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Read Tucker Carlson’s Full Announcement About Next Move

Starting soon, we’ll be bringing a new version of the show we’ve been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter. We’ll bring some other things too, which we’ll tell you about, but for now, we’re just grateful to be here.

Did Musk Just Mortally Wound State-Funded Media?

The argument that has long been made for having the federal government sustain what is labeled “public broadcasting”—although it appears so often to run contrary to public opinion and sensibility—is that there is demand for information that cannot support itself independently.

Mean to an end: The BBC’s anti-Elon Musk campaign

While the anti-Musk campaign has become a fact of life for BBC consumers, those same consumers may not fully appreciate the rationale which underpins it. BBC attempts to topple wrong-thinking presidents, and now CEOs, happen not by chance: they are always part of a wider agenda.

Researchers Pressured Twitter To Treat COVID-19 Facts as ‘Misinformation’

Researchers at Stanford University—in partnership with several nonprofits that have received government funding—worked with social media platforms to flag and suppress commentary on COVID vaccines, science, and policy that contradicted public health officials’ stances, even when that commentary was true.

Lost in a forest of fakery

A STUDY by the betting news blog Casino Guardian has analysed the Twitter followers of ten prominent UK politicians and found that almost all of them had a significant percentage of fake followers.

Heroic US politicians lead the assault on climate stupidity and Covid corruption

The first is of Congressman Tom McClintock, in a hearing which took place last November but which I have only just come across. It lays bare the insanity of the Democrats’ Electric Car Mandate proposal given that 80 per cent of US electricity comes from fossil fuels, plus the double insanity (or contradiction) of radically restricting the mining of copper, on which battery-run electric vehicles depend.

Elon Musk Changes His Twitter Bio to ‘State-Affiliated Media’

“State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution,” according to the center.