Twitter Files Part 7: FBI Paid Twitter More than $3 Million to Do Its Dirty Work
written by GEG | December 21, 2022
The FBI paid Twitter $3.4 million as it pushed the social media giant to ban accounts and target so-called “foreign influence” operations. The FBI paid the company as a “reimbursement program” in exchange for devoting staff hours to “processing requests from the FBI.” The FBI and other law enforcement agencies influenced Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth to dismiss The NY Post’s bombshell October 2020 report on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop as a Russian “hack and leak” operation. Time and again, FBI asked Twitter for evidence of foreign influence & Twitter responded that they didn’t find anything worth reporting.
The FBI reimbursed Twitter to the tune of more than $3 million as it pushed the social media company to ban accounts and target so-called “foreign influence” operations, the latest installment of the “Twitter Files” revealed on Monday.
In an email dated Feb. 10, 2021, an unidentified Twitter employee told then-deputy general counsel Jim Baker and then-general counsel Sean Edgett that “we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!”
The email, published by independent journalist Michael Shellenberger, explained that Twitter’s Safety, Content & Law Enforcement (SCALE) division had instituted a “reimbursement program” in exchange for devoting staff hours to “processing requests from the FBI.”
The message added that Twitter had opted not to exercise its right of reimbursement prior to October 2019, though it did not say why.
The email notes that the funds will be used by Twitter on “[law enforcement]-related projects” including “LE training, tooling, etc.”
The reports by Shellenberger and fellow independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, have revealed extensive collaboration and employee overlap between Twitter and the FBI, who Taibbi reported last week treated the social media company as a “subsidiary” and repeatedly reported supposed “misinformation.”
#Twitter Files: Ex-FBI and DOJ Employees Were Embedded in Twitter for Political Censorship
written by GEG | December 21, 2022
Summary of the six reports on data from Twitter showing that there is evidence that the FBI directed Twitter in banning free speech. Other federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of National Intelligence were also involved in censorship. Twitter’s censorship ranged from suppressing information on Hunter Biden’s laptop, which may have influenced the 2020 election, to banning Donald Trump, a sitting president, to censoring information that was disadvantageous to the Democrat party. The Twitter Files have failed to expose censorship related to COVID.
Summary by JW Williams
Need to Know Newspreviously reported that political officials in the Democratic National Committee were directing censorship of Twitter ahead of the 2020 election. The New York Post was banned from Twitter after it published the incriminating story of Hunter Biden’s laptop because it may have changed the 2020 election. Tucker Carlson explained that some Democrat members of Congress were encouraging censorship to influence the outcome of a presidential election, which is illegal, it is election rigging, and it is a direct attack on our Bill of Rights. The laptop documented the ongoing scheme of the Biden family selling influence to China and Ukraine.
We also reported that James Baker, Twitter’s deputy general counsel and former general counsel for the FBI, was discovered ‘vetting’ the internal documents for the ‘Twitter Files’ before their release, and delaying the release of a second tranche of internal documents before he was fired.
The second set of Twitter Files revealed that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevented disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users. Most of the targets were conservative and included: Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children, right-wing talk show host Dan Bongino, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and Chaya Raichik who produces @libsoftiktok videos.
Senator Josh Hawley reacted by saying, “And if FBI used Twitter to censor, you bet they also used Google and Facebook”.
The third installment of the Twitter Files dealt with the de-platforming of then-President Donald Trump after the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2020. Prior to that, Trump was “visibility filtered” about a week before the election despite not appearing “to have a particular violation.” Employees worked quickly to ensure that any of Trump’s tweets could not be “replied to, shared, or liked.”
Matt Taibbi reported that Twitter executives were “clearly liasing” with federal agencies regarding the moderation of content related to the 2020 election. In fact, former cybersecurity head Yoel Roth met weekly with officials from the FBI and DHS, and also the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
Part four of the Twitter Files showed that Twitter executives changed their own policies so that they could ban Donald Trump. They made policies on the fly. The report covered what occurred at Twitter on January 7th, the day after the protests by Donald Trump supporters at Capitol Hill went haywire.
In the fifth installment of the Twitter Files, journalist Bari Weiss revealed more about what went on in the case of de-platforming Trump, a sitting president, and presented evidence that he had not violated any of Twitter’s rules.
The sixth edition of the Twitter Files revealed that the FBI had regular contact with Twitter. There were more than 150 emails between the FBI and Twitter’s safety Chief, Yoel Roth between January 2020 and November 2022. Some were “requests” for information on Twitter users who were part of active investigations.
The FBI’s social media-focused task force, known as FTIF, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to 80 agents and had regular contact witht he company. It was also revealed that Justice Department (DOJ) employees worked for Twitter and were embedded, including James Baker, who has been general counsel for the FBI. It appears that US agencies intimidated Twitter. Reporter Taibbi also found that a “surprisingly high number” of the FBI’s missives were requests “for Twitter to take action on election misinformation.”
