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Sunday, August 31, 2025

LIBERTY Comes with REMEMBERING

 


John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© August 31, 2025

 

I’m going to share some information from today’s Canada Free Post that most Conservatives/Patriots are already fully aware of. AND YET we must stay ever vigilant in our memories in realizing America is an Election Cycle away from a full slate of Dem-Marxist transformation of America TYRANNY. The installed Biden despotism will be only a drop in the bucket if the Dems AGAIN take the reins of power. Government has become completely untrustworthy and under Dem-Marxist rule, government will again become a tool for despotism to silence criticism and purge Patriots.

 

So, take a look at CFP post “Grand Conspiracy Reveal begins with Bolton’s Quandary” AND REMEMBER!

 

AND a bonus share from the Daily Caller (8/28/25) shows how Big Tech (specifically Google & Leftist AI platforms) intend to skew searches to blackout Conservative/Patriot information during the 2026 Election Cycle: “Google Is Upping Their Mind Control Efforts”. For God’s sake use alternative Search Engines and if you must search with an AI, find a non-aligned to Big Tech AI.

 

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Grand Conspiracy Reveal begins with Bolton’s Quandary:

Now Trump’s the hunter and the Democrats have never been the hunted like this before. It’s unraveling. The walls are closing in. John Bolton’s legal worries are only just the beginning

DC Swamp & Bolton (CFP Photo)

 

By Douglas V. Gibbs

August 31, 2025

Canada Free Press

 

The conspiracy against Donald J. Trump has been so large that I can’t even count the number of players involved. Many we may never know. The Deep State, The Swamp, is being investigated, and the raid of John Bolton’s house and office tells us the offensive push is beginning to make ground movement. The legal troops, you could say, are on the march.

 

Barack Obama was intimately involved in calling the shots in the Trump-Russia deep state hoax

 

Earlier this year we learned that the Justice Department was conducting a criminal investigation of both former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey. A part of the referral to the DOJ involves perjury on Brennan’s part when testifying before Congress and during Special Counsel John Durham’s inquiry. While the precise criminal offenses have never been made clear, there was certainly plenty of malfeasance by both of them regarding the Russia collusion fiasco which represents only a part of the overall conspiracy.

 

Through the investigation dirt has been revealed on Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and others. During questioning, Comey justified the electronic surveillance of President Trump’s foreign policy advisor Carter Page, using invalid FISA warrants to initiate the surveillance. Peter Strzok, deputy assistant director for counterintelligence, drafted and signed out the communication initiating the probe, who answered to Andrew McCabe, who was the deputy director and Comey’s direct connection. These people were Comey’s inner circle, as was John Brennan who was a determined partisan. And they were the ones who fed the conspiracy with “Crossfire Hurricane,“ the FBI investigation of the Trump Campaign when Peter Strzok wrote the communication opening the case.

 

Regarding the Russian Collusion part of the grand conspiracy, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard released documents proving that Barack Obama was intimately involved in calling the shots in the Trump-Russia deep state hoax. Since then, Senator Tom Cotton announced that he is working with FBI Director Kash Patel in reviewing James Comey’s actions during his tenure as FBI Director.

 

The Democrats were confident in their conspiracy. Perhaps even arrogant

 

The Democrats were confident in their conspiracy. Perhaps even arrogant. The people in place were true to the cause. When Obama picked Brennan to head the CIA, he had become the ultimate Democratic insider and loyalist. When Obama ordered his people to target Trump, they did so without question.

 

They did have one problem: General Michael Flynn. He had been a Democrat, and an insider. Flynn as Trump’s National Security Advisor was a dangerous part of the game from the point of view of the Democrats. So they targeted him, trying to destroy Flynn’s life. Now, Flynn is among those calling for immediate prosecution of Barack Obama and his Deep State allies for the criminal conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government and sabotage the will of the American People when they played the game they’ve played against Donald Trump.

 

According to a whistleblower, former Attorney General William Barr held secret meetings to plot prosecutions against Donald Trump. Barr provided a list of targets, and many of these individuals were subpoenaed to testify before the January 6 Committee or faced charges related to January 6 or the 2020 Election.

 

Media figure Armstrong Williams began talks with Facebook to develop “anti-Trump“ social media content. Danielle Kersey, the Government and Politics Manager, had meeting notes indicating Meta was creating content focusing on claims that Trump was destroying the democracy—altering the algorithm to persuade Republicans to reject Trump and try to show them that he did not represent the Republican Party. Concerted efforts were then made to conceal the covert meetings regarding establishing these strategies.

