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  • In the name of ‘fake news,’ NewsGuard extorts sites to follow the government narrative By Social Links forLee Fang

    12/11/2023 2:43:57 AM PST · by george76 · 7 replies
    New York Post ^ | Dec. 10, 2023 | Lee Fang
    Half a century ago, George Orwell, writing on literary censorship, wrote that “unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban.” That dynamic now broadly extends to an opaque network of government agencies and self-proclaimed anti-misinformation groups that have repressed online speech. There’s no official ban on discussing the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines or criticizing American involvement in the Ukraine-Russia war, but editors and journalists have realized that writing on such topics can come at a cost. News publishers have been demonetized and shadow-banned for reporting dissenting views and the bureaucratic means...
  • Musk's X Issues Warning About NewsGuard

    11/23/2023 6:46:59 PM PST · by cabojoe · 51 replies
    Newsmax ^ | Thursday, 23 November 2023 | Luca Cacciatore Michael Katz
    Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, issued a new warning Wednesday about the left-wing ratings company NewsGuard. In a post on the site, X said it was the latest organization to be targeted by NewsGuard, which has systematically targeted conservative media. "NewsGuard is about to publish a 'report' on misinformation on X. As a for-profit company, they will only share the data that underpins their purported research if you pay," X explained. X then highlighted NewsGuard's strategy in going after the platform — the same strategy it has employed on dozens of other companies. NewsGuard "uses...
  • Ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden Smears Patriotic American Christians: ‘No Different’ from Hamas Terrorists

    11/23/2023 2:20:22 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 87 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/23/2023 | David NG
    Former NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden, who has fashioned a post-government career attacking and censoring conservatives, is spending his Thanksgiving week smearing patriotic American Christians who own firearms, claiming they are “no different” from Hamas terrorists. On Wednesday, Michael Hayden responded to a post on X that juxtaposed two photos: one of a woman holding an American flag, Bible, and handgun; the other of Palestinian terrorist Reem Riyashi, who killed herself along with four Israelis in a 2004 suicide bombing that was claimed by Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
  • ‘Crazy!’: Elon Musk Says Leftist Media Ratings Firm ‘Should Be Disbanded Immediately’

    10/19/2023 1:37:55 PM PDT · by JV3MRC · 12 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 10/19/2023 | Joseph Vazquez
    X owner Musk came out swinging against the leftist media hall monitor NewsGuard and called for the whole company to be “disbanded immediately.” Musk responded to criticism from WikiPedia co-founder Jimmy Wales who whined in a post Oct. 17 about the X platform allegedly removing “all the core features that made it even remotely possible to tell real journalists from fakes.” Through discussion on the X thread, Foundation For Freedom Online Executive Director Mike Benz pointed out to Musk that Wales was an advisor to the leftist biased NewsGuard, “which is knee deep in a plot to get gov’ts to...
  • Retired General Michael Hayden doubles down on "MAGAnuts" reaction to his call for senator's assassination

    10/10/2023 8:38:33 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    Hotair ^ | 10/10/23 | Karen Townsend
    Luis AlvarezSome people turn out to be garbage people. It is particularly disturbing to find the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the first Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence under former President George W. Bush is such a person. Retired General Michael Hayden has shown himself as a hyper-partisan against Republicans, particularly MAGA Republicans. His hatred for Donald Trump has turned his social media presence into one nasty tweet after another. With that in mind, perhaps I shouldn’t be so surprised at the depraved level of contempt Hayden displays toward Republicans with whom he disagrees. In this...
  • Former CIA Director Michael Hayden says Tommy Tuberville should be removed from 'the human race'

    10/10/2023 11:15:05 AM PDT · by ConservativeInPA · 62 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | October 10, 2023 | ARJUN SINGH
    A former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency suggested that Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama be removed from the “human race,” according to a post on X, now known as Twitter, on Monday. Tuberville has been strongly criticized by the Biden administration and Democrats for his denial of unanimous consent in the Senate for military nominations to proceed expeditiously, in protest against a Department of Defense (DoD) policy that reimburses service members for travel to obtain an abortion in states where it is legal. Michael Hayden retweeted a post on Monday that called for...
  • Burisma wasn’t just paying off the Bidens. Ex-CIA directors are also on the payroll

