Government Corruption
A federal judge on Monday consolidated two ongoing lawsuits alleging the Biden administration worked with social media platforms to censor online speech.
The two lawsuits — Kennedy v. Biden, a class action suit, and Missouri v. Biden — were both before the same judge, Terry A. Doughty, of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Monroe Division.
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Read MoreThe O’Keefe Media Group is telling a story similar to what millions of Americans have endured: attorneys who seem to wield the legal system not as a tool for justice, but as a benefit for them and their clients’ advantage.
In the footage, Audrey Lee Anderson in Nashville, TN tells a disguised James O’Keefe that if he doesn’t want his text messages being seen in the discovery process, that he “better start deleting crap.” James O’Keefe continues to press her about deleting stuff and whether he’d have to say “I deleted it” before she then advises him to get “separate legal advice on that.”
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Read MoreThe Uxbridge by-election has thrown Labour into a civil war, or at least a civil skirmish. Keir Starmer has told Sadiq Khan to think again on Ulez, and Khan has shown great reluctance to do so. But it has exposed a schism in the Conservatives, too.
Yesterday, Rishi Sunak declared that efforts to reach the government’s net zero target should not be allowed to push up the cost of living for struggling families – leading some to predict that some policies, such as the ban on petrol and diesel cars from 2030, could be scrapped.
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Read MoreReporters may conceal conflicts of interest involving analysts they quote in stories, under a ruling by a national press ombudsman. The decision came in the case of a Twitter source quoted by Anja Karadeglija, a National Post reporter and journalism instructor.
“Generally speaking journalists are free to choose the sources they deem credible,” said Cara Sabatini, spokesperson for the National News Media Council. There were insufficient grounds “to support a complaint about a breach of journalistic standards,” she added.
The ruling came on a Blacklock’s complaint over a June 14 story by Karadeglija headlined, “Sued For Sharing Your Password?” The story purported to cover the subject matter of a three-day Federal Court hearing involving Blacklock’s lawsuit against Parks Canada for sharing passwords without payment or permission in breach of the Copyright Act.
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Read MoreFriends of China may be spreading pro-Beijing propaganda to “pollute the general media” in Canada, warns a Department of Public Safety briefing note. Cabinet is reviewing a proposal to mandate public disclosure of advocates acting on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
“Information could be disseminated by Canadians who may not be fully aware it originates from a foreign principal or entity,” said the March 3 briefing note Election Interference. “Unclear labeling of state-backed communications can produce public or media messaging that reinforces interests of foreign states and circulates propaganda and disinformation that could either misdirect citizens or pollute the general media and information environment.”
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Read MoreA column on China’s diplomacy in Africa in the state-run newspaper Global Times on Sunday noted “China’s foreign minister” engaged in a tour of the continent in January – a notable observation given the column did not name Foreign Minister Qin Gang who has been missing for a month.
Qin made his last public appearance on June 25, meeting with his Sri Lankan counterpart. The foreign minister has canceled multiple prestigious engagements with little to no explanation since then, most prominently missing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit last week. Chinese officials claimed there were “physical reasons” behind his absence at the ASEAN event, but did not elaborate on the claim and have yet to offer any clearer information on the situation
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Read MoreAfter the head of Canada’s public broadcaster gave a newspaper interview earlier this year that promised CBC would eventually become a digital-only product and that criticized Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, senior managers were quick to refute her comments, internal emails suggest.
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Read MoreMany Canadians have lost access to LifeSiteNews posts on social media due to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government’s newly passed “Online News Act.”
Numerous Canadians have recently been notified by social media platform Instagram – which is owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta – that they are blocked from viewing LifeSiteNews content on the platform as the company refuses to pay publishing fees outlined in the recently passed Online News Act.
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Read MoreHours after the government approved the first step in its efforts to weaken the judiciary, at least three petitions asking the Supreme Court to nullify it were filed. Will the top court override the ‘reasonableness bill’? Experts are divided
After seven months of discussion, arguments and fiery mass protests over the Netanyahu government’s radical package of legislation that will transform Israeli democracy, the first step was finally taken on Monday.
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