Israel Has Been Trying To Ban Free Speech For Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRzk-zQgI-U
Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest culminates a years-long campaign of the Israel lobby to criminalize its critics and shut down pro-Palestinian student activism.
BT’s Kei Pritsker goes through the long history of the attacks on free speech, for which Palestine is now the litmus test…
Midterms people.
Eye on the ball.
The Senate and House need to flip … #Bigly.
While you’re calling all your #senators and #representatives, you best be making sure they know you are preparing to primary their asses if they show one scintilla of support for the #billionaire agenda.
And you need to ask them what their state is doing to secure against #ElectionInterference.
Big, big, questions.
Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference (FIMI) is the EU’s approach. It treats disinfo as a tool used by external actors to influence politics, elections & policy debates.
Focus: Narrative shaping, malign influence, electoral interference.
Avoids military framing—staying in the civil/political domain.
Example: Russian disinfo campaigns in EU elections.
Elon Musk Condemns Romania’s Ban on Presidential Candidate: ‘Crazy’ https://www.byteseu.com/816769/ #ban #CǎlinGeorgescu #ElectionInterference #ElonMusk #FarRight #PresidentialElection #Romania #Russia #X
Director of National *Intelligence* #TulsiGabbard has falsely accused Kyiv of canceling the election. (In response to the news in this article, #ElonMusk tweeted: “Ukraine needs to hold an election. Zelensky would lose by a landslide.”) [yeah, sure, okay].
But while the #Trump camp may hope an election will sink #Zelensky, he is still massively more popular than Tymoshenko & Poroshenko.
The ofcl line from the #US admin is that #Trump is not interfering in #Ukraine’s domestic politics. #Commerce Secy #HowardLutnick denied his boss was “weighing into Ukrainian politics,” adding all that Trump wants is a partner for peace.
But the behavior of Trump & his ofcls suggests quite the opposite. Trump has accused #Zelensky of being a “dictator without elections,” & hinted he would not be “around very long” if he didn’t do a deal w/ #Russia.
The discussions centered on whether #Ukraine could hold quick presidential elections. These are being delayed in line w/the country’s #constitution because Ukraine remains under martial law. Critics of holding elections say they could be chaotic & play into #Russia’s hands, with so many potential voters serving on the front lines or living abroad as refugees.
The snr #Trump allies held talks w/Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorselessly ambitious fmr prime minister [Politico’s characterization], & snr members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, #Zelensky’s immediate predecessor as president, acc/to 3 Ukrainian parliamentarians & a #US #Republican #ForeignPolicy expert.
Top #Trump allies hold secret talks w/ #Zelensky’s Ukrainian political opponents
4 snr members of Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions w/some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns w/Moscow in seeking to lever #Ukraine’s president out of his job.
#geopolitics #ElectionInterference #law
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-allies-secret-talks-volodymyr-zelenskyy-opposition-ukraine-elections-yulia-tymoshenko-petro-poroshenko/
"Ethical Concerns Surround Sen. Joni Ernst’s Relationships With Top Military Officials Who Lobbied Her Committee"
Remember the #Republican outrage over the #affair between #Georgia #DistrictAttorney and #Prosecutor in the #2020 #ElectionInterference case?
Yeah, they'll sweep this under the rug.
https://www.propublica.org/article/joni-ernst-congress-military-relationships
Corey G. Johnson: Targeted: How Cambridge Analytica Used Intimate Data to Exploit Gun Owners’ Private Lives
#propublica #CambridgeAnalytica #guns #electioninterference #USpol
https://projects.propublica.org/gun-owners-cambridge-analytica-data-psychological-profiles-privacy/
#Trump said during the news conference that he believes #Russia President #Putin will “keep his word” on any *peace* deal w/ #Ukraine, adding they went through the “Russian Hoax” together & dismissing Russia’s #ElectionInterference in 2016.
“I’ve known him for a long time now,” said Trump. “We had to go through the Russian hoax together. That was not a good thing. It’s not fair. That was a rigged deal & had nothing to do with Russia.”
#Georgescu has praised Romania’s 1930s #fascist leaders & lauded #Russia’s … #Putin as “a man who loves his country”. Polls show he has a clear lead in the 4 May rerun, although it is not certain that he will be allowed to stand.
The promotion of fascist leaders & #Nazi, #racist or #xenophobic symbols are banned under Romanian #law & carry a prison sentence, although cases have rarely been brought to court.
#Romania’s #FarRight candidate, championed by #JDVance & #ElonMusk, detained by police
Romanian prosecutors have opened a #criminal investigation into #CălinGeorgescu, the far-right, Pro-#Russia populist who surged from almost nowhere to win the first round of the country’s cancelled presidential election last year.
#RussianPropaganda #ElectionInterference #geopolitics #law
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/26/romanian-prosecutors-launch-investigation-into-far-right-politician-calin-georgescu
Study of TikTok, X ‘For You’ feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/study-of-tiktok-x-for-you-feeds-in-germany-finds-far-right-political-bias-ahead-of-federal-elections/
h/t @mapto
https://qoto.org/@mapto/114037353156797690
#Germany #SocialMedia #disinformation #misinformation #ElectionInterference #PoliticalBias
“We could see actual Canadian policy being shaped by a small number of people that are misrepresenting the feelings of politicians’ constituents.”
The Samara Centre for Democracy report also made recommendations to introduce platform regulations, support legislation that safeguards researchers access to social media data, and raise public awareness about what inauthentic online behaviour and foreign interference could look like.
Here’s who in the 119th Congress (2025-26) who voted for the Save Act - Bill H.R.22:
#USPOL #SaveAct #ElectionInterference #ElectionLaws #USElections
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202512
#EmilBove represented #Trump throughout his #criminal #ElectionInterference case & his #ClassifiedDocuments case & has since ordered retaliatory actions against those who worked on the other side of those cases. #EdMartin represented a defendant in a #Jan6 case, personally attended the Capitol riot on Jan 6 & has expressed support for the #OathKeepers militia group. At Trump’s direction, he has now dismissed all of those cases….
