Free Republic

The State Department’s controversial Global Engagement Center (GEC) shut down this week after congressional lawmakers nixed reauthorizing the agency in spending legislation to keep the government open. “The Global Engagement Center closed on December 23, 2024,” read a message on the agency’s website. The GEC came under fire from House Republicans after journalist Matt Taibbi uncovered evidence that it pressured US social media platforms early in the COVID-19 pandemic to censor Americans online, purportedly to counter “disinformation,” such as theories that the virus leaked out of a laboratory in China. “We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a...

Microsoft's unchecked monopolistic practices and deep ties to the Censorship Industrial Complex demand a conservative-led investigation to safeguard free markets and free speech. It’s no secret that many of the tech giants operate as monopolies, and one of the worst offenders is Microsoft. The Federal Trade Commission recently launched an antitrust investigation against Bill Gates’s creation, alleging it works unfairly to stifle competition and control various sectors of the tech market. The FTC wants to inquire into how Microsoft offers its cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity products. The agency is particularly concerned with the tech giant’s bundling services that...

Thomas Jefferson once warned, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” His caution echoes with alarming clarity today, as the Biden administration consolidates federal power to suppress dissent, silence debate, and tighten its grip on institutions meant to serve the people. Jefferson's warning serves not as a relic of the past but as a prescient reminder for a nation now grappling with unprecedented encroachments on freedom. Indeed, when government moves beyond its foundational task of safeguarding life, liberty, and property, it inevitably devolves into a tool of power wielded against its own...

The Western District of Louisiana’s US District Court has ruled in favor of the State of Missouri, allowing additional discovery in the significant Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, which scrutinizes government collaboration in social media censorship. This decision comes after the Supreme Court, in June, overturned a prior injunction, then-named Murthy v. Missouri, which had prohibited entities including the White House, CDC, FBI, CISA, and the Surgeon General’s office from pressing social media platforms to suppress speech protected under the Constitution. [link to Court's Order] [snip] The depth of the Biden Administration’s involvement in these censorial activities likely would have remained...

Despite all that Google did to suppress former President Donald Trump’s website and news about him from right-leaning websites, the GOP nominee overcame the censorship and was victorious on election day. From suppressing right-leaning media in searches for Trump for six straight weeks to suppressing Trump’s website prior to every presidential debate and during the Republican National Convention, Google appeared to try its hardest to hinder candidates whose names were not President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris. On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump showed that although election-interfering censorship is a serious problem that must be addressed it is not...

None offered—-video

Joe Rogan posted his three-hour-long interview with Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump on X after viewers claimed YouTube was censoring it. During the podcast released late Friday night, Trump spoke to Rogan about UFOs, the John F. Kennedy assassination files, the border and healthy food in the U.S. The interview amassed a staggering 17million YouTube views in less than 24 hours, but many people claimed they could not find the episode using the video sharing platform's search feature.

Former President Donald Trump‘s explosive interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, which has become the most-viewed episode ever, has been removed from YouTube’s search results. It’s just another glitch, right? When typing in search terms such as Joe Rogan Donald Trump,” “Joe Rogan Donald Trump interview,” “Joe Rogan Trump,” or “Rogan Trump full interview,” YouTube only directs users to short clips of the interview, but the full interview is nowhere to be seen. The Federalist CEO and co-founder Sean Davis responded to the findings on X, writing: “There’s no way to search for the full interview that will actually return...

Amazon Echo device’s recent response to voters’ questions regarding the reasons to vote for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump caused backlash last month after it became apparent it was biased. The virtual personal assistant known as “Alexa” began spewing out positive reasons as to why people should vote for Harris but failed to give any for Trump.

Vice President Kamala Harris is shamelessly trying to run away from her 'Border Czar' responsibilities, often with the assistance of a compliant 'news' media, but that wasn't the only major job with which she's been tasked in the Biden-Harris administration. The president also tapped her to help lead and oversee a number of expensive 'green' and infrastructure initiatives. On a costly plan to install new electric vehicle chargers (Harris is suddenly pretending she has nothing to do with EV mandates she has supported and co-sponsored), Politico described its 'progress' in late 2023: "Congress at the urging of the Biden administration...

