Totalitarian Media Regime

2000s

 * The Digital Imprimatur - John Walker, September 13, 2003
 * Stopping truth at the border: banning Michael Savage from Britain - Selwyn Duke, RenewAmerica, May 6, 2009
 * ''The further a society drifts from Truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

2012
Sberbank's German Gref: one should not give power/information to the people as then it will be harder to manipulate them, -- while the rest of his panel, from USA, UK, and Russia are for empowering users of Internet.

December 2016

 * EU's Infowar On Russia - Putting In Place A Totalitarian Media Regime And Speech Control - Jon Hellevig, December 16, 2016 (local copy)

December 2017

 * Did The NYT Admit That Government Must Approve Everything It Publishes? - End Of Innocence, December 13, 2017

January 2018

 * The War on Dissent - CJ Hopkins, CounterPunch, January 26, 2018
 * ''The message is, “try to fuck with us, and we will marginalize you, and demonize you, and demonetize you, and disappear you.”

October 2018

 * Leaked Google research shows company grappling with censorship and free speech - Nick Statt, The Verge, October 10, 2018
 * Google, The 'Good Censor' - The American Conservative, October 10, 2018
 * The Good Censor - GOOGLE LEAK | Censorship | Facebook - Scribd
 * No Google Isn't Trying To Censor The Web - Kalev Leetaru, Forbes, October 10, 2018
 * ''The “leaked” presentation was quickly framed by some as a roadmap to censorship and that it demonstrated the company was examining how to suppress certain viewpoints or crack down on internet freedoms. Yet, a closer read of the presentation would suggest precisely the opposite: a company at the center of many of our debates about the future of the online world grappling with the existential question of the modern web: how to absolutely preserve freedom of speech, while at the same time preventing terrorists, criminals, repressive governments and trolls from turning this incredible force for good into a toxic and dangerous place that undermines democracy, advances terrorism, assists fraudsters and empowers hatred? How do we elevate the voices of the disenfranchised and give them a place at the table of global discourse, while not also awakening the trolls that seek to repress them? How do we empower the free expression of ideas and bring an incredibly diverse and divided world together, while embracing the differences that make us who we are? How do we reach across countries and cultures, across languages and landscapes, to have meaningful conversations about the future of our shared planet? Most importantly, how can technology play a positive role in helping facilitate the good, empowering civil discourse, while discouraging the bad, from terrorist recruiting to fraud to toxic speech and trolling?

May 2019

 * Applying AI to Keep the Platform Safe - facebook for developers, May 1, 2019
 * Facebook's Edge AI Content Scanning Brings NSA-Style Surveillance And Censorship To The Planet - Kalev Leetaru, Forbes, May 5, 2019
 * ''The microphone could even be left permanently on to scan the surrounding background environment 24/7, creating a globally distributed network of billions of always-on microphones transcribing global private conversations.

June 2019

 * Prisma poisti verkkokaupastaan kirjan, joka on viestintäasiantuntijan mukaan julkaistu hämäyksen vuoksi: "Se on taitava väärennös – täyttä roskaa" - Aamulehti, June 3, 2019
 * I DEMAND an Explanation from Medium.Com Regarding Their Censorship of My Work - Mark F. McCarty, June 3, 2019
 * European Court Of Justice Suggests Maybe The Entire Internet Should Be Censored And Filtered - Mike Masnick, Techdirt, June 5, 2019
 * How Finland fights the fake news trolls - Video by Tom Bateman, BBC, June 6, 2019
 * Facebook Has Banned The Word "Honk" For Violating Their Community Standards - ZeroHedge, June 6, 2019
 * YouTube, Facebook Purges Are More Extensive Than You Think - Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, June 7, 2019
 * YouTube is deleting videos on Nazi history as part of its hate speech crackdown - MIT Technology Review, June 7, 2019
 * Google Deploys Squads Of Firemen To Burn Offensive Books, Videos, Websites - The Babylon Bee, June 7, 2019
 * The Trust Project: Big Media and Silicon Valley’s Weaponized Algorithms Silence Dissent - Whitney Webb, Mint Press News, June 7, 2019
 * Facebook Deletes ‘Natural News’ Facebook Page - Breitbart, June 10, 2019
 * Global Internet Censorship Lockdown Begins In Canada - Resurrection Europa, June 10, 2019
 * The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction - John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute, June 10, 2019
 * The Censorship of Social Media: A Facebook Experience - Paula Densnow, OffGuardian, June 11, 2019
 * New York Times to Cease Political Cartoons After Anti-Semitism Backlash (PHOTOS) - Sputnik, June 11, 2019
 * Pinterest Bans Zero Hedge By Adding To "Porn Domain Block List" Used To Target Conservatives - ZeroHedge, June 11, 2019
 * ‘Woke clickbait’ ruined media, so now they demand censorship – and Big Tech obeys - Nebojsa Malic, RT, June 15, 2019
 * The Guardian’s direct collusion with media censorship by secret services exposed - Thomas Scripps, WSWS, June 22, 2019
 * Guardian Continues to Promote “Progressive” Censorship - Kit Knightly, OffGuardian, June 23, 2019
 * Vimeo bans media watchdog Project Veritas after it accused Google of anti-Trump bias - RT, June 27, 2019