The FBI directed Twitter to censor accounts that were clearly posting satire and making fun or Democrats. It is illegal for the FBI to be directing censorship. Elvis Chan, a senior FBI agent, sent a list of satire accounts to Twitter so that they would be banned. The FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other branches of the federal government colluded with Twitter over what was allowed to be shared on the social media platform in the middle of an election. Tucker Carlson said that the FBI was working for the Democrat party. Journalist Charlie Hurt said that Twitter silenced doctors and scientists at the height of the COVID ‘pandemic’. Carlson said that the liberal mainstream media are FBI informants posing as journalists.
CJ Hopkins criticized the Twitter Files for failing to expose censorship related to COVID. He wrote: “if Elon Musk is serious about free speech, he can prove it by offering the Covid-narrative-censorship Twitter files to a few other journalists … journalists who want to report that story, who want to report that story right now, not two years from now, when no one cares anymore.”
The Department of Homeland Security Is in Cahoots with Big Tech to Suppress Information
written by GEG | December 21, 2022
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is working hand-in-hand with Big Tech to influence conversations and police information online using potential terrorism as an excuse. The Intercept released an article, ‘Truth Cops: Leaked Documents Outline DHS’ Plans to Police Disinformation’, that is based on years of internal DHS emails and records and proves the US govt is actively policing information online. Earlier this year, the proposed Disinformation Governance Board, mockingly called the ministry of Truth, was announced and then shut down. However, the DHS is exploring other initiatives to police social media. Researchers found a special Facebook portal for intelligence agencies and law enforcement where they can make content moderation requests. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) met with Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, LinkedIn and even Wikipedia every month prior to the 2020 election and the meetings are still ongoing.
The narrator of the video explains that decentralized social media may be the only solution, and he explains the challenges of creating and maintaining decentralized platforms.
David Icke Has Been Banned from 26 European Countries for 2 Years
written by GEG | December 21, 2022
Earlier this month, the Dutch government banned David Icke, the controversial British “conspiracy theorist”, from entering the Netherlands and other Schengen countries in the EU for two years over fears that he may “disturb the public order”. Icke, a popular speaker, had been scheduled to give a speech at a peace rally in Amsterdam protesting the Ukraine war, the Dutch government and energy prices. His freedom of speech has been censored. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte tried to skirt questions about the censorship of David Icke, but did indicate that Icke was banned due to “anti-Semitic” speech and “conspiracy theories” that Amsterdam feared could lead to riots.
The Dutch government has banned British conspiracy theorist David Icke from the Netherlands and the entire Schengen area of the European Union for two years over fears his presence could ‘disturb public order’.
Icke claimed that he had been banned by the “fascist Dutch regime” and published on his website a letter sent to him on Thursday by the Dutch immigration services, on behalf of State Secretary for Justice and Security Eric van der Burg.
Icke is a former professional footballer and television presenter who has argued that the world is ruled by reptiles, a theory recently advocated by the Dutch populist parliamentarian Thierry Baudet.
Icke was due to speak at a demonstration in Amsterdam on Sunday against the Ukraine war, the Dutch government and energy prices.
Amsterdam officials fear that there will be clashes, even if Icke only appears by via video link.
“With this letter I inform you that you have been flagged immediately in the Schengen Information System for two years and you are not allowed to enter the Schengen area,” said the letter.
“You have been internationally known for years as a propagator of conspiracy theories,” it added.
The presence of Icke, who has made “anti-Semitic and offensive statements in the past”, could lead to unrest in the Netherlands at a time when violence and threats against politicians are on the rise, said the Dutch government.
Tucker Carlson: The CIA and YouTube Interfered in Brazil’s Election
written by GEG | December 21, 2022
Reuters reported that over a year ago, US Director of the CIA Bill Burns told senior Brazilian officials that President Jair Bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on his country’s voting system ahead of the October election. Questioning election results in Brazil is not allowed. Youtube is now censoring and removing any videos claiming fraud in the election results in Brazil, and is interfering in the election of a sovereign nation. Bolsonaro said last year that his options for 2022 were “prison, death or victory.”
Brazil: President Jair Bolsonaro, called the ‘Trump of the Tropics’, lost the recent election by a narrow margin to Inacio “Lula” da Silva, the former two-term, far-left president who was sentenced to 12 years in prison on corruption charges, but served only 18 months as he was released by the Supreme Court on a technicality. Lula was found guilty of selling state assets and receiving kickbacks in addition to money laundering.
The election is contested and bears similarities to the Biden win in the 2020 US election. While Biden and other world leaders are congratulating president-elect Lula, truck drivers loyal to Bolsonaro snarled urban capitals in protest and tens of thousands of Brazilians protested in the streets. Bolsonaro approached Brazil’s military for support in challenging Lula. Several days ago, Bolsonaro asked his supporters to lift the road blockades.
