Joining us now is Democratic Senator Angela Also Brooks from Maryland. She's a member of the Senate Help Committee. Lots of ground to cover.Let's start with free speech. We heard President Trump in that news conference uh talk about Jimmy Kimmel's show being pulled from the air, slamming him as not having talent. Between that and what we heard from the FCC chair this morning, they're not even trying to subtly influence media companies right now.It's blatant. Are you surprised they're doing this all out in t ...

You've both spoken about censorship and requests to compromise scientific integrity. Dr. . Manarez, did uh Secretary Kennedy ever give you instructions on how you should interact with members of Congress.He did. I became very concerned. I was alarmed that I would not be consistent with those areas that I had committed to this committee, transparency, integrity.Um, and I had reached out to the committee to share my concerns. Secretary Kennedy became aware of that and he was very concerned that I had spoken t ...

I I saw on you know one of the networks just now that there's this big revolt against social media because of their contribution the polarization that ultimately led to his death. This blowing up of hatred ironically I think Charlie would revolt against that. >> Yes.>> Because he hated censorship. Yes. >> What what he said is the answer is conversation and dialogue.And we need to learn to do that if we're if our democracy is going to survive. ...

Platform Analysis - X (formerly Twitter) acquisition by Elon Musk empowers individuals as media [1] - X enables transparent reporting without bureaucratic restrictions [1] - Other platforms are perceived to have strong censorship compared to X [1]

they are now trying to DELETE the article from wikipedia ?!?!welcome to the circus@balajis was right https://t.co/dIONQsS2Kw ...

This is, at heart, a free speech issue, in tandem with the EU DSA censorship law. If Google resists what the EU Digital Commission tells them in terms of taking down “disinformation,” they can use their market regs to punish Google so it doesn’t look like compelling censorship. ...

hooooly shit the European Parliament blocked access to @shellenbergerMichael Shellenberger (@shellenberger):The European Parliament has blocked access to https://t.co/goPSkU59yb, apparently in response to TWITTER FILES-FRANCE. @vonderleyen @DelphineColard are ignoring Members of Parliament. This is the censorship that @EmmanuelMacron & @vonderleyen seek to impose on the world. ...

RT American Moment (@AmMomentOrg)"Biden openly called in his task force to promote beefing up Europe’s censorship laws while the White House was simultaneously working with the U.K. digital ministry to mutually take out each other’s political opponents."@MikeBenzCyber, Executive Director of @FFO_Freedom, at NatCon 5: ...

Censorship Pressure - The French government pressured Twitter 1.0 to censor speech [1] - Twitter attempted to cooperate with NGOs to avoid a lawsuit by offering confidential information [1] - NGOs refused to settle, leading Twitter to censor its platform for all users [1]

Social Media & Government Relations - French government, specifically President Macron's team, exerted pressure on Twitter 1.0 to censor speech [1] - President Macron's team repeatedly requested Twitter CEO Jack's phone number to send supportive messages regarding Twitter's new policies [1] - Twitter's Public Policy Director for France and Russia was the point of contact for these requests [1]