News Round-Up
19 May 2024
by Will Jones
BBC Comes to Terms With Collapsing EV Market
17 May 2024
by Sallust
Continuing with its crack-down on Covid ‘misinformation’, YouTube is set to remove content claiming that any approved Covid vaccine can cause serious side-effects, including infertility.
Twitter bots have been blamed by liberals for every election result they don't like, from Trump's victory to Brexit. Yet according to a former Google software engineer, it's all wishful thinking.
Ofcom has come under fire for labelling scepticism of official statistics as "misinformation" during the Covid crisis – and now we learn it has relied on biased "fact-checker" Full Fact to tell it what to suppress.
The censorship of the lab leak theory and its collapse is a reminder of how those with vested interests and things to hide can succeed in deflecting unwanted attention and why a genuinely free media is so important.
Facebook has been accused by a Conservative MP of "showing its true and ugly colours" and smothering free speech to cosy up to China as it did a U-turn on its ban on posts debating whether Covid-19 could be man-made.
Professor Denis Rancourt, whose paper reviewing research on the harms of masks had been viewed more than 200,000 times, has been banned from academic publishing site ResearchGate for discouraging the use of masks.
In an original interview for Lockdown Sceptics, Professor Martin Kulldorff says that the censorship of sceptical views by the media, including social media, during a pandemic is a danger to public health.
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