News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
The Guardian's flounce off X is just an admission that it lost the argument, says Ben Pile. The liberal retreat to comfy echo chambers coincides with Milei's Argentina quitting COP29. The Blobs are going down.
What Elon Musk did to Twitter – slashing headcount by 75%, costs by hundreds of millions, inefficiency by up to 95% – he will now do to the Deep State if he is unleashed by Trump to make $2 trillion of savings.
A British censorship group linked to Keir Starmer and Kamala Harris is plotting to "kill Musk's Twitter", leaked documents show. Musk has accused the Centre for Countering Digital Hate of illegal election interference.
The EU's crackdown on X/Twitter under Musk reveals a troubling shift in European liberalism, argues Eugyppius. What they call safeguarding democracy is really just a ploy to muzzle critics and protect their own egos.
Elon Musk has branded Humza Yousaf a "super racist scumbag" and dared him to sue, following reports that Yousaf is contemplating legal action over their escalating social media clash on X.
Prof Norman Fenton and Dr Scott McLachlan were edited out of Channel 5's Lucy Letby documentary on Sunday night. Their crime? Expressing forbidden views online. It shows how pernicious cancel culture has become, says Dr Fenton.
Elon Musk has said "freedom of speech is worth fighting for" after Australia's cyber safety regulator dropped its federal court case over X Corp's refusal to globally block footage it deemed harmful.
Elon Musk's endorsement of mRNA technology leaves many of his fans perplexed. What they don't appear to realise is Musk is part of the mRNA project and has a direct commercial stake in it.
Contrary to the X memes, the claim that the WHO is largely funded by private sources is not only false but wildly misleading, says Robert Kogon. In fact, it is around 90% funded by states.
Can Australia’s eSafety Commissioner block content globally on demand? Not today, ruled the Australian Federal Court, in a win for Elon Musk. But the war is far from over.
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