It looks like spending a little time in the slammer has self-proclaimed Philadelphia-area influencer &#8220;Meatball&#8221; regretting her decision to livestream looting and other mayhem that occurred in the City of Brotherly Love earlier this week. That decision has left her grandmother &#8220;ashamed&#8221; of her granddaughter, whose real name is Dayjia Blackwell, but maintains that Meatball has a certain business acumen that can be used for good.
On Thursday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-media-influencer-who-livestreamed-philadelphia-looting-arrested-charged-with-6-felonies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Meatball was arrested during her livestream of the looting as large groups of mostly teenagers damaged and robbed multiple stores in Philadelphia. The 21-year-old Blackwell was hit with six felony counts as well as two misdemeanors and was seen crying in her mugshot.
During the stream, Meatball boasted, &#8220;Tell the police they’re either gonna lock me up tonight, or it’s gonna get lit, it’s gonna be a movie.&#8221;
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Well, they did lock her up and it turned into a bit of a nightmare for the budding social media star.
Blackwell&#8217;s mother bailed her out of jail, and Meatball told <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/social-media-influencer-talks-livestreaming-looting-arrest/3656311/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC 10</a> that the experience scared her straight.
&#8220;I just prefer, you know, never loot again, stay out of trouble, never go to jail,&#8221; she told the outlet.
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She also said on social media she was &#8220;scared and traumatized,&#8221; adding, &#8220;never again in my life.&#8221;
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Indeed, the girl&#8217;s grandmother hopes that Meatball becomes a force for good in the world.
Vashti Fields, Meatball&#8217;s grandmother, told Fox 29, &#8220;What goes through my mind, as a grandmother, is I’m very ashamed. I’m very ashamed to see my child there, at that time. Number one, she could have gotten hurt.&#8221;
Fields has bigger dreams for Meatball.
&#8220;I want her to start a business and, most of all, I want her to be a positive influencer,&#8221; Fields said.
Indeed, she added, that Meatball is a &#8220;loving, kind, caring, business minded go-getter.&#8221;
Of course, part of Meatball&#8217;s business includes having an Only Fans account which is nothing but smut and akin to a virtual form of the oldest profession in the world.
It&#8217;s unclear what her family thinks of that career choice.
Meatball&#8217;s mother chose instead to honk her car horn repeatedly when approached by reporters and refused to speak to the press.
Perhaps the real lesson here is that jail can work in steering ne&#8217;er-do-wells on the straight and narrow — contrary to what justice reform advocates state.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Major brands have pulled ads from Rumble, following the video platform&#8217;s refusal to censor or demonetize actor and podcast host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russell-brand" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russell-brand&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1694985006561000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3PHtQ_G5x1XXnMavvkunMX">Russell Brand</a> over decade-old sexual assault allegations published this month in the U.K. media.
Notably, YouTube, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-demonetizes-russell-brand-over-alleged-sexual-misconduct-from-decade-ago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to much criticism</a>, has banned Brand from monetization on all of his accounts over the allegations, though Brand has no charges against him and has strongly denied ever engaging in nonconsensual sex. Rumble <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-k-parliament-demands-rumble-demonetize-russell-brand-rumble-responds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused</a> to follow suit.
<a href="https://www.thenewsmovement.com/articles/russell-brand-sexual-assault-allegations-brands-pull-ads-from-his-rumble-channel-after-news-movement-investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to News Movement, Burger King is one of the brands that has paused advertisements on Brand&#8217;s Rumble channel. “Burger King has paused all advertising on the channel while investigations into the allegations are ongoing,&#8221; the company said.
Meal-kit company HelloFresh has pulled ads from all of Rumble, it seems, telling News Movement when it reached out about the allegations, “Thanks for pointing this out to us. We have manually removed our ads from Rumble.”
And Fashion company ASOS pulled ads this week, the report noted.
The allegations against Brand surfaced from a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times, and Channel 4 Dispatches. The alleged victims were reached out to by the media before detailing their accusations. So far, no charges have been filed against Brand, though London police have opened an investigation into a newly reported allegation from 20 years ago.
The media report said four women, whose names have not been disclosed, have accused Brand of sexual misconduct from 2006 to 2013, which was the height of Brand’s mainstream fame — when Brand worked for Channel 4 and the BBC. One woman claims Brand raped her, while another alleged victim, who is now 31, says Brand sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old (the age of consent in the U.K.).
“Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks, are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute,” Brand said in a video, which preempted the media dump of the allegations by a matter of hours.
“These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual.”
Brand has also questioned the media coordination regarding the allegations and suggested there was an agenda at play. Moreover, his legal team, given eight days to respond to all allegations, questioned how Brand could specifically refute the allegations if he&#8217;s not permitted to know the names of his accusers.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/russell-brand-vehemently-denies-sexual-assault-allegations-in-viral-video-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russell Brand Vehemently Denies Sexual Assault Allegations In Viral Video Statement</a>

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A federal appeals court has ruled that the Biden administration cannot coerce or “significantly encourage” social media companies to censor content, saying that previous actions of the administration had violated the First Amendment. 
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/0f6d7356-f470-4eb0-9609-fc4e34b47e5b.pdf?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partially upheld</a> a lower court&#8217;s ruling in Missouri vs. Biden barring the FBI, the Centers for Disease Control, the White House, and the surgeon general from being able to pressure social media companies to take down or limit the scope of content the administration didn’t like. The court specifically ruled against a number of officials, including White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
&#8220;Defendants, and their employees and agents, shall take no actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly, to coerce or significantly encourage social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech,&#8221; the decision <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/appeals-court-upholds-decision-barring-biden-admin-colluding-big-tech-censor?utm_source=daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;That includes, but is not limited to, compelling the platforms to act, such as by intimating that some form of punishment will follow a failure to comply with any request, or supervising, directing, or otherwise meaningfully controlling the social-media companies&#8217; decision-making process.&#8221;
Documents released by Congress last month <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-pressured-fb-to-suppress-daily-wire-content-push-users-to-legacy-outlets-newly-released-docs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a> that a White House official asked Facebook to promote legacy outlets and stifle The Daily Wire’s reach in order to accomplish the administration’s directives on suppressing content that clashed with its COVID vaccine agenda. 
The ruling from the appeals court was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/08/5th-circuit-ruling-covid-content-moderation/">not as expansive</a> as the original ruling against the Biden administration from U.S. Judge Terry A. Doughty. Injunctions against the HHS, the Census Bureau, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were not upheld. 
“If you were to change the algorithm so that people were more likely to see NYT, WSJ, any authoritative news source over Daily Wire, Tomi Lahren, polarizing people. You wouldn’t have a mechanism to check the material impact?” then White House Digital Director Rob Flaherty said in a meeting with Facebook in 2021. Flaherty was named as one of the defendants in the case who the injunction applied to.
The decision against the Biden administration, which was first sued by several states including Louisiana and Missouri. The states said in the lawsuit that the Biden administration’s actions were “the most egregious violations of the First Amendment in the history of the United States of America.”
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The decision  was celebrated by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. “The First Amendment remains intact,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1700271862415282448?s=20">posted</a> on X. “The first brick was laid in the wall of separation between tech and state on July 4th, and this ruling is yet another brick.”
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said the decision was “a major win against censorship, totalitarianism, and Biden.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dr-phil-mcgraw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Phillip C. McGraw</a>, commonly known as Dr. Phil, told Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) this week that social media companies are attacking the family unit in the U.S. by targeting children with &#8220;toxic information&#8221; that causes them to suffer from a wide range of mental health problems.
