The decision stop funding of the GDI is laudable, but many questions remain on efforts to combat "disinformation." jonathanturley.org/2023/02/20/the… We are engaged in a game of Whac-a-Mole with the Administration where we hit a disinformation board and a disinformation index pops up.
...NED insists that they were not directed to fund the Index and had other donors but it is unclear if the Administration was informed of the grant. It is also unclear whether federal money went to other disinformation efforts...
...We still know little of these details. While Democrats are opposing investigations into these programs on censorship efforts, we need greater transparency on the full range of government efforts targeting speech from the FBI efforts to grants through groups like NED.
...I was not alone in raising these questions. Indeed, one of the sites listed as the most dangerous disinformation sites objected their inclusion. Reason is a site composed for conservative and libertarian law professors giving substantive legal analysis. jonathanturley.org/2023/02/16/gov…
...Here is one of the columns in Reason that also raised the concern over federal funding. reason.com/2023/02/14/glo…
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James Clapper hit Politico for distorting his infamous letter on the Hunter Biden laptop. foxnews.com/media/james-cl… He insists that, shortly before an election, they were merely raising the possibility that it might be Russian disinformation in a letter signed by 50 high ranking… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
...Of course, that is the very profile of disinformation that was used by Twitter and other companies to censor others. When scientists and pundits stated that they were offering alternative views on covid or elections, they were censored or suspended...
...Clapper is suggesting that these signatories did not expect that their letter would be used to discard or dismiss the laptop story...
The collective demand is for trillions in California alone with additional trillions demanded from Congress in a national reparations program. Democrats will now have to render a decision on committing real money on reparations to show that this was not jonathanturley.org/2023/02/13/a-b…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
...California Gov. Gavin Newsom's Reparations Task Force has called for $223,000 per person. While San Francisco's African American Reparations Advisory Committee wants to give $5 million to each eligible Black resident.
...Democratic politicians have insisted for years that reparations are essential to address systemic racism. Politicians like Gov. Newsom now face demands to put their money where their mouths have been. After defining reparations as a moral obligation, they may find it difficult… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In yesterday's heated hearing with former Twitter executives, it was the testimony of Anika Collier Navaroli that proved the most enlightening and chilling on what she repeatedly called the “nuanced” standard used by her and her staff on censorship... jonathanturley.org/2023/02/09/fre…
Navaroli: “Instead of asking just free speech versus safety to say free speech for whom and public safety for whom. So whose free expression are we protecting at the expense of whose safety and whose safety are we willing to allow to go the winds so that people can speak freely.”
...Rep. Melanie Ann Stansbury responded approvingly with "Exactly." Yet, Navaroli suggested that it is not enough to simply balance free speech against public safety (a standard opposed by many). Instead, they would decide “free speech for whom and public safety for whom.”
Navaroli just explained the Twitter standard and it is chilling: “Instead of asking free speech versus safety to say free speech for for whom and public safety for whom...
..."So whose free expression are we protecting at the expense of whose safety and whose safety are we willing to allow to go the winds to protect so we can speak freely." Rep. Stansbury responded “Exactly”...
...That sounds much like her boss former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal pledged to “focus less on thinking about free speech” and more on “who can be heard.” ...
The thrill kill coverage is raging again with the buzz around the new book on indicting Trump. news.yahoo.com/book-reveals-t… There is little discussion of how the book shatters professional norms and practices...
...Manhattan District Attorney Bragg is trying to make a case against Trump despite his early skepticism. His office objected to former special assistant DA Mark Pomerantz rushing out a book on the still active case...
...Pomerantz resigned and cashed in with a book that uses his prior position and knowledge in a still active investigation. Where is the outcry from legal experts and analysts? ...
The video is out on the Tyre Nichols incident. The first video shows Nichols on the ground and an officer kicking him in what appears to be his head.
...Another video show the officers screaming repeatedly "give me your hands" as they strike him. There seemed a distinct lack of action to immobilize Nichols given the multiple officers.
...Another video shows a short flight by Nichols, who is tackled and then repeatedly struck. I am still focusing on the kick video. The officer who kicked Nichols looks for a clean shot with two fellow officers holding Nichols.