#8221;
&#8220;Yep,&#8221; her mother responds.
&#8220;Once everything is out,&#8221; the daughter continued.
&#8220;Yep,&#8221; the mom answers. &#8220;Thought u would b happy 2 hear the stuff came in.&#8221;
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; responds the daughter. As her mother moves on to discuss the thunder outside, the daughter continues, &#8220;I will finally be able to wear jeans.&#8221;
The detective wrote in his affidavit that the daughter described &#8220;how she can’t wait to get the ‘thing’ out of her body and reaffirms with J. Burgess that they will burn the evidence afterward,&#8221; the Lincoln Journal Star reported.
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The messages led Madison County Attorney Joseph Smith to add two more felonies, performing or attempting an abortion on a baby older than 20 weeks, as well as performing an abortion as a non-licensed doctor, to the charges against the mother.
In Nebraska, babies may not be aborted past 20 weeks.
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“I don’t think I’ve ever had a case like this,” Smith, who has served as county prosecutor for 32 years, said on Friday. “Usually, abortions are performed in hospitals, and doctors are involved, and it’s not the type of stuff that occurred in this case.”
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She Allegedly Aborted, Burned And Buried Her Baby. Here’s How Media Covered It.

A Mother Allegedly Helped Her Daughter Abort, Burn, And Bury Her Baby. Media Doesn't Want You To Know That.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rihanna">Rihanna</a> just edged out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kim-kardashian">Kim Kardashian</a> to become the youngest female self-made billionaire in America, according to a New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/05/rihanna-is-now-americas-youngest-self-made-billionaire/">report</a>.
The 34-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music-industry">Grammy Award winner</a> secured her spot on Forbes’ annual list of America’s richest self-made women for the third year in a row with a net worth of $1.4 billion. She earned the money thanks to her musical career, but most of the revenue came from selling products via her Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, and Savage X Fenty lingerie line.
Rihanna is the 21st overall richest self-made woman and the only billionaire under 40 on the list.
The next-youngest billionaire who made the cut is Kardashian, 41, boasting a net worth of $1.8 billion. Kardashian’s younger sister Kylie Jenner originally was the youngest billionaire per Forbes in 2018 but later had that title rescinded when it turned out her net worth was lower than initially estimated.
Per the Post, Savage X Fenty is worth $3 billion, with Rihanna owning 30% of that. 
The “Umbrella” singer also owns 50% of Fenty Beauty, which earned $550 million in 2020. LVMH owns the other half of the company, the publication noted.
Rihanna recently welcomed her first child with rapper ASAP Rocky. She drew attention by wearing revealing outfits throughout her pregnancy, saying it was a chance to marvel at what her body was doing.
“My body is doing incredible things right now, and I’m not going to be ashamed of that,” she said, according to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abortion-activist-rihanna-says-shes-gonna-be-learning-more-from-her-kid-than-she-could-ever-teach-them">The Daily Wire</a>. “This time should feel celebratory. Because why should you be hiding your pregnancy?”
“I’m like waiting for the ball to drop cause I hear all these horror stories, right?” she said before giving birth. “And then I’m just like, but I’m having a good time. You know? I’m really enjoying it. It’s a journey that’s never going to end, you know?”
“Like it just continues even afterwards,” Rihanna said. “So, I’m looking forward to it. I’m looking forward to being a teacher. But mostly being a student, cause I think I’m gonna be learning more from my kid than I could ever teach them.”
Despite her love of being pregnant and becoming a mother, Rihanna is also a staunch abortion advocate who has made no secret of her stance on the issue. She founded the Clara Lionel Foundation in 2012, a nonprofit organization that has worked with the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
In 2019, she lambasted Republicans in Alabama for passing the Human Life Protection Act, which outlaws most abortions with an exception if a mother’s life is at risk.
“Take a look. These are the idiots making decisions for WOMEN in America,” she tweeted alongside photographs of the lawmakers. “Governor Kay Ivey…SHAME ON YOU!!!!”

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Rihanna Becomes America’s Youngest Female Self-Made Billionaire, Knocking Kim Kardashian Down To Second Place

Rihanna Becomes America's Youngest Female Self-Made Billionaire, Kim Kardashian Down To Second Place

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Walmart heir S. Robson Walton has reportedly submitted a winning bid to purchase the Denver Broncos, a deal that will likely be the most expensive deal in sports history.