July 2019

 * Medium Has Begun Banning Its Users For Disputing Pro-War Narratives - Rainer Shea, July 8, 2019
 * Russia's RT and Sputnik barred from UK conference on media freedom - AFP, July 9, 2019
 * When discerning the truth becomes an automated process - Padraig Joseph McGrath, InfoRos, July 10, 2019
 * UN Launches All-Out War On Free Speech - Judith Bergman, ZeroHedge, July 11, 2019
 * Assange Defense Account Deleted By Twitter - Caitlin Johnstone, July 13, 2019

August 2019

 * ‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says the Creator of 8chan, a Megaphone for Gunmen - Kevin Roose, The New York Times, August 4, 2019
 * Terminating Service for 8Chan - Matthew Prince, Cloudflare blog, August 5, 2019
 * Online providers knock 8chan offline after mass shooting - AP, August 5, 2019
 * 8chan: Another Mass Shooting, Another Internet Purge - Kit Knightly, OffGuardian, August 5, 2019
 * ''This is the third “mass casualty event” in less than a year that was immediately followed up by censorship of the internet
 * Updating our advertising policies on state media - Twitter Inc., August 19, 2019
 * Twitter Declares Total Advertising Ban on State-Run Media Outlets - Sputnik, August 20, 2019
 * The state of this! Twitter’s advertising ban is ideological & anti-democratic - Neil Clark, RT, August 20, 2019
 * Facebook takes down anti-protest accounts ‘due to Beijing links, not content’ - South China Morning Post, August 20, 2019
 * Twitter Bans 200,000 Accounts It "Believes" Are Run By Chinese Government - Sputnik, August 21, 2019
 * Twitter relying on US/European gov-funded regime-change groups to crack down on foreign states - Ben Norton, The Grayzone, August 24, 2019

December 2019

 * The new cold war and the redoubling of U.S. propaganda power - Rainer Shea, December 27, 2019
 * The West Is Entering an Era of Totalitarian Media Control - Cybersecurity Analyst - Sputnik, December 27, 2019

COVID-19

 * ''See also Wuhan coronavirus outbreak


 * Google censors Google Doc of medical hydroxychloroquine coronavirus treatment trial paper - Reclaim the Net, March 25, 2020
 * Anti-Vaccine Posts On Facebook, Instagram And Twitter Could Be Banned Under New UK Laws - The Independent, March 27, 2019
 * how to recognise and tackle Covid-19 myths - European Parliament, March 30, 2020
 * "The EU has pressured tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft to stop the spread of fake news about COVID-19." (on soundtrack)
 * We cannot allow Facebook and Twitter to use Covid-19 to launch their own coup d’état - RT, April 2, 2020
 * Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal - The Atlantic, April 25, 2020
 * ''In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong.
 * Narrative Managers Argue China-Like Internet Censorship Is Needed - Caitlin Johnstone, April 27, 2020
 * Why Did YouTube Remove The Doctors’ Briefing? - Rod Dreher, The American Conservative, April 28, 2020
 * Censorship Continues. Facebook Permanently Deleted SouthFront’s Page - SouthFront, April 30, 2020
 * ''Recently, Deutsche Welle and several other mainstream media outlets released articles alleging that SouthFront is spreading disinformation about the COVID-19 outbreak.
 * The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here - Matt Taibbi, April 30, 2020 (mirror)
 * Health Professionals Make Urgent Call to Social Media CEOs: “Viral misinformation is threatening our patients’ lives” - Avaaz, May 7, 2020
 * Our Facebook Ban: the Fatal 0.2% - Ron Unz, Unz Review, May 11, 2020
 * YouTube censors epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski for opposing lockdown - New York Post, May 16, 2020
 * What critical thinking? Wayback Machine is now complicit in Big Tech censorship - Elliot Leavy, RT, May 19, 2020
 * Google Drive takes down user’s personal copy of Judy Mikovits’ Plandemic after it was flagged by The Washington Post - Reclaim the Net, May 20, 2020

May 2020

 * April 2020 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report - Facebook, April 2020
 * SouthFront’s YouTube Channel Is Banned - SouthFront, May 2, 2020
 * Pre-crime: Twitter will warn users about their 'HARMFUL' language, BEFORE they tweet - RT, May 5, 2020
 * After Youtube and Facebook, Vimeo bans ‘Sayed Hasan’ & Nasrallah’s videos - Resistance News Unfiltered, May 16, 2020
 * Planet of the Censoring Humans - Matt Taibbi, May 30, 2020

