💻🇳🇬 Whether #Nigeria's decision to ban #Twitter in response to the platform deleting a controversial tweet by President Buhari is a principled move in support of national sovereignty or an anti-democratic one aimed at stifling growing dissent.
✒️ Andrew Korybko

https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/is-nigerias-twitter-ban-a-national-sovereignty-or-anti-democratic-move

🎧💻 Although we don't agree with the praises...
#Twitter's new CEO has given some indications that he has a lot less interest in free speech than his predecessor and is much more favorable to #censorship via algorithm manipulation.
✒️ Caitlin Johnstone

https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/dorseys-twitter-resignation-sparks-fears-of-more-internet-censorship

💻 That #ASPI is now partially in charge of #Twitter’s moderation, influencing what hundreds of millions of people see daily, is a grave threat to the free flow of information, as well as to the chances for a peaceful 21st century.
✒️ Alan MacLeod

https://thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/aspi-the-govt-funded-conspiracist-think-tank-now-controlling-your-social-media-feed

🎥⛔️💻 #Twitter has permanently deleted my account and the prospect of disappearing from YouTube and being deplatformed from Patreon cannot be ruled out.
✒️ Brian Berletic

https://thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/new-atlas-deleted-off-of-twitter-where-else-to-find-support-my-work

🎥📣💻🇺🇸🇺🇦 US-based social media corporations like #Twitter are engaged in a concerted effort to push US government-funded #propaganda regarding Ukraine onto its many millions of users.
✒️ Brian Berletic

https://thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/twitters-moments-push-us-government-propaganda-on-ukraine

🎧💻 Regardless of whether you agree with @georgegalloway's argument or not, this all overlooks the innate absurdity of a government-tied social media corporation like #Twitter labeling other people 'state-affiliated media
✒️ Caitlin Johnstone

https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/twitter-is-state-affiliated-media

🎥💻 Elon Musk’s bid to take over #Twitter and reduce “content moderation policies” is much more complex and possibly dangerous than it appears.
✒️ Brian Berletic

https://thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/elon-musk-buying-twitter-why-its-a-bigger-battle-than-you-think

⛔️💻 Average users have no recourse if their posts are labeled “misinformation” and thus frozen. There’s nothing that anyone can do since the game is literally rigged against them.
✒️ Andrew Korybko

#Twitter #censorship
https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/twitters-crisis-misinformation-policy-will-likely-result-in-censoring-more-alt-media

💻🇺🇸 “In terms of their outlooks on the world and on the question of misinformation and internet security, you couldn’t get a better field of professionals who are almost inherently going to be more in tune with the government’s perspective.” – #FBI Whistleblower Coleen Rowley
✒️ Alan MacLeod

#Twitter
https://thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/the-federal-bureau-of-tweets-twitter-is-hiring-an-alarming-number-of-fbi-agents

🎥🎤💻🇺🇸 Scott Horton talks with Alan MacLeod about the reporting he’s done on the surprising number of former FBI agents who have joined the content moderation department at #Twitter.

#censorship
https://thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/ep-5732-alan-macleod-on-the-alarming-number-of-ex-fbi-agents-working-at-twitter

📣💻🇺🇦 #Twitter allows blogger to doxx independent journalist on the ground in war zone
✒️ Vanessa Beeley

https://thealtworld.com/vanessa_beeley/twitter-facilitates-cyber-terrorism-and-nato-proxy-war-crimes-in-ukraine

📣🇺🇦🇷🇺 Celebrated in mainstream US media for its anti-Russian trolling, the #Twitter operation known as #NAFO was founded by a Polish antisemite to raise money for a militia that has hosted war criminals, white nationalists and wanted murderers.
✒️ Alex Rubinstein

https://thealtworld.com/alexander_rubinstein/how-the-pro-ukraine-nafo-troll-operation-crowd-funds-war-criminals

🎥💻 Banned by #Twitter, unbanned and then banned again. But #ScottRitter is unchained here. He explains how the Brits’ attack on the #NordStream pipeline was also on Germany and Europe
🎤 George Galloway

https://thealtworld.com/scott_ritter/the-new-twitter-boss-same-as-the-old-boss-says-scott-ritter

🎧💻 Reinstating a handful of celebrities has no meaningful effect on the free expression of normal people.
✒️ Caitlin Johnstone

#Twitter
https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/musks-free-speech-moves-on-twitter-have-so-far-been-unimpressive

🎥💻🇺🇸 Probe: #Twitter created special list in 2017 to grant accounts run by US central command more visibility
🎤 Tim Anderson and John Steppling

https://thealtworld.com/tim_anderson/probe-twitter-created-special-list-in-2017-to-grant-accounts-run-by-us-central-command-more-visibility

🎧💻🇺🇸 Governments have no more business regulating online speech than they have regulating what consenting adults do in the bedroom
✒️ Caitlin Johnstone

#Twitter
https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/western-governments-keep-assigning-themselves-the-authority-to-regulate-online-speech

🎧💻🇺🇸 A couple of months into his control of #Twitter, it's fair to say that Musk has allowed far more negative practices to continue than he has ended.
✒️ Caitlin Johnstone

https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/elon-musks-twitter-is-still-us-state-affiliated-media

🎥🎤💻🇺🇸 Matt Taibbi joins The Grayzone live for a discussion with Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate about his reporting on internal #Twitter files exposing shocking levels of US government pressure on the social media giant to censor accounts dissenting against official deceptions

https://thealtworld.com/thealtworld/matt-taibbi-on-the-twitter-files

🎧🌐 Four-in-one article today: #Facebook #censorship, #Taiwan war games funded by the war industry, NYT hates RFK Jr, and #Twitter removes its "state-affiliated media" labels.
✒️ Caitlin Johnstone

https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/today-in-empire-war-machine-funded-war-games-facebook-censors-hersh-and-more

⛔️💻 Elon. You chose to support baby killers. And you continue to provide them with unfettered access to your #Twitter platform.
✒️ Scott Ritter

https://thealtworld.com/scott_ritter/fk-you-elon