$1.5 trillion federal spending bill allocates $2.6 billion to programs that fight “disinformation” and “hate”

By Tom Parker | Reclaim The Net | March 11, 2022

The huge $1.5 trillion US federal spending bill, that’s expected to be signed into law by President Joe Biden today, allocates over $2.6 billion to “Democracy Programs” and requires these programs to combat “the misuse of social media to spread disinformation or incite hate.”

$1.5 trillion federal spending bill allocates $2.6 billion to programs that fight “disinformation” and “hate”

EU bans search engines and social platforms from “reproducing” content from sanctioned Russian media

A wide-sweeping censorship order By Didi Rankovic | Reclaim The Net | March 11, 2022

They trained for this day for a long time; particularly by quashing online dissent during the two years of Covid hell, and now the big day is here: once considered an aspirational beacon of democracy, the EU is deploying some of the most egregious-to-date acts of censorship and suppression of free speech and access to information – certainly, at least, for a Western democracy.

EU bans search engines and social platforms from “reproducing” content from sanctioned Russian media