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Reuters reported that over a year ago, Bill Burns, the US Director of the CIA, told senior Brazilian officials that President Jair Bolsonaro should stop casting doubt on his country’s voting system ahead of the October election.
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Questioning election results in Brazil is not allowed. Youtube is now censoring and removing any videos claiming fraud in the election results in Brazil, and is interfering in the election of a sovereign nation.
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Bolsonaro said last year that his options for 2022 were “prison, death or victory.”
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According to an article in the at BizPac Review, Lula was Fidel Castro’s partner in the 1990 San Paulo Forum. Communists changed strategy from armed to internal subversion, focusing on judicial systems. Their tack has worked exceedingly well. Democrats in the US tried to pass a voting rights law that would have allowed electoral fraud and packing the Supreme Court, but it fell two votes short in the Senate.
Elon Musk to Crackdown on ‘Hate Speech’ with Help from the ADL and Other “Content Moderators”
written by GEG | December 21, 2022
Elon Musk purchased Twitter and immediately fired top executives. He calls himself a ‘free speech absolutist’, but under pressure from leftist groups including the Anti Defamation League (ADL), Color of Change, Free Press, the Asian American Foundation, the NAACP, and the George W. Bush Presidential Center, he has vowed to crack down on so-called “hate speech.” This coalition “civil society leaders” will be given tools to ban users and delete content that they deem to be “hateful.” The coalition requested Musk to continue the policy of prohibiting so-called election lies and denial, even after Election Day. Individuals such as Alex Jones and Donald Trump who were de-platformed for violating Twitter rules will not be allowed back until the coalition reviews their cases.
Elon Musk has vowed to crackdown more harshly than his predecessors on so-called “hate speech”, and will operate a “zero tolerance” policy on content deemed offensive by a select group of moderators.
On Tuesday, Musk revealed that a small group of far-left “civil society leaders,” including the ADL, will be given tools to ban users and delete content that they deem to be “hateful.”
Musk also back-pedalled on his promise to unban controversial users such as Alex Jones, Donald Trump and Milo Yiannopoulos, and said that he no longer believes that individuals who were de-platformed for violating Twitter rules should be allowed back until the ADL has reviewed their case.
One of Musk’s senior employees tasked with overseeing moderation on Twitter, Yoel Roth, has a history of calling Republicans “Nazis” and posting anti-Trump content on the platform…
AMA Asks Atty General to ‘Investigate and Prosecute’ Speech Critical of ‘Gender-Affirming Treatments’
written by GEG | December 21, 2022
A joint from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Medical Association (AMA), and Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) asked US Attorney General Merrick Garland to take “swift action to investigate and prosecute” anyone, on social media or elsewhere, who speaks out against gender-transition treatments as they claim that they have been threatened with violence. Gender transition treatments may include hormone therapy and surgeries such double mastectomy, the removal of sex organs (testes and ovaries) causing sterility, and genital reconstruction. Many people and parents object to life-altering gender transition treatments in children. In response to the demands by the AMA, AAP and CHA to censor and prosecute critics who oppose “gender-affirming” treatments for children, 13 state attorneys general implored Garland to reject their demands. The 13 attorneys general noted that harsh characterizations of gender transition treatments may be inflammatory – but are protected by the First Amendment. The mainstream media is calling for more censorship. Tucker Carlson says that Democrats want to take away parental rights and make irreversible decisions for children. Breaking up families and replacing them with politicians is a totalitarian strategy.
Excerpt from the letter from the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, and Children’s Hospital Association to US Attorney General Merrick Garland:
“These coordinated attacks threaten federally protected rights to patients and their families. The attacks are rooted in an intentional campaign of disinformation where a few high-profile users on social media share false and misleading information targeting individual physicians and hospitals, resulting in a rapid escalation of threats, harassment and disruption of care across multiple jurisdictions. Our organizations have called on technology companies to do more to prevent this practice on digital platforms, and we now urge your office to take swift action to investigate and prosecute all organizations, individuals, and entities responsible.”
CNS News:
“You cannot and should not undertake such investigations or prosecutions,” 13 state attorneys general warn U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in a letter demanding that he not comply with censorship demands from three medical associations supporting “gender-affirming” treatments for children.
As CNSNews.com reported earlier this month, a joint letter from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Medical Association (AMA), and Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) asked Garland to take “swift action to investigate and prosecute” anyone, on social media or elsewhere, who speaks out against gender-transition treatments.
The medical associations’ letter calls on the Justice Department to “investigate and prosecute” all those who voice what, in the medical groups’ opinion, is “disinformation” and “false and misleading” information dissenting with their support for “gender-affirming” treatments for “children and minors” – because criticism and dissent provoke violence.