 

When Tulsi Gabbard revealed evidence of the conspiracy accusing Brennan, DNI James Clapper, and Comey of their roles in the conspiracy to undermine Trump after Donald Trump entered office for his second term, the deep state took action in an attempt to stop her from revealing the information.

 

John Bolton was also knee-deep in the conspiracy

 

During the conspiracy, John Bolton was also knee-deep in the conspiracy. Recently, his home and office were raided by the FBI. According to reports, the investigation is partly seeking to look into Bolton’s alleged retention and leaking of classified documents. The investigation isn’t new—it’s a part of the larger conspiracy I’ve been writing about in this article and in the past, but this is the first time we’ve seen some real movement. If there was a raid, that means there is probable cause—or at least enough to convince a judge to sign off on the warrant. Some information has suggested that the investigation into Bolton may be larger than classified documents. If that information was leveraged, used as a part of an influence-for-sale business, the investigation could lead to naming violations of the Espionage Act.

 

This we know:

 

o   John Bolton had access to classified information about national security.

 

o   John Bolton leveraged that knowledge for personal material gain.

 

o   Bolton was not alone in his influence-for-sell business, a.k.a. Influence Peddling.

 

o   The raid against Bolton, and the emergence of this new investigation, has a lot of people who are a part of the larger network of corruption in D.C. nervous,

 

FBI Director Kash Patel regarding the raid posted on X, “No one is above the law.“

 

Interesting, when we consider that is what John Bolton and pretty much the whole litany of Democrats had been saying while serving as a part of the conspiracy against Donald Trump.

 

In the end, it is clear that the Democrats launched a criminal effort to undermine Trump. It was they who were committing insurrection, not the persecuted patriots from January 6. And it was nothing new. Before all of that emerged, the FBI illegally tracked “extremists“ intending to attend the January 6 rally where Trump was scheduled to speak. A phony narrative that Trump would incite a riot had been established as early as May 2020.

 

It was all a part of the playbook. January 6 and the Russia collusion were just two more deceptions

 

It was all a part of the playbook. January 6 and the Russia collusion were just two more deceptions in a long line of hoaxes and false narratives planned against Trump. They could not win in the arena of ideas and honest debate, so they had to destroy the man through slander, impeachment, indictment, and doing what they could to influence the elections be it removing Trump from ballots, providing false poll numbers, or fraudulent activities directly influencing the vote.

 

Could John Bolton be the first domino to fall? Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett predicts that there’s more than meets the eye. According to Jarrett, if Bolton kept classified documents in his home or his office, that is a crime. If he leaked information that he had in his head to somebody who is unauthorized, that also is a crime. They convinced a judge, based on probable cause, that a crime may have been committed. They were searching for evidence of that crime. So, yes, John Bolton is in legal jeopardy.

 

When he was NSA he was privy to a daily stream of classified information and then he went and published a “tell-all“ book without waiting for final written approval from the government. Years ago a federal judge reprimanded him for endangering national security by rushing to publish his memoir. Even back then, he was gambling with the national security of this country. According to reports, there is also evidence that Bolton transmitted classified emails over a private server system and they were intercepted by a hostile foreign country’s spy service. Hmmm, sort of sounds like Hillary Clinton’s email server deal, as well. This puts Bolton under investigation for violating the Espionage Act. The evidence, without seeing the solid evidence yet, has the progressive leftists so nervous that the media has abandoned the “retaliation“ narrative. But, J.D. Vance in an interview on Meet the Press said something interesting. “Classified documents are certainly part of it.“

 

Major bank executives revealed that they were under pressure from both the Obama and Biden administrations to debank conservatives

 

Part of it? Is there more that we can’t see?

 

Well then, I ask this very simple question: What if it is more than just classified documents and influence peddling? What if this is just the surface excuse because they are sure that he has information, paperwork or computer data, that can unravel the entire conspiracy against Trump implicating Obama, Clinton, Brennan, Clapper, Comey and so forth beyond a shadow of a doubt?

 

For those of you waiting for the fittings for orange jumpsuits and the clink of handcuffs around the wrists of a nice long list of conspirators, this may be the first step in that direction.

 

Other trickles of the truth is already beginning to come to light. Remember, Donald Trump has been telling us that they are really after us, conservatives. He’s just in the way. Recently, major bank executives have spoken out and revealed that they were under pressure from both the Obama and Biden administrations to debank conservatives. They were called Operation Choke Point and Operation Choke Point 2.0—target conservatives by pressuring banks through regulatory measures. Under Obama the Tea Party was targeted by the IRS, as well.

