News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
US journalist Glenn Greenwald has condemned the Government, media and Big Tech for coordinating to censor dissent, blasting those who have exploited a series of 'crises' to suppress their ideological opponents.
The White House has been urging social media companies to censor ‘misinformaton' about climate change. But embarrassingly, a White House climate change official has just been sanctioned for scientific misconduct.
Ukraine's Government has compiled a list of individuals who “promote narratives consonant with Russian propaganda”. But one name is notable by its absence: Pope Francis, who has twice suggested NATO "provoked" the war.
Labour and SNP politicians have laid an amendment to the Online Safety Bill to include "health-related misinformation and disinformation" as a form of "harmful” speech, ratcheting up the censorship yet further.
The BBC’s green activist-in-residence Justin Rowlatt has had two complaints upheld against him, following the broadcast last November of his absurd "Wild Weather" Panorama programme.
Once more, a 'peer-reviewed' journal has to retract a bunch of papers because they are literally nonsense – generated by a computer algorithm. Why aren't publishers getting on top of this discreditable problem?
Truckers in Canada's Freedom Convoy protest against vaccine mandates and other Covid restrictions have responded to Government smears of violence, racism and links to far-right groups.
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has confirmed that the Government's disinformation unit is "working", after suggestions from Labour that the counter disinformation policy was scrapped in the summer.
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