The officialdom has just wheeled out much heavier weaponry in the war against free speech, here targeting not-for-profits.
Read more...Hooray! Google fully reversed itself on its AI-generated censorship and demonetization threat. But don’t assume this sort of thing is over.
Read more...Oh noes! Populism is gaining ground! A report on A/B testing of messaging in Italy to defang it.
Read more...A look at the CIA’s sorry history of propaganda, psyops and assassinations.
Read more...A discussion of four books about Palestine to facilitate better understanding of the war in Gaza.
Read more...Mild campus protests, at least by 1960s standards, against the Gaza genocide, have produced panic in the officialdom and aggressive responses.
Read more...Quelle surprise! AI is being deployed to censor unwelcome ideas via omission.
Read more...US mixed messages continue: trying to check Israel’s suicidal conduct while providing military support. So what might happen next?
Read more...Germany sends the cops to shut down a conference on Palestine on trumped-up grounds. What next?
Read more...Why medical research is hard, and often path-dependent, which may not always be a good thing.
Read more...Why has Biden failed to add a clause to Federal contracts to protect workers from mass layoffs?
Read more...“Vaccine hesitancy” less pervasive than some say
Read more...An in-depth discussion of the apparent Ukraine/Western plan to use the Crocus City Hall massacre to stoke ethnic hostilities in Russia.
Read more...Why it’s a mistake to think of the Baltimore bridge collapse as catastrophic bad luck.
Read more...Matt Taibbii took a good look at Google’s AI censorship of this site and deemed it “an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression.”
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