Big tech is going big on nuclear, with Amazon becoming the newest addition to the club with a $500 million deal, joining Microsoft, Google, and Oracle by investing in nuclear projects to support surging data-center energy demand.With powerful advances in generative AI, the US has become the fastest-growing market for data centers, according to McKinsey, which forecasts demand to more than triple by 2030 to 80 gigawatts. The boom has sent stock prices of nuclear-energy companies soaring, briefly making utilities the best-performing sector of the S&P 500 Index this year.Going nuclear As commercial nuclear-power plants went global in the 1970s...

Meta’s senior software engineer recently admitted to an undercover journalist at O’Keeffe Media Group that Facebook censors conservatives.BREAKING: Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are "Automatically Demoted,” Admits Shadowbanning Tactics "Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn't have a child, that kind of sh*t is automatically demoted,”… pic.twitter.com/4DSkvzvKmO — James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 16, 2024Jeevan Gyawali added that those who oppose Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in their posts would see their accounts shadowbanned and their posts demoted.“Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris [being]...

Meta provides workers with $25 meal vouchers for use at the office.. Meta fired roughly two dozen staffers based in Los Angeles for abusing the company's $25 meal vouchers to purchase non-food household items... Meta fired the workers last week after the company discovered that the workers were abusing its food credit system by using the funds to buy other household items, ranging from acne pads and wine glasses to laundry detergent. According to the report, Meta staff are given daily allowances of $20 for breakfast, $25 for lunch and another $25 for dinner — similar perks to what other...

Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are "Automatically Demoted,” Admits Shadowbanning Tactics "Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn't have a child, that kind of sh*t is automatically demoted,” reveals @Meta Senior Software Engineer, Jeevan Gyawali ( @JGyawali ), to an undercover @OKeefeMedia journalist during a hidden camera date. He confirmed, “The person would not be notified,” but would see a decline in their post engagement and impressions, explaining that Meta’s “Integrity Team” is responsible for controlling content through “civic classifiers,” a system that “shadowbans” posts without notifying...

The Washington Post followed a familiar scheme when it comes to the incessant media gaslighting on the existence of censorship of conservatives: First, deny it exists. Second, admit it exists, but excuse it away by asserting that such censorship is justifiable. The Post released an eye-popping Oct. 3 story that reeked of absurdity. “Why conservatives get suspended more than liberals on social media,” read the irony-laced headline based on a new so-called study published by Nature. The leftist rag attempted to play gotcha with Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-OH) comments during the vice presidential debate, when he suggested that censorship was...

This strike isn’t over. It’s just delayed until after the election, so it doesn’t hurt the Democratic party at the polls. We have been told many things about the longshoremen’s strike over the past week. Most of the reporting has been in half-truths, at best – possibly because the press doesn’t know any better (the operations of our seaports are an admittedly obscure area of specialization), or possibly because the press doesn’t want to share information so damning to the side they instinctively favor. Here are just a few of the misleading statements thrown at us in the past week:...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Harris-Walz Surrogate Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) argued that there will be fewer strikes if 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris is elected and that the head of the dockworkers union is “a Trump guy” who might want to cripple the economy for political purposes.

As East and Gulf Coast ports begin to operate as normal again, one of the country’s top entrepreneurs is weighing in on “the trouble” with union workers’ demands. “The trouble with East Coast ports is they’re very old, they’re very inefficient,” O’Leary Ventures Chairman and “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary said on “Varney & Co.” Friday. “And when you start to compare them against other international ports like Singapore and the other Asian ports,” he continued, “we’re just not holding much up against them. And that’s very bad for productivity.” US dockworkers returned to work Friday morning after reaching a...

'I'm a Democrat but they have [expletive] us over for the last 40 years and for once we're standing up as a union saying what the [expletive] have you done for us?' O'Brien said in scathing remarks. 'I'm getting attacked from the left you know and since I've been in office over two and a half years we've given the Democratic machine $15.7 million. 'We've given Republicans about $340,000 truth be told, so it's like you know people say the Democratic party is the party of working people, but they're actually bought and paid for by big tech,' O'Brien explained.

Brendan Benedict, an antitrust litigator at Benedict Law Group who has faced off against Google in court, highlighted the potential demoralizing effect on the Department of Justice attorneys working tirelessly on the adtech case, only to see the administration collaborating with the opposition's lawyer for advice. He also suggested that Dunn could be a potential candidate to replace current antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter if Harris were to take office.The controversy surrounding Dunn's involvement in the Harris campaign is just one facet of the ethical quagmire surrounding the Google adtech case. Paul Weiss, the law firm where Dunn is a top...