According to a report from <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2022/06/06/rob-waltons-45-billion-bid-will-be-enough-to-buy-the-broncos---and-the-most-ever-spent-for-a-team/?sh=501f939c62ca">Forbes</a>, Walton was expected to submit a bid worth $4.5 billion to buy the team Monday, as part of an ownership group that includes his daughter Carrie Penner and his son-in-law Greg Penner. If the deal is completed, it would be the most expensive acquisition of a sports team in history, by a wide margin, and would be more than double the largest acquisition of an NFL team in the league&#8217;s history. The Broncos were valued at $3.75 billion in August, Forbes noted.
Four ownership groups were expected to make second-round bids to buy the team by 3 P.M. MDT Monday afternoon. According to the <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2022/06/06/broncos-ownership-second-round-bids-due-rob-walton/">Denver Post</a>, those groups include: Walton&#8217;s group; a group headed by Josh Harris, a venture capitalist who owns the New Jersey Devils and co-owns the Philadelphia 76ers, and is a general partner of the English soccer team Crystal Palace FC; a group led by Mat Ishbia, a former Michigan State basketball star who is president and CEO of a mortgage lending firm called United Wholesale Mortgage; and a group headed by Jose E. Feliciano and Behdad Eghbali, co-owners of the VC firm Clearlake Capital. But Forbes notes that none of the other bidders come even close to Walton&#8217;s wealth; according to a Forbes estimate, Walton&#8217;s net worth sits at around $59.1 billion, making him the 19th richest man in the world.
The deal is not yet official, NFL insiders note. ESPN Senior NFL Insider <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1533816278871425024">Adam Schefter</a> reported Monday that the auction process for the team continued, and that no favorite has emerged. &#8220;Second-round bids to buy the Denver Broncos are due later today as the process continues to move along, per league sources. One source maintained today that, despite any speculation, no favorite has emerged at this time,&#8221; Schefter wrote on Twitter. But KOA news radio host and Broncos insider <a href="https://twitter.com/AllbrightNFL/status/1533828119785881601?s=20&amp;t=02uF__Ja7KyaJfBUqKN5vg">Benjamin Allbright</a> noted that, while the deal is not done yet, Walton&#8217;s bid was always the expectation.
The final decision will be made by Broncos team President and CEO Joe Ellis, team lawyer Rich Slivka, and several attorneys, the Denver Post reported. Once the second round of bidding is complete, a new owner could be announced outright, or the top two groups would move to a third round of bidding. Once the winning bid is selected, it must be approved by the NFL&#8217;s finance committee, then by at least 24 of 32 NFL owners.
The $4.5 billion price tag would be the largest purchase of a sports team in history. It would easily surpass the previous record buyout, set in 2019 when Alibaba co-founder Joseph Tsai bought the <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27644399/nba-approves-sale-nets-barclays-tsai">Brooklyn Nets</a> for around $3.5 billion, according to ESPN. It would also surpass the purchase of <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2022/05/09/chelsea-fc-valued-at-309-billion-in-sale-to-group-led-by-todd-boehly/">Chelsea FC</a> last month, after owner Roman Abramovitch was forced to sell the team due to sanctions imposed by the United Kingdom after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And it would be more than double the previous record for an NFL team, set in 2018 when David Tepper bought the <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/david-tepper-purchasing-carolina-panthers-franchise-for-record-setting-price-of-2-2b/">Carolina Panthers</a> for about $2.2 billion.
Previous owner Pat Bowlen bought the Broncos in 1984. During that time, the Broncos won 13 divisional titles, 7 AFC Championships, and 3 Super Bowls. Bowlen turned control of the team over to Ellis in 2014 after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. Bowlen died in 2019. The Broncos were <a href="https://www.nfl.com/news/pat-bowlen-trust-to-begin-process-of-selling-denver-broncos#:~:text=The%20Denver%20Broncos%20are%20officially,Bowls%2C%20winning%20three%20of%20them.">put up for auction</a> on February 1, after a prolonged court battle between Bowlen&#8217;s family trust and the team.

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A firm backed by the Chinese government is poised to purchase Forbes Magazine for as much as $650 million.
The proposed merger between Forbes Global Media Holdings (Forbes) and Magnus Opus Acquisition Limited (Magnus Opus) was first announced in August of last year, and is expected to finalize within the next month. SEC filings <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/the-chinese-communist-party-tries-to-gobble-up-forbes-media"> show</a> that Magnus Opus received its seed capital from the state owned Chinese Investment Corporation. Other state-owned media operating in the United States, such as Xinhau News Agency and China Daily, are required to disclose their ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but the pre-existing Forbes brand could obfuscate the connection and smuggle CCP talking points into the American mainstream.
