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This is good news for people who believe in free speech and abhors censorship.

Quote: "Twitter Exec Who Censored Hunter Biden Story Fired.   Whether or not you’re a Republican or Democrat, a story that turned out to be true was suppressed by major outlets in America.The Twitter exec who censored The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden — and brazenly likened members of the Trump administration to Nazis — has quit just days after getting public support from new boss Elon Musk.

Yoel Roth, 35, until Wednesday had continued pushing the site’s shifting policies on trolling and hateful conduct — and appeared alongside new owner Musk, 51, in defending the platform in a crunch meeting with advertisers that same day. But Twitter staffers were told on Slack on Thursday that Roth was the latest key exec to have resigned, according to employees. Roth also confirmed his exit by changing his bio on the site he’d worked at for seven years to “Former Head of Trust & Safety at @Twitter.”The long-contentious exec was just one of the latest key figures to join the exodus during the unprecedented crisis that Musk this week admitted could end in bankruptcy.

Damien Kieran changed his bio to “Ex-Chief Privacy Officer” after sharing a photo of him leaving behind his laptop and Twitter passes, calling it a “time honored tradition. "Similarly, Lea Kissner changed her bio to “(now former)” chief information security officer, telling her 25,000 followers: “I’ve made the hard decision to leave Twitter.”

“Proud” Twitter client solutions leader Robin Wheeler shot back at rumors she’d also quit, tweeting: “I’m still here.”The exodus came as Musk has warned he will slash in half the site’s 7,500 staffing numbers, and after he fired chief executive Parag Agrawal and other top management as soon as he took charge.

Still, Roth’s exit was the biggest shock given how closely intertwined he appeared to be with Musk in sharing the site’s new policies.

Early in his takeover, Musk also defended Roth, dismissing his “questionable” past tweets while declaring: “I want to be clear that I support Yoel. My sense is that he has high integrity, and we are all entitled to our political beliefs.”

That support was in itself surprising given how Roth is blamed for censoring The Post’s exclusive stories about Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings ahead of the 2020 presidential election, a ban Musk has ripped as “obviously incredibly inappropriate.”

He was also the subject of a 2020 front-page article in The Post that noted how the man policing the site’s content had referred to former President Donald Trump’s advisers as “ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.” He also likened Trump’s spokesperson Kellyanne Conway to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.

In other tweets dating back to 2016 and 2017, Roth dubbed Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell a “personality-free bag of farts,” bragged about his $100 donation to then-Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and snidely remarked of the middle of the country: “I’m just saying, we fly over those states that voted for a racist tangerine for a reason.”

Former staffer Emily Horne, who oversaw global policy communications at Twitter until 2018, warned that Roth’s exit would be a “huge loss.” “He’s worked incredibly hard under very challenging circumstances, including being personally targeted by some of the most vicious trolls who were active on the platform,” said Horne. “He stayed through all of that because he believed so deeply in the work his team was doing to promote a public conversation and improve the health of that conversation.”

Edward Perez, Twitter’s former product director for civic integrity, which includes its election policies, shared a similar warning. “While we cannot predict what might happen in the post-election period, I can imagine scenarios where ‘tough calls’ would have naturally made their way up to Yoel,” Perez told the Washington Post.

“Now of course it begs the question: Who has sufficient institutional knowledge at this critical time?” Still, despite the drama, Musk insisted early Friday that Twitter “hit all-time high of active users today.”    Twitter Exec Who Censored Hunter Biden Story Fired – True News

This item illustrates just how corrupt and anti-American our mainstream and social media are. 

Quote: "Media outlets praise anti-lockdown protesters in China after condemning American demonstrators as ‘extremists’.  Protests have erupted throughout China against the government's zero COVID policy.

Chinese protesting against the severe COVID restrictions by the Chinese Communist Party has received widespread praise and accolades from much of the media in the United States. However, when Americans protested COVID restrictions, the same media outlets struck a much different tone.

The New York Times published a story that highlighted the Chinese protestors' personal stories and the harm caused by Chinese President Xi Jinping's ‘Zero Covid’ policy. "President Xi Jinping’s unbending approach to the pandemic has hurt businesses and strangled growth, squeezing the world’s second-largest economy," the Times reported Tuesday.

In a separate article, the Times lauded praise on young people protesting against the government's harsh lockdowns. "By standing up to the government, they defied the perception of their generation," the Times wrote.

However, American protesters were not met with the same praise. Rather than highlighting the economic pain Americans faced during the government imposed lockdowns, articles published by the Times painted Americans who opposed such measures as extremists.

In May 2020, the Times published an article titled, "The Coronavirus Becomes a Battle Cry for U.S. Extremists". 

"America’s extremists are attempting to turn the coronavirus pandemic into a potent recruiting tool both in the deep corners of the internet and on the streets of state capitals by twisting the public health crisis to bolster their white supremacist, anti-government agenda," the Times reported. 

In a report published in April 2020, the New York Times described anti-lockdown demonstrations as "right-wing protests of social distancing restrictions". The Times used the term "right-wing protesters" in a headline for another article that month as well. 

The Washington Post editorial board similarly treated Chinese protestors much more favorably than Americans. In April 2020, the editors described opposition to lockdowns as a "wide-ranging and well-financed conservative campaign to undermine restrictions that medical experts say are necessary to contain the coronavirus".

However, Monday, the editors sided with the protesters. 

"Protests erupted in Chinese cities over the weekend, in which ordinary Chinese registered their unhappiness with their country’s strict coronavirus policies — and with the regime itself. A reasonable, responsive government would adjust," the editorial board wrote. 