McGraw made the remarks during a special appearance on Cruz&#8217;s &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast this week in response to Cruz noting that the &#8220;pressures that are on our kids right now are qualitatively different from what we experienced.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, they&#8217;re just assaulted online with social media, they&#8217;re confronted with themes and messaging and influence that is deliberately poisoning them, and what about that worries you?&#8221; Cruz asked. &#8220;And what should parents be doing about that?&#8221;
McGraw said that &#8220;a lot about it worries me because it&#8217;s not just that there&#8217;s competing information out there.&#8221;
&#8220;One of the things I talk about is the fact that our children aren&#8217;t just being exposed, they&#8217;re being targeted,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And when I say targeted, I wrote a book in I think 2004 called &#8216;Family First.&#8217; And at that time, I said the family in America is under attack, that families in America are under attack, the family unit, the family values, everything that families stand for in America are under attack. This was 20 years ago. Let me tell you, it is so much worse now than it was then.&#8221;
&#8220;And when I say they&#8217;re under attack, one of the ways is what&#8217;s happening on the internet, what&#8217;s happening on the social media platforms,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;People don&#8217;t understand algorithms, including me, but I got myself in touch with experts that do understand this. And a good example of what I&#8217;m talking about, research was done where they put together some accounts, put a girl&#8217;s name on it, 14 years old, just her name, 14 years old, opened this account. And within a matter of a few hours, she started getting targeted with toxic information. By that, I mean information that led her to eating disorder sites, suicidality sites, different kinds of things that were really unhealthy.&#8221;
McGraw said that researchers pushed things further by opening another account and including on the account somewhere the words &#8220;weight loss.&#8221;
&#8220;The amount of toxic feed that went to her content, that went to her, went up multiplicatively within the first few hours,&#8221; he said &#8220;The algorithm picked up those words and what they do is they feed you what you will click on. So, it was like 10 times more toxic information.&#8221;
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McGraw said that children were being &#8220;targeted&#8221; despite social media companies knowing that what they will click on &#8220;creates anxiety, depression, loneliness, confusion, self-hatred.&#8221;
&#8220;And if you want to create chaos in a society, where do you start? You attack the children,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you get them to hate themselves, be questioned about who they are, what they are, what&#8217;s that going to do to the next generation and the next generation? And right now, we have the highest levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness among our young people.&#8221;
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There is no question that online dating is changing the human experience. Daters evaluate photos, read a few facts, and decide whether to pursue the person in the profile. Dating apps give so many options, and, of course, it can give analysis paralysis. There is such a thing as having too many options. But the people I have talked to about their experience on dating apps all seem to say the same thing: They hate the apps. They’ve told me the apps can be a good way to meet people, but in general, they are having a pretty miserable experience. Yet they are still engaging in them. The reasons people don’t like the apps are different, depending on whether they are male or female. 
I’m fascinated by the online dating world. I have never actually engaged in online dating, only because when I was of the age when online dating apps came on the scene, I was in a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, and I had longer relationships thereafter. I just never had a need to date online, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t have. I understand why people do it. Times are changing, culture is changing, and people find dating online to be more convenient. I think this is especially the case as you get older because your lifestyle changes. Maybe you’re not hitting the bar every Friday and Saturday and brunching all day on Sunday. Maybe you want to stay home more. Maybe you’re cooking more. So, you’re not meeting as many people. All of that makes sense to me. But people overwhelmingly say they don’t love the app experience.
I asked a few men about the online dating world, and their number one complaint was that women lie about how they look. Apparently, women are heavily editing their pictures and posting them on these dating apps. Then, when a man shows up to a date, maybe the woman looked like that 20 years ago — or 20 pounds ago. But the woman in the photo looks nothing like the one sitting in front of him. This seems like a bizarre concept. What is the purpose? She thinks she was going to dupe him or that once he sees her, he’ll stay for her personality? The idea is, the guy is going to see you. In fact, if I had an online dating profile, I would use a picture in which I looked slightly less attractive than I do in real life because I would want the guy to be pleasantly surprised when he meets me. So why are women lying about how they look? Why are they pretending they have a different smile, body, skin tone?
When I talked to women about using dating apps, their number one complaint was that men will reach out to them, say hello, and start a conversation. But when they respond, the guys go cold. With the guys, they are reaching out to women, making an effort, and then never responding to them. That’s also strange. 
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To try to understand the motivation behind this, I asked women why they heavily edit their photos. One responded saying that cameras add a few extra pounds. (I could go along with that if we were still in the ‘90s before technology was really figured out. But I don’t think that holds true in 2023.) Another woman said she edits the lighting or background but not anything of herself. That seems fair. A third woman said she is not photogenic, and other women agreed with this because sometimes when you see someone in person, they look more attractive than in a photo.
But it is the next person who I believe gave the honest answer. She said she edits herself to impress and because of her own insecurities. I think this is the answer that really gets to the heart of the issue. It seems a lot of women are editing photos because they do not anticipate meeting in real life. Often, when people are feeling insecure or lonely, the apps give them something to do while also boosting these ladies’ self-confidence as men send messages commenting on their beauty or desire to date. If the date never materializes, at least they feel they were picked first; at least they feel like men were looking at them. That’s why, if they’re honest, women are essentially lying and advertising something that isn’t real.