    09/13/2023 4:01:01 PM PDT · by Starman417 · 68 replies
    floppingaces.net ^ | 09-13-23 | DrJohn
    This is a way underreported story. It was Antony Blinken, the limp wristed Secretary of State who bends over for all US adversaries while calling it a success, who reached out to ex-CIA Director Mike Morrell to cobble together a group of "intelligence experts" who would sign a false statement calling the Hunter Biden laptop "Russian disinformation" so Biden could use it a hammer to pound Donald Trump in their debate. Morrell was eager to help. After all, he was motivated to do so. Financially motivated. In 2017 the thinktank Atlantic Council signed an agreement with Burisma despite knowing it...
  • Huawei Ghostwrote Op-Ed for MIT Scholar: Professor still worked with Chinese tech giant even after lab cut ties

    01/26/2021 9:30:55 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | 01/26/2021 | Yuichiro Kakutani
    As one American university after another suspended research ties with Huawei for its alleged ties to Chinese espionage, MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte offered a full-throttle defense of the company. "Don't ban Huawei," read a May 2019 column published under Negroponte's name. "The U.S. should collaborate with leading technology companies and their research labs, rather than banning them." Negroponte, however, did not write the column, at least according to Huawei employee Winter Wright, who noted on his LinkedIn profile that he ghostwrote the article on behalf of the MIT scholar, whose research center has received millions of dollars in...
  • Michael Hayden, Advisor to ‘Misinformation’ Watchdog NewsGuard, Says GOP More Dangerous than Al Qaeda, ISIS

    08/18/2022 6:13:02 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 42 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/18/2022 | Allum Bokhari
    Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who directed the CIA and the NSA during his career but has since become a partisan clown, CNN talking head, and member of the advisory board for establishment media watchdog NewsGuard, recently agreed that even compared to other movements around the world, Republicans are the most “nihilistic, dangerous, and contemptible.” This allegation means that in Hayden’s worldview, Republicans outrank Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Chinese Communist Party among others in terms of their danger to the world.
  • MSNBC’s Beschloss, former CIA director Hayden ‘suggest’ Trump be executed for having nuclear documents

    08/12/2022 2:31:05 PM PDT · by MNDude · 71 replies
    MSNBC contributor and historian Michael Beschloss posted a tweet on Thursday evening recounting historical figures who had been executed for sharing U.S. nuclear secrets with foreign governments, and a former CIA chief shared the post with his own approving tweet. Conservative commentator Jerry Dunleavy accused Beschloss of "suggesting that Trump should be executed," considering it was posted just after the Washington Post piece speculating that the FBI had raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to find missing nuclear documents. The Washington Post exclusive from Thursday afternoon attempted to offer more details as to what the FBI was searching for at Mar-a-Lago on...
  • CIA Covered Up Child Sex Crimes for at Least 10 Employees Over the Past 14 Years

    12/03/2021 6:02:00 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 25 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | December 3, 2021 at 7:39pm | Jim Hoft
    The revelations are contained in hundreds of internal agency reports obtained by BuzzFeed News through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. BUzzfeed reported: Over the past 14 years, the Central Intelligence Agency has secretly amassed credible evidence that at least 10 of its employees and contractors committed sexual crimes involving children. Though most of these cases were referred to US attorneys for prosecution, only one of the individuals was ever charged with a crime. Prosecutors sent the rest of the cases back to the CIA to handle internally, meaning few faced any consequences beyond the possible loss of their jobs and...
  • ‘Panic made us vulnerable’: how 9/11 made the US surveillance state – and the Americans who fought back

    09/05/2021 9:00:09 AM PDT · by george76 · 42 replies
    Guardian ^ | 4 Sep 2021 | Ed Pilkington
    It took Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers to reveal the staggering extent of the government’s spying on its own people as institutional checks failed.. ... Panic made us politically vulnerable... That vulnerability was exploited by our own government to entitle itself to radically expanded powers that had for decades been out of reach. ... The Patriot Act, which swatted away longstanding rules preventing the state from monitoring US citizens without “probable cause”, was passed .. lightning-fast ... granting domestic law enforcement agencies sweeping new powers. ... green light for the FBI and CIA to carry out “roving wiretaps” where agents...
  • Ex-CIA director compares Trump supporters to the Taliban

    08/23/2021 12:44:58 AM PDT · by blueplum · 43 replies
    Fox ^ | 22 Aug 2021 | Bradford Betz
    Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden was widely panned for a retweet that signaled he equated President Trump’s supporters in the United States with the Taliban in Afghanistan. On Thursday, Hayden retweeted a split image. The top showed black-clad Islamic militants waving guns and flags from a line of cars with a caption reading: "Their Taliban." Beneath that was a line of pickup trucks hoisting American flags and "Trump 2020" flags with the caption: "Our Taliban" ,,,
  • Former CIA / NSA Head Calls For The Arrest of Alex Jones [General Hayden]