June 2020

 * FBI launches open attack on ‘foreign’ alternative media outlets challenging US foreign policy - Gareth Porter, The Grayzone, June 5, 2020 (mirror)
 * ''The FBI’s first step toward intervening against dissenting views on social media took place in October 2017 with the creation of a Foreign Influence Task Force (FTIF) in the bureau’s Counterintelligence Division. Next, the FBI defined any effort by states designated by the Department of Defense as major adversaries (Russia, China, Iran and North Korea) to influence American public opinion as a threat to US national security.
 * The American Press Is Destroying Itself - Matt Taibbi, June 12, 2020
 * Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns - ''Caitlin Johnstone, June 13, 2020
 * 'Facebook doesn't care': Activists say accounts removed despite Zuckerberg's free-speech stance - Olivia Solon, NBC News, June 15, 2020
 * Google bans two websites from its ad platform over protest articles - NBC News, June 15, 2020
 * ''The two sites, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, will no longer be able to generate revenue from any advertisements served by Google Ads.
 * Tucker: Google tries to censor content it disagrees with - Fox News, Jun 16, 2020 (video)
 * NBC colludes with UK thought police to get ZeroHedge & Federalist deplatformed from Google Ads, smear them as ‘far-right’ - RT, June 16, 2020
 * ‘Independent’ Facebook fact-checker exposed as partisan smear factory packed with CNN alumni - RT, June 18, 2020
 * Twitter Censors Trump For “Threat Of Harm”, Has No Problem With Threats To Bomb Foreigners - Caitlin Johnstone, June 24, 2020
 * “Free Speech” In The US Empire Is As Illusory As “Free-Range” Eggs - Caitlin Johnstone, June 26, 2020

July 2020

 * The great American firewall: On the question of censorship - Danny Haiphong, MR Online, July 17, 2020
 * The Left is Now the Right - Matt Taibbi, July 20, 2020
 * Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown - NBC News, July 21, 2020
 * ''Its classification of QAnon as coordinated harmful activity was a new designation.
 * Just a glitch? Google hides conservative & alt-media websites from search results for hours - RT, July 21, 2020
 * Catch and Kill: The Protection Racket Used by Trump, Weinstein, Epstein and Wall Street - Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Wall Street on Parade, July 22, 2020

August 2020

 * The White House’s plan to purge Chinese tech from the internet is just bluster — for now - James Vincent, The Verge, August 6, 2020
 * The Filthy Hypocrisy of America’s “Clean” China-Free Internet - Sam Biddle, The Intercept, August 7 2020

September 2020

 * Council of Europe issues press freedom alert after UK blacklists site over Yemen coverage - MEE, September 5, 2020

October 2020

 * Facebook Bans All Pages, Groups & Instagram Accounts Linked to QAnon - Sputnik, October 6, 2020
 * Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line Far More Dangerous Than What They Censor - Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, October 16 2020
 * Social Media CENSORING Hunter Biden Article! - The Jimmy Dore Show, October 14, 2020 (video)
 * Twitter rolls out ‘DISPUTED’ warnings for users trying to post ‘misleading’ content after backlash over Biden emails censorship - RT, October 16, 2020
 * With the Hunter Biden Expose, Suppression is a Bigger Scandal Than The Actual Story - Matt Taibbi, October 24, 2020

November 2020

 * Glenn Greenwald Escapes His $100 Million Webzine - Ron Unz, Unz Review, November 1, 2020
 * US seizes another crop of Iranian propaganda domains masked as news outlets - Campbell Kwan, ZDNet, November 5, 2020
 * ''The United States announced on Wednesday it has seized 27 domains that were used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to spread global covert influence campaigns.
 * DOJ Seizes 27 Domains, Claims They are Controlled by Iran - Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com, November 4, 2020
 * ''One of the news sites taken down was the American Herald Tribune (AHT), a website whose editor in chief, Anthony Hall, is based in Canada. It’s not clear how the US government decided that AHT or the other websites are affiliated with Iran.
 * The Strange Demise of The American Herald Tribune - Philip Giraldi, Unz Review, November 10, 2020
 * – UK Intel Agencies Declare Cyber War on Independent Media - Whitney Webb, Unlimited Hangout, November 11, 2020
 * It Begins: Conservative Treehouse “Deplatformed” from WordPress - The Gateway Pundit, November 15, 2020
 * Republican Senator GRILLS Zuckerberg on Facebook, Google, and Twitter collaboration - CNET Highlights, Novemeber 17, 2020 (short version)
 * Liberal Media Suggests Biden Should Take Aggressive Approach To Censoring Conservative Media - True Pundit, November 18, 2020
 * YouTube suspends and demonetizes One America News Network over COVID-19 video - TechCrunch, November 24, 2020
 * Google removed this video from Karabach. I have seen the video prior to that. I appeared to show war crimes by Azerbaijani soldiers, including an execution and abuse of prisoners, some of them elderly. It also appeared to show a pogrom on one of the captured apartments, and abuse of Christian objects and WW2 monuments to Soviet-Armenian military leaders. (The video was linked in a Ruvesna article). --Resup (talk) 10:40, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Russia about censorship on western social media - Rundnews. November 30, 2020

December 2020

 * The YouTube Ban Is Un-American, Wrong, and Will Backfire - Matt Taibbi, December 11, 2020