On the male side, the issue seems to be different. The way their mind processes these apps seems to be a numbers game. If a man reaches out to 40 girls, all with varying looks, he might receive a message from four A-plus girls. So, he decides he’ll focus his time on just those four; if no A-plus girls return a message, he will move down the line. The men are thinking that eventually they will catch a big enough fish.
This is one of the ways in which the world has promoted an advancement that has actually become a regression. People don’t know how to speak to each other, lack confidence to have face-to-face conversations, and hide behind apps. People don’t have the confidence to address their own insecurities, so they linger behind apps. They are comfortable behind apps. As our confidence is shrinking, we are telling the world more lies, and perhaps, even worse, we are telling ourselves lies.
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Conservative actor James Woods and &#8220;X&#8221; owner Elon Musk battled on the social media platform over the weekend after Musk said that he would remove users&#8217; ability to block other accounts.
&#8220;Block is going to be deleted as a &#8216;feature&#8217;, except for [Direct Messages],&#8221; Musk said late last week. &#8220;It makes no sense.&#8221;
Woods responded to news reports about the change that Musk by posting on the platform: &#8220;In the midst of a libel suit I was targeted by thirty trolls the defendant enlisted to harass me. X will be untenable for people like me, who are willing to share their identities. If he does this, I will have no choice but to retire from this site.&#8221;
&#8220;If [Elon Musk] removes the ability to block concerted harassment by trolls or organized political entities, how will &#8216;X&#8217; be any different from Jack Dorsey’s horrid Twitter?&#8221; Woods later posted. &#8220;Musk, whom I once championed, is only doing this to protect his advertisers anyway. Users of X are mere pawns to turn the site into an electronic shopping mall. The man I thought was a defender of free speech is just another greedy capitalist. Disappointing, but not surprising.&#8221;
Musk responded directly to Woods, writing: &#8220;Then delete your account.&#8221;
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Woods later posted a screenshot showing that Musk had blocked him after the interaction.
&#8220;You[r] prerogative, sir, which is exactly my point,&#8221; Woods wrote. &#8220;Have a nice day.&#8221;
Earlier in the day, Musk tweeted that he was using the &#8220;block&#8221; feature against those who want it to remain in order to prove a point.
&#8220;Pretty fun blocking people who complain that blocking is going away,&#8221; Musk wrote. &#8220;How does the medicine taste?&#8221;
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You prerogative, sir, which is exactly my point. Have a nice day. <a href="https://t.co/qt8ZD3wbM9">pic.twitter.com/qt8ZD3wbM9</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1693341978766041150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Pretty fun blocking people who complain that blocking is going away. 
How does the medicine taste? 😂😂
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1693219734001500381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Woods has been vocally supportive of Musk in the past, including after he bought the platform, formerly known as Twitter, and released internal files showing how the company censored conservatives and had a cozy relationship with federal law enforcement officials.
“I think Elon Musk has very possibly, very possibly saved America,” Woods <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-woods-on-elon-musk-releasing-the-twitter-files-musk-has-very-possibly-saved-america">said</a> in a rare interview. “I think the ship of state has been on a course, rivaling the Titanic. And I think what Elon Musk has done, is spend a lot of money, like I did in that lawsuit against the guy who lied about me, you know, you spend the money because I’m going to do this because it’s so important to my survival and my well-being.”
“And I think Elon Musk loves this country,” Woods said. “It’s clear that he does, why would he spend all that money on Twitter, this rat infested app, you know, why would he do that unless he could see its value? You have to understand something, you know, back when they had the power in Twitter, the Democrats were happy to say, ‘Well, it’s a private site. It’s not, it’s not like it’s the town square. You know, they can say whatever they want.’ They’re not saying it now that Elon Musk owns it, but it was in fact the town square.”

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Actress Taryn Manning apologized this week after posting a bizarre video to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media</a> in which she explicitly described having an affair with a married man.
Manning, 44, is best known for her roles in various hit television shows and movies, including &#8220;Orange is the New Black,&#8221; &#8220;Sons of Anarchy,&#8221; &#8220;Hustle &amp; Flow,&#8221; and &#8220;8 Mile.&#8221;
Manning recorded the video while behind the wheel of the car, saying that she pulled over because she did not want to cause a wreck because she was &#8220;so rooted.&#8221; The actress then went on to describe in lurid detail her alleged sexual relationship with a married man and supposedly driving across the country with him to help him buy a boat.
