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  • WikiLeaks Goes “Full Trump”

    WikiLeaks claims it invented popular whistle-blower program SecureDrop and that Julian Assange co-founded the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) – claims denied by FPF co-founder Micah Lee in heated exchange with the WikiLeaks Task Force Last week, WikiLeaks tweeted that the Associated Press and other press organisations had adopted “WikiLeaks technology” in adopting SecureDrop, a whistle-blower…

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  • Preventing Prevent 2.0

    Does Trump plan to implement a US version of highly controversial British counter-extremism strategy? Via “Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam – sources” by Julia Edwards Ainsley, Dustin Volz and Kristina Cooke, Reuters, February 2, 2017: The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent…

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  • Info-Warring

    Leading U.S. conspiracy news website InfoWars accused of stealing content According to multiple DMCA complaints that were sent to Google, InfoWars didn’t seek permission before republishing articles that originally featured on pro-gun news website AmmoLand and Danish-run news website nsnbc international. AmmoLand editor Fredy Riehl claims that InfoWars duplicated, in full, his July 11, 2015 interview with Donald…

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  • State-Backed Regulation: A Pressing Issue

    British journalism magazine the Press Gazette publishes article based on my blog post re: Magazine publisher’s claim the Daily Telegraph falsely reported about his criminal past in order to undermine state-approved press regulator The Press Gazette’s January 27, 2016 article (source) Earlier this week, I blogged about Steve McNought, co-director of Bristol-based magazine publisher Arkbound, who suggested he was…

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  • Censorship and Science

    Prominent co-signer of failed CSPI retraction demand Dr. David L. Katz rails against “censorship of science” – but author/journalist Nina Teicholz says “specious retraction efforts are also a form of censorship” Per the above tweet, author/columnist Dr. David L. Katz, founding director of the CDC-funded Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, alluded to reports that newly elected US President Trump had ordered a…

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  • Under Surveillance

    ‘The whole process is a farce’ – Read the outraged responses to the UK Parliament’s refusal to reopen debate of highly controversial new surveillance law Last November, the UK Parliament approved the Investigatory Powers Act – dubbed the “Snooper’s Charter” by critics – a highly controversial surveillance law handing British authorities sweeping powers to hack into the phones…

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  • Crime and Regulation

    IMPRESS-approved magazine publisher issues legal challenge against the Daily Telegraph after it published article about his criminal past Last week, the Daily Telegraph published an article about Steve McNought, whose Bristol-based publishing company Arkbound was recently approved by official UK press regulator, IMPRESS. The January 21, 2017 article, “Armed robber turned publisher wins approval from state-approved Press…

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  • WikiLeaks Threatens Writer

    WikiLeaks Task Force demands Jezebel writer delete “rapist shitbag” Assange tweet or “face the consequences” The WikiLeaks Task Force was set up last October to “correct misinformation” about anti-secrecy media organisation WikiLeaks. Earlier this month, the Task Force claimed that Jezebel writer C.A. Pinkham was “committing libel with actual malice” because he suggested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was “a rapist…

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  • Anonymous

    Guardian Readers’ Editor Paul Chadwick denies my request for more info about his paper’s vetting procedures for anonymous contributors Last month, I blogged about a purported hoax on British daily newspaper the Guardian by serial media prankster Godfrey Elfwick. In November, the paper had published an anonymous opinion piece about how its left-wing author was nearly turned into a…

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  • Educating Against Extremism

    Why did the head teacher of a UK primary school threaten to report a Muslim parent to counter-terrorism authorities? I’ve asked the school for comment [Updated: Bevington Primary School has denied my request for comment – more after the jump] Via the pro-civil liberties Coolness of Hind blog last month, the parent (name redacted) received a threatening letter…

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