But, as the 13 attorneys’ general note in their letter to Garland, harsh characterizations of gender transition treatments may be inflammatory – but, as legal precedent affirms, they are unequivocally protected by the First Amendment:
“No doubt the medical associations object to the characterization of double mastectomies for minors as ‘mutilation’ or ‘cutting healthy breasts off teen girls,’ or of hormonal treatments as ‘chemical castration.’
“These descriptors may inflame and provoke. They are also entirely protected by the First Amendment.”
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“The medical establishment asks you to forcibly eliminate criticism of the treatment regime for gender dysphoric minors…it appears they would rather silence critics than debate them.”
“Growing concerns about the current treatment of pediatric gender dysphoria make a free and open dialogue urgently necessary,” the AGs tell Garland. “Nothing matters more than protecting our children,” the letter says.
“The answer to disagreement is never the criminalization of speech,” the letter says, calling on Attorney General Garland to “stand down” and allow public debate:
“We respectfully demand that you stand down and allow the national conversation to continue. Now
is a time for more speech, not less.”
French Politician Almost Killed by COVID Vax Claims Macron Faked and Others Faked Vaccine Status
written by GEG | December 21, 2022
Jean Lasalle, who was a representative in the French National Assembly for 10 years and also ran for president in 2017, said, “I got the Johnson vaccine that almost killed me, that warped my heart. I have had four surgeries since January 3rd of this year.” He said that he took COVID injection as part of his job as an MP and to set an example. He said that he was not aware that President Emmanuel Macron, other MPs and most government members had not taken the ‘vaccine’. He said that Macron, Boris Johnson and Putin exposed their arms but did not take the shot, and at the same time were pressuring everyone else to get vaccinated. He said that when he spoke out about his vaccine injury to warn others, he was censored and they tried to shut him up. In January 2022, President Macron said he wanted to “piss off” the unvaccinated by requiring vaccine passports/ proof of vaccination to access public venues such as restaurants and cinemas, as well as public transportion, as a strategy to coerce them to take the jabs. At the time, it was reported that 90% of the French population 12 and over were already vaccinated.
In an interview with NTD broadcast on Sunday, former French presidential candidate Jean Lasalle accused President Emmanuel Macron and other members of the French government of lying about their vaccination status.
Jean Lassalle is a French politician who represented the 4th constituency of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the National Assembly from 2002 to June 21, 2022. He ran for president in 2017 and earned 435,301 votes.
Lasalle admitted he had the COVID-19 vaccine and that it nearly killed him. He revealed that he had undergone a total of four surgical procedures this year.
“I got the Johnson vaccine that almost killed me, that warped my heart. I have had four surgeries since January 3rd of this year. And then there, it is in the Ambroise Paré clinic that the surgeon who trained with another one in the besides, succeeded in putting me the auricles in place, except to make them function normally. Otherwise, I would certainly be dead,” Lasalle said.
When Ying Huang, a reporter for NTD, asked Lasalle why he took the COVID shot, he said he was just doing his job and had no idea that President Macron and other government officials were not vaccinated.
“Because I was an MP and I didn’t want to give the feeling that I wasn’t doing my job. But I did not know that Emmanuel Macron was not vaccinated. I did not know that most of the government members were not, and I did not know, as many of my fellow MPs were not either. I wanted to set an example.” Lasalle said.
“This was the time when Mr. Macron, Boris Johnson and all the others… encourage everyone to get vaccinated.”
“I got sick and I said so during the election campaign, nobody listened and they wanted they wanted to silence me,” Lasalle said.
PayPal Backtracks on Seizing $2500 from Users for Promoting ‘Misinformation’ and ‘Hate’
written by GEG | December 21, 2022
PayPal backtracked and announced on October 8 that it was not implementing a new policy that would have enabled the company to seize money from users who allegedly promote “misinformation” or “hate.” PayPal said that an acceptable use policy (AUP) was published in error that included incorrect information. The AUP stated that for each violation, users would have repercussions including damages of $2,500 per violation that could be extracted directly from users’ PayPal account. The company asserted that it is not fining people for misinformation and that the language was never intended to be inserted in their policy.
PayPal on Oct. 8 said it was not implementing a new policy that would have enabled the company to seize money from users who allegedly promote “misinformation” or “hate.”
“An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information. PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy,” a PayPal spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email.
“Our teams are working to correct our policy pages. We’re sorry for the confusion this has caused,” the spokesperson added.
The company in September announced that it was amending its acceptable use policy, or AUP.
The policy, due to take effect in November, said that users may not use PayPal to for the “sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials that, in PayPal’s sole discretion, (a) are harmful, obscene, harassing, or objectionable, (b) depict or appear to depict nudity, sexual or other intimate activities, (c) depict or promote illegal drug use, (d) depict or promote violence, criminal activity, cruelty, or self-harm (e) depict, promote, or incite hatred or discrimination of protected groups or of individuals or groups based on protected characteristics (e.g. race, religion, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, etc.) (f) present a risk to user safety or wellbeing, (g) are fraudulent, promote misinformation, or are unlawful, (h) infringe the privacy, intellectual property rights, or other proprietary rights of any party, or (i) are otherwise unfit for publication.”
