The New York Post is the third largest domestic newspaper in the United States by circulation. It’s a tabloid, founded in 1801, and could best be described as sort of an American equivalent to The Sun. A tabloid, but a real newspaper – not comedy publication like, say, the National Enquirer. Yesterday it ran a […]
Highly amusing. This all began at 2.50AM, when somebody noticed an…. unusual tweet from the MEP’s account concerning his constituency colleague, ex-Green candidate Saoirse McHugh: The apparent tweet, slash google search gone terribly wrong, was swiftly deleted, and that would seem to have been the end of that. An embarrassing middle-of-the-night blunder, worthy of a […]
In ancient Rome, a few times each year, the populace would troop down to the amphitheatre to take their seats and cheer as a series of animals and people were torn apart for their entertainment. In the modern era, the equivalent happens with more regularity, and slightly less gore. Yesterday, the chosen victim for the […]
Extraordinary: https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1275500569940176897 The background to this: Some weeks ago, anarchist protestors in Seattle set up what they called an “autonomous zone” – basically their own independent quasi-country, in the city. Two nights ago, protestors in Washington DC threatened to do the same. Trump was having none of it. Twitter says that Trump’s tweet constituted a […]
United States President Donald Trump has asserted that social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter are under control of the radical left – and that his Administration is working to remedy what he described as an illegal situation. “The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google. The Administration […]
YouTubers are being silenced if they don’t agree with the United Nations on public health. As The Verdict reports: YouTube will ban any content containing medical advice that contradicts World Health Organisation (WHO) coronavirus recommendations, according to CEO Susan Wojcicki. Wojcicki announced the policy on CNN on Sunday. WHO is an agency of the UN, charged with […]
Social media giant, Facebook, is under fire again for using biased ‘fact-checkers’ to label reporting as ‘fake news’. The New York Post, one of the most long-established newspapers in the U.S., hit back at Facebook this week saying that the platform’s “‘fact-checkers’ are the real fake news after censoring Post story”. As the newspaper explained: […]
In times of crisis, there’s always someone ready to make a wisecrack about the situation. However, the people of New Berlin, Wisconsin, probably didn’t expect that with the covid-19 emergency the smart aleck would be their own local police department. The official New Berlin police department’s Facebook account made a post last week which read: […]
Yesterday, the hashtag #BeKind was trending on Twitter, closely followed by the name Rónán Mullen. Senator Mullen is a pro-life politician who normally gets pretty nasty abuse from the liberal left on Twitter. Perhaps, I thought, the tragic death of Caroline Flack, who was tormented by vicious trolls on social media and the tabloids before dying […]
Social media is causing anxiety amongst teenagers – and that effect is bigger for girls than it is for boys, a leading expert on child psychology has written. Dr. Leonard Sax, a psychologist and leading author on child psychology and learning, says “the bottom line is that the evidence is much stronger than I had […]
In a letter sent to Canada’s Minister of Heritage, Trudeau calls for ‘significant penalties’ to be imposed on social media companies that fail to remove content perceived as hate speech within 24 hours.
This business of demanding that social media censor every opinion that we don’t like just isn’t going to end well. Here’s another press hit this morning for the Minister for blaming everybody but himself for Health: “HEALTH MINISTER SIMON Harris is to meet with a number of social media companies today to discuss the spread […]