January 2021

 * Twitter is deleting Trump’s attempts to circumvent ban - The Verge, January 8, 2021
 * Twitter Removes President Trump’s Twitter Account Claiming It May Cause Violence – A Huge Mistake - Joe Hoft, The Gateway Pundit, January 8, 2021
 * Parler SUSPENDED from Google Play Store, faces imminent BAN from Apple App Store - RT, January 9, 2021
 * Democrats Use Capitol Incident To Suppress Political Dissent - Moon of Alabama, January 9, 2021
 * The Democrat-Big Tech censorship alliance just ran a masterclass in media control for dictators around the world - Graham Dockery, RT, January 9, 2021
 * banning Trump and his supporters, Google and Twitter are turning the US into a facsimile of the regimes we once condemned - Scott Ritter, RT, January 9, 2021
 * 9 Big Tech Platforms that Have Blacklisted President Donald Trump - Breitbart, January 9, 2021
 * Big Tech Censorship: Part 1 Part 2 - Sharyl Attkisson, Full Measure, January 10, 2021
 * Parler CEO Says Service Dropped By “Every Vendor” And Could End His Business - Bruce Haring, Deadline, January 10, 2021
 * Outrage over Twitter's Trump Ban Grows: Pompeo, Rubio, Ted Cruz, Navalny, James Woods - Newsmax, January 10, 2021
 * Are you ready for total (ideological) war? - C.J. Hopkins, January 11, 2021 (RT)
 * is Going to be Much Bigger’: Twitter CEO Charts Agenda Beyond Trump Ban in Leaked Video - Sputnik, January 15, 2021
 * January Storm: Big tech escalates crackdown on conservatives, fueling scramble for alternatives - Just the News January 16, 2021
 * You Can’t ‘Just Build Your Own Twitter’ - Robert Mariani, The American Conservative, January 16, 2021
 * ‘democracy’ and ‘unity’ of Biden’s inaugural address have fine print: ‘After dissent is silenced’ - Michael Rectenwald, RT, January 20, 2021
 * & the ‘Squad’ agree: Neoliberal thought police have set their sights on ‘domestic extremists,’ putting dissent at risk - RT, January 21, 2021
 * Professor Calls For The Elimination of the Republican Party and Purging “Nazified” People From Congress, Universities, and “Regular Jobs” - Jonathan Turley, January 21, 2021
 * Agent Fired from Literary Agency for Using Parler and Gab - Newsweek, January 26, 2021
 * ''"The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency was distressed to discover this morning, January 25th, that one of our agents has been using the social media platforms Gab and Parler. We do not condone this activity, and we apologize to anyone who has been affected or offended by this,"
 * Twitter Rolls Out New Wikipedia-Like Program To Narrative Manage Tweets - Caitlin Johnstone, January 26, 2021
 * Twitter Releases New Community-Based Tool To Find Witches - Babylon Bee, January 27th, 2021
 * Facebook apologises for flagging Plymouth Hoe as offensive term - The Guardian, January 27, 2021
 * NASDAQ temporarily shuts down stock trading after internet trolls destroy hedge fund with GameStop stock - RT, January 27, 2021
 * The System Is Rigged - Episode 4537: Game Stop Corp - Moon of Alabama, January 28, 2021

February 2021

 * First I Thought it Was a Joke”: Academic Media Censorship Conference Censored by YouTube - Alan Macleod, ''MintPress, February 1, 2021
 * A report just exposed how establishment media pushed Tory 2019 election lies - Steve Topple, The Canary, February 5, 2021
 * Ben Nimmo @benimmo on Twitter, February 6, 2021
 * ''Next week, I’m starting at Facebook, where I’ll be helping to lead global threat intelligence strategy against influence operations. I’m very excited to join one of the best IO teams in the world to study, catch and get ahead of the known players and emerging threats.
 * Twitter Suspends Project Veritas Account For 'Violation of Rules' - Sputnik, February 12, 2021
 * Opinion | Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole - Charlie Warzel, The New York Times, February 18, 2021 (archive)
 * ''Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.
 * Twitter called out for ‘double standards’ after it singles out report on UK influence op in Russia with ‘hacked materials’ label - RT, February 24, 2021
 * Censorship Gone Bonkers - 'Be A Good Citizen!' - Moon of Alabama, February 24, 2021
 * Dr. Seuss Books Deemed Offensive Will Be Delisted From eBay - The Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2021

March 2021

 * Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor its Writers: to Bar Critiques of Journalists - Glenn Greenwald, March 11, 2021
 * How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation - Karen Hao, Technology Review, March 11, 2021
 * The Sovietization of the American Press - Matt Taibbi, Mar 12, 2021
 * Abuse of power: coordinated online harassment of Finnish government ministers - NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, March 2021

April 2021

 * 'National Emergency': Biden Administration Is Obsessed With SouthFront - SouthFront, April 15, 2021
 * Important announcement by the Saker! - The Saker, April 19, 2021
 * ''From now on, the Saker blog shall not post any texts or videos from the four organizations which the US Treasury has declared “disinformation outlets controlled by Russian intelligence services”. These are:
 * ''SouthFront
 * ''NewsFront
 * ''The Strategic Culture Foundation
 * ''InfoRos
 * Twitter isn’t censoring accounts to keep users ‘safe’, it is using its power to spoon-feed the world establishment narratives - Eva Bartlett, RT, April 30, 2021

