On the cold, windy night of March 20, 1854, 36-year-old lawyer Alvan Bovay rounded up dozens of his neighbors in Ripon, Wisconsin, and gathered them in a schoolhouse for a meeting that would change the course of American history. It was the group’s second gathering of the month.Source: Is It Time for the Republican Party to Split Apart?...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in neighboring Syria in early 2018, Facebook’s top executives faced a political dilemma.Source: Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to...
Southwest Phoenix voters got the first deceitful political mailer from Americans for Progress nearly two weeks ago, and they just keep coming.Source: 'Dark money' is still trying to influence Phoenix elections despite new law. Here's how...
TikTok removed nearly 350,000 videos in the US for violating rules on election misinformation, disinformation or manipulated media in the second half year, the short-form video app app said on Wednesday in a transparency report.Source: TikTok removed nearly 350,000 videos related to election misinformation...
A leftist professor helps Democrats attack non-leftist media.Source: The ‘Experts’ Cited by the New Censors...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 – MONTGOMERY – This week, Alabama Secretary of State John H. Merrill led 15 other Secretaries of State from across the country in expressing their opposition to H.R. 1. We are writing you today to urge you to reject the “For the People Act” otherwise known as H.R.Source: Alabama Secretary of State Leads 15 Other Secretaries...
If there is one thing that unites those concerned with free speech; open fair and honest elections; libertarians and conservatives; and the GOP and ACLU; it is opposition to HR1. Today we’ll highlight three groups opposition.Source: Opposition Continues to Grow to HR 1...
Years of Democratic complaints about falsehoods and conspiracy theories on social media are evolving into scrutiny of conservative news outlets. But GOP lawmakers say they're going too far.Source: Democrats attack fake news, and Republicans cry foul...
On behalf of the Institute for Free Speech,[1] I write to express serious concerns about the devastating effect H.R. 1 would have on Americans’ freedom of speech and assembly rights. Labeling this bill the “For the People Act” is Orwellian. In reality, H.R.Source: Letter to U.S. House Administration Committee on H.R. 1’s Harms to Speech and Assembly Rights...
House Democrats seeking to pressure platforms to stifle conservative media are engaging in a "rank abuse of power," Institute for Free Speech founder Bradley Smith said Wednesday. "We don't trust the U.S.Source: Bradley Smith: Targeting Conservative Media a 'Rank Abuse of Power'...
