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Officials from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security frequently met with major social media companies ahead of the 2020 election and pointed out users and pieces of content for removal, according to information from a deposition of a senior FBI agent revealed by a state Attorney General. “We found that the FBI plays a big role in working with social media companies to censor speech—from weekly meetings with social media companies ahead of the 2020 election to asks for account takedowns,” said Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt in a Dec. 2 series of tweets, three days after deposing Special Agent Elvis…

Keir Starmer has welcomed Labour’s commanding byelection victory in the City of Chester, saying the result was evidence voters “want the change Labour offers”. The Labour leader tweeted his congratulations to Samantha Dixon, the incoming Labour MP, on Friday morning, after she won the seat with the party’s highest ever vote share. Labour secured a majority of 10,974 on a 14-point vote swing, in a brutal first electoral test for Rishi Sunak. Labour stays on course for power with Chester byelection victory Read more Starmer tweeted on Friday: “The message to Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government is clear: people are fed up of 12 years…

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri’s Attorney General Eric Schmitt in May sued Anthony Fauci, the Biden administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the FBI, alleging they censored American’s free speech on social media platforms. Pointedly, Landry stated in an interview that aired on Newsmakers by NTD and The Epoch Times on Nov. 30, that “basically, when Anthony Fauci spoke, Americans were censored by Big Tech.” Landry added that thanks to the First Amendment, the U.S. government is prohibited from censoring people’s speech. He said that same amendment also prevents the government from telling…

Businesses affected by Victoria’s infamous second lockdown may need to wait another three years for their class action lawsuit to be heard in court if a bid by the Victorian State government is successful. This comes as a committal hearing is being heard in the Melbourne Magistrates Court to determine whether Victoria’s health department will face trial over alleged hotel quarantine failure. Lawyers acting for small businesses argue (pdf) that the state government’s failed hotel quarantine program was the result of the state’s negligence in implementing effective infection and control measures that led to the state’s second wave, which then proceeded to the 112-day…

As a rare, large Beijing street demonstration reached a climax, and emotions were running high, several protesters shouted the normally unspeakable – for China’s ruling Communist Party and its leader Xi Jinping to step down. It was a scene repeated in various forms across the country over the weekend, according to social media posts and accounts from witnesses, as protesters fed-up with Xi’s zero-COVID pushed the boundaries by speaking for change in a country where space for dissent has narrowed dramatically under Xi’s increasingly authoritarian rule. Aware that police and cameras were watching, people sought to protect themselves during China’s…

There was an added note of pain for Germany in the tone, the pitch, the basic jauntiness of Costa Rica’s designated goal music, a taunting blast of trumpets and maracas, the kind of thing that gets played on a particularly cruel TV gameshow as the bucket of gunge upends itself over the dunce’s booth. Germany did manage something novel at Al Bayt Stadium, exiting the World Cup at the earliest stage despite winning this game 4-2. They spent most of it in, then out; and even witnessed an extraordinary period where it seemed Costa Rica, who played with real heart,…

UK house prices have fallen at their fastest rate for two and a half years as the fallout from Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget put buyers off according to Nationwide, which warned inflation and rising interest rates would weigh on the market in the coming months. The price of an average home dropped 1.4% to £263,788 in November, according to the lender’s house price index, accelerating a slowdown that saw prices fall 0.9% in October. It was the third monthly fall in a row, and the biggest drop since June 2020. On an annual basis, annual house price growth slowed sharply to 4.4%…

It was a mistake for Twitter to censor the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in the weeks leading to the 2020 presidential election, the company’s former Trust and Safety Department head said on Tuesday. Yoel Roth, who resigned earlier this month in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover as Twitter’s new chief executive, has been blamed for censoring a New York Post article about emails retrieved from a laptop once owned by Hunter Biden. Those emails, according to the Post, showed a direct link then-presidential candidate Joe Biden had with his son’s dubious business dealings in China and Ukraine. Shortly after the story’s publication, Twitter not…

President Xi Jinping appears to be buckling under the pressure of nationwide protests over his draconian zero-Covid policies, with Beijing signalling it will finally relax the country’s strict approach to the virus. Xi is facing the biggest threat to his rule since he took power 10 years ago, as anger fuelled by relentless Covid lockdowns has exploded across China in mass demonstrations calling for him to resign. Now, in what would be an unprecedented U-turn by Xi, his officials have begun hinting that the President’s signature zero-Covid policy could be relaxed in the face of the rare protests across China. This suggests that Xi – notorious…

The first Westminster byelection since the resignation of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss and the financial fallout from the mini-budget takes place on Thursday. Polls will close at 10pm in the City of Chester constituency in the first electoral test for Rishi Sunak. The byelection was triggered by Labour MP Chris Matheson resigning in October after allegations of sexual misconduct. Parliament’s bullying and harassment watchdog and the standards commissioner found he had violated the Commons’ sexual misconduct policy. The byelection comes after a year of turmoil for the Conservatives, including byelection losses in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton in June and the Partygate scandal,…