Facebook has had a pretty long list of banning people and censoring speech they don’t agree with. Now it seems they have censored the Reverend Franklin Graham, the son of the late and highly regarded evangelist Billy Graham. Graham took to Twitter last night to announce that he had been banned from posting on Facebook…
Chris White on December 26, 2018 Billionaire tech entrepreneur Reid Hoffman apologized for funding a false flag operation suggesting Russian bots supported Alabama Republican Roy Moore’s failed Senate bid. Hoffman did not mention in his apology who executed a disinformation campaign designed to tie Moore to Russian internet trolls. One of the officials…
GoFundMe the “Hey, can I borrow 50 bucks” of crowd funding platforms has helped people raise funds for everything from medical bills to charity scams. In 2016 two friends unsuccessfully fundraised for a Burning Man trip. On a serious note crowd funding is changing the way political movements are financed by letting average people fund them rather than established organizations….
Brad Sylvester on December 13, 2018 A Dec. 4 tweet from The Daily Beast claimed that Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren accused migrants of bringing disease to the U.S. with “zero evidence.” Tomi Lahren accuses migrants of bringing HIV and TB to the U.S. with zero evidence https://t.co/lg9xmdfo9O — The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 4,…
Chris White on December 10, 2018 Tesla CEO Elon Musk did not hold back his disdain of the Securities and Exchange Commission during a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday as the Silicon Valley company battles investigations targeting its founder. “I want to be clear. I do not respect the SEC,” Musk told the program’s host, Lesley Stahl….
Michael Bastasch on December 10, 2018 Saudi Arabia’s former lead climate negotiator said the Paris Agreement is “dead.” Mohammed Salim Al Sabban called the UN climate talks a “big conspiracy the world created.” Al Sabban also served as an adviser to the Saudi energy and mining ministry. Saudi Arabia’s former lead delegate to United Nations climate talks…
Chris White Tesla CEO Elon Musk pushed back against claims he uses Twitter and other social media to seek revenge against journalists and his opponents. “I use my tweets to express myself,” the tech entrepreneur told “60 Minutes” co-host Lesley Stahl. “Some people use their hair. I tweet.” Musk also objected to claims that he uses the medium to…
Grace Carr on October 31, 2018 A feminist group tweeted that Halloween, a holiday that celebrates everything scary, spooky and grim, isn’t necessary anymore because reality is already frightening. View image on Twitter Feminist Majority ✔@MajoritySpeaks Happy Halloween! This is the kind of year when we don’t need monsters to spook us; reality is scary enough….
Follow Squiggly Line Guy on Facebook or Twitter Infowars creator Alex Jones was the first to have his accounts removed in a concerted effort by several platforms including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Apple. Followers of Jones declared him the catalyst of a coming purge. First it would be Jones, and others would be next. They called this a…
Nick Givas on October 8, 2018 Writer for CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Ariel Dumas, said she regrets reveling in the suffering of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and being glad the media ruined his life. Dumas originally celebrated the chaos surrounding Kavanaugh on Twitter, but then promptly deleted the tweet. “Whatever happens, I’m just…