Ted Cruz questions Microsoft about censorship

 Newsmax:

Microsoft's use of a left-wing censorship tool created by NewsGuard has gotten the serious attention of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

On Monday, Cruz fired off a strongly worded letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demanding to know answers about the Big Tech giant's partnership with one of the left's most notorious media monitors.

Cruz's letter addresses Microsoft's promotion and apparent funding of the online "Media Literacy" tool, which was created by NewsGuard to guide "learners of all ages through the overwhelming landscape of online news and information."

Conservatives say that NewsGuard's tool and its efforts are simply suppressing viewpoints and news reports using highly subjective ratings.

"Given growing concerns about NewsGuard's ideological bias and its efforts to manipulate young minds, I ask for transparency regarding Microsoft's involvement in and financing of this Orwellian censorship project," Cruz wrote to Nadella.
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Censorship on the internet is largely controlled by leftists who seek to suppress conservative content.  Before Musk by Twitter and changed it to X conservative content was also largely suppressed.  Now the left is upset with Musk because he no longer censors conservative content.  X is now close to 50-50 on liberal and conservative content.  It is also a much more interesting site.

See also:

Incriminating report from Congress proves what we all knew about Biden

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He added, “Through our oversight, we protected the First Amendment by investigating the censorship-industrial complex, heard from numerous brave whistleblowers, stopped the targeting of Americans by the IRS and Department of Justice, and created serious legislative and policy changes that will benefit all Americans.”

The report paints a dire picture of a “two-tiered system of government,” one favoring the politically connected while subjecting ordinary Americans to “intimidation and unfairness.” According to the subcommittee, this dynamic has grown “even more stark” under Biden’s leadership.
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And:

 

Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸 TRUMP WIN: STATE DEPT'S $61M 'DISINFORMATION' OFFICE GETS AXED The State Department's controversial Global Engagement Center will close its doors tonight after Republicans stripped its funding from the spending bill. Critics say the 120-person agency used its $61M budget to blacklist conservative voices. Sen. Schmitt blasted the GEC as a: "massive censorship machine designed to suppress narratives that question establishment thinking." The agency's defenders claim it fought Russian and Chinese propaganda. The shutdown marks an early victory for Trump's anti-censorship agenda before he even takes office.

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