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(1) Cybersecurity expert says there was massive computer fraud in the 2020 election(2) More than 100 people who worked for Dominion Voting Systems have removed their LinkedIn profiles since Election Day(3) Parent company of Dominion Voting Systems received $400 million from Swiss bank 75% owned by Chinese gov't(4) Barr: No evidence of fraud that’d change election outcome(5) Twitter blocks links to Sidney Powell's legal defense fund website, brands it "potentially harmful"(6) Twitter bans Senator Doug Mastriano after he led hearing over Pennsylvania election discrepancies(7) Culture War continues after Trump - Matt Taibbi(8) NBC News is a CIA mouthpiece - Glenn Greenwald(9) MSM demand Facebook, Google and Twitter censorship - Glenn Greenwald(10) Gab banned by payment processors(11) YouTube, Google suppress AE911Truth, boost 'authoritative' sources like NIST(1) Cybersecurity expert says there was massive computer fraud in the 2020 electionhttps://www.worldtribune.com/before-cybersecurity-expert-joined-sidney-powells-team-the-ny-times-was-a-fan/Before cybersecurity expert joined Sidney Powell’s team, the NY Times was a fanby WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2020Cybersecurity analyst Navid Keshavarz-Nia is listed as an expert witness in Sidney Powell’s election fraud lawsuit in Georgia and his testimony is devastating.Keshavarz-Nia stated under oath that there was massive computer fraud in the 2020 election, Andrea Widburg noted in a Nov. 28 op-ed for American Thinker.A cybersecurity expert who is a witness in Sidney Powell’s lawsuit in Georgia said he had "high confidence that the election 2020 data were altered in all battleground states resulting in hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump to be transferred to Vice President Biden.’The expert witness in Powell’s case said he had "high confidence that the election 2020 data were altered in all battleground states resulting in hundreds of thousands of votes that were cast for President Trump to be transferred to Vice President Biden. These alterations were the result of systemic and widespread exploitable vulnerabilities in DVS, Scytl/SOE Software and Smartmatic systems that enabled operators to achieve the desired results. In my view, the evidence is overwhelming and incontrovertible."According to the major media, in post-election 2020 anyone questioning the legitimacy of the vote is a "conspiracy theorist." That, to the corporate media which has latched on to the leftist mob, would include Keshavarz-Nia.But, pre-election, the major media not only had no problem with Keshavarz-Nia, they were fans of the cyber expert.In a September article, Washington Monthly described Keshavarz-Nia as a "hero" in the case of Garrison Courtney, who had plead guilty in an elaborate fraud scheme that raked in at least $4.4 million from federal contractors.The New York Times noted in an October analysis:Navid Keshavarz-Nia, those who worked with him said, "was always the smartest person in the room." In doing cybersecurity and technical counterintelligence work for the C.I.A., N.S.A. and F.B.I., he had spent decades connecting top-secret dots.Here are the dots Keshavarz-Nia has connected in the 2020 election:o Hammer and Scorecard is real, not a hoax (as Democrats allege), and both are used to manipulate election outcomes.o Dominion, ES&S, Scytl, and Smartmatic are all vulnerable to fraud and vote manipulation — and the mainstream media reported on these vulnerabilities in the past.o Dominion has been used in other countries to "forge election results."o Dominion’s corporate structure is deliberately confusing to hide relationships with Venezuela, China, and Cuba.o Dominion machines are easily hackable.o Dominion memory cards with cryptographic key access to the systems were stolen in 2019.So, what qualifies Keshavarz-Nia’s to reach such conclusions?In the declaration he signed to support Powell’s election complaint in Georgia, Keshavarz-Nia takes seven paragraphs to list his qualifications.Keshavarz-Nia has a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in various areas of electrical and computer engineering. He writes in the declaration: "I have advanced trained from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), DHS office of Intelligence & Analysis (I&A) and Massachusetts Institution of Technology (MIT)."Base on his examination of available data, Keshavarz-Nia also concluded:o The counts in the disputed states (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia) show electronic manipulation.o The simultaneous decision in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia to pretend to halt counting votes was unprecedented and demonstrated a coordinated effort to collude toward desired results.o One to two percent of votes were forged in Biden’s favor.o Optical scanners were set to accept unverified, un-validated ballots.o The scanners failed to keep records for audits, an outcome that must have been deliberately programmed.o The stolen cryptographic key, which applied to all voting systems, was used