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Suppression of inconvenient truths about COVID
Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SHELLEY - Tribune News Services 
Jan 16, 2023
Pfizer and the White House engaged in behind-the-scenes efforts to pressure social media companies into censoring truthful information about COVID-19 ...
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Twitter’s silencing of Trump
Opinion, Сolumns
SUSAN SHELLEY Tribune News Service 
Dec 19, 2022
During the run-up to the 2016 election, Donald Trump used Twitter brilliantly. He had a talent for writing messages that were interesting or outrageou...
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The spies who deserve to be out in the cold
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 06, 2022
The “Twitter Files” released by Elon Musk give us a more fine-grained understanding of how and why the social media company decided to censor the Hunt...
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The spies who deserve to be out in the cold
RICH LOWRY 
Dec 06, 2022
The “Twitter Files” released by Elon Musk give us a more fine-grained understanding of how and why the social media company decided to censor the Hunt...
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Time to save local journalism
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 11, 2022
The wake of an election in which millions of Americans in diverse districts nationwide made their voices heard is the perfect time to remember: While ...
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To tweet or not to tweet, now that Elon’s the boss
Opinion, Сolumns
VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN Tribune News Service 
Nov 01, 2022
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — My plan was to dither. I find that if I plan to dither, the chances are high I’ll follow through. Last week, while the World’s Ric...
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Don’t fear Elon Musk
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Oct 07, 2022
Elon Musk is about to pollute the country’s discourse, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop him. This is the alarm going up about the eccentric b...
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Elon Musk is not your savior
NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to The Era 
Jul 31, 2022
Conservatives may have noticed the recent spat between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Trump called Musk a “bull---- artist”, and Musk replied that it was...
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Time to audit Twitter censorship
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Apr 27, 2022
New Twitter owner Elon Musk is vowing to reform the social media platform. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the ...
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In defense of Elon Musk
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Apr 19, 2022
A year after being named Time magazine’s person of the year, Elon Musk is attempting to acquire Twitter. To listen to Musk’s critics, you’d believe it...
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The age of progressive misinformation
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Sep 29, 2021
How does a stupid and ridiculous lie come to be embraced and promulgated by top officials of the United States government? Well, as it turns out, it’s...
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Someday, courts will rule on social media
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Apr 08, 2021
It started as one of those ridiculous controversies of the Trump era. In May and June 2017, then-President Donald Trump blocked a few Twitter trolls w...
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‘Misinformation’ in 2020
Opinion, Сolumns
BYRON YORK 
Dec 17, 2020
Looking at reporting and discussion of the 2020 presidential campaign, has any word been misused as often as “misinformation”? In much political debat...
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FB and Twitter define truth
Opinion, Сolumns
STEPHEN L. CARTER, Tribune News Service 
Nov 02, 2020
Democrats and Republicans alike missed the point on Wednesday, when members of the Senate Commerce Committee had their last chance before the election...
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No-win for Twitter, Facebook
Opinion, Сolumns
JON HEALEY, Tribune News Service 
Oct 17, 2020
The New York Post published a story Wednesday about Joe Biden and his son Hunter that read suspiciously like disinformation. More important, the piece...
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