She said that she &#8220;can&#8217;t stand&#8221; the man&#8217;s wife and that the woman called her a &#8220;lunatic&#8221; and threatened to file a restraining order.
“So you don’t accuse me of being the lunatic, but I’ll tell you one thing, lady, you want to put me in jail?&#8221; Manning said. &#8220;I’ll put you in jail so fast your head will be spinning.&#8221;
“Don’t you ever threaten me,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I will show you how I do.&#8221;
Manning later posted an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tarynmanning/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=1aa3ff07-0263-4dad-b8f4-154867537da9">apology</a> on her Instagram account, writing: &#8220;Over the past few days, I&#8217;ve had some time to reflect on the situation I&#8217;ve been dealing with. I was deeply hurt and handled things on a public platform when I should&#8217;ve just dealt with them quietly with the support of my close friends and family.&#8221;
&#8220;I felt a lot of guilt after exposing everything and thought maybe the best resolution to the situation would be to say I lied about it all, but that is not the truth,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I started a relationship with somebody who was married and told me he would leave his wife. In the end, I found out that wasn&#8217;t possible. I pride myself on being an ethical and kind person. I know what I did was wrong, but the heart makes you do crazy things sometimes.&#8221;
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&#8220;I am sorry for exposing my situation; I am not sorry for how I love,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;I hope to find somebody who cherishes me the way I adore them. A healthy type of love. A love that isn&#8217;t so blind that it forces me to be somebody I&#8217;m not. This was a huge learning lesson for me. With all this said, I am asking everyone to please give me my privacy so I can heal and mend my heart. Thank you.&#8221;

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Elon Musk has famously <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1688022163574439937" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered</a> to take up the costs of anyone who suffers professional losses for what they like or post on Twitter. Now, we need him to turn his attention to those suffering criminal charges at the hands of government for the same. This month has been rife with oppressive signs that Twitter is far from a safe space for the right to free expression.
On August 9th, Mexico’s highest court for electoral issues issued a final conviction in the case of former congressman <a href="https://adfinternational.org/mexican-civil-society-leader-found-guilty-of-gender-based-political-violence-for-tweets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rodrigo Iván Cortés</a>. The court upheld a guilty verdict for “gender-based political violence” for Cortés’ assertion, on Twitter and Facebook, that a transgender-identifying congressional representative is a “man who self-ascribes as a woman.” The charges were levied after the representative sued on the basis of “denial of identity.”
For stating the truth of biological reality, Cortés has been walloped with draconian reparations measures, including the payment of a fine, and absurdly, a court order that he post the judgment and a court-drafted apology on his social media daily for 30 days. Further, he must attend a course for political violators, and register on a list of offenders. Needless to say, for saying what he believes on Twitter, Cortés’ life will never be the same.
Lest this sound too outrageous to have ever happened before, Cortés is not the only one. The same transgender representative filed a parallel suit and won against sitting Mexican congressman <a href="https://adfinternational.org/gabriel-quadri-mexico/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabriel Quadri</a>. Interestingly, the representative, Salma Luévano, together with Maria Clemente, another transgender representative, is notorious for fomenting unrest within Mexico’s Congress, including presenting a “hate speech” bill aimed at Christian teaching on sexual morality while <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNbxIAj4YTw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wearing</a> the vestments of a Catholic bishop.
Luévano also participated in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgwHLlUfHsc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">incident</a>, together with transgender representative Maria Clemente, in which the chair of the congressional session was physically ousted in an attempt to force the expulsion of Congressman Quadri for his views on what makes a man a man. Clemente also prompted international outrage by Tweeting explicit videos of Clemente’s own “sex work,” <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34wx9/mexico-trans-politician-maria-clemente-garcia-moreno" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citing</a> a right to freely share this kind of content on digital platforms. The irony is palpable.
Disagreement is not discrimination, and peaceful dissent should never be penalized as violence. It is deeply disturbing that Cortés and Quadri, who exercised their basic human right to peaceably share their views on a matter of significant current debate have been convicted as violent offenders when it is their political opponents who are perpetuating unrest within Mexico’s political institutions.
Now, both Cortés and Quadri have exhausted all avenues for justice in Mexico and are taking their cases to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, with the support of ADF International.
