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Banks Told They Must Protect Free Speech After Nigel Farage Debanked

The UK Treasury Department is set to introduce rules to prohibit banks from dropping customers over their political views in response to a growing controversy exposed when Brexit leader Nigel Farage said last week that he might be forced to leave the country after being blacklisted by several lenders. The

Cambodia: Past Vote Irregularities Foreshadow July Election

(Bangkok) – Cambodia commune election results in 2022 showed numerous and significant irregularities that raise concerns for the July 23, 2023 national elections, Human Rights Watch said today.

Iran: New Charges Against Journalists

(Beirut) – Iranian authorities have brought vague “propaganda” and “national security” charges against three journalists, Human Rights Watch said today.

Fear and Loathing in the City of Westminster

Our descent into City Airport was like the drop-ship scene in the movie Aliens.

EU Officials Put Elon Musk's Twitter Through 'Exercise' on Fighting 'Disinformation'

Twitter may be close to bending the knee to the European Union’s stringent new laws on fake news, Russian propaganda, and online crime.

“A Global Digital Compact” – UN promoting censorship, social credit & much more

Late last month the office of the United Nation’s Secretary General published a policy document on aims for the future of the internet. A follow-up to the 2021 report “Our Common Agenda”, the new report’s title says it all really, “A Global Digital Compact”. That’s the goal,

Belarus: Free Rights Defender

(Vilnius, June 22, 2023) – Human Rights Watch joined 15 other organizations on June 22, 2023, in urging the Belarus government to withdraw charges and immediately free the human rights defender Anastasia Loika. A Belarus court sentenced her on June 20 to seven years in prison for contributing to a report

Deconstructing Marianna in Conspiracyland – Part 1

Rejected artwork for the BBC podcast. In the introduction to this exposé of “Marianna in Conspiracyland” we discussed the evidence which proves that the BBC is a state broadcaster. It is not “independent,” as it falsely claims; its “reporting” spreads disinformation on behalf of the government and, as we shall

'Free Speech Absolutist' Elon Musk Suspends Accounts of Prominent Tesla Critic Aaron Greenspan

In a move that has raised eyebrows in the tech and legal communities, Twitter has suspended the accounts of Aaron Greenspan, a well-known critic of Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk.

Deconstructing Marianna in Conspiracyland – Introduction

Rejected artwork for the BBC podcast. The BBC’s “Marianna in Conspiracyland” podcast series is presented by Marianna Spring, the BBC’s specialist disinformation and social media correspondent. Over the course of 10 podcast episodes, mixing fact with fiction and exploiting applied psychology, “Conspiracyland” is a disinformation and propaganda campaign

New Normal Germany Blues

The first rule of New Normal Germany is “You Do Not Compare New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany!” I did that on the cover of my bestselling book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich, so the State Prosecutor’s office in Berlin has launched a criminal investigation of me

Political satirist CJ Hopkins facing criminal prosecution

The Berlin Prosecutor’s Office has charged political satirist (and frequent OffG contributor) CJ Hopkins with: “disseminating propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization,” The charge relates to CJ’s promotion of his 2022 book The Rise of the New

Kyrgyzstan: Draft Law Threatens Civic Space

(Bishkek, June 9, 2023) – The Kyrgyz parliament should reject a highly repressive draft law that would interfere with the activities of nongovernmental organizations, Human Rights Watch said today.

Conservative AI Chatbot 'GIPPR' Shut Down by ChatGPT-Maker OpenAI

GIPPR AI, an implementation of the ChatGPT AI chatbot designed to curtail the original version’s widely documented leftist bias, has been shut down by ChatGPT creator OpenAI.