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Jun 17, 2020 7 tweets 9 min read
@FreedomPub @brianstelter Seems like an important story. Freedom of the press is protected by First Amendment from govt. But there was a day when our major media would be outraged by violation of 1A principle by powerful private actor. But those days are long ago. Press only want to protect themselves. @FreedomPub @brianstelter THREAD .@seanmdav Let's reverse it, @brianstelter. Imagine FNC collaborated with two previously unknown and instantly created right-wing orgs (one definitely foreign) whose purpose is to engage by any means necessary in the cancel-culture wars to destroy MSM news outlets. 1/
Feb 24, 2020 6 tweets 5 min read
This WashPost story on how we've enlisted 19-year-old German YouTube Personality @NaomiSeibtt to communicate #climaterealism is better than most in the legacy media. They were actually fair to her and us. 1/ washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro… @NaomiSeibtt In contrast to “TIME Person of the Year” @GretaThunberg, who told world leaders at Davos, “I want you to panic,” Naomi told The Post, “I don’t want you to panic. I want you to think.” That's apparently a controversial statement, judging from reaction of #climate alarmists. 2/
Apr 19, 2019 12 tweets 9 min read
Social Media Bias Alert: FB disabled the #FacebookAds account of Heartland’s @JustinTHaskins because he wanted to promote the video below, in which he urged Millennials to embrace liberty and reject socialism and be the generation to save America. 1/ Shocking stuff, right? @Facebook thought so. Justin wrote about FB's attempt to silence him at @FoxNews. It got a lot of attn. Here are four screen caps of the opening few paragraphs of the piece. Definitely read the whole thing at the link. 2/ foxnews.com/opinion/justin…