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Who’s Afraid of Elon Musk?

by Ron Paul via Ron Paul Institute Any doubt that many progressives have abandoned their commitment to free speech was erased by the hysterical reaction to Elon Musk’s effort to purchase Twitter and return the company to its roots as a free speech zone. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and “woke” neocon Max Boot fretted […]

DuckDuckGo Destroys Brand by Embracing Censorship

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE In a single tweet March 9, 2022, DuckDuckGo destroyed its brand based on private searches returning unbiased results when the CEO said they were “rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation” If you were unfamiliar with DuckDuckGo, then the move to censorship would not sound […]

Fact-Checker Falsely Accuses Mercola of Misleading Claims

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE According to a fact-checking organization called Health Feedback, COVID-19 deaths have not been overcounted; rather, they’ve been undercounted. As “evidence,” they cite a study from India, which concluded that they’ve undercounted cases Health Feedback is part of a World Health Organization project called Vaccine Safety Net, and is a fact-checking […]

Who Needs the Fake Fact-Checkers?

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Facebook has admitted in a court of law that its fact checkers are not asserting facts but, rather, First Amendment-protected opinions Steve Kirsch, founder of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, recorded a phone call with a fact checker from PolitiFact, showing just how ignorant the fact checker is about […]

Facebook OKs Calls for Violence Against Russians

by Daniel McAdams via Ron Paul Institute Anyone following social media’s “Community Standards” knows how selectively they are enforced. Your humble writer was permanently banned from Twitter in 2019 for using a word to describe Sean Hannity’s mental slowness that is otherwise used perhaps millions of times per day by others with full impunity. Likewise, […]

A New Global Attack to Censor Dr. Mercola

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE Mere weeks after my announcement that I was reintroducing my article archives on Substack Library for paid subscribers, the mainstream press started calling on Substack to censor and cull vaccine critics from its platform Recent hit pieces against me have been published by The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The […]

PayPal Terminates Nonprofits Fighting Vaccine Mandates

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE December 21, 2021, after business hours, PayPal notified the National Vaccine Information Center that it would no longer process donations from their supporters — effective immediately Other organizations also dropped by PayPal include the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) and Organic Consumer’s Association (OCA) In October 2021, self-proclaimed […]

Lamenting China’s 2021 Cancel Culture

What China lost and what it still has. by Austrian China via Substack View from China with an Austrian School of Economics Perspective In our next post, Man Tianmai (漫天霾) reflects on what China lost in 2021 – too many goodbyes, as he puts it. Due to a long list of unfamiliar references, this can […]

My New Year’s resolution: I’m quitting YouTube

by Senator Rand Paul via Washington Examiner   Every year, people resolve to do things that are better for their health — quitting alcohol, processed food, toxic relationships. I have come to the realization that my relationship with YouTube is dysfunctional. Sure, I can get millions of views. But why should I allow anonymous “fact-checkers” […]

They Said They Would Slow the Spread

by Jeffrey A. Tucker via Brownstone Institute It’s been the most astonishing two weeks for American public life, with so many prescient changes, from new censorships, admissions, backtracks, experts speaking out, public outrage, and what strikes me as a progressive unraveling of every orthodoxy imposed nearly two years ago.  Not even the influential and powerful […]

Scientific Journal Censorship With Dr. Malone

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA and DNA vaccine core platform technology, shares scientific censorship that’s running rampant in medical journals Data on repurposing existing drugs to treat COVID-19 is being blocked, rejected and buried Scientific journals depend on revenue from selling journal reprints to pharmaceutical companies — […]

How China Controls Your COVID Life

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE The kind of society the technocratic elites are pushing us all toward is one that emulates China’s authoritarian rule, where total submission to government is the only option if you want to live There’s evidence suggesting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is behind the unscientific denial of the SARS-CoV-2 […]

Exposing Pfizer’s 159 Years of Dirty Deeds

STORY-AT-A-GLANCE In a November 9, 2021, interview with Atlantic Council CEO Frederick Kempe, Pfizer chairman and CEO Albert Bourla claimed “a small part of professionals” intentionally circulate “misinformation … so that they will mislead those that have concerns.” Such medical professionals are not just bad people, Bourla said, “they’re criminals, because they have literally cost […]

How to Escape Google

by Swiss Policy Research Do you belong to the 94% of Internet users who have no clue? Google Search has a US online search market share of about 70%, or even 94% if Google Images, Google Maps and Google-owned YouTube are added (see chart above). If you belong to these 94%, there is some bad news for […]

Will You Be Jailed for Protesting Vaccine Mandates?

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE The Online Safety Bill, currently under consideration in the U.K., would stifle freedom of speech about any topic deemed “harmful.” The Times reported government sources used the example of “antivaxxers,” or those opposed to the new genetic therapy injection The new law sets the stage for greater public control in […]