Appeals Court Dismisses Lawsuit Accusing Twitter of Sex Trafficking
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Weaponization of the federal government, indeed
The feds invoke national security to take away more of your rights and pretend they're keeping you safe.
NPR is no Xinhua, but Elon Musk is correct that it doesn't need government subsidies.
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The COVID-19 lab leak theory was labeled "misinformation." Now it's the most plausible explanation.
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The legal challenge to censorship by proxy highlights covert government manipulation of online speech.
Plus: A listener asks the editors if the nation is indeed unraveling or if she is just one of "The Olds" now.
Eye-opening insights into the messy motivations behind restrictive COVID-19 responses.
The latest Twitter Files shows a partnership between Stanford University researchers and government-funded organizations encouraged social media companies to police true information.
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Members of Congress showed their true colors at a Thursday hearing.
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When COVID-19 and the U.S. government stopped kids from seeing each other, social media was their lifeline.
Because of a series of misleading memes, a troll has been charged with conspiracy "to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate one or more persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of a right and privilege secured to them by the Constitution and laws of the United States."
The paper is unfazed by First Amendment objections to the Biden administration's crusade against "misinformation" on social media.
Congress should set its sights on bad government actors who pressured social media companies.
The age verification proposal is a disaster for both children and adults.
In the Twitter Files, every conversation with a government official contains the same warning: You can do it happily, or we’ll make you.
Alarmists are unfazed by the lack of evidence that "foreign influence campaigns" have affected public opinion or voting behavior.
"I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is."
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Researchers: Moscow’s social media meddling had little impact on the 2016 election.
It's hard to believe its arguments will hold up in court.
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There is "no evidence of a meaningful relationship" between Russia's influence campaign on Twitter and the 2016 electoral outcome.
The internal company documents offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how the federal agencies distorted the public debate on one of the world's largest social media platforms.
Plus: Would Adam Smith be a libertarian if he were alive today?
The company's broad definition of "misleading information" and its deference to authority invited censorship by proxy.
People in power lean on private businesses to impose authoritarian policies forbidden to the government.
When I was young, I assumed government would lift people out of poverty. But those policies often do more harm than good.
Plus: The editors look back on what pieces of cultural media impacted them the most this year.
The latest Twitter Files installment shows the FBI paid Twitter millions of dollars to cover the costs of processing the agency's requests. Yikes.
Maybe the FBI has something better to do with its time?
Elon Musk reignited the GOP’s interest to bring charges against Anthony Fauci.
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Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live analysis of the internal Twitter documents recently published by Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, and Michael Shellenberger.
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The most disturbing aspect of the “Twitter Files” is the platform’s cozy relationship with federal officials who demanded suppression of speech they considered dangerous.
Plus: The editors briefly celebrate a noteworthy shake-up in the Senate.
Content moderators had "weekly confabs" with law enforcement officials, reports Matt Taibbi.
Instead of debating whether the platform has been flooded by bigotry, Elon Musk should tell the congressman to mind his own business.
Twitter employees have indicated that shadow banning—at least by some definitions—is both real and common.