For each violation, PayPal says users are subject to repercussions. Those include “liquated damages” of $2,500 per violation. The money will be taken directly from a person’s PayPal account.
Users were directed to PayPal’s user agreement, which states in part that PayPal can take a number of actions if users participate in restricted activities, such as holding their money in balance indefinitely. It also says that “you will be liable to PayPal for the amount of PayPal’s damages caused by your violation of the Acceptable Use Policy” at the amount of $2,500 per violation.
That money will cover internal administrative costs for PayPal to monitor and track violations and damage to PayPal’s brand, among other costs, according to the agreement.
Scores of people noticed the pending update in recent days and many announced on social media they would be closing their accounts.
“Seriously, close your PayPal account immediately if they don’t reverse this today,” Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, said.
Kanye West Discusses His ‘White Lives Matter’ T-shirt, Censorship, and Much More…
written by GEG | December 21, 2022
Kanye West and Candace Owens wore ‘White Lives Matter’ t-shirts to his recent fashion show in Paris. After facing backlash, West wrote that Black Lives Matter was scam. He covered numerous other topics in his interview with Tucker Carlson, including his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s close relationship with Hillary Clinton, his views on abortion, his belief that Jared Kushner may have held former President Trump back, and his suspicion that Kushner made peace deals for Israel for profit. He explained how celebrities and other people with power are influenced through fear.
Kanye West went on Tucker Carlson on Thursday and he let loose, making it clear that he’d been red-pilled on multiple issues. He also looked more at peace than I think I’ve ever seen him. He was saying what he wanted to and he didn’t care what the left had to say against him, after they melted down over him wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt with Candace Owens.
West started off talking about how he was pro-life and how abortion took so many black lives.
“I’m pro-life … there’s more black babies being aborted than born in New York City at this point. 50% of black death in America is abortion. So I really don’t care about people’s responses, I perform for an audience of one, and that’s God.”
Kanye explained that he had been pressured and threatened over wearing the MAGA hat and his latest offense to the left — wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt. But that wasn’t stopping him.
“I think I started to really feel this need to express myself on another level when Trump was running for office and I liked him. And every single person in Hollywood… My so-called friends/ handlers around me told me said that if I like Trump my career would be over. That my life would be over. They said stuff like people get killed for wearing a hat like that. They threatened my life. They basically said that I would be killed for wearing the hat. I had someone call me last night and said anybody wearing a White Lives Matter shirt is going to be green lit. That means that they are going to beat them up if they wear it. I’m like okay, green light me then…God builds warriors in a different way…He made me for such a time as this…We have God on our side. Even if you don’t believe in God, God believes in you.
He said the answer was simple to why he wore the White Lives Matter shirt — “because they do.”
sought $100 million in kickbacks from Israel after securing them $38 billion in foreign aid from the US.
The WSJ reported in May that Kushner’s new private-equity fund “has raised more than $3 billion, including a $2 billion commitment from the [Saudi] kingdom’s sovereign-wealth fund” and “has already selected the first two Israeli firms to invest in.”
“The decision marks the first known instance that the Saudi Public Investment Fund’s cash will be directed to Israel,” WSJ noted.
New Zealand Prime Minister Calls for a Global Censorship System
written by GEG | December 21, 2022
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the latest liberal leader to call for a global alliance to censor speech. She tried to show the need for silencing people by asking, “how do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists?” Leftists promote censorship for control over the narrative instead of free speech and truth.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the latest liberal leader to call for an international alliance to censor speech. Unsatisfied with the unprecedented corporate censorship of social media companies, leaders like Hillary Clinton have turned from private censorship to good old-fashioned state censorship. Speech regulation has become an article of faith on the left. Ardern used her speech this week to the United Nations General Assembly to call for censorship on a global scale.
Ardern lashed out at “disinformation” and called for a global coalition to control speech. After nodding toward free speech, she proceeded to lay out a plan for its demise through government regulation:
But what if that lie, told repeatedly, and across many platforms, prompts, inspires, or motivates others to take up arms. To threaten the security of others. To turn a blind eye to atrocities, or worse, to become complicit in them. What then?
This is no longer a hypothetical. The weapons of war have changed, they are upon us and require the same level of action and activity that we put into the weapons of old.
We recognized the threats that the old weapons created. We came together as communities to minimize these threats. We created international rules, norms and expectations. We never saw that as a threat to our individual liberties – rather, it was a preservation of them. The same must apply now as we take on these new challenges.
Ardern noted how extremists use speech to spread lies without noting that non-extremists use the same free speech to counter such views. To answer her question on “how do you tackle climate change if people do not believe it exists” is that you convince people using the same free speech. Instead, Ardern appears to want to silence those who have doubts.
