Since the beginning of 2021, the official narrative with regards to the COVID-19 vaccines has maintained that they are safe, efficacious, and working well. For example, Premier Mark McGowan of Western Australia confidently stated that “by getting to higher levels of third dose vaccination we’re going to save lots of lives.”
Writing in the New York Times, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen writes that new European Internet regulations will “make social media far better without impinging on free speech.” That isn’t true, and the ways in which it isn’t true illustrate rather well just how difficult it would be to regulate social-media platforms without undermining free speech.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to undergo a cancer operation and will be handing the reins of power over to his deputy and espionage official Nikolai Patrushev, according to an insider from the Kremlin.