 

It was all a part of the grand conspiracy. Take out Trump, and then take out conservatives so that the Democrats can establish one-party rule through devious political games. But Donald J. Trump somehow beat them, twice, and now he’s the hunter and the Democrats have never been the hunted like this before. It’s unraveling. The walls are closing in. John Bolton’s legal worries are only just the beginning.

 

Douglas V. Gibbs of Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary, has been featured on “Hannity” and “Fox and Friends” on Fox News Channel, and other television shows and networks.  Doug is a Radio Host on KMET 1490-AM on Saturdays with his Constitution Radio program, as well as a longtime podcaster, conservative political activist, writer and commentator.  Doug can be reached at douglasvgibbs [at] yahoo.com or constitutionspeaker [at] yahoo.com.

 

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Google Is Upping Their Mind Control Efforts

 

By John Loftus

August 28, 2025 2:59 PM ET

Daily Caller

 

Ahead of a crucial midterm election, tech giant Google is ramping up its mind control efforts and censorship agenda against conservatives and right-leaning news outlets.

 

Google has a history of manipulating search results to the detriment of conservative and right-leaning news sites. In 2018, the Daily Caller News Foundation exposed the company’s biased fact-checking program that exclusively targeted conservative websites. One egregious ‘fact-check’ on the Daily Caller, which Google claimed to have originated from The Washington Post, turned out to be flagrantly incorrect and quoted language that never appeared in the Caller’s story. At the time, Google was defensive over the algorithms that underpinned the shoddy fact-check program and refused to give a clear answer on whether the algorithms or their own liberal bias were to blame. (RELATED: WaPo: We Didn’t Attack The Daily Caller, And Don’t Know Why Google Did)

 

It later suspended the program, crediting the DCNF’s investigation for their decision.

 

But once again, the tech giant is quietly influencing search results and shadow-banning conservative voices nearly a year out from the 2026 midterm elections.

 

AI’s Liberal Bias

 

Google recently added summaries generated by Google Gemini to the top results on its search platform. Gemini, an artificial intelligence platform, heavily relies on liberal news sites, YouTube (owned by Google), Reddit, and, perhaps worst of all, Wikipedia, an organization dominated by left-wing editors hostile to conservative politics and voices. (RELATED: Wikipedia Donations Go Toward Embedding Feminism And Racial Justice In World’s Largest Encyclopedia)

 

The new AI summaries also lead to drops in engagement. Rather than getting a balanced variety of sources in a single search, users are flooded with biased results from Gemini and then tend to stick with those instead of searching more.

 

Encountering an AI summary on Google tends to decrease user engagement with external links compared to those who see traditional search results, according to a Pew Research Center study published in July. Users often choose to conclude their browsing sessions on pages where AI summaries are present, rather than continuing to explore.

 

Additionally, engagement with links embedded within the AI summaries themselves is notably low, occurring in a mere 1% of all page visits that feature such summaries, Pew found.

 

Numerous liberal news sites have struck deals with OpenAI, Amazon, and Google to train their AI models using their reporting. According to conservative media watchdog Media Research Center, OpenAI only has two contracts with right-leaning outlets: Fox News and The New York Post.

 

Google has solely partnered with The Associated Press, raising even more concern over left-wing bias in its AI and possible antitrust violations.

 

‘Preferred Sources’ Canard

 

Google introduced a new feature in August that allows users to select their preferred news sources, claiming these sources will appear more frequently in its “Top Stories” page and in a separate section, “From your sources.”

 

However, MRC conducted two tests, both of which showed that the feature is laced with liberal bias and shadowbans right-leaning outlets.

 

MRC researchers set their preference to Fox News, The Daily Mail, and The New York Post, yet Google’s feature produced nearly all of their stories from liberal and left-leaning sources.

 

“Although all three of the outlets had recently covered Trump’s impending meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, only one appeared anywhere on the page. In fact, Google failed to show the part of the ‘Top Stories’ section labelled ‘From your sources’ section at all, merely placing a lone Fox News article to compete with nine left-leaning media results and two from the United Kingdom’s state-backed BBC,” they wrote.

 

In the second test, MRC researchers keyword searched “DC Crime,” “DNI Tulsi Gabbard,” and “Trump Russia Ukraine.” Google’s feature produced 18 articles that came from liberal outlets, compared to only 11 from right-leaning ones and 10 from centrist outlets.

