Matt Taibbi: Why the TikTok Ban is So Dangerous(racket.news)
Why the TikTok Ban is So Dangerous(racket.news)
Matt Taibbi: State Department Threatens Congress Over Censorship Programs | A year after its censorship programs were exposed, the Global Engagement Center still insists the public has no right to know how it's spending taxpayer money(racket.news)
Matt Taibi: Is the Electoral Fix Already In? | The 2024 presidential race increasingly looks like it will be decided by lawyers, not voters, as Democrats unveil plans for America's first lawfare election(racket.news)
Tireless Busybodies Again Target Substack(racket.news)
Matt Taibbi's FOIA Exclusive: Did Pharma Companies Help Plan "Virality Project" Censorship Program? Stanford's Virality Project sought to partner with drugmakers before launching a content moderation program blurring lines between "vaccine opposed information" and "misinformation."(racket.news)
Sue the Bastards: Federalist, Daily Wire Take the State Department to Court | Bookending the historic Consortium News suit, conservative news outlets take on the Global Engagement Center for funding "censorship enterprises" and blacklisting(racket.news)
Not a Nothingburger: My Statement to Congress on Censorship ¦ The key question in censorship is always the same. Who's doing it? ¦ Matt Taibbi(racket.news)
Not a Nothingburger: My Statement to Congress on Censorship. These programs will always feature a tiny, rarefied sliver of affluent professional-class America censoring a huge and ever-expanding pool of everyone else.(racket.news)
Big Brother is Flagging You, by Matt Taibbi. Nominally run by Stanford University, the EIP is really government censorship in a ski mask, a creature of the Department of Homeland Security and its sub-agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).(racket.news)
The people picked to man “anti-disinformation” bureaucracies have a bottomless capacity for self-pity and deception. With teary eyes, they’ll swear they’re not in the censorship business, but then they’re sending notes to platforms like, “We recommend that these posts be removed immediately.”(racket.news)
Matt Taibbi: The Tragic Victimhood of "Disinformation Experts" | Hey, digital censors are people, too.(racket.news)
Matt Taibbi's Dao Prize Acceptance Speech(racket.news)
Matt Taibbi launches Project Amy(racket.news)
Newsguard Case Highlights the Pentagon's Censorship End-Around | The Consortium News lawsuit against a private news rating system lays out how the government can suppress speech by proxy(racket.news)
Dismantle The Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Westminster Declaration | At the outset of another crisis in which leaders will ask for emergency power, a collective letter calling for a 21st century free of information control(racket.news)
Dissident journalist Matt Taibbi interviews Russell Brand. Amid all the depressing news about the world, one uplifting detail is that the cancelers of the world seem with each passing week to become more and more crap at their jobs. Transcript for anyone who doesn't like video.(racket.news)
Timeline: DARPA and the DNC Hack | Upon whose analysis did the government rely when it blamed Russia for hacks of Democratic Party emails?(racket.news)
Matt Taibbi -- Note to Readers, on a Town Hall Proposal: "What Happened to American Liberalism?" | If you live in a progressive east coast town, I'd like to come to hold a free discussion.(racket.news)
On Missouri v. Biden and "The New Abnormal": Interview With Dr. Aaron Kheriaty ¦ One of the plaintiffs in the landmark censorship case offers thoughts on last week's ruling, plus a general warning(racket.news)
Biden's Praetorian Media Guard. In an impressive new low, the White House sends impeachment coverage guidelines up a flagpole, and the press salutes(racket.news)
A Day that Never Ended ¦ America thought it left the War on Terror behind, but the emergency never stopped expanding(racket.news)
GoFundMe, Go To Hell. GoFundMe is now the poster child for politicization of economic services. They prevented a parents group from renting a billboard to publicize Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage, froze nearly $8 million in donations to the “Freedom Convoy” Canadian Trucker movement.(racket.news)
Matt Taibbi: Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of "Deep State" and "Working Class"(racket.news)
Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of "Deep State" and "Working Class". The real provenance of deep state has in ten short years been fully excised from mainstream conversation. It’s an awesome achievement. The instant Donald Trump appeared on the scene, “Deep State” became myth.(racket.news)