The “Twitter Files” have exposed numerous contacts between U.S. government officials and Twitter and requests for suppression of accounts or content: notably in the context of alleged Covid-19 “disinformation.” But what they have not revealed is that there was, in fact, a formal government program explicitly dedicated to “Fighting Covid-19 Disinformation” in which Twitter, as well as […]
Censorship
Federal Judge Issues Order Temporarily Blocking California COVID ‘Misinformation’ Law
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday against a controversial law in California that allows the state’s medical boards to discipline physicians who “disseminate” information regarding COVID-19 that departs from the “contemporary scientific consensus.” In his ruling, Senior Judge William B. Shubb of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California found Plaintiffs had […]
Missouri Lawsuit Reveals Army of Federal Censors, It’s Worse Than You Thought
I’ve recently posted twice on the case of Missouri v. Biden, in which the states of Missouri and Louisiana — along with four private plaintiffs (Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, the non-profit Health Freedom Louisiana, and yours truly) represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance — are suing the Biden Administration for alleged free speech violations. Specifically, the executive […]
Medical Journals Censor ‘Letters to the Editor’ That Challenge COVID Vaccine ‘Science’
Censorship in science shows up in numerous forms: ignoring, marginalizing, finding excuses, prioritizing, silencing — always in the name of rigorous science, of course. I provide here examples which I consider to be censorship of critiques that could have severely undermined the narrative of “safe and effective” Covid vaccines. My examples are three “letters to […]
Federal Judge Orders Biden Administration to Turn Over Documents in Social Media Collusion Lawsuit
Top-ranking officials in the Biden Administration and five social media giants have 30 days to respond to subpoenas and discovery requests in a lawsuit alleging the government colluded with social media companies to suppress freedom of speech “under the guise of combatting misinformation.” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on […]