News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The Times has come out against online censorship in a leading article today, slamming 'press ratings agencies' like Global Disinformation Index as "self-appointed arbiters of truth" that undermine objective reporting.
The WHO has falsely claimed to have published the final Pandemic Treaty draft in the required time, four months before a key vote. Dr. David Bell sets the record straight and calls on the WHO to respect the rule of law.
Newly released documents reveal the Greens engaging in outright fraud to deceive ministers and push the nuclear phase-out in Germany.
Should governments be able to censor online content for the entire world? That's what Australia is claiming the right to do. But do they really think China and Russia should be able to choose what the world sees?
Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court case challenging Government censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic, is a distraction from the real threat to Americans' freedom of speech, says Robert Kogon.
Cambridge University 'misinformation researcher' Sander van der Linden picked a fight with Nate Silver recently and ended up looking like a fraud who edits his Wikipedia page through a legion of sock puppet accounts.
The worry that a new French law criminalises opposition to mRNA vaccines is based on a misunderstanding, says Robert Kogon – though the law is troubling enough.
The Canadian Government used faked intelligence (aka disinformation) to frame the Freedom Convoy anti-vaccine-mandate protesters as violent extremists and justify invoking the Emergencies Act, an investigation has found.
The UKHSA has declared a "national incident" over the number of measles cases in the West Midlands. Many have blamed vaccine 'misinformation' for low vaccine take-up. But this doesn't add up.
Forget the Ukraine war, the escalating Middle East conflicts and China's threats to Taiwan. The elites gathered at Davos last week heard that the world's "top concern" is "disinformation". They're coming for our thoughts.
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