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Russia Arrests Baker for ‘Anti-War’ Cakes

Confectioner Anastasia Chernysheva of Moscow was arrested on Thursday and charged with “discrediting the armed forces of Russia” by baking cakes with anti-war and pro-Ukraine messages, including cakes using the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

Anastasia Chernysheva

China Announces 2023 Internet Purge: ‘Special Campaigns to Cleanse Cyberspace’

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) held a press conference on Tuesday to tout the millions of items of “illegal information” and “illegal accounts” it banned last year, and lay out its plans for an even greater censorship purge in the coming year to “rectify the cyberspace problems which have harmed the experience of Chinese netizens.”

An accredited member of the media goes online at the main press center (MPC) on the Olympi

Twitter Files: The ‘Great Covid-19 Lie Machine’ Worked to Censor ‘True Stories’

In the latest Twitter Files report published on Friday, journalist and author Matt Taibbi revealed that Twitter partnered with the Virality Project, which warned the social media platform that “true stories that could fuel hesitancy,” complained that “anti-vaccine” accounts were retweeting the CDC, and ironically ran searches for the term “surveillance state” while looking for more information to censor.

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