May 2021

 * Brave New Cancel Culture World - Pepe Escobar, Asia Times via The Saker, May 1, 2021
 * A major battle over free speech on social media is playing out in India during the pandemic - Shirin Ghaffary, Vox, May 1, 2021
 * The Criminalization of Dissent - CJ Hopkins, Consent Factory, May 3, 2021
 * The end of free speech: Why is Britain handing huge new powers of censorship to tech giants to control what we write and say? - Damian Wilson. RT, May 3, 2021
 * Has Censorship Become Our Baseline Expectation? - Abigail Shrier, May 5, 2021
 * Breaking: left-wing writer and former ambassador Craig Murray sentenced to 8 months in prison – for article authorities did not ask to be taken down - Skwawkbox, May 11, 2021
 * Murray Sentenced to 8 Months in Prison - Joe Lauria, Consortium News, May 11, 2021
 * LETTER FROM LONDON: The Troubling Sentencing of Craig Murray - Alexander Mercouris, Consortium News, May 12, 2021

June 2021

 * Foreign Office gathered information on Declassified UK journalist before refusing FoI requests - Joe Glenton, The Canary, June 10, 2021
 * Labour calls for investigation into Michael Gove over Cabinet Office unit - The Canary, June 11, 2021
 * Leaking the Pentagon Papers Was an Assault on Democracy - Gabriel Schoenfeld, The New York Times, June 11, 2021 (archive)
 * Priti Patel’s new threat to British journalists - Richard Norton Taylor, Declassified UK, June 15, 2021
 * Iran’s Press TV website seized by US government, notice says - Insider Paper, June 22, 2021
 * Notices on Iran-Linked Websites Say They Have Been Seized by US - ''The Algemeiner, June 22, 2021
 * U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SEIZED NUMEROUS DOMAINS, INCLUDING PRESSTV, AL MASIRAH - Southfront, June 23, 2021
 * The War on Reality - Alex Gutentag, Tablet Magazine, June 28, 2021

July 2021

 * Horrifying Rise Of Total Mass Media Blackouts On Inconvenient News Stories - Caitlin Johnstone, July 3, 2021
 * Twitter blocked Protasevich - Colonel Cassad, July 12, 2021
 * Seems to work as of now, here, 16.34 UTC, July 12, 2021
 * White House ‘flagging’ posts for Facebook to censor over COVID ‘misinformation’ - New York Post, July 15, 2021
 * COVID-19 ‘hate speech’ must be tackled. It is killing people - Mohammed Almezel, Gulf News, July 18, 2021
 * NPR's Brilliant Self-Own - Matt Taibbi, July 20, 2021
 * PayPal to research transactions that fund hate groups, extremists - Reuters, July 26, 2021 (mirror)
 * America, a nation which once championed free speech, has evolved into one of the world’s most authoritarian mass-censors - Brett Sinclair, RT, July 27, 2021
 * Craig Murray’s jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism - Jonathan Cook, July 30, 2021
 * Going dark- Craig Murray, July 30, 2021
 * Keith Olbermann Wants Jimmy Dore Banned From All Platforms - Caitlin Johnstone, July 31, 2021

August 2021

 * The latest attack on independent media - The Dissident, August 4, 2021
 * Twitter will allow you to deny the genocide of Palestinians, but not a ‘Uighur genocide’, so I’ve been banned - Maram Susli, RT, August 7, 2021
 * The Trusted News Initiative – A BBC led organisation censoring Public Health experts who oppose the official narrative on Covid-19 - The Exposé, August 29, 2021
 * ''This downward spiral (of trust in news) can only mean that people are going elsewhere for their news – a trend that has likely been accelerated by the emergence of a shadowy global censorship network called the Trusted News Initiative (TNI).

November 2021

 * U.S. Blacklists Strategic Culture Foundation in Attack on Independent Journalism and Political Dissent - Finian Cunningham, Strategic Culture, November 18, 2021
 * When All The Media Narratives Collapse - Andrew Sullivan, November 13, 2021
 * Israeli firm’s spyware linked to attacks on websites in UK and Middle East - Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian, November 16, 2021
 * Prestigious Weaponry Expert Censored After Demonstrating that a Deadly Poison Gas Attack—Blamed on the Syrian Government—Was Really a False-Flag Operation by U.S.-Funded Terrorists - Jeremy Kuzmarov, Covert Action Magazine, November 22, 2021
 * Dorsey's Twitter Resignation Sparks Fears Of More Internet Censorship - Caitlin Johnstone, November 30, 2021

December 2021

 * CSIS COMES TO CALL - Patrick Armstrong, December 16, 2021 (Follow-up)
 * ​RT’s German-language channel forced off the air in Europe - TASS, December 22, 2021
 * Berlin forces EU satellite operator to take RT’s German TV broadcast off air - RT, December 22, 2021
 * #1757 - Dr. Robert Malone MD - The Joe Rogan Experience, December 31, 2021 (Mirrors: Odysee, YouTube 1, YouTube 2, YouTube 3)
 * ''This video has been removed for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines

January 2022

 * Twitter permanently suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal account over COVID-19 misinformation - The Verge, January 2, 2022
 * a News Blackout on the Fed’s Naming of the Banks that Got Its Emergency Repo Loans; Some Journalists Appear to Be Under Gag Orders - Wall Street on Parade, January 3, 2022
 * JUST IN: Rand Paul And Dr. Fauci Engage In Another Epic Senate Clash: 'Reprehensible!' - Forbes Breaking News, January 11, 2022
 * Tucker: This is worse than we thought - Fox News, January 14, 2022 (video)
 * Don't Underestimate How Badly The Powerful Need Control Of Online Speech - Caitlin Johnstone, January 15, 2022

February 2022

 * Tucker has a message for politicians trying to censor broadcasters - Fox News, February 3, 2022
 * Ukraine crisis: YouTube closes accounts of pro-Russian separatists - AFP via Euronews, February 4, 2022
 * BMJ gets fact checked - Dr. John Campbell, February 7, 2022 (video)
 * US accuses financial website of spreading Russian propaganda - AP, February 15, 2022
 * A 500-million-dollar business! America's state-sponsored anti-China propaganda - Helsinki Times, February 28, 2022

March 2022

 * Telegram bans Russian state media after pressure from Europe - Politico, March 4, 2022
 * Information Blockades – How and Why? - Larry Romanoff, Unz Review, March 4, 2022
 * Goodbye, Facebook! - Galina Ivankina, March 7, 2022 (in Russian)
 * Who's Protecting Us From 'Disinformation' Now - Tom Woods, Lewrockwell.com, March 12, 2022
 * ''Well, the CEO of Duck Duck Go just made this announcement:
 * Western media were banned from writing about the crimes of neo-Nazis in Ukraine - RIA FAN, March 21, 2022
 * Facebook fails to label 80% of posts promoting bioweapons conspiracy theory - Kari Paul, The Guardian, March 31, 2022
 * Dilyana Gaytandzhieva on Twitter - Few months ago I reported that documents expose US biological experiments on allied soldiers in Ukraine. I was smeared by US media and Twitter marked my website as "unsafe and spam". Newly released documents prove I was right - see the thread below

April 2022

 * Very Quick Stream - Gonzalo Lira, April 5, 2022
 * Twitter Suspends Former U.N. Weapons Inspector for Questioning Ukrainian Government Claims of War Crimes - The Conservative Treehouse, April 6, 2022
 * West silencing dissenting voices to control narrative on Ukraine war - PressTV, April 14, 2022
 * Tucker: This could break the Democratic Party - Fox News, April 13, 2022 (On Elon Musk buying Twitter)
 * Tech giants to be forced to tackle Russian disinformation - The Telegraph, April 23, 2022

May 2022

 * PayPal Cancels CN Account; May Seize Balance - Consortium News, May 1, 2022
 * Not "Fake News" it's Nazi Propaganda - Russell Bentley, Radio Press, May 3, 2022
 * PayPal's IndyMedia Wipeout - Matt Taibbi, TK News, May 3, 2022 (mirror)
 * Rebranding Nazism - Roddy Keenan, The Saker Blog, May 9, 2022

July 2022

 * reveals Western attempts to censor photo-ops - RT, July 25, 2022

August 2022

 * Security Police suggests: Deliberately spreading fake news on behalf of a foreign power should be criminalized - YLE (Finland), August 6, 2022
 * The Masque of Pandora - Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture, August 8, 2022
 * Finnish National Emergency Supply Agency starts chasing harmful troll campaigns - "These things are urgent" - Helsingin Sanomat, August 16, 2022 (archive)
 * EU Recession means more EU Authoritarianism - The Duran, August 24, 2022 (video)

September 2022

 * Document leak: How the federal government is working on a "narrative synchronization" on the Ukraine war - Part 1 - Florian Warweg, NachDenkSeiten, September 29, 2022
 * Russians push baseless theory blaming US for burst pipeline - AP via The Washington Post, September 30, 2022 (archive)

October 2022

 * The Gaslighting of the Masses - CJ Hopkins, October 16, 2022
 * The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime -- and Our New Live, Prime-Time Rumble Program - Glenn Greenwald, October 29, 2022
 * TRUTH COPS – Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation - The Intercept, October 31, 2022

November 2022

 * Destroying Western Values To Defend Western Values - Caitlin Johnstone, November 1, 2022
 * The Twitter Massacre - Moon of Alabama, November 5, 2022
 * Elon is about to drop a BOMBSHELL on the Hunter Biden laptop story - Redacted with Clayton Morris, November 30, 2022

December 2022

 * Notes on a Friday Night - Matt Taibbi, December 24, 2022
 * Lack Of Good Analyses Contributes To The Decline Of The 'West' - Moon of Alabama, December 30, 2022

January 2023

 * Guy Debord’s Warning of “The Role of the Expert”: A Philosophical Perspective on the Rise of Fact-Checking - INTERNATIONALIST 360°, January 3, 2023
 * Twitter Files Show How The Deep State Conquered Social Media - Moon of Alabama, January 6, 2023
 * "An anti-war activist in Germany has been convicted for speaking out about German involvement in the war with Russia." (Heinrich Bucker is also mentioned by McGovern at the UN, Feb. 21)