While referring to a global censorship coalition as a “light-touch approach to disinformation,” Ardern revealed how sweeping such a system would likely be. She defended the need for such global censorship on having to combat those who question climate change and the need to stop “hateful and dangerous rhetoric and ideology.”
The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) was founded by the BBC in July 2019, mere months before the COVID pandemic shattered free speech rights with algorithms to suppress early treatment options and censor critics of COVID-19 experimental gene therapy ‘vaccines’. TNI also fueled hatred against the unvaccinated. While TNI claims to promote democracy and freedom, its purpose it to control information globally. TNI is the very ‘fake news’ it claims to combat. Partners in the initiative include global media outlets such as The Washington Post, Reuters, The Associated Press, AFP, the Financial Times and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), and Big Tech partners such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft. Two major media controllers are BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, which combined own a vast majority of the world’s assets, including media companies. Another is Bill Gates, whose self-serving “donations” ensure media treat him like a medical expert.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) was founded by the BBC in July 2019. While TNI claims to promote democracy and freedom, its purpose for being is global information control
Partners in the initiative include global media outlets such as The Washington Post, Reuters, The Associated Press, AFP, the Financial Times and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), and Big Tech partners such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft
TNI was formed mere weeks after a Reuters Institute report revealed trust in U.S. media had slipped to an all-time low of just 29% — the lowest of the 46 countries included. Clearly, people were going elsewhere for the facts, and that probably had everything to do with the creation of TNI. They have no control over alternative media, so they needed a comprehensive way to shut them all down
By suppressing information about early treatment and the adverse effects suffered from the COVID shots, TNI partners have played a direct role in the destruction of lives. In short, TNI is the converse of “trusted news.” It is the very “fake news” it claims to combat
In addition to TNI, Evil Google also has a similar program going on, called the Evil Google News Initiative, which includes a $300 million funding commitment to the future of the news industry. The Evil Google News Initiative is partnered with advertising agencies in a program called Trusted News for Trusted Advertising (TNTA), to ensure advertisers don’t have their ads associated with “false or misleading news,” thereby allowing them to “regain control of the media on which they publish the advertising”
What is the Trusted News Initiative (TNI)? As you may have discovered, Orwellian doublespeak is rampant these days, and many organizations are named in complete opposition to their intended purposes. Such is the case with the TNI as well.
As explained in the video above, created by Steve Kirsch’s Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (VSRF), TNI is an organization created for the purpose of global information control. It was founded by the BBC in July 2019,1,2,3 mere months before the COVID pandemic shattered all semblance of free speech rights.
Partners in the initiative include global media outlets such as The Washington Post, Reuters, The Associated Press, AFP, the Financial Times and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), and Big Tech partners such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft, just to name a few.4,5
TNI Formed as Trust in Mainstream Media Hit Rock Bottom
As astutely noted by Elizabeth Woodsworth in The Liberty Beacon,6 TNI was formed mere weeks after a Reuters Institute report revealed trust in U.S. media had slipped to an all-time low of just 29% — the lowest of the 46 countries included. Canadians trust in mainstream media was only slightly better at 45%.
Also supporting the distrust in the media is an even more appalling recent Gallup Poll.7 Just 16% of U.S. adults now say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers and 11% in television news. Jimmy Dore goes into more details below.
This massive slip “can only mean that people are going elsewhere for their news,” Woodsworth said. And that probably had everything to do with the creation of TNI. They realized people didn’t trust mainstream media anymore and were looking elsewhere for the facts.
This presented a serious problem, as they had no control over alternative media. How then would they shut down undesirable facts and theories that might jeopardize the smooth transition into the New World Order? Enter TNI and a new cadre of “fact checking” organizations to wrangle the unruly masses back into the brainwashing line.
Promoting ‘Freedom and Democracy’ Through Censorship
According to TNI, its first order of business was to “promote freedom and democracy” by preventing foreign interference in the 2020 election. However, TNI’s mission didn’t end there. Its Big Pharma backers had a vaccination agenda right from the start, and TNI has been instrumental in promoting that agenda and upholding their financial interests.
In 2019 — before we knew anything about the COVID shots to come — TNI warned that “anti-vaxxers are gaining traction” and that online platforms would need to intervene using algorithms to suppress the growing anti-vaccine movement.
In addition to suppressing undesirable vaccine content, TNI also floods online users with pro-vaccine messages to drown out what little opposition is left. As noted by VSRF, from the start, TNI sought to normalize the use of this experimental gene transfer technology, despite a mountain of unanswered questions about the safety and efficacy of mRNA technology.
Suppressing early treatment successes was also part of the vaccine agenda, as early treatment options posed a direct threat to the Emergency Use Authorization of these experimental shots.