to alter vote counts.o The favorable votes pouring in after hours for Biden could not be accounted for by a Democrat preference for mailed in ballots. They demonstrated manipulation. For example, in Pennsylvania, it was physically impossible to feed 400,000 ballots into the machines within 2–3 hours.o Dominion used Chinese parts, and there’s reason to believe that China, Venezuela, Cuba interfered in the election.o There was a Hammer and Scorecard cyber-attack that altered votes in the battleground states, and then forwarded the results to Scytl servers in Frankfurt, Germany, to avoid detection.o The systems failed to produce any auditable results.Widburg noted: "This is going to be tough evidence for Democrats to counter. Back when the naïve Democrats thought Trump would be the one to commit fraud, they held congressional hearings and wrote articles about the voting machines’ vulnerability. And with the New York Times touting Dr. Keshavarz-Nia’s brilliance and his ability to sniff out fraud, they’ll struggle to say that he’s not a reliable expert. Things are getting fun.(2) More than 100 people who worked for Dominion Voting Systems have removed their LinkedIn profiles since Election Dayhttps://www.worldtribune.com/who-is-aleksandar-lazarevic-dominion-voting-systems-employees-past-and-present-are-covering-their-tracks-online/Who is Aleksandar Lazarevic? Dominion Voting Systems employees, past and present, are covering their tracks onlineby WorldTribune Staff, November 29, 2020More than 100 people who have worked for Dominion Voting Systems have removed their LinkedIn profiles since Election Day, including a Serbian national who allegedly authored a key piece of Dominion algorithm software, reports say. From Nov. 6 to Nov. 16, more than 40 percent of the profiles of Dominion employees had disappeared, and nearly all the company’s software engineers were based in Serbia, according to independent media and social media reports.Dominion Voting Systems holds a third of the voting-machine market. Its software was used this year in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada.U.S. Air Force veteran Jessi Prince noted in several social media posts that her investigation into Dominion pointed her to a Serbian named Aleksandar Lazarevic."In researching this developer I discover this person wrote the book on how to do algorithmic boosting of datasets over time. The Official name for it is SMOTE (Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique)," Prince wrote.The official description of the software states: "Unlike standard boosting where all misclassified examples are given equal weights, SMOTEBoost creates synthetic examples from the rare or minority class, thus indirectly changing the updating weights and compensating for skewed distributions.SMOTEBoost applied to several highly and moderately imbalanced data sets shows improvement in prediction performance on the minority class and overall improved F-values."Prince said, in layman terms, that means: "An adjustment will be made based on the top data point to keep the bottom data point on track to balance, or Tie. Now apply that idea to tabulating votes."Prince added: "When someone views your profile on LinkedIn, you are usually sent an email, especially if you haven’t logged on in a long time, that someone is viewing your profile, you probably have seen these. 20 minutes after viewing Aleksandar’s profile, the profile has been wiped clean."A search under European graduates on graduates.name found an Aleksandar Lazarevic who graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering with a master’s in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications. His position is listed as Security Software Developer at Dominion Voting Systems. He was listed as a Dominion employee from July 2015 to present.During her investigation, Prince said she "decided to search again on LinkedIn for Aleksandar, and low and behold there was a profile of the same name, completely different picture, completely different profile but stunningly relevant background and work experience."But the profile made no mention of Dominion Voting Systems in his work experience. Prince asked: "If he was indeed hired for positive reasons, why would he not have this listed on his profile?""At this point I am 100% convinced that this is the man behind Scorecard. Looking through his papers and experiences and talks he’s a super accomplished Big Data, distributed systems expert, his works is even cited in CISCO patents."Prince added: "So why does this man have 2 profiles, why did the profile associated to Dominion get deleted once they were alerted to it being seen, and why doesn’t his professional profile have any note of working. If I were going to steal elections I would not want people capable of doing so associated with the company who counts votes."Voting machines are privately manufactured and developed and their code is typically proprietary.In 2016, the Open Source Election Technology Foundation criticized proprietary development and pushed for switching from vendor-owned systems to one that that is owned "by the people of the United States."Dominion Voting Systems confirmed in 2016 that it had been conducting operations in Serbia for 10 years.Suzanne Mello-Stark, a forensic computer scientist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a focus on voting machines, wants software and hardware transparency in voting systems. "The systems are proprietary and we don’t know what the code looks like," she said.Umm why are all the Dominion people deleting their profiles on LinkedIn AND looks like all their software engineers are in Serbia. Nothing could go wrong ?? pic.twitter.com/TUfkSvzo0Z— Rosie memos (@almostjingo) November 17, 2020(3) Parent company of Dominion Voting Systems received $400 million from Swiss bank 75% owned by Chinese gov'thttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/china-connection-parent-company-dominion-voting-systems-received-400-million-ubs-bank-switzerland-75-owned-chinese-government/THE CHINA CONNECTION: Parent company of Dominion Voting Systems Received $400 million from UBS Bank in Switzerland — 75% owned by the Chinese GovernmentBy Jim HoftPublished December 1, 2020 at 10:28amAn investigation into SEC filings has revealed that the firm which owns Dominion Voting Systems received $400 million dollars from a Swiss bank with close links to the Chinese government less than a month before the election.The investigation, conducted by Austin Security and Investigation Solutions, centers on Staple Street Capital, which acquired Dominion Voting Systems in 2018.Dominion Voting Systems operates voting machines in 28 states and has been accused by President Trump and his supporters of being involved in deleting millions of votes for Trump in addition to switching votes to Biden on election night."On Oct 8, 2020, Staple Street Capital filed SEC Form D offerings and sales amount of $400,000,000 with the Sales Compensation Recipient identified as UBS Securities," states the investigation, which also notes that another payment of $200,000,000 was received in December 2014.TRENDING: Crowd Erupts in Cheers as Giuliani Tells AZ State Lawmakers: "Your Political Career is Worth Losing if You Can Save the Right to Vote in America" (VIDEO)"UBS Securities is a swiss investment bank which owns 24.99% of UBS Securities Co LTD, a Chinese Investment Bank. The remaining 75% of UBS Securities CO LTD is owned by the Chinese government," states the report.The overall owners of UBS Securities Co LTD are;– Beijing Guoxiang (33%)– UBS (24.99%)– Guangdong Comm. Group [zh] (14.01%)– China Guodian (14%)– COFCO Group (14%)Aside from UBS, the other four owners of UBS Securities are all Communist Chinese front groups."UBS Securities is a swiss investment bank which owns 24.99% of UBS Securities Co LTD, a Chinese Investment Bank. The remaining 75% of UBS Securities CO LTD is owned by the Chinese government," states the report.— Disclose.tv ?? (@disclosetv) December 1, 2020PDF documents confirming the above details were provided by Austin Security and Investigation Solutions.https://t.co/hJPAz64PZN pic.twitter.com/vShtKQV53g— Disclose.tv ?? (@disclosetv) December 1, 2020(4) Barr: No evidence of fraud that’d change election outcomehttps://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-william-barr-b1f1488796c9a98c4b1a9061a6c7f49dBy MICHAEL BALSAMODec 1, 2020WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.His comments come despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the election was stolen, and his refusal to concede his loss to President-Elect Joe Biden.In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said U.S. attorneys and FBI agents have been working to follow up specific complaints and information they’ve received, but they’ve uncovered no evidence that would change the outcome of the election."To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election," Barr told the AP.The comments are especially direct coming from Barr, who has been one of the president’s most ardent allies. Before the election, he had repeatedly raised the notion that mail-in voter fraud could be especially vulnerable to fraud during the coronavirus pandemic as Americans feared going to polls and instead chose to vote by mail.Last month, Barr issued a directive to U.S. attorneys across the country allowing them to pursue any "substantial allegations" of voting irregularities, if they existed, before the 2020 presidential election was certified, despite no evidence at that time of widespread fraud. That memorandum gave prosecutors the ability to go around longstanding Justice Department policy that normally would prohibit such overt actions before the election was certified. Soon after it was issued, the department’s top elections crime official announced he would step aside from that position because of the memo.The Trump campaign team led by Rudy Giuliani has been alleging a widespread conspiracy by Democrats to dump millions of illegal votes into the system with no evidence. They have filed multiple lawsuits in battleground states alleging that partisan poll watchers didn’t have a clear enough view at polling sites in some locations