Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reportedly placed his $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter on hold pending an investigation into bot accounts on the platform. The stock has plummeted more than 15 percent in pre-market following Musk’s announcement released on his Twitter account. In a follow up post, Musk added that he is “still committed…
Elon Musk t the Met Gala. Elon Musk, the newly-minted CEO of Twitter and thorn in the side of leftists, made massive waves when it was announced that he would purchase the entirety of Twitter’s stock, apparently unsatisfied by his initial nine-ish percent stake. Indeed, his open commitment to promoting free speech in order to…
Joe Biden’s new Minister of Truth, Nina Jankowicz, has been caught telling another whopper: claiming that leftists and “marginalized communities” are censored more often than conservatives on social media. Jankowicz is the executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s new “Disinformation Governance Board,” a new body that has been widely mocked as the government’s…
The alt video platform Rumble is under attack from hackers in order to prevent the broadcast of key proofs of election fraud. Rumble is set to debut “2000 Mules,” the Dinesh D’Souza documentary that shows the coordinated ballot harvesting operation that happened throughout the country in which mystery ballots were deposited at the dead of…
Elon Musk’s Tesla is covering travel costs for employees who get out-of-state abortions, joining the ranks of several other companies that have introduced similar reimbursement policies in the wake of multiple states passing pro-life legislation. Since 2021, Tesla has expanded its “Safety Net” program and health insurance offering to include “travel and lodging support for those who…
Stocks fell sharply in U.S. markets on Thursday morning, led by the technology and consumer discretionary sectors. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 1,100 points, or around 3.2 percent, in morning trading. The S&P 500 dropped 3.7 percent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite plunged five percent. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 4.38…
The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested a suspect in the assault of comedian Dave Chappelle on stage during a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday. Isaiah Lee, 23, was taken into custody by police after he allegedly rushed the stage and pointed a replica handgun at Chappelle, an LAPD spokeswoman confirmed to…
Nina Jankowicz, the newly-appointed head of the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board, told Congress in October 2020 that she saw no role for the federal government in policing disinformation online. “I do not think government should be in that business,” she said during testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. Jankowicz, who has since argued for…
Three Options The problems of Big Tech—including censorship, shadow banning, wokeness, monopoly power, and Chinese penetration—are, well, big. So what to do? Broadly speaking, there are three possible strategies: first, accept the status quo; second, break up Big Tech through antitrust litigation; third, more regulation. Let’s look at each strategy in turn: The first…
Leftists are freaking out over Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter because they used the platform to “enforce the narrative,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said on Friday, where he also blasted the Biden administration for installing a “Ministry of Truth.” “When you’re not doing well, there’s two ways to do it. You can try to…
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed the company reinstated the New York Post’s account “almost immediately,” despite the fact the account was suspended for 16 days after reporting on the contents of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop from hell. After a short-lived hiatus from the app, Dorsey took to Twitter to take responsibility for instances in which Twitter…
In yet more evidence of the federal government/Deep State’s vested interest in advancing internet censorship (or, as they call it, tackling “misinformation”), the Department of Defense awarded NewsGuard Technologies a $750,000 contract in September of 2021 for the organization’s “misinformation fingerprints” project. NewsGuard, which has been the subject of extensive Breitbart News reporting, is an…
Nina Jankowicz, the chair of the new Disinformation Governance Board in the Department of Homeland Security, wanted Facebook to censor Breitbart News, joining the left’s calls for Silicon Valley to censor conservative news outlets in 2019. Jankowicz, 33, whose past statements (and songs) came under scrutiny after her new job became widely known this week,…
President Joe Biden’s new disinformation chief Nina Jankowicz argued online mockery of Vice President Kamala Harris and other women in public life was a threat to national security. “Platforms and governments aren’t doing enough,” she wrote on social media. “It’s time to act. Our national security and democracy are at stake.” Jankowicz argued that Congress…
Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, posted on his Truth Social account on Thursday, “I’M BACK #COVFEFE.” Trump’s post, or “Truth” was accompanied by a photo of him at Mar-a-Lago typing on his phone. Trump posts on Truth Social. It is the second post since his first post two months ago on…
I want to send flowers and chocolates to the Twitter employee who permanently suspended The Babylon Bee. Maybe a car. Apparently, it was the inanity of that decision that incensed Elon Musk, whereupon he decided to purchase the entire platform to stop the censorship. Liberals, until five minutes ago: Elon Musk is a climate hero!…
Transhumanist Elon Musk is already backing off his pledge to protect free speech only days after his acquisition of Twitter was announced. Musk backed off his pledge to protect free speech in a response to a tweet from Daily Wire owner Ben Shapiro, who mocked the Left for their hysterical reaction to Musk’s Twitter takeover….
The Department of Homeland Security is setting up a Disinformation Governance Board in an attempt to combat “misinformation” online. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas spoke about the “just established” governance board during a congressional hearing on Wednesday, arguing it would help reduce domestic threats to the United States. The team will focus on irregular migration…
A spokesman for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has demanded that Elon Musk keeps Twitter “responsible” through content censorship. Authorities in the United Kingdom are demanding that Twitter follows the country’s censorship laws when it comes under the control of its new owner, Elon Musk. Musk, who has self-identified as a “free speech absolutist“, has…
Donald Trump will not tweet again if Elon Musk restores the former president to Twitter. “I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH. I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH,” Trump told Fox News…