 

“In each case, the preferred sources MRC researchers selected appeared at the top of results, but were nonetheless mixed with leftist sources. Google also featured these preferred sources in a separate section titled ‘From your sources,’ which was buried under two other sections, ‘Top news’ and ‘Also in the news,'” MRC wrote.

 

Age Verification Expands

 

Although Google has long required age verification for YouTube users, the company is now reportedly expanding the reach of its AI-powered age estimation tool to its search engine, according to Reclaim The Net.

 

The move has sparked fresh concerns about user privacy and Google’s dependence on complex, non-transparent algorithms.

 

Not only is Google spying on and tracking peoples’ behaviors, now access to everyday information might require age verification, transforming one of the internet’s most universally accessible tools into a more restrictive — and left-wing — gateway.

 

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Friday, August 29, 2025

More OVERCOMING Medical Tyranny


John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© August 29, 2025

 

While I was on Telegram yesterday, I ran into two posts that linked to some websites.

 

The website writes about a peer reviewed paper that reports the mRNA Jab contributes to “Unprecedented Levels of Morbidity and Mortality”. The post is from the World Council For Health which was much vilified for offering science alternatives to the Big Pharma controlled Science Narrative. In my estimation, if WCH was vilified by the lying Science Narrative, that means the WCH are in the science truth-telling category. The full WCH title: “BREAKING: Groundbreaking, Peer-Reviewed, Published Study Finds Covid ‘Vaccines’ Contribute to Unprecedented Levels of Morbidity and Mortality”. That relatively short post points to the peer reviewed 10-Page PDF which I am not cross posting.

 

THEN the DEFENDER exposes a journalistic conflict of interest (as in MSM Lying) when James C. Smith, who was CEO of Reuters during the height of pushing the mRNA Jab was on the Board of Directors for Pfizer. Hmm… Can you say brainwash journalism for profit? That title: “As Reuters ‘Fact-Checked’ COVID Vaccine ‘Misinformation,’ Its CEO Also Sat on Pfizer’s Board: The former CEO of Reuters — who’s still on the board of its parent company, Thomson Reuters Foundation — has also been a board member of COVID-19 vaccine maker Pfizer since 2014, according to investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker.

 

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BREAKING: Groundbreaking, Peer-Reviewed, Published Study Finds Covid ‘Vaccines’ Contribute to Unprecedented Levels of Morbidity and Mortality

Stop-the-jabs (WCH Photo)

 

August 28, 2025

World Council For Health

 

NEW: Dr Marivic Villa of WCH Florida is a co-author on this important paper that shows we are way past time for all governments worldwide to HALT COVID SHOTS and have a MORATORIUM ON MRNA INJECTIONS.

What additional proof can possibly be needed? World Council for Health has been calling for an end to the shots since November 2021.

Journal Of American Physicians and Surgeons

COVID-19 Injections: Harms and Damages, a Non-Exhaustive Conclusion

Andrew Zywiec, M.D Irene Mavrakakis, M.D. Peter McCullough, M.D. Nicolas Hulscher, M.P.H. Aaron Kheriaty, M.D. Paul Marik, M.D. James Thorp, M.D. Marivic Villa, M.D. Lt. Edward Macie, USN MSC Charles Rixey, M.A. Abraxas Hudson

 

Compelling evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 and SARS- CoV-2 modified mRNA biologics/vaccines are products of gain-of-function (GOF) research, with genomic features and vaccine outcomes that suggest deliberate engineering rather than natural evolution. Far from benign, these vaccines have unleashed profound harm, disrupting nearly every system of the human body and contributing to unprecedented levels of morbidity and mortality. From autoimmune diseases and cardiovascular catastrophes to pregnancy complications and aggressive cancers, the pattern of systemic toxicity cannot be dismissed as coincidental. Urgent scrutiny and accountability are needed.

PDF Front Page - COVID-19 Injections...screengrab (WCH Photo)

 

Link to Full Study:


» https://jpands.org/jpands3003.htm

 

» https://jpands.org/vol30no3/zywiec.pdf

 

© World Council for Health 2025

 

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As Reuters ‘Fact-Checked’ COVID Vaccine ‘Misinformation,’ Its CEO Also Sat on Pfizer’s Board

The former CEO of Reuters — who’s still on the board of its parent company, Thomson Reuters Foundation — has also been a board member of COVID-19 vaccine maker Pfizer since 2014, according to investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker.

Reuters-Covid Vaccines-Pfizer (Defender Photo)

 

By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

August 28, 2025

The Defender

 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters repeatedly fact-checked statements and articles that criticized COVID-19 vaccines — but not once did the news organization’s fact-checkers find fault with Pfizer, according to Paul D. Thacker, editor of The Disinformation Chronicle.