and therefore something illegal must have happened. The claims have been repeatedly dismissed including by Republican judges who have ruled the suits lacked evidence. Local Republicans in some battleground states have followed Trump in making similar unsupported claims.Trump has railed against the election in tweets and in interviews though his own administration has said the 2020 election was the most secure ever. Trump recently allowed his administration to begin the transition over to Biden, but has still refused to admit he lost.The issues Trump’s campaign and its allies have pointed to are typical in every election: Problems with signatures, secrecy envelopes and postal marks on mail-in ballots, as well as the potential for a small number of ballots miscast or lost.But they’ve also requested federal probes into the claims. Attorney Sidney Powell has spun fictional tales of election systems flipping votes, German servers storing U.S. voting information and election software created in Venezuela "at the direction of Hugo Chavez," – the late Venezuelan president who died in 2013. Powell has since been removed from the legal team after an interview she gave where she threatened to "blow up" Georgia with a "biblical" court filing.Barr didn’t name Powell specifically but said: "There’s been one assertion that would be systemic fraud and that would be the claim that machines were programmed essentially to skew the election results. And the DHS and DOJ have looked into that, and so far, we haven’t seen anything to substantiate that," Barr said.He said people were confusing the use of the federal criminal justice system with allegations that should be made in civil lawsuits. He said such a remedy for those complaints would be a top-down audit conducted by state or local officials, not the U.S. Justice Department."There’s a growing tendency to use the criminal justice system as sort of a default fix-all, and people don’t like something they want the Department of Justice to come in and ‘investigate,’" Barr said.He said first of all there must be a basis to believe there is a crime to investigate."Most claims of fraud are very particularized to a particular set of circumstances or actors or conduct. They are not systemic allegations and. And those have been run down; they are being run down," Barr said. "Some have been broad and potentially cover a few thousand votes. They have been followed up on."(5) Twitter blocks links to Sidney Powell's legal defense fund website, brands it "potentially harmful"https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-blocks-sidney-powell-legal-defense-fund-website/November 26, 2020 Posted 2:35 pmBy Tom ParkerTwitter continues to censor coverage of lawsuits related to the election results.In its latest act of censorship against Sidney Powell, one of the attorneys spearheading legal challenges that allege voter fraud in the 2020 US presidential election, Twitter has blocked links to her legal defense fund website.Twitter appears to have started blocking links to the site shortly after Powell published her 104-page complaint in Georgia that alleges "massive election fraud" and "multiple violations of Georgia laws."Powell is hosting a copy of the filing on her legal defense fund website but shortly after it was posted, Twitter users started to notice that they were being blocked from sharing it and presented with a message that states: "Your tweet couldn't be sent because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful."Existing links to the filing that were tweeted before the block was implemented are now being hidden behind a warning page that claims the link is "potentially spammy or unsafe" and urges users to return to Twitter.Twitter's swift blocking of Powell's website follows Twitter temporarily suspending her account earlier this week.Powell's tweets have also been shadowbanned from Twitter search which means that even if Twitter users actively search for the latest tweets from Powell's account, Twitter will show no results.This censorship of Powell is reflective of the mass post-election night censorship across Twitter that has resulted in the restriction and removal of many posts and links discussing election-related lawsuits or alleging that voter fraud occurred.Earlier this month, Twitter temporarily blocked links to two official South Dakota GOP websites after the party attempted to tweet its support for President Trump's post-election lawsuits. StopTheSteal.us, a site that was coordinating grassroots post-election protests and events, also had links to its site temporarily blocked by Twitter this month. Twitter later reversed the blocks and claimed that the domains were blocked "mistakenly" and that it was a "misunderstanding."Numerous other Twitter accounts that were providing post-election night coverage have also been suspended and President Trump has had many of his post-election night tweets suppressed.Twitter admits that some of its post-election night censorship measures have slashed total retweets and quote tweets by 20%.But despite the existing censorship causing a drastic drop off in engagement, Twitter is working on additional censorship measures which include new warnings that will discourage users from sharing and liking tweets.