“Forbes is a recognizable American brand with immense propaganda value to the CCP,” Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Bill Haggerty (R-TN) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://www.hagerty.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/forbes_letter.pdf">wrote</a> in an open letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, calling for more oversight of the CCP’s purchasing of U.S. assets. “The CCP’s direction of Forbes’ editorial content and business operations, or its access to Forbes’ financial and personal research, could present a serious national security threat to the United States.”
Forbes was founded in 1917 by B.C. Forbes, and during the 1920s it operated as the <a href="https://theenterpriseworld.com/forbes-a-history/">only business magazine</a> in the United States. The publication is famous for its annual list of the wealthiest Americans, the Forbes 400, and it was valued at $475 million in 2014, when 95% of the company was purchased by a Hong Kong based investment group, Integrated Whale Media Investments. The Forbes family presently holds the remaining 5%.
“China’s deliberately vague patchwork of intelligence, national security and cybersecurity laws compel companies to support and cooperate with the government’s intelligence work,” the senators argued when outlining their concerns, with Magnus itself noting in its SEC filings that Forbes “could be subject to oversight and discretion of PRC [People’s Republic of China] government authorities, which could seek to intervene and influence its business operations at any time that the government deems it appropriate to further their regulatory, political and societal goals.”

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An opinion piece by the Forbes Media chief content officer and an editor of Forbes Magazine threatens any company that might hire any of Trump&#8217;s White House press secretaries, past or present.
After claiming he was issuing a “truth reckoning” and listing all of Trump’s White House press secretaries <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2021/01/07/a-truth-reckoning-why-were-holding-those-who-lied-for-trump-accountable/?__twitter_impression=true&amp;sh=22f1a5fa5710">in his op-ed</a>, Randall Lane, CCO of Forbes Media and editor of Forbes Magazine, writes:
<blockquote>Don’t let the chronic liars cash in on their dishonesty. Press secretaries like Joe Lockhart, Ari Fleischer and Jay Carney, who left the White House with their reputations in various stages of intact, made millions taking their skills — and credibility — to corporate America. Trump’s liars don’t merit that same golden parachute. Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie. We’re going to scrutinize, double-check, investigate with the same skepticism we’d approach a Trump tweet. Want to ensure the world’s biggest business media brand approaches you as a potential funnel of disinformation? Then hire away.</blockquote>
Lane praised former President Barack Obama’s press secretary Jay Carney and former President Bill Clinton’s press secretary Joe Lockhart as having “left the White House with their reputations in various stages of intact, made millions taking their skills — and credibility — to corporate America.”
In response to the Forbes op-ed, <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2021/01/11/blacklist-forbes-magazine-threatens-companies-hire-trump">Newsbusters</a> commented, “This is the same <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2014/09/27/bozell-graham-column-jay-carneys-pinocchio-problem">Jay Carney who made a career out of spewing falsehoods</a> on behalf of his former boss. During one 2012 press conference, Carney had said that the rate of government spending under Obama was lower than &#8216;all of his predecessors since Dwight Eisenhower, including all of his Republican predecessors.&#8217; That false statement earned him a three-Pinocchios rating from Washington Post &#8216;fact-checker&#8217; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/glenn-kessler/">Glenn Kessler</a>.”
Lockhart, who became a CNN political analyst years after he left the Clinton White House, where he served as press secretary from 1998-2000, has a history of his own. In 2018, he stated, “If you look at the Russia stuff and the campaign finance stuff and the fact that 40,000 votes going the other way over three states, we now don’t know, and that’s why this is important. It’s not the campaign finance. It’s not, ‘Did they have a meeting at Trump Tower with some Russians?’ It’s &#8216;Was he legitimately elected?&#8217;”
In January 2020, Lockhart <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-analyst-joe-lockhart-admits-he-fabricated-conversation-between-gop-senators/">admitted</a> that he made up a conversation between two Republican senators that he claimed were stunned about what they were learning during President Donald Trump&#8217;s Senate trial.
Lockhart tweeted: &#8220;Overheard convo between two Republican Senators who only watch Fox News. &#8216;is this stuff real? I haven&#8217;t heard any of this before. I thought it was all about a server. If half the stuff Schiff is saying is true, we&#8217;re up shit&#8217;s creek. Hope the White House has exculpatory evidence.[&#8216;]&#8221;
After some time passed, Lockhart added a second tweet to his first tweet, writing, &#8220;Ok maybe I made up the convo, but you know that&#8217;s exactly what they&#8217;re thinking.&#8221;
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Ok maybe I made up the convo, but you know that&#39;s exactly what they&#39;re thinking.
