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Washington Post: GOP Investigations Against Censorship Industry Are Succeeding

The Washington Post has admitted that the censorship-industrial complex of “fact checkers,” think tanks, and NGOs, carefully constructed over the past half-decade to censor dissident voices, has been put on the defensive by a number of investigations from Congressional Republicans and red states.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) questions Ambassador Kurt Volker

Media Lobbyists Back in DC to Push for JCPA Corporate Media Welfare Bill

Over one hundred representatives from corporate media companies around the country will be in DC this month, pushing Congress to once again take up the repeatedly-nixed Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bailout bill for the legacy media industry, and perhaps one of the most-revived bills of all time.

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Establishment Republican Ken Buck, Who Aided Democrats in Congress, Seeks CNN Gig

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), who has opposed the impeachment of Joe Biden and spent his time as ranking member on the influential antitrust committee pushing the derided Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) — corporate welfare for the legacy media — seeks to exit Congress and join CNN as a contributor.

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ADL Boss Greenblatt: Elon Musk Is ‘Blaming the Jews’

Anti-Defamation League boss Jonathan Greenblatt is continuing his media tour, as he seeks to counter attacks from prominent online influencers and Twitter/X owner Elon Musk over the ADL’s track record of smearing individuals and companies and attempting to cut off their relationships with advertisers.

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House Committee to Probe Big Tech’s Bid for TV Dominance

The House Energy and Commerce committee, led by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), is planning to investigate the state of the video marketplace in America, as streaming companies like Google-owned YouTube and Disney-owned Hulu make a bid for dominance in TV distribution.

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Democrats Are Resurrecting It Again: Congressional Budget Office Assesses JCPA Media Cartel Bill

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has conducted an assessment of the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill pushed by lobbyists for the legacy corporate media that would allow the industry to form a cartel to pressure tech companies for financial handouts and other favors. The assessment is a sure sign that legacy media’s friends in Congress are refusing to accept defeat.

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No Fun Allowed: ‘Call of Duty’ Turns to AI to Drive ‘Toxicity’ Out of Voice Chat

Voice chats in video games have long been a haven for young people who want to blow off steam and engage in friendly “trash talk,” but the mega-corporations that run the biggest franchises don’t like that. They’re planning to use AI to make video game chats just as sanitized and politically correct as the rest of the world.

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Biden Admin Sought Power to Spy on TikTok Users, Moderate Content

In yet another sign of the Biden Administration’s determination to control, censor, and spy on American social media users, the draft of a proposed deal between Chinese-owned TikTok and the Biden administration shows the latter requesting extraordinary authority over the platform.

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