(6) Twitter bans Senator Doug Mastriano after he led hearing over Pennsylvania election discrepancieshttps://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-suspends-senator-doug-mastriano/November 26, 2020 Posted 4:21 pmBy Cindy HarperTwitter has suspended the personal account of State Senator Doug Mastriano of Pennsylvania's District 33. The Republican senator got the boot within 24 hours of  holding a hearing on election oversight in light of allegations of voter fraud.Mastriano was at the helm of this week's hearing regarding allegations of election fraud and malpractice."Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules," is the message now displayed on the senator's personal Twitter account. His official Senate account remains on the platform.Concerned about the election's integrity, State Senator Mastriano requested the Senate Majority Policy Committee have a hearing about election irregularities. The hearing happened on Wednesday in Gettysburg.The hearing featured testimonies from different witnesses who claimed to have seen various irregularities and voter fraud."I mean, I don't even know how this happened in America. We can send, 50 years ago, men to the moon, but we can't have a safe, secure election in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania? What's going on here?" Mastriano said during the hearing."Very sad to say it, this election was rigged, and we can't let that happen. We can't let it happen for our country, and this election has to be turned around because we won Pennsylvania by a lot, and we won all of these swing states by a lot," President Trump said when he called during the hearing.Over the past few months, Twitter has been stricter in its censorship of allegations of any impropriety with regards to the election.(7) Culture War continues after Trump - Matt Taibbihttps://taibbi.substack.com/p/for-what-are-americas-wealthy-thankfulFor What Are America's Wealthy Thankful? A Worsening Culture War: TaibbiWed, 11/25/2020 - 17:00by Matt Taibbi via taibbi.substack.comSelf-described "elected DNC member" and Washington Monthly contributor David Atkins tweeted this last week, garnering a huge response:No seriously...how *do* you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook?We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction in the South.— David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 18, 2020You have to read the full thread to grasp the argument, a greatest hits collection of DNC talking points. Conservatives, Atkins writes, have no beliefs, being a "belligerent death cult against reality and basic decency." There’s no reason to listen to them, since the "only actual policy debates" are "happening within the dem coalition between left and center-left." He had over 61,000 likes last I checked.Meanwhile, as Donald Trump kept describing the election as a "hoax," newly re-upped South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted this, perhaps offering a preview into Republican messaging in the post-Trump era:I can understand why the Squad doesn't want me in the Senate - because I'm going to bury your agenda.You're a bunch of Socialists. You would transform America and make it Venezuela. I'm gonna stand in your way.I'm not going anywhere! pic.twitter.com/oLAMkwmyR4— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) November 19, 2020 From the "vast right-wing conspiracy" through the "basket of deplorables" to now, the Democratic message increasingly focuses on the illegitimacy of the ordinary conservative voter’s opinion: ignorant, conspiratorial, and racist, so terrible that the only hope is mass-reprogramming by educated betters.On the other hand, Republicans from Goldwater to Trump have warned that coalitions of "marauders" from the inner cities and "bad hombres" from across the border are plotting to use socialist politics to seize the hard-earned treasure of the small-town voter, with the aid of elitist traitors in the Democratic Party.Spool these ideas endlessly and you get culture war. Any thought that it might abate once Trump left the scene looks naive now. The pre-election warnings from the right about roving bands of Pelosi-coddled Antifa troops looking to "attack your homes" haven’t subsided, while the line that Trump voters are not a political group but a stupidity death-cult is no longer hot take, but a mandatory element of mainstream press analyses.