Also, this month, Finnish member of parliament <a href="https://adfinternational.org/free-speech-on-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Päivi Räsänen</a> returns to court for a 2019 Twitter post that landed her with criminal charges of “hate speech” for “agitation of a minority group”. Räsänen’s tweet questioned her church’s participation in a local pride parade, and four years later, this much-loved civil servant, medical doctor, and grandmother is still bearing the cost of exercising her right to free expression.
Räsänen was fully acquitted in 2022, but the Finnish system permits legal double jeopardy allowing the prosecution to <a href="https://adfinternational.org/prosecutor-files-appeal-against-finnish-mps-major-free-speech-victory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeal</a> on the grounds that it was unsatisfied with the verdict. She will be back in court on August 31st, with charges against her that carry tens of thousands of euros in fines, and even the possibility of a two-year prison sentence.
Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society and a basic right of everyone guaranteed by all major human rights treaties. Without it, all our other human rights erode. Happening before our eyes is a dangerous global trend to criminalize free expression. In a world facing mounting censorship, it’s never been more important to protect the right of every person to speak freely, whether you like what they’re saying or not.
Cortés, Quadri, and Räsänen have in common the peaceful expression of their convictions. And, notably, all experienced the brunt force of the law for daring to speak out on an “unwelcome” topic. Nobody should be punished, let alone criminally charged, for simply sharing what they believe. State-backed censorship blurs the line between dictatorships and democracies, leaving the rest of us with no choice but to question — how long before this happens to me?
Elyssa Koren is an international human rights lawyer and director of legal communications for <a href="https://www.adfinternational.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ADF International</a>, which is supporting the legal defense of Cortés, Quadri, and Räsänen. Follow her on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/elyssa_koren?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@Elyssa_Koren</a>
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cori-bush" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cori Bush</a> (D-MO) faced backlash online on Wednesday over a false and inflammatory tweet on the ninth anniversary of when Michael Brown attacked a police officer and was subsequently killed when the officer defended himself.
&#8220;Today is the 9th anniversary of Mike Brown’s killing,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;He would be alive today if the institutions of racism and white supremacy were eradicated. He should be alive today. We will never forget. We will continue to fight for justice and accountability.&#8221;
Former President Barack Obama&#8217;s Department of Justice (DOJ) concluded that there was no credible evidence to disprove Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson&#8217;s story that he shot Brown after Brown attacked him while he was seated in his police vehicle. The encounter happened after Wilson was called to the area to respond to Brown reportedly stealing from a store and attacking a store clerk.
&#8220;Brown’s DNA inside the SUV and on Wilson’s shirt collar and the bullet trajectory and close-range gunshot wound to Brown’s hand, establish that Brown’s arms and/or torso were inside the SUV,&#8221; the report <a href="https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/doj_report_on_shooting_of_michael_brown_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. Brown was 6&#8217;5&#8221; and <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/the-cop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weighed</a> nearly 300 pounds.
&#8220;As detailed throughout this report, several witnesses stated that Brown appeared to pose a physical threat to Wilson as he moved toward Wilson,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;According to these witnesses, who are corroborated by blood evidence in the roadway, as Brown continued to move toward Wilson, Wilson fired at Brown in what appeared to be self-defense and stopped firing once Brown fell to the ground.&#8221;
Radio host Dana Loesch responded to Bush, &#8220;He would be alive today if he had not chosen to steal from a convenience store, resulting in the owner calling police, resulting in police stopping him, at which point Brown CHOSE to attack a cop and try to take his gun &#8212; which Eric Holder&#8217;s own DOJ concluded with its forensics report. Stop YOUR shameful and racist rewrite of facts.&#8221;
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He would be alive today if he had not chosen to steal from a convenience store, resulting in the owner calling police, resulting in police stopping him, at which point Brown CHOSE to attack a cop and try to take his gun &#8212; which Eric Holder&#39;s own DOJ concluded with its forensics… <a href="https://t.co/CQonKiGT3g">https://t.co/CQonKiGT3g</a>
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1689318416090374171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This only goes to show how the Left plays the long game,&#8221; said Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh. &#8220;The whole Michael Brown narrative has been definitively exposed as a hoax but they will keep repeating it year after year after year until we get tired of correcting it and the truth is forgotten by history.&#8221;
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Mike Brown attacked and tried to kill a cop, after robbing a minority-owned liquor store.