February 2023

 * Twitter Censorship And The Crapification Path Of Social Media - Moon of Alabama, February 10, 2023
 * Trudeau JUST crossed FREEDOM line in Canada with Google's help - Redacted with Clayton Morris, February 10, 2023
 * New Law Sought by Brazil's Lula to Ban and Punish "Fake News and Disinformation" Threatens the Free Internet Everywhere, Glenn Greenwald, February 25, 2023

March 2023

 * The battle to control America’s mind - David Samuels, UnHerd, March 8, 2023
 * Tackling Russian disinformation requires cross-society effort, experts say - Alexandra Brzozowski, EURACTIV.com, March 31, 2023

April 2023

 * Truth Decay and National Security - RAND, April 12, 2023
 * ''Truth Decay—the declining role of facts in American public life—creates national security vulnerabilities, including by making the United States more susceptible to foreign influence. What can be done to mitigate such risks?
 * U.S. Citizens and Russian Intelligence Officers Charged with Conspiring to Use U.S. Citizens as Illegal Agents of the Russian Government - Department of Justice, April 18, 2023
 * 4 St. Petersburg residents charged as illegal agents of Russia - 10 Tampa Bay, April 18, 2023 (video)
 * News Blackout in Effect - The Michael Morell story is disposed of by press janitors - Matt Taibbi, April 22, 2023
 * American Censorship Increasing (The Slippery Slope Is Undefeated) - Gonzalo Lira, April 23, 2023 (video)
 * Tucker Carlson Has Been Fired - Gonzalo Lira, April 24, 2023 (video)
 * Tucker Carlson: If I get fired for telling the truth then so be it - Redacted with Clayton Morris, April 25, 2023 (video)
 * An Insider's Guide to "Anti-Disinformation" - Andrew Lowenthal, Racket News,April 25, 2023
 * Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex - Matt Taibbi, Racket News,April 25, 2023
 * Tucker Carlson, Twitter, April 26/27, 2023
 * Jose Vega tells off some big media panelists, gets busted, apparently at "Policy and Press" meeting, "FaultLines: Democracy: A conference on building a democratic press",  Columbia Univ, April 25, 2023
 * Czech teacher Martina Bednářova was fired and is on trial over Ukraine war comments in class (apparently discussing a video, with comments deviating from the official narrative; then reported by students) . (BBC version; her interview to independent media, in Czech).

June 2023

 * 15 Reasons Why Mass Media Employees Act Like Propagandists - Caitlin Johnstone, June 4, 2023
 * Tucker on Twitter - Episode 1 - posted June 6, passed 93.7 mln views as of June 8
 * TWITTER FILES: Brown University's Claire Wardle Aids Censorship - Paul D. Thacker, The DisInformation Chronicle, June 14, 2023
 * EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters - Matthieu Pollet, Politico, June 20, 2023
 * EU set to approve the use of spyware to uncover confidential journalist sources 'in the name of national security' - Louis Goss, Daily Mail, June 22, 2023

July 2023

 * The British left's red-brown problem (Part 1) How Stalinism, anti-Semitism and Putinism are fuelling a reactionary political folklore - Paul Mason, Conflict and Democracy, July 9, 2023
 * The British left's red-brown problem (Part 2) The role of the "useful idiot savant", then and now... - Paul Mason, Conflict and Democracy, July 9, 2023
 * MEMORANDUM RULING ON REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION - Terry A. Doughty, July 4, 2023
 * Ending Free Speech - Kenin M. Spivak. American Mind, July 14, 2023
 * US ‘Disinformation Industry’ Lands in Court - Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News, July 14, 2023
 * An Injunction Preserves the First Amendment on Social Media—For Now - Peter Van Buren, American Conservative, July 17, 2023
 * Coutts closed Nigel Farage's account because he didn't 'align with their values' - The Telegraph, July 19, 2023
 * Facebook Bowed to White House Pressure, Removed Covid Posts - Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2023 (archive)
 * Freedom of speech - Dr. John Campbell, July 28, 2023 (video)

Seymour Hersh's Russian handler

 * OPERA BUFFA IN UKRAINE, Seymour Hersh, substack, July 27, 2023
 * "Yes Hersh, this is definitely something a U.S. official told you and not just one of your many fever dreams or your Russian handler", Twitter, July 27, 2023
 * Can't think of a Russian phrase which would translate to an orphan—a poor waif in his underwear. Poor orphan /poor anything can be said in both, and likely in most world's languages. Trying to make this up, pseudo-authentic "бедный сирота в (одних) подштанниках" (=poor orphan in (only) under-pants), sounds like what could be said about some old, like pre-1917, event, but neither Google nor Yandex are finding an exact match, as well as with "only" removed. So, was this uttered by "a source" handler? Was it it said by the Hersh's source, possibly in order to mask/protect his identity? Noted: (1) The Poor Little Waif is a book by David Barth, published in 2012, and apparently is not about a thin supermodel. (2) а я, бедный сирота, не пролезу в ворота in Russian.
 * Ukraine Update: Ukraine counteroffensive is real and it's picking up steam, dailykos.com, JUky 27, 2023
 * ''But it just so happens that the phrase “poor waif in his underwear” is a direct translation to a common Russian saying. Hersh either got played by Russian intelligence or is willingly in cahoots with them.
 * ''Who wants to bet that another quote attributed to that official is also a direct translation of a common Russian saying? “… the official also downplayed US strategic gains as ‘neither strong like bull, nor smart like tractor.’”
 * Strong like bull, smart like tractor TicTok, March, 2022); Strong like bull, smart like tractor, etc, Facebook, 2019
 * May sound peculiar, but there are examples of English use (above), while directly translated Russian version is not known here