(8) NBC News is a CIA mouthpiece - Glenn Greenwaldhttps://www.zerohedge.com/political/glenn-greenwald-levels-msm-journo-who-claims-hes-endangering-cia-mouthpiece-mediaGlenn Greenwald Levels MSM Journo Who Claims He's 'Endangering' CIA-Mouthpiece Mediaby Tyler DurdenSun, 11/22/2020 - 15:20Glenn Greenwald is starting his post-Intercept life as a freelance journalist with a bang...Last week, he threw haymakers at corporate media - calling out NBC and CNN for hiring "little hall monitor dweebs whose only purpose is to pressure other platforms to censor or block the voices that are most threatening to them" (which is exactly what happened to Zero Hedge and The Federalist).CNN and NBC and others now employ little hall monitor dweebs whose only purpose is to pressure other platforms to censor or block the voices that are most threatening to them. It's not journalism: it's quashing of dissent. That's their function: it's vital to see that clearly. pic.twitter.com/vOMhohPUpi— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 16, 2020One of said "dweebs," NBC's Ben Collins, engaged, replying: "Good to hear from you. I've got a few questions," to which Greenwald said: "NBC News is a huge corporate conglomerate that has always existed to disseminate US Govt, CIA and corporate propaganda ... Does your employment there ever make you think that your self-conception as a brave, intrepid journalist confronting corrupt power centers might be a fraud?"NBC News is a huge corporate conglomerate that has always existed to disseminate US Govt, CIA and corporate propaganda.Does your employment there ever make you think that your self-conception as a brave, intrepid journalist confronting corrupt power centers might be a fraud?— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 17, 2020Calling out the MSM's links to the CIA sent MSM journalist Sulome Anderson over the edge. Anderson, whose AP journalist father was was held hostage by Hezbollah for six years in the 80s, tweeted: "This crosses a line. Like some of his protégés, Glenn is endangering journalists working in perilous environments by telling his massive following that they are mouthpieces for U.S. intelligence. NBC reporters work in places where any affiliation with the CIA is life-threatening."Greenwald hit back, calling her comment "manipulative bullshit" and pointing out that NBC hired former CIA director John Brennan, along with "Ken Dilanian & every other operative puked up by the security state."LOL. The notion that you can't point out NBC's long-standing role in spouting CIA propaganda without "endangering" their employees is manipulative bullshit.They hired *John Brennan*, Ken Dilanian & every other operative puked up by the security state. People already know. https://t.co/V2i5Ev0agc— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 21, 2020He then proceeded to excoriate the press as he furthered his point:The CIA lies of the Iraq War were principally sold on Meet the Press. Ground Zero for mindless CIA stenography of the most unhinged Russiagate conspiracies was MSNBC.If you don't want to be known as a CIA outpost, then .... don't be one.— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 21, 2020Profoundly sorry for endangering the lives of NBC executives and TV personalities by spilling the extremely well-kept secret of their close working relationship with the CIA. pic.twitter.com/AfA2YROg79— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 21, 2020Others were quick to point out that Glenn had the high ground on this one, to which Anderson essentially conceded he was correct.She ends up admitting it in the same thread. Tres bizarre pic.twitter.com/AhmmkfLKVn— Chad Vigorous (@PrettyBadLefty) November 21, 2020https://t.co/My1bxkB55Dwhat are you talking about— Ambitionz Az Derrida (@a_bad_sign) November 17, 2020(9) MSM demand Facebook, Google and Twitter censorship - Glenn Greenwaldhttps://greenwald.substack.com/p/demanding-silicon-valley-suppressDemanding Silicon Valley Suppress "Hyper-Partisan Sites" in Favor of "Mainstream News" (The NYT) is a FraudThe corporate news organizations masquerading as reliable and non-partisan are, in fact, as hyper-partisan as any sites on the internet, and spread as much misinformation.Glenn GreenwaldNov 25The most prolific activism demanding more Silicon Valley censorship is found in the nation’s largest news outlets: the media reporters of CNN, the "disinformation" unit of NBC News, and especially the tech reporters of The New York Times. That is where the most aggressive and sustained pro-internet-censorship campaigns are waged.Due in part to a self-interested desire to re-establish their monopoly on discourse by crushing any independent or dissenting voices, and in part by a censorious and arrogant mindset which convinces them that only those of their worldview and pedigree have a right to be heard, they largely devote themselves to complaining that Facebook, Google and Twitter are not suppressing enough speech. It is hall-monitor tattletale whining masquerading as journalism: petulantly complaining that tech platforms are permitting speech that, in their view, ought instead be silenced.In Tuesday’s New York Times, three of those censorious tech reporters — Kevin Roose, Mike Isaac, and Sheera Frenkel — published an article on Facebook’s post-election deliberations over how to alter its algorithms to prevent the spread of what they deem "misinformation" regarding the election. The most consequential change they implemented, The New York Times explained, was one in which "hyperpartisan pages" are repressed in favor of promoting "a spike in visibility for big, mainstream publishers like CNN, The