Free Speech

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) discussed social media regulations on MSNBC.

Americans largely think Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter will make it better, and that they’ll use it more often, now that the free-speech billionaire has purchased the giant social media platform.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson torched Disinformation Governance Board leader Nina Jankowicz for leading the United States into an Orwellian nightmare. 

“It’s a censorship organization.” Tucker Carlson slammed the Pentagon’s $750,000 contract with leftist ratings firm NewsGuard on his Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight. Carlson reported on the outlandish contract between Biden’s Pentagon and leftist online “credibility” arbiter NewsGuard.

Three powerhouse conservative political groups are pushing the Federal Election Commission to look into alleged Google email censorship. The Republican National Committee (RNC), National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), and National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) filed a joint complaint with the FEC.

The world’s richest man went from liberating Twitter to blasting leftist extremism. Someone break out the popcorn. Wait But Why blog website founder Tim Urban retweeted a meme graph shared by Tesla CEO Elon Musk illustrating the current political divide in the country. The graph showed that as liberals pushed farther left, traditional liberals were left behind and now considered right-wing.…

Leftist internet traffic cop NewsGuard surprisingly put the left-wing Daily Beast in the doghouse by knocking its rating down 30.5 points for false reporting. NewsGuard downgraded The Daily Beast for discrediting the now widely confirmed Hunter Biden laptop scandal and for falsely smearing Kyle Rittenhouse.

The Biden administration formalized its war against so-called disinformation. Politico outlined the new Disinformation Governance Board’s (DGB) purpose to “coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia.” The outlet also noted that Nina Jankowicz who advised the Ukrainian government and served as a disinformation fellow…

Announced shortly after free-speech advocate Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, DHS’s new ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ seeks to maintain Democrats’ power to censor conservative and dissenting speech, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) tells Department of Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas in a letter published Thursday.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) says Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ new “Misinformation and Disinformation Governance Board” will “twist language to fit their own needs” – just as Democrat politicians are doing to advance their agenda – and that the DHS shouldn’t be getting into the censorship business.

Elon Musk said Twitter must remain “politically neutral” in order to gain public trust. Musk sent out several tweets that expressed his desire to uphold freedom of speech on the platform. “For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally,” he tweeted.

It’s Episode 35 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about a recent MRC study that found 646 cases of censorship that covered criticism of President Joe Biden over the past two years.

“The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all,” billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday, commenting on the liberal outrage over his purchase of Twitter and plans to open it up to free speech.

Elon Musk had a lot to say about free speech since he purchased Twitter for $44 billion this week. “Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” he tweeted about Twitter’s famous censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story from the New York Post.