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Amid deportation crusade, Rubio says he’s defending free speech
Writing in The Federalist this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio brags that he is protecting freedom of speech by ending his department's misbegotten crusade against "disinformation." Yet Rubio is…
The Trump administration wages war on Meta
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is resuming its antitrust attack on Meta. After first suing the tech giant in 2020, the Trump FTC now alleges that Meta violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by maintaining a personal social…
Marco Rubio shuts down Biden-era ‘misinformation’ agency: ‘That ends today’
Thu Apr 17, 2025 - 10:39 am EDT Note from LifeSiteNews co-founder Steve Jalsevac: This is a good news story regarding ongoing Trump admin efforts to end the massive government and corporate censorship industry. Donald Trump…
Does the Florida kid tech study prove Jonathan Haidt right?
"This study…does NOT show that smartphones are beneficial to children," Jonathan Haidt told me on X last week. He was responding—in a somewhat baffling way—to my post about a new survey of 11- to 13-year-olds in…
‘Libertarian’ Gov. Jared Polis signs new gun and liquor restrictions
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis identifies as a "libertarian Democrat" and is known for saying things like "government in general does a lot of things that aren't necessary" and that the state income tax…
Rand Paul explains his Repeal the TikTok Ban Act
Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) has opposed the TikTok ban since it caught on in Congress. In January, sensing a congressional attitude shift after President Donald Trump came to the app's defense, Paul introduced the Repeal the…
Kids with smartphones are less depressed, anxious, bullied than peers without them
It's funny how much media coverage is devoted to anything suggesting that phones might be ruining kids—and how little coverage goes to studies suggesting the opposite. So it goes with a new report from researchers at the…
Spanish prime minister calls for end of ‘anonymity’ on social media as part of digital ID scheme
Fri Apr 4, 2025 - 1:31 pm EDT (The Sociable) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called for the end of anonymity across all social media platforms by forcing them to link all user accounts with the European digital…
Can Trump broker a TikTok sale before the April 5 deadline?
TikTok's parent company ByteDance has until April 5 to divest of its U.S. operations, per a deadline that President Donald Trump set in January. Failure to do so means TikTok will be banned in the U.S. market, or at…
Nina Jankowicz’s defense of government censors
Nina Jankowicz is the former director of the Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board, an entity that purported to advise the Biden administration on how best to counter online misinformation but…
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