&mdash; Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) <a href="https://twitter.com/joelockhart/status/1220064298925461505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Tuesday, Forbes released their list of this year’s “100 Most Powerful Women of 2020.” Though their ranking celebrates women of various geographical, generational, racial, and occupational backgrounds, one form of diversity is glaringly absent: ideological diversity. While names like Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi are rightfully included, the only American political figures named are Democrats.
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Announcing the World&#39;s 100 Most Powerful Women of 2020: <a href="https://t.co/fSEkDPz9Nh">https://t.co/fSEkDPz9Nh</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PowerWomen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PowerWomen</a> <a href="https://t.co/8u6uB1LTYI">pic.twitter.com/8u6uB1LTYI</a>
&mdash; Forbes (@Forbes) <a href="https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1336300375704555530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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If Forbes genuinely intends to rank the most powerful women in the world, why did they fail to acknowledge those right-of-center? This is not a matter of whether or not Forbes likes these women — or their politics. Instead, such rankings should serve as an objective survey of female power on the global stage — or, as Forbes put it themselves, a celebration of “more power in more places.”
Here are five powerful conservative women who would add ideological variety to Forbes’s list: 
Amy Coney Barrett  
This September, Amy Coney Barrett rose to prominence when President Trump appointed her to the Supreme Court. A widely respected law professor at Notre Dame (where she also graduated top of her class), Barrett is also a mother of seven. Of her 114 predecessors, Barrett made history as the fifth and youngest woman to ever serve on the Supreme Court.  
Barrett’s appointment dominated headlines in 2020, sparking celebration on the right and receiving harsh criticism from the left. Dubbed a “danger to the future of civilization” by Paul Krugman and the legacy media, surely Barrett must earn a spot among the world’s most powerful women? At only 48 years old, her influence could last for decades.  
Kayleigh McEnany  
Another woman to gain tremendous coverage in 2020 is Kayleigh McEnany. A graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School, she previously served as a commentator for CNN and spokesperson for the Republican National Committee.  President Trump appointed her White House Press Secretary this April.  
At 32 years old, McEnany is only the fifth woman to serve in this role. Though her time in office has been brief, these past months have been nothing short of historic. As the public-facing spokesperson for an unprecedented leader in unprecedented times, she has unwaveringly defended the president and his policies. In doing so, she has rapidly gained considerable attention and influence.
Ivanka Trump  
Though she was ranked #42 in last year&#8217;s list, Ivanka Trump still wields considerable influence in the White House. A cum laude graduate of the Wharton School, she formerly served as the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, as well as founder of her own clothing line.  
During her father’s presidency, Ivanka assumed an unprecedented and dynamic role as first daughter, acting also as Advisor to the President and Director of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship. Last year, Forbes credited Ivanka for her advocacy for a childcare tax credit and workforce apprentice program. It should also be noted that she recently launched the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative for female economic empowerment.  
Kellyanne Conway  
Upon Trump’s election in 2016, Kellyanne Conway stepped into the national spotlight. As the President’s campaign manager, she led one of the most unlikely political candidates to a famously unexpected victory, making history as the first woman ever to run a successful presidential campaign. She went on to work as Senior Counselor to the President starting in 2017, and while in the White House, she oversaw efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.  
This year, Conway served as an advisor to Trump’s re-election campaign. In August, she announced her exit from the White House following a public feud with her daughter. Just this week, however, she stepped back into the spotlight yet again. On Tuesday, Conway was tapped by the President to join the board of visitors to the U.S. Air Force Academy. 
Nikki Haley  
Along with Ivanka, Nikki Haley is another conservative woman to previously appear on Forbes’s list, only to drop off in 2018. Haley gained national notoriety in 2011 when she took office as Governor of South Carolina. She made national history as the youngest ever governor, and second governor of Indian descent. She is also the first female governor of South Carolina.  
In 2016, Trump nominated Haley as Ambassador to the United Nations. At the time, Forbes published an article entitled “Trump’s Choice Of Nikki Haley Is A Slap To The U.N. And Pandering To Asian-Americans.” Nonetheless, during her time at the United Nations, Haley was central to the Trump administration’s handling of a wide variety of international concerns, from Israel to Iran and North Korea.  
Though Haley left the Trump team on good terms in 2018, she remains very actively involved in national discourse. She has recently published a variety of editorials and founded Stand for America, a non-profit policy advocate group. Her name is also frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for 2024 or 2028. Haley, therefore, could potentially be the future face of the Republican party.