To that same end, TNI also fueled hatred against the unvaccinated, and hired so-called “fact checkers” to publish false fact checks and hit pieces on those who questioned the sanity and safety of pandemic countermeasures, such as masks and lockdowns, or raised concerns about the experimental shots.
We’re Made to Pay for Our Own Destruction
Hundreds of outspoken doctors and scientists — including experts from Harvard, Stanford and Oxford — have been banned and deplatformed over the past two and a half years.
No matter how prestigious their careers, they’ve been labeled “dangerous” and targeted for neutralization. Many have lost their careers. They’ve been ousted from professional associations and stripped of their medical licenses.
Thousands of vaccine-injured people have also been accused of spreading “misinformation” and have been targeted for elimination from social media, while mainstream media (MSM) have roundly ignored their plight and pleas for recognition and help.
As noted by VSRF, by suppressing information about early treatment and the adverse effects suffered from the shots, TNI partners have played a direct role in the destruction of lives. In short, TNI is the converse of “trusted news.” It actually creates and promotes mis- and disinformation. It is the very “fake news” it claims to combat.
And “Who’s paying for this harmful suppression of science?” VSRF asks. The answer: YOU are. We all are, through our taxes. Government has spent billions of tax dollars to promote the experimental COVID jabs, which benefits no one but Big Pharma, various patent holders and investors.
Legacy Media Is on the Wrong Side of History
In a June 25, 2021, article, unidentified staff at TrialSite News commented on the shocking censorship that was already becoming apparent:8
“Since time immemorial, those with power have used it to control those without. In the modern world, big government and big tech represent the seats of power when it comes to who is allowed to say what. Of course, many think that ‘private companies’ can regulate speech in any way they see fit. But from either an ethical or legal point of view, this is false …
Legally, the Supreme Court has long held that when a private company creates something that functions as a public square (think of a company town), the First Amendment comes into play.
Way back in April 2020, it was already clear that the then-existing online socio-political censorship was going to expand into the world of science, medicine, and academia in the new COVID-19 era. On April 1 of that year, early in the pandemic, Foreign Policy took a look at these questions in a piece titled, ‘Coronavirus Has Started a Censorship Pandemic’9 …
[D]isallowing good-faith medical information because the public can’t be presumed to properly weigh claims is infantilizing said public, along with dismantling the free speech culture …
The efforts now underway to completely suppress positive data associated with early-onset treatment prospects such as ivermectin or the squelching of any discussion of vaccine safety issues is completely unacceptable in a civilized, democratic market-based society. Those perpetuating such offenses are in fact on the wrong side of history.”
And who are the ones perpetuating these offenses? The TNI, for sure. TNI partners have censored and tried to ruin the reputations and careers of fully qualified and licensed public health experts, doctors and scientists — all in the name of protecting you, the audience, from the life-saving information these experts are trying to share. In her closing remarks, Woodsworth says:10
“Regarding COVID-19, Dr. Piers Robinson, co-director of the Organization for Propaganda Studies, has judged, ‘It wouldn’t be an underestimation to say that this is probably one of the biggest propaganda operations that we have seen in history,’ concluding ‘what happens is down to how people resist and how much force and coercion the authorities use.’
Indeed, the very foundation of democracy is that public wisdom should be consulted and given its head in self-rule. The public has the constitutional right to full information to form and express its own conclusions and does not need a coordinated TNI to corral and contain it.
It is utterly outrageous that the voices the public needs from the top public health figures at its best universities are being denied to its hearing. A far superior job of investigative reporting is being done by the hard-working alternative media researchers without Big Pharma’s blood-stained advertising dollars.”
Organized Control
The reason the TNI has been so effective in shutting out opposing views is because all of the partners work together in a highly-organized manner. When one identifies a piece of “misinformation,” the order to quash it is shared across platforms. The same goes for the official narrative. Everyone supports and promotes it, no matter how illogical.
A debunking piece by one legacy media partner is used as “proof” by another, and Big Tech platforms, of course, have unprecedented ability to suppress unwanted content and push “official” or approved content to the front using algorithms alone.
As for who actually decides what the official narrative is supposed to be, your guess is as good as mine. What we do know is that wealthy and powerful interests control media worldwide.
Two major media controllers are BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, which combined own a vast majority of the world’s assets, including media companies. Another is Bill Gates, whose self-serving “donations” ensure media treat him like a medical expert (or climate expert, or nutritional expert, or agricultural expert) when, in reality, he’s just promoting ideas that will make him a ton of money.
TNI’s Not-so-Trustworthy Sources
And what about TNI’s “trusted sources”? Aside from other TNI partners and their fact checkers, trusted sources are the public health agencies, such as the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Every one of these agencies has a long “rap sheet” when it comes to corruption and errors in judgment, and their unreliability have been highlighted time and again over the course of the COVID pandemic. They’ve broken a long list of rules and regulations intended to ensure public safety, and rewritten others on the fly — again without following proper protocols.