The Guardian's coverage of anti-lockdown protests varied significantly, too. In May 2020, the media outlet published an article titled "US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests." On Wednesday, their coverage of the Chinese protests was much more favorable, and even echoed the rallying cry of many Americans during the U.S. lockdowns. 

"‘People want to live’: views from China on the Covid lockdown protests," the Guardian titled its recent article. Rather than blaming Chinese protesters for spreading the virus, the publication praised the demonstrations as a "remarkable expression of defiance". 

Other outlets, such as Vox, also have covered the concerns of the Chinese protesters much more favorably than their American counterparts. In March 2020, Vox published an article titled "The whiteness of anti-lockdown protests", which attempted to describe "[h]ow ignorance, privilege, and anti-black racism is driving white protesters to risk their lives."

However, Wednesday, Vox struck a very different tone. "Those of us in the West should listen to what’s being said by the brave protesters who’ve come out to the streets in China," they wrote. 

While less strict and severe than China's policies, government imposed coronavirus lockdowns in the U.S. had devastating economic, health, and educational consequences. Over 200,000 businesses closed permanently during the first year of the outbreak. Children are failing to meet basic reading, writing, and math standards. Healthcare workers who served during the pandemic and many others have since been let go because they elected not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine."     Media outlets praise anti-lockdown protesters in China after condemning American demonstrators as ‘extremists’ | Fox News

Everyone paying attention knows that the left-wing oriented mainstream media and social media are the propaganda arm of the corrupt Democrat party. So, that makes them equally as corrupt. This is but one of way too many examples.

Quote: "Media Sweeps Voting Fiascos Right Under The Rug.  I want to begin by introducing Shannon O'Conner, a Daily Beast reporter, to all of you. O'Connor clearly demonstrates her qualifications as a "legitimate journalist," so we are aware of this. She delivered a lecture this past weekend on why citizen journalists are useless and have a lesser life form than legitimate news organizations. Since they all attended school and other related institutions, they are, like, absolutely fantastic at what they do and superior to everyone else barred from the Cool Table.

O'Conner's appeal to her own greatness in this instance is very funny, from publishing her anger with Twitter authors while ON Twitter to turning off her replies so she won't have to put up with their remarks. However, her sect's actions over the past week involving the elections absolutely disprove her claim of unquestionable media quality.In order to disprove Shannon's assertion that journalism is free of "false and misleading information," let's ignore for the moment how these superior news organisations pushed the false Russian collusion story for years and buried the now-verified Hunter Biden Laptop story. Instead, let's examine the false information these prestigious news organisations In the days leading up to Tuesday's election, the press warned us to anticipate protracted tabulation delays and unusual behaviour from unidentified precincts across the nation after years of telling us that our election system is above reproach and anyone questioning the integrity of our voting process threatens the foundation of our democracy. Therefore, it is incorrect to imply that there is a problem with the counting of the votes, but we should also be prepared for problems in specific regions. Sure. 

As Arizona became the focus of tabulation disputes, the press defended the clearly flawed procedures that were being used. Arizona remained stuck with an antiquated procedure while states with larger populations were able to finish their tallies in a single day. However, there were also reports from Maricopa County precincts claiming that voting was hampered by technical difficulties that prevented votes from being cast, but the press dared no one to voice an objection. The same media that said that states like Georgia would make voting difficult didn't seem to care if voters couldn't cast votes there. disseminated to the public.

The New York Times jumped in to claim that Twitter had not done enough to silence people who had expressed concerns about the Arizona election process. The article said explicitly that these were free speech advocates who ought to have kept quiet about this subject. Let's think back to O'Conner's statements from earlier, where she criticised those for disseminating erroneous information because it appears that the Times is saying the same thing. However, they are actually the source of misinformation. This purported "Paper of Record" argues that certain accounts should not have been allowed to speak out when they were discussing real facts. Officials from Maricopa County confirmed that there were issues with precincts not being able to take votes. This issue affected numerous precincts; it did not just affect a small number of machines. The Times is arguing that people should not have been allowed to spread accurate information. The Times sought to advance the demonstrably false story that there was no problem with Maricopa County's voting machines. And it wasn't the only instance. One of the most highly recognized fact-check sources delivers the same false information after assuring us that news companies are a trusted source since they employ fact-checkers, and it is quickly refuted by itself.

In order to defend Maricopa County from "fraudulent accusations," Politifact intervened. The website used Tucker Carlson as their bulwark, using his remarks regarding the technical glitches to declare claims of voting-related problems in that county to be "False."

Although both the county and Politifact claimed that the polling machines were not functioning, it was untrue to claim that they were preventing individuals from casting their ballots. In a razor-thin race for governor, when one of the candidates is the secretary of state and in charge of these very same elections, the same county that was having those problems is now taking a week to complete its vote-counting. The press accuses everyone who suggests that this could lead to illegal activity of being part of a conspiracy, despite the fact that they were the ones who warned us last week to anticipate delays of this nature. Those who foresaw this outcome condemn those who are observing it today and deny what has occurred even though they acknowledge it happened.

This is where our journalistic complex is right now. While professing to be the only ones who can determine what is true, they are demonstrating levels of ignorance that are astounding. The biggest example of disinformation being spread these days may be those telling us they have educated brains and that only they are authorized to present the facts."    Media Sweeps Voting Fiascos Right Under The Rug - Political Action Alerts News