Over the weekend I was reading an article from Reclaim the Net about the revelations that the Biden White House worked hand in glove with Facebook to demonise and destroy what they described as the “Disinformation Dozen”. It was fascinating: Calling somebody a member of the “Disinformation Dozen” – there’s
Justin Hart Justin Hart is an executive consultant with over 25 years’ experience creating data-driven solutions for Fortune 500 companies and Presidential campaigns alike. Mr. Hart is the Chief Data Analyst and founder of RationalGround.com which helps companies, public policy officials, and even parents gauge the impact of
hobsonspledge.nz With all that has happened this week, and with the focus on the election, I am asking you to take a moment to speak up for equal speech rights. The Department of Internal Affairs released a proposal for a new way to regulate social media and traditional media
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
As I reported recently, the Australian government was censoring social media posts at a rate of knots during Covid. In less than three years, the government censored over 4000 posts, for supposedly “harmful misinformation”. I’m sure you won’t be at all surprised to find that that was a
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff shortly there
Corina Shields corinashields.substack.com If you think you know me you’re wrong. I don’t fit any of your stereotypes. I’ve had to remove myself lately and watch as this whole Spark Debacle has played out. And I’ve watched it with a heavy heart, a pit
A common argument from the anti-free speech left is that “it’s only censorship if the government is doing it!” This, they claim, means that when social media companies censor speech on their platforms, it’s not really censorship. This is wrong, of course, on several points. Firstly, while
No doubt Spark will be pretty keen to move to Threads, after their debacle on Twitter last week. After all, they won’t have to worry about a public backlash to the misogynist bigotry of their employees in a space where no one will even see it. The great terror
Family First In a disturbing display of media censorship, the major daily Newspapers have all banded together to pull the publication of a full page advertisement at the 11th hour. A nationwide campaign asking the simple question “What is a woman?” was launched yesterday. But the NZ Herald did everything
Some people seem to have missed Dave Chappelle’s memo: “You are never, ever, allowed to upset the alphabet people”. And, under no circumstances, not never, not ever, should you publicly state orthodox Christian beliefs. A Minnesota mayor has been summarily found guilty of both. Members of an LGBTQ+ group
As I repeatedly warn BFD readers, “Always assume a ‘fact-checker’ is trying to bullshit you”. That’s because “fact-checkers” are in reality almost always Confirmation Bias Machines whose purpose is to mislead and to reinforce biased narratives. The ABC and its partnership with RMIT FactLab is a case
As I wrote recently, even Big Brother himself, Mark Zuckerberg, is raising an eyebrow at Anthony Albanese’s Orwellian “online misinformation” bill. The bill would allow the government to arbitrarily declare anything online as “harmful misinformation”, while exempting themselves from the same scrutiny. The bill would also outlaw speech that
Technically, it’s a fallacy to judge an idea on the metric of just who is endorsing it. Still, there are some actors who are so resolutely wrong that it’s a pretty safe bet that anything they like is a very bad thing indeed. One such bad actor is