August 2023

 * WHY IS THE WEST SO WEAK (AND RUSSIA SO STRONG)? THE ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND WESTERN EDUCATION - Gaius Baltar, Sonar21, August 4, 2023

Wikipedia
Wikipedia has a list of reliable and unreliable sources. "Reliable" are those sources that are under the direct control of the US regime. Any degree of independence from the regime makes the source "unreliable." This is the diametric opposite of how Wikispooks defines reliability. Reliability of sources is directly proportional to their distance from power. At ACLOS we only trust primary sources.

Smear campaigns

 * ''See also April 2018 attack on dissent


 * The Making of a YouTube Radical - Kevin Roose, The New York Times, June 8, 2019
 * The New York Times Wants To Censor My Videos - Unravelling their Smear Campaign - SyrianGirlpartisan, June 10, 2019 (video)
 * NYT Accused of ‘Smearing' Peterson, Shapiro in Story About ‘Radical’ YouTubers -Sputnik, June 11, 2019

Working conditions/ethics

 * "It got to insane little things": Former employee of Radio Liberty spoke about severe censorship in the holding (robo-translation) - ''Rusvesna, December 14, 2020

War on Syria

 * ''See also US covert war on Syria


 * Mainstream Policy Expert Reveals How He Was Silenced On Syria: "Truth Did Not Matter" - ZeroHedge, November 28, 2019
 * ''A mainstream media and academic expert this week issued a rare admission: that pretty much everything the establishment has fed the public on Syria is false or distorted; but it remains that after tragic eight-year long war is slowly coming to a close, new indisputable facts are coming to light. "Truth did not matter at all," he admits after years of providing commentary for mainstream publications."

Valent Projects

 * The risk misinformation poses to your organization - ''Newswhip', January 15, 2021
 * NewsWhip founder and CEO Paul Quigley was joined by Amil Khan to comment on misinformation versus disinformation, explain why some brands are more successful at confronting misinformation, and discuss campaigns reestablishing common ground.


 * Leaked files expose Syria psyops veteran astroturfing BreadTube star to counter Covid restriction critics - Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone, December 24, 2021
 * Leaked Docs: Facebook ‘Bot’ Adviser Secretly in Pay of US Regime Change Agency - Kit Klarenberg, Mint Press, July 14, 2022
 * How Covert British Information Wars Target Russia, Threatening Civilians and Journalists - Kit Klarenberg, Mint Press, September 21, 2022

Legislature

 * H.R.5181 - Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016; S.3274 - Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act
 * on EU strategic communication to counteract propaganda against it by third parties (2016/2030(INI))
 * ''A. whereas the EU has committed to guiding its actions on the international scene in compliance with principles such as democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as media freedom, access to information, freedom of expression and media pluralism, the last of which can, nevertheless, be limited to a certain extent as stipulated in international law, including in the European Convention on Human Rights; whereas third-party actors aiming to discredit the Union do not share the same values; (ibid: more interesting whereases)

'Countering Hybrid threats'

 * EU operational protocol for countering hybrid threats - European Commission, July 5, 2016
 * There is usually an emphasis on exploiting the vulnerabilities of the target and on generating ambiguity with the intention to hinder decision-making processes. Massive disinformation campaigns, using social media to control the political narrative or to radicalise, recruit and direct proxy actors can be vehicles for hybrid threats.


 * Countering hybrid threats: Council calls for enhanced common action - European Council December 10, 2019
 * ... the Council highlights the valuable contributions of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats in Helsinki and encourages its cooperation with relevant NATO Centres of Excellence. It also welcomes the regular and structured staff-to-staff exchanges, including the cooperation between the Hybrid Fusion Cell of the EU Intelligence and Situation Centre (INTCEN) and the NATO Hybrid Analysis Branch.

StratCom

 * ''See also Cambridge Analytica


 * Questions and Answers about the East StratCom Task Force -EU, May 12, 2018
 * ''The Task Force works within the existing budget for EU Strategic Communication. In addition, the Task Force was granted €1.1 million in 2018 for its work to address Russia’s disinformation. In 2019, the budget increases to €3 million. From January 2019, the budget is being directed to ensure professional media monitoring, disinformation analysis and data analysis.
 * "EUvsDisinfo"; sample media product: "debunking" of Chemical weapons - a false pretext to attack Assad since the very beginning.