The Associated Press found that governments around the world used mass surveillance technologies and data during the COVID-19 pandemic for purposes unrelated to the pandemic, including stifling dissent and harassing marginalized communities.
According to Fang, Twitter "quietly aided the Pentagon’s covert online PsyOp campaign" and directly assisted the US military in its efforts to shape public opinion in the Middle East and beyond. He wrote that Twitter "gave approval & special protection to the U.S. military’s online psychological influence ops."
Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Meta's president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, cautioning Facebook from alterations on "certain misinformation policies.”
According to a report by Michael Shellenberger, the FBI made an "organized effort" to target social media and news companies, including Twitter, that reported on the Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead-up to the 2020 election, and Twitter received repeated requests for information from the FBI that it had previously stated it would not share outside of normal legal channels.
The US is adding more than 30 Chinese companies to a trade blacklist that would prevent them from purchasing certain American components as part of the ongoing US-China technology conflict.
America First Legal has released documents revealing how the Biden administration used a secret Twitter portal to censor Covid social media content in disagreement with the mainstream narrative.
At least 420 acts of hostility against churches occurred in the United States over the past five years, while 57 of those hostile acts between January and September 2022 have been related to abortion, an analysis suggests.
You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether you’ve been bad or good.