 

In an investigation released today, Thacker suggested why Reuters might have been quick to defend the vaccines. As it turns out, the former CEO of Reuters — who’s still on the board of its parent company, Thomson Reuters Foundation — has also been a board member of COVID-19 vaccine maker Pfizer since 2014. And as a board member, he was (and still is) required to own shares in Pfizer.

 

James C. Smith, also known as Jim Smith, served as CEO of Reuters from 2012 to 2020. Thacker described Smith’s dual roles with Reuters and Pfizer — and Reuters’ reporting on Pfizer and on criticism of the COVID-19 vaccines — as a conflict of interest.

 

“According to rules laid out by Pfizer, James ‘Jim’ Smith’s interests equals Pfizer’s interests,” Thacker wrote.

 

Thacker told The Defender that Reuters’ biased reporting and fact-checking during the COVID-19 pandemic prompted him to investigate the news giant further.

 

“Reuters Fact Check was so painfully biased in favour of Pfizer and other manufacturers that I was forced to look into this. That’s when I uncovered the ties between Reuters leadership and Pfizer’s board,” Thacker said.

 

In 2023, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) sued the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a partnership formed by Reuters, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, BBC and other legacy media outlets “to tackle harmful disinformation in real time.”

 

The lawsuit alleges that TNI’s members violated U.S. antitrust law by colluding to suppress non-establishment narratives about the COVID-19 vaccines.

 

CHD CEO Mary Holland said she wasn’t surprised by Thacker’s investigation in light of the allegations CHD and its co-plaintiffs made in their lawsuit against TNI. She said:

 

“It’s no surprise that Big Pharma is cozy with Big Media — but the interlocking interests of Pfizer and Reuters go beyond coziness to entwinement.

 

“This twisted union is the more insidious because it’s part of a bigger collaboration — the Trusted News Initiative, uniting mainstream media conglomerates, including Reuters, with social media platforms to determine and root out ‘misinformation’ that counters their interests.

 

“It’s high time to expose these interconnections and to untangle them. Kudos to Paul Thacker for doing so.”

 

Reuters fact-checked RFK Jr., others, without disclosing ties to Pfizer

 

During the time that Smith maintained dual roles with Reuters and Pfizer, several Reuters fact-checks targeted statements made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), “without disclosing Reuters’ ties to Pfizer,” Thacker said.

 

The Disinformation Chronicle quoted an unnamed senior official at HHS who said, “We dealt with so much misinformation during the pandemic from the media. … When does this ever end?”

 

Thacker also referenced an Aug. 12 story by journalist Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D., who reported that last year, the medical journal Cureus retracted a peer-reviewed study by Japanese researchers that found a statistically significant rise in deaths from certain cancers in 2022, coinciding with the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines.

 

Cureus retracted the paper after Reuters fact-checked it in May 2024. According to Reuters, there was “no evidence” of an “mRNA cancer ‘explosion’ in Japan.”

 

“Reuters fact checkers never seem to like studies or commentators critiquing COVID vaccines, and always seek to knock them down,” Thacker wrote.

 

Yet, according to Thacker, Reuters “ignored several times when Pfizer itself put out false COVID vaccine information” — even when other legacy media outlets reported the story.

 

In one example, The Telegraph reported last year that the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority, the U.K.’s pharmaceutical watchdog, accused Pfizer of “bringing discredit” to the pharmaceutical industry for misleadingly and illegally promoting its COVID-19 vaccine.

 

According to Thacker, this was “the sixth time the British regulator reprimanded the pharmaceutical company over false promotion of their COVID vaccine” — but Reuters didn’t report on any of the six instances.

 

Thacker also cited an investigation he published in March, finding that Reuters fact-checkers repeatedly made scientifically false statements about the COVID-19 vaccines.

 

In one example, Reuters Fact Check claimed, “There is no proof that spike proteins created in response to mRNA vaccines are harmful to the body” — even though there are studies demonstrating the contrary.

 

According to Thacker, Reuters has not retracted any of its scientifically false fact-checks. “When I asked their reporter at the time if they were going to go back and fix several ‘fact checks’ that reported facts that were scientifically false, they didn’t respond,” Thacker wrote.

 

In 2021, Reuters announced collaborations with Facebook and Twitter — now known as X — to “fact check” social media posts and fight the spread of “misinformation,” without disclosing its ties to Pfizer or providing any criteria for defining “misinformation.”

