News Round-Up
20 May 2024
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20 May 2024
The journal Nature Human Behaviour has announced a new editorial policy of rejecting and retracting research which may potentially (even inadvertently) be “racist, sexist, ableist or homophobic".
Professor David Livermore has responded to Meta’s Oversight Board which has requested feedback on Facebook’s misinformation policy. He thinks the only items that should be flagged misinformation are egregious nonsense.
The Telegraph's Robert Taylor has written an excellent piece with which readers of the Daily Sceptic will readily identify, entitled: "Bravo to the lockdown sceptics, who were smeared for daring to defend freedom."
Salma al-Shebab, a student at Leeds University, has been sentenced to 34 years by a Saudi court for following and retweeting dissident activists on Twitter.
Ireland’s Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill is like the Online Safety Bill on steroids. Among other things, it will create a new media commission to promote climate change hysteria.
In a sign of the anti-woke agenda breaking through in the race to pick the next PM, leading candidate Liz Truss pledged to ensure free speech does not have fewer protections online than offline. But is it enough?
Senior doctors and scientists at the FDA, CDC and NIH say they are unhappy and frustrated at the way major decisions on vaccines have been forced through with no evidence for political reasons.
Gregory Wrightstone, a geologist and the Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition, has been banned from LinkedIn for sharing the US Government's own graphs of CO2 levels, which it says are "false" and "not allowed".
So many times we hear: "It’s not worth speaking out, I can’t risk it." In the long run, many will regret such timidity and bear scars from the battles they didn’t fight in a loss of self-respect.
Journalist Alex Berenson’s Twitter account has been reinstated as part of a resolution to a censorship lawsuit that both parties agreed to settle – the first tech company climbdown of its kind.
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