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Forbes’s inclusion of conservative women does not require an endorsement of their politics. It need not be a fight between right and left. From Tulsi Gabbard to Jo Jorgensen, this year has proved that women across the political spectrum are breaking the political glass ceiling.  
If Biden’s presidency is to succeed in healing the political divide, then major media players like Forbes ought to begin considering the breadth of our country’s ideological diversity. Celebrating the rise of women in positions of power, therefore, should not be a matter of promoting political orthodoxy.
Read more: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/forbes-prove-their-bias-against-conservative-women-by-listing-stacey-abrams-as-one-of-the-worlds-most-powerful-women">Forbes Prove Their Bias By Listing Stacey Abrams As One Of The World’s “Most Powerful Women”</a>
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Earlier this week, Forbes Magazine announced “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women of 2020.” The article includes a foreword by Maggie McGrath, an associate editor at Forbes and editor of ForbesWomen, in which she lauds Kamala Harris’ prepared debate response of “Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking” as a “rallying cry for women across America.” She celebrates the diversity of those listed, saying that the women “hail from 30 countries and were born across four generations,” and that there are “10 heads of state, 38 CEOs and five entertainers among them.” 
“But where they differ in age, nationality and job description,” McGrath writes, “they are united in the ways they have been using their platforms to address the unique challenges of 2020.” The introduction ends with an entire paragraph dedicated to Stacey Abrams’ “deft use of power” during the presidential election, and that “due to that continued work, along with the efforts of so many women like her, &#8230; the words of the soon-to-be vice president will come to fruition.”
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Like so many others who claim to idolize “diversity” above all else, Forbes’ absurd inclusion of Abrams over others demonstrates that, despite the claim that this group of women are “united in the ways they have been using their platforms,” there is a distinct anti-conservative bias in the world of media when it comes to conservative women. When we filter the list by country and the “politics and policy” category, no such diversity is anywhere to be found among American women.
Three American women are included in this list relating to the “politics and policy” category. Kamala Harris is listed at No.3, incorrectly described as having “become the first woman in American history elected to the vice presidency.” McGrath defined Harris as “Vice President-elect” during her introduction. Neither Biden nor Harris are technically elected yet, with multiple election challenges still working their way through the court system.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was included at No. 7, understandable given that she is the “highest-ranking elected woman in the country and second-in-line for the presidency.” Then, at No. 100, Stacey Abrams. According to Forbes Magazine, Stacey Abrams is the 100th most powerful woman in the world.
What utter nonsense.
While Abrams’ bizarre notoriety has become a running joke for conservatives, including laughing at the continued insistence that Abrams is the one, true Governor of Georgia, it’s important to push back objectively when the false image of one person is being used as a wider veil to deceive others more broadly. Abrams’ profile includes the claim that “observers” attributed her loss in Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial race by 55,000 votes to “voter suppression.” The sole reason for her inclusion is spread across multiple bullet points, discussing claims about her “voting rights organization,” Fair Fight.
The entire basis of Abrams’ inclusion is the false claim that she lost an election in 2018 due to voter suppression, and the assumed claim that she was instrumental in flipping Georgia blue. Given the achievements and impact of other women on Forbes’ list, one may ask why other conservative women are missing. Ivanka Trump? Melania Trump? Lara Trump? Candace Owens? Kristi Noem? Nikki Haley? Laura Ingraham? Kellyanne Conway? 
While the potential “changing of the guard” could certainly justify the exclusion of these figures, are we seriously suggesting that Stacey Abrams — who holds no office and whose fame and influence is entirely manufactured — is more “powerful” than any of them? If the focus is on Georgia, surely real-life Senator Kelly Loeffler holds more “power” than imaginary Governor Abrams?
Collating such a list is undoubtedly a challenging task, with countless women of undeniable merit standing as potential candidates. However, by making the ridiculous claim that Stacey Abrams is one of the most powerful women in the world, Forbes has yet again shown that the political bias against conservative women is one “glass ceiling” they won’t be rushing to break down.
Ian Haworth is host of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPxdVsNp7k&amp;list=PLhi-aq-5DfuTQRVv1IOVMnA735vEYO0f5">The Ian Haworth Show</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E05t2L69Sks&amp;list=PLhi-aq-5DfuRHu5r0IV5qr4h2rBAV9oBd">The Truth in 60 Seconds</a>. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth">@ighaworth</a>.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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