 

Reuters denies conflict of interest, evades follow-up questions

 

As part of his investigation, Thacker contacted Reuters’ staff, including ethics editor, Alix Freedman, and Simon Robinson, Reuters’ executive editor, for comment. Robinson denied any conflict of interest. He wrote:

 

“The mission of Reuters Fact Check is to fact-check visual material and claims posted on social media. If a social media post concerns Pfizer and our team deems it newsworthy, Reuters fact-checks the post, not the company. We do not keep tallies of the number of articles on individual subjects.

 

“As our Standards and Values state, Reuters is editorially independent and does not alter our coverage of a company, government or institution to suit Reuters’ or Thomson Reuters’ commercial interests. Jim Smith’s membership on the Pfizer board would not be permitted to have any effect on our coverage and in fact never has.”

 

Robinson’s response left many questions unanswered, Thacker wrote:

 

“Robinson did not seem able to explain why Reuters rarely, if ever, fact checks Pfizer for their documented false statements about their vaccines, nor did he disclose how much Pfizer pays James ‘Jim’ Smith to be on the pharmaceutical company’s board while he also works for Reuters.”

 

In response to a follow-up question by Thacker about Smith’s work for Pfizer, a Reuters spokesperson asked Thacker to “please explain the basis for this question.”

 

Since 2021, Smith has also served on the board of the Brookings Institution. In 2020, a Brookings fellow suggested that people should be paid $1,000 to get a COVID-19 shot.

 

In 2021, Brookings hosted a discussion “on approaches for accelerating vaccinations against COVID-19 in Africa,” including strategies for “addressing vaccine hesitancy.”

 

Smith is also connected to the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2019, he authored a Reuters article republished on the WEF’s website about the “digital future we need,” calling for strengthening online governance by enacting “new rules for a new game” and for “empowering users through digital identities.”

 

Smith, Freedman and Robinson did not respond to The Defender’s requests for comment by press time.

 

TNI members, including Reuters, developed ‘strategy to beat disinformation’

 

CHD’s lawsuit against the TNI alleges multiple instances of censorship by news organizations, including Reuters.

 

The lawsuit alleges that TNI violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by colluding with tech giants to censor independent news outlets in a move designed specifically to cripple the smaller publishers’ ability to compete.

 

The plaintiffs allege they were censored, banned, deplatformed, shadow-banned or otherwise penalized by the Big Tech firms that partnered with the TNI to censor views and content deemed “misinformation” or “disinformation.”

 

The TNI’s legacy media and Big Tech firms then acted in concert — described in legal terms as a “group boycott” — to remove such voices and perspectives from their platforms. The plaintiffs argue that this resulted in a significant loss of visibility and revenue for them.

 

Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest in support of the plaintiffs. In its 22-page filing in federal court, the DOJ argued that the TNI engaged in anticompetitive practices when its members colluded with tech platforms to censor alternative viewpoints.

 

Reuters’ own institute describes ‘dip’ in public trust toward legacy news media

 

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, a TNI member, publishes an annual “Digital News Report.” This year’s report found that public trust in news in the U.S. is at 30% — a two percentage point decrease from 2024 and an eight percentage point decline since 2017.

 

Of the 48 countries surveyed in this year’s report, the U.S. ranked 39th in news trust.

 

“Overall trust remains at the lower end of our international survey, with most brands seeing a dip in their trust scores in the last year,” the report states.

 

For Thacker, Reuters and other major news organizations have contributed to declining public trust in the media.

 

“Public trust in legacy media plummeted during the pandemic for good cause. Legacy media has proven to the public that they are not to be trusted,” Thacker said.

 

“Every day, I get up in the morning and read several newspapers and come away confused about what is actually true and what is just narrative control that favors center-left, elitist political pieties. It’s very frustrating.”

 

Related articles in The Defender

 

o   DOJ Backs Children’s Health Defense in Antitrust Suit Against Big Media

 

o   CHD’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Media Giants Gets Boost From DOJ

 

o   CHD Sues Major Media Organizations Alleging Free Speech and Antitrust Violations

 

o   Louisiana Attorney General Files Amicus Brief in CHD’s Landmark Suit Against Trusted News Initiative

 

o   Conflict of Interest: Reuters ‘Fact Checks’ COVID-Related Social Media Posts, But Fails to Disclose Ties to Pfizer, World Economic Forum

 

 

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., based in Athens, Greece, is a senior reporter for The Defender and host of "The Defender In-Depth" on CHD.TV.

 

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