    12/16/2020 5:26:46 AM PST · by RandFan · 44 replies
    banned.video ^ | Dec 16 | banned.video
    The doddering hater of the Constitution Gen Michael Hayden has agreed with other Demtards whom have called for the arrest of Alex Jones. Video...
  • Former intelligence officials condemn Trump administration's selective releases about Russia investigation as a risk to sensitive sources

    10/07/2020 6:03:10 PM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 49 replies
    aol ^ | Oct 7th 2020 | JENNA MCLAUGHLIN
    As the Trump administration continues to declassify selective CIA documents regarding the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, former intelligence officials are expressing concern the releases are politically motivated and potentially damaging national security. Trump’s director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, has declassified bits and pieces of highly redacted CIA notes and memos including a Russian allegation then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was planning to tie Trump to Russia to distract from the ongoing controversy over her private email server. The highly selective disclosures reveal little additional substance about the investigation into Russian meddling or the Trump campaign, say...
  • How The 1960s Riots Foreshadow Today’s Communist Weaponization Of Black Pain

    09/14/2020 6:58:57 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 18 replies
    thefederalist ^ | 09/14/2020 | Katharine Gorka
    Leaving the White House grounds recently, I knew I would encounter protestors. You could hear them throughout the evening, trying to disrupt. Most of the protestors were to the east and north of the White House, so staff directed us to exit out the west gate. A security guard offered to accompany me and my husband south to Constitution Avenue to meet our Uber driver, and we went safely home. We heard numerous stories the next morning of guests who had been threatened and endangered. One friend with whom we had walked out of that west gate actually decked a...
  • Elderly Man Allegedly Beaten By COVID-19 Patient Placed in Nursing Home By Whitmer Dies After Attack

    07/28/2020 10:54:44 AM PDT · by DFG · 47 replies
    nationalfile.com ^ | 07/28/2020 | Lionel Du Cane
    A Michigan elderly patient, who was beaten on more than one occasion by a 20-year-old man who was staying at the same healthcare facility, passed away on Monday after his health reportedly took a turn for the worse after the brutal assaults, according to his nephew. In mid May, viral videos showing Jaden Hayden from Ypsilanti beat 75-year-old Norman Bledsoe led to the young man’s arrest. Haden was placed in the nursing home after Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer apparently adopted a policy similar to the one employed in New York, and began sending COVID-19 positive patients to nursing homes. The...
  • U.S. Gov Official: Current Generation of Policymakers Lack Understanding of Technology

    04/04/2012 12:48:40 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 10 replies
    Dailytech ^ | - April 3, 2012 12:52 PM | Tiffany Kaiser
    Rose Gottemoeller said the next generation will change how cyber defense is handled A U.S. government official said that cyber defense has been slow-moving due to the current generation of policymaker's lack of technological understanding. Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. Acting Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, recently visited the Estonian IT College in Tallinn to deliver a speech about cyber attacks and defense. In this lecture, she noted that a major issue with current cyber defense is the fact that many policymakers around the world don't fully understand technology used today. "The truth is there are a lot of senior...
  • FBI Director's Notes Contradict Gonzales's Version Of Ashcroft Visit

    08/16/2007 9:38:58 PM PDT · by Lancey Howard · 18 replies · 683+ views
    Washington Post via Drudge ^ | August 17, 2007 | Dan Eggen
    Then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft was "feeble," "barely articulate" and "stressed" moments after a hospital room confrontation in March 2004 with Alberto R. Gonzales, who wanted Ashcroft to approve a warrantless wiretapping program over Justice Department objections, according to notes from FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III that were released yesterday. One of Mueller's entries in five pages of a daily log pertaining to the dispute also indicated that Ashcroft's deputy was so concerned about undue pressure by Gonzales and other White House aides for the attorney general to back the wiretapping program that the deputy asked Mueller to bar...
  • Ex-CIA, NSA chief Hayden suffers stroke

    11/23/2018 2:21:29 PM PST · by usafa92 · 44 replies
    Communist News Network ^ | 11/23/2018 | CNN
    (CNN) — Michael Hayden, a former director of the CIA and National Security Agency, suffered a stroke earlier this week, his family said Friday. In a statement, the family said Hayden, 73, suffered the stroke at his home and was hospitalized but did not provide details about the stroke's severity. "He is receiving expert medical care for which the family is grateful," the statement said. CIA Director Gina Haspel offered wishes on behalf of the agency Friday afternoon for a "speedy recovery." "Mike's long career of public service & commitment to national security continue to be an inspiration to all...