Unbelievable they&#39;re still trying this &quot;new civil rights heroes&quot; crap. <a href="https://t.co/QyRzNU4DyO">https://t.co/QyRzNU4DyO</a>
&mdash; Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) <a href="https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630/status/1689335180547215360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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He choked a bodega owner in the act of shoplifting and attempted to assault the responding police officer while grabbing his firearm. 
Eric Holder&#39;s justice department cleared the officer of any wrongdoing. <a href="https://t.co/WsDOnBPryK">https://t.co/WsDOnBPryK</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1689351109020958720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Federal prosecutors alerted U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan Friday to a social media post from former President Donald Trump that attorneys claim specifically referenced people involved in his criminal case.
Following his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pleads-not-guilty-to-2020-election-charges-during-d-c-arraignment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arraignment</a> in a Washington, D.C., district court Thursday, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110833185720203438" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to his Truth Social account, “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” The attorneys on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team argued that the post referred to those involved in Trump’s case “specifically or by implication,” POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/04/feds-alert-judge-to-trumps-if-you-go-after-me-im-coming-after-you-post-00109944">reported</a>. 
Team Trump fired back with a statement on Saturday, saying the post was not in reference to anyone involved in his criminal case.
“The Truth post cited is the definition of political speech, and was in response to the RINO, China-loving, dishonest special interest groups and Super PACs, like the ones funded by the Koch brothers and the Club for No Growth,” the statement said. 
The prosecutors said the post raises concerns that Trump might share evidence about the case on his social media account, and they urged the judge to order Trump to keep any evidence shared with his team from public view. So far, Smith has not sought a gag order against Trump in either the January 6 case or the classified documents case. 
“All the proposed order seeks to prevent is the improper dissemination or use of discovery materials, including to the public,” Senior Assistant Special Counsels Molly Gaston and Thomas Windom wrote. “Such a restriction is particularly important in this case because the defendant has previously issued public statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys, and others associated with legal matters pending against him. … And in recent days, regarding this case, the defendant has issued multiple posts—either specifically or by implication—including the following, which the defendant posted just hours ago.”
Trump was indicted earlier this week on four charges related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, which included conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. The former president was arraigned Thursday and pleaded not guilty to all charges. 
Trump attorney Alina Habba spoke outside the D.C. courthouse at the time of the arraignment, accusing the Department of Justice of targeting Trump to cover up negative news about President Joe Biden and his family.
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“This is election interference at its finest against the leading candidate, right now, for president of either party. President Trump is under siege in a way that we have never seen before,” Habba said.
The indictment, delivered by Smith, is the third criminal case brought against Trump in the past year. In June, he pleaded not guilty to charges in connection to his handling of classified documents. In April, Trump pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from his alleged hush money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels.

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You might not watch pornography, but if you have an Instagram, you are definitely seeing porn. It’s soft porn, but it’s porn nonetheless. There is no question about that. You cannot open a social media app without seeing suggested content of women exposing their bodies, posed in scandalous stances. What is it about social media that encourages this type of behavior? Why are women encouraged to take their clothes off?
I think the answers to those questions begin with what I call “flat-screen syndrome,” which is something I made up during the George Floyd riots. Flat-screen syndrome is a condition in which someone justifies their behavior by citing someone who did something that offended them. For example, when a black man dies and police are involved, people say, “I’m a black person, I’m upset this happened to someone I don’t even know, and because of this, I’m allowed to run into Target and steal a flat screen TV.” They think that even though they’re behaving poorly, no one should reprimand them because someone else did something to offend them. Basically, it excuses bad behavior.
This syndrome bleeds over into the world of nudes that people, women in particular, post on Instagram. I have always made it a point to encourage women who follow me on social media to have respect for themselves. Regardless of your race or any other category you find yourself in, you should have respect for yourself. It is simple. Having respect for yourself means keeping your mystery; it means not allowing people to see you half naked on the Internet for likes and for clicks.