New York Times and NPR" — a change the Paper of Record heralded as having fostered "a calmer, less divisive Facebook."More alarmingly, the NYT suggested (i.e., prayed) that these changes, designed by Facebook as an election-related emergency measure, would instead become permanent. Marvel at these two paragraphs and all of tenuous and self-serving assumptions buried in them:The conceit that outlets like The New York Times, CNN and NPR are the alternatives to "hyper-partisan pages" is one you would be eager to believe, or at least want to induce others to believe, if you were a tech reporter at The New York Times, furious and hurt that millions upon millions of people would rather hear other voices than your own, and simply do not trust what you tell them. Inducing Facebook to manipulate the algorithmic underbelly of social media to artificially force your content down the throats of citizens who prefer to avoid it, while rendering your critics’ speech invisible — all in the name of reducing "hyper-partisanship," "divisiveness," and "misinformation" — is of course a highly desirable outcome for mainstream outlets like the NYT.The problem with this claim is that it’s a complete and utter fraud, one that is easily demonstrated as such. There are few sites more "hyper-partisan" than the three outlets which the NYT applauded Facebook for promoting. In the 2020 election, over 70 million Americans — close to half of the voting population — voted for Donald Trump, yet not one of them is employed by the op-ed page of the "non-partisan" New York Times and are almost never heard on NPR or CNN. That’s because those news outlets, by design, are pro-Democratic-Party organs, who speak overwhelmingly to Democratic readers and viewers. ...(10) Gab banned by payment processorshttp://gab.com/For those of you who don't know, Gab has been banned by dozens of payment processors over the past two years. We can't use PayPal, Stripe, Square, or any of the top ways to exchange money on the internet.We've also been banned from many cryptocurrency payment platforms like Coinbase and Bitpay. To top it off, it's not only Gab as a business that is being targeted. My family and I have also been blacklisted by VISA for merchant processing.Gab has always accepted bitcoin, or free speech money, but once we could no longer accept credit or debit card purchases to operate our business we learned how crucial bitcoin is for the future.Bitcoin allows anyone in the world to store value digitally and transact in a way that is secure, censorship-resistant, and doesn't require permission or approval from any government, corporation, or bank. Increasingly businesses like Gab and individuals like me are being cut off from traditional payment processing, banks, and more.Bitcoin solves this problem.As a Christian I fear that what has happened to both Gab and my family will soon start to happen to other Believers. This is why we spend a lot of time at Gab working to educate our community about the importance of understanding and using bitcoin. There very well might come a day soon when churches, missionaries, and Christian organizations can only accept bitcoin to fund their operations.I'm here to tell you that if it comes to that, we will be okay. This month against all odds Gab had our first six figure revenue month in our four year history. This is without one single credit or debit card transaction, which makes it all the more impressive.We are so humbly grateful to our growing community for their support to make this happen. Gab is and always has been funded by our community. The great people on Gab are our customers, investors, volunteers, and some have even become employees.Our community members come from all different races, creeds, beliefs, and places but share one thing in common: they cherish and work to defend free speech online for all people.We want to also thank God for bitcoin. Bitcoin makes it possible for Gab to generate revenue and scale our rapidly growing community.Any Gabber from around the world can purchase bitcoin from an exchange and use it to support Gab. They don't need permission from any third-party payment processor in order to do this.We are excited to continue building the home of free speech online funded by the biggest community of free speech warriors on the planet and with bitcoin, free speech money.Thank you and God bless,Andrew TorbaCEO, Gab.comJesus is KingNovember 24th, 2020(11) YouTube, Google suppress AE911Truth, boost 'authoritative' sources like NISThttps://www.ae911truth.org/news/716-youtube-google-suppress-ae911truth-boost-authoritative-sources-like-nistCraig McKee November 25, 2020The suppression of alternative voices on the internet, including those who challenge the official story of 9/11, is relentless. And it's getting worse.The censorship of non-mainstream viewpoints includes content created by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. This practice, by online giants like Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, has been going on for a long time but has been reaching a fever pitch over the past two or three years.It