Time and again, people have scratched their heads, saying, “How can they do that? That’s not lawful. They CAN’T do that!” Well, the reality is, they used to be merely corrupt, but now they’re completely lawless. And no one is stopping them.
Decisions made by the FDA, CDC, NIH and the WHO over the course of the pandemic have been downright shocking in their absolute absence of any moral compass. They’ve repeatedly deferred to Big Pharma and blatantly ignored even the most basic of safety protocols, putting even babies lives at risk.
In the past, we’d expect the Fourth Estate — journalists with integrity — to expose the kind of fraud and lawlessness these agencies are engaging in. But sadly, legacy media, just like nearly every federal regulatory agency, has been captured by the military industrial complex.
Legacy media is no longer the “free press.” It certainly is in no way shape or form your trusted source of news. Those days are long gone. They are completely captured; hardly a sentence is uttered that isn’t directed to them by the government and repeated parroting by all of legacy media in all their varied forms.
Evil Google News Initiative
In addition to TNI, Evil Google also has a similar program going on, called the Evil Google News Initiative, which includes a $300 million funding commitment to the future of the news industry.
The Evil Google News Initiative is partnered with advertising agencies in a program called Trusted News for Trusted Advertising (TNTA),11 to ensure advertisers don’t have their ads associated with “false or misleading news,” thereby allowing them to “regain control of the media on which they publish the advertising.”
This is wrong on so many levels. Advertising and news/editorial departments are not supposed to be mixed, period. They are intended to operate independently, not as complements or supporting helpmates. The very fact that newspapers are failing and ad revenue is dropping makes the entire press corps susceptible to doing whatever the advertisers want.
And, online, advertisers include the Useless CDC and NIH, as evidenced by their many ads on social media. So, the TNTA program is really all about building revenue. It has nothing to do with providing trustworthy news.
Several other copycats also exist that have nearly the same name as TNI. There’s the Trusting News Initiative, the Trust Project, the News Integrity Initiative, the Journalism Trust Initiative, you get the idea.12 Some share partners with the TNI, further widening the media network of controlled news.
Add to that NewsGuard and scores of fact-checking organizations, all of whom work in tandem to promote the official narrative while suppressing opposing views. As I’ve stated before, NewsGuard received startup funds13 from the Publicis Groupe, one of the largest PR companies in the world, which serves the needs of several of the largest drug companies in the world.
Last but not least, there’s a tightly woven web of interlocking “fact-checking” agencies that work for advertisers in an effort to manipulate the news in favor of the advertisers or other entities with vested interests, such as governments and health organizations.
This web of fact-checkers is funded by hundreds of millions, possibly billions, of dollars. I believe this was planned long before the pandemic, and their goal is to steer the news into a second horn for advertisers. Not surprisingly, the drug industry has one of the largest advertising budgets, which is part of why you can’t get the truth about drugs and health from the legacy media or any of these fact-checkers.
TNI and Hitler’s Principles
In his Substack article, “Propaganda, Corporatism and the Hidden Global Coup,” Dr. Robert Malone describes the TNI thus:14
“The TNI uses advocacy journalism and journals to promote their causes. The Trusted News Initiative is more than this though; if you go back to Hitler’s basic principles, the members of the TNI are using these core principles to control the public.”
Hitler’s basic principles are described in the book, “Propaganda and Persuasion,” and are listed as:15
Avoid abstract ideas — appeal to the emotions
Constantly repeat just a few ideas. Use stereotyped phrases
Give only one side of the argument
Continuously criticize your opponents
Pick out one special “enemy” for special vilification
I believe Dr. Malone is onto something. These principles have certainly become media norms over the past couple of years. Who knows — perhaps I was picked to be a “special enemy for special vilification” because the TNI and those who pull their puppet strings are all Nazis. I didn’t expect it to be that simplistic, but who knows?
We’re all getting an education in psychopathy these days, and there’s nothing normal about psychopathic logic. Their brains are wired differently and you won’t be able to understand their motivations no matter how hard you try. Is this perhaps why so many decisions handed down to us make no rational sense, either from a scientific, medical or humanitarian perspective?
If it’s true that many of those who are trying to take over the world in a global coup are in fact on the psychopathic spectrum, then our response needs to be suitably appropriate.
Appropriate responses when faced with a psychopath include keeping your emotions in check (as they seek to manipulate your emotions); standing your ground in an assertive manner; not buying into their stories (especially not victim stories); and paying attention only to their actions, not their words.16,17
To be more precise, most experts have one primary suggestion for dealing with a psychopath, and that is, “Don’t.”18 Since we’re talking about media here, that’s a fairly simple action item. Just turn them off, and find alternative news sources that aren’t tainted by blood money and an overt attempt for global slavery.
You owe it to yourself and your family to take control of your health and avoid these propaganda tools and restrict your information to truly trusted and vetted sources.