But the standard of beauty has gotten confusing for women. Women don’t even know what beauty is anymore. Women seem to believe that posting their bodies on the Internet for someone to like their post somehow means they are beautiful — but it’s anything but that. Yet women seem to think that in order to get attention or be heard, they should take their clothes off.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-122-please-stop-sending-me-nudes-v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: Candace Owens: &#8220;Please Stop Sending Me Nudes&#8221;</a></h4>
To return to my original questions, I’ll share a situation from a few months ago, when a friend of mine <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1638587823782793216" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> about how many women in their thirties are freezing their eggs because they haven’t found a partner and “musical chairs isn’t ending the way people told women it would.” In other words, moving from man to man, having loose relationships, and being noncommittal does not end with empowerment, nor does it end happily. As you age as a woman, you want a partner — and you realize you’ve been sold a bill of lies. This friend <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1638960943483994112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">got some backlash</a> from women for this tweet because it’s not permissible to mention women and biology, even though, as my friend stated, he regularly tells men to get blood work done for health reasons. Yet it’s true that with age, women change biologically. But women are confused, lost, and unaware of what it means to be beautiful and desirable.
Women that are engaging in getting naked on the Internet for clicks, likes, and money are not fulfilled. They don’t have stable relationships. They don’t have family. And they don’t have respect for themselves. Because of that, other people don’t have respect for them either. Good guidance — from society at large — is nonexistent for women. And they are broken. Men are broken too, but I would argue that women are much more broken than men are. That brokenness stems from the advice the dominant voices are giving, which is backwards — and it’s wrong.
You will never get anything from the exterior life to fulfill you on the inside. If you’re taking your clothes off for attention, you need to work on yourself on the inside.
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Canadians’ access to news on Facebook and Instagram will be cut off in the coming weeks after Meta said Tuesday that a “fundamentally flawed” law is forcing the company to make the tough decision. 
Canada’s Online News Act, passed by its leftist legislature earlier this summer, requires Big Tech companies to negotiate agreements with Canadian news outlets and pay them for news content shared on social media platforms, Reuters <a href="https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/meta-starts-process-end-news-164645853.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Meta spokesman Andy Stone slammed the law in a tweet on Tuesday and said ending access to news on its platforms was the only option. 
“Today we&#8217;ve begun the process of ending news availability in Canada. Changes will roll out over a few weeks,” Stone said. “As we&#8217;ve always said, the law is based on a fundamentally flawed premise. And, regrettably, the only way we can reasonably comply is to end news availability in Canada.”
Both Meta and Google said in June that they would fight the law by blocking access to news in Canada. The country’s move is part of a global trend to force Big Tech companies to pay for news shared on their platforms, according to Reuters. Australia passed a similar law in 2021, while <a href="https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/deeply-irresponsible-canada-pm-justin-trudeau-slams-facebooks-flawed-argument-against-paying-for-news-380681-2023-05-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">France and Spain</a> also have social media news laws on the books.
The trend is making its way to the U.S. as well, as lawmakers in California have advanced a bill with bipartisan support mirroring Canada’s Online News Act. Meta has also <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/01/meta-says-it-will-block-news-in-california-if-bill-becomes-law.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> to block news in California if the bill, dubbed the “Journalism Preservation Act,” passes the state Senate and gets signed into law by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.  
“If the Journalism Preservation Act passes, we will be forced to remove news from Facebook and Instagram, rather than pay into a slush fund that primarily benefits big, out-of-state media companies under the guise of aiding California publishers,” Stone said in a statement in May. “The bill fails to recognize that publishers and broadcasters put their content on our platform themselves and that substantial consolidation in California’s local news industry came over 15 years ago, well before Facebook was widely used.”
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In Canada, Meta argued that news articles made up less than 3% of the content in users’ feeds and said news lacks economic value, but Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shot back, <a href="https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/deeply-irresponsible-canada-pm-justin-trudeau-slams-facebooks-flawed-argument-against-paying-for-news-380681-2023-05-10">saying</a> that Meta’s argument was “not just flawed, but dangerous to our democracy, to our economy.” Trudeau also accused the social media giant of being “deeply irresponsible and out of touch.” 
Google said that Canada’s law is even broader than those passed in Australia and Europe, as it also can apply to outlets that do not produce news. In June, the tech company <a href="https://blog.google/intl/en-ca/company-news/outreach-initiatives/an-update-on-canadas-bill-c-18-and-our-search-and-news-products/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it “informed the Government that we have made the difficult decision that when the law takes effect we will be removing links to Canadian news from our Search, News, and Discover products and will no longer be able to operate Google News Showcase in Canada.”

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