is particularly YouTube and its parent company, Google, whose policies have made it more difficult to find AE911Truth and its content online.This is all being done in the name of reducing "harm" allegedly created by "extremism" and "misinformation." Mainstream accounts of events like 9/11 are more and more being shielded from scrutiny as material challenging them is either banned or made harder to find.Meanwhile, mainstream media are being held up as authorities on what is true and what isn't. This effectively means that alternative journalists whose reports differ from those of the corporate media on the same subject are assumed to be spreading misinformation.Internet censorship is being carried out in a number of ways. A few years ago, YouTube began "demonetizing" videos that it considered inappropriate or problematic in some way. This did not affect AE911Truth directly, since the organization has never used the platform to generate advertising revenue.But more recent moves are having an effect.AE911Truth videos won't come up nearly as readily as they once did when someone searches for them on YouTube, nor are they as easy to find on Google. In fact, even when you type in the precise title of an AE911Truth video, you're far more likely to find numerous mainstream outlets appearing ahead of what you are actually searching for. Sometimes you'll see AE911Truth videos that have been re-posted on other YouTube channels.Age restriction is the newest form of censorship. An AE911Truth video of the Building 7 video billboard that was placed in Times Square in New York City was recently restricted to those 18 years of age and older.You won't get AE911Truth videos recommended for you by YouTube anymore, even when you have watched similar content, and YouTube's "autocomplete" feature for searches now steers users away from AE911Truth and other "conspiracy" content.In addition, many interviews given to independent journalists by AE911Truth founder Richard Gage have disappeared from the internet because those outlets' YouTube channels have been deleted.The recent expansion of internet censorship has made it possible for Google and YouTube to hide content that challenges official narratives. AE911Truth's first experience with this was in 2015 when the video Architects and Engineers: Solving the Mystery of Building 7, narrated by Ed Asner, was taken down by YouTube for supposedly contravening its policy on "spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content."At that time, the video had accumulated more than 1.5 million views. It was subsequently re-uploaded on YouTube and has since amassed another 400,000 views. But anyone watching the video on YouTube today would have no idea that nearly two million people had already watched it before them. As AE911Truth marketing director Jeff Long, says, this has a clear effect on the weight the video carries in people's minds.Making it worse, he adds, is that when content is removed, "There is no way to contact anyone at the platform to find out what the problem was."Contrast the treatment of the Asner video with that of the 2009 video Why the Building (WTC7) Fell by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which puts forward the provably false official government account of the building's collapse. While AE911Truth's videos have been made harder to find, those touting the official story of 9/11 have been boosted. [...]In June 2019, YouTube announced new measures to tackle "hate" and reduce "harmful content." The company laid out the four pillars of their approach: removing violative content, raising up authoritative content, reducing the spread of borderline content, and rewarding trusted creators.Again, those questioning the official 9/11 story are being considered "borderline," while those affirming the story are among the "trusted creators" who are producing "authoritative content."One of the leading voices against this censorship has been investigative journalist James Corbett of The Corbett Report, who posited at AE911Truth's recent "Justice Rising: 9/11 in 2020" conference that increasing internet censorship is "the modern-day equivalent of book burning."He pointed out that it's not necessary for alternative information to be deleted from all corners of the internet for it to essentially be unusable. It is only necessary to make it difficult or impossible to find. And that's where Google, as the internet's "index," and YouTube, as the internet's repository of video material, wield enormous power."That should concern us all for reasons that are self-evident," Corbett said.Corbett recently held a "Goodbye, YouTube!!! party" on his Corbett Report, featuring guests who have had their channels deleted by the site.While AE911Truth has mainly been penalized by YouTube and Google, internet censorship goes well beyond these two giants. Facebook has closed thousands of pages, and it routinely blocks millions of posts every month, sometimes leading to the temporary banning of those doing the posting. In August 2020, Facebook announced that it had blocked 22 million posts in just three months. [...]