As NPR Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk Tweets 'Defund NPR'

April 12th, 2023 7:17 PM

For years, NewsBusters has urged Congress to "defund NPR." It doesn't mean taking away all their funding -- just the government funding. They often claim only two percent of their funding comes from government. So why not give it up? Today, Elon Musk tweeted out "Defund NPR" in the wake of NPR's arrogant proclamations about how great they are. So now we have celebrity endorsers! 

BYE!! NPR Quits Twitter Over Twitter’s (Accurate) ‘Govt.-Funded’ Label

April 12th, 2023 1:45 PM

On Wednesday morning, taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (NPR) upped the ante in its hissy fit against the Elon Musk-owned Twitter as, in light of the fact that Twitter added the “state-affiliated media” label to NPR’s account and then tweaked it to say “government-funded media,” the far-left crackpots would be quitting the social media platform because Twitter was “falsely implying that we…

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Musk Slaps Down BBC Journo Over Ridiculous ‘Hate Speech’ Accusation

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April 12th, 2023 10:13 AM

Twitter owner Elon Musk took the leftist U.K.-based BBC to the woodshed when the latter accused the platform of being plagued by a rise of so-called “hate speech.”

Fake News Victory? Elon Musk Swaps NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label

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April 10th, 2023 4:26 PM

Twitter owner Elon Musk appeared to cave to leftist pressure and switched  NPR’s “state-affiliated media” account label for the more euphemistic  “government funded media.”

7 of the Worst Times Big Tech Censored Christian and Jewish Content

April 7th, 2023 6:06 PM

As Holy Week, Easter and Passover are upon us, it’s crucial to remember what a blessing it is to live in a country with First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and freedom of religion. But aggressive censorship of religious speech online made it clear that Big Tech is intent on memory-holing those rights in order to prop up its anti-God agenda.

Un-holy Week: ChatGPT Cracks Joke on Jesus, Refuses Same for Muhammad

April 7th, 2023 12:10 PM

Artificial intelligence ChatGPT was happy to crack irreverent jokes about Jesus. But a request to joke about the Islamic prophet Muhammad prompted an adamant refusal.

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NewsNation’s Vittert Destroys Inept Lefty on Twitter’s New NPR Label

April 6th, 2023 4:57 PM

Wednesday night on NewsNation, On Balance host Leland Vittert battled woefully unprepared liberal strategist Kaivan Shroff on whether it was appropriate for Twitter to slap National Public Radio (NPR) Tuesday night with a “US state-affiliated media” label with Vittert noting it does, in fact, derive part of its budget from the U.S. government. Shroff hilariously denounced the label,…

TERRIFYING: Twitter Allowed Government to ‘Intervene’ with Algorithm

April 6th, 2023 2:54 PM

A technology researcher exposed a tool that apparently allowed the government to manipulate Twitter’s algorithm after the platform’s owner Elon Musk open-sourced the code.

GET WRECKED: Elon Musk’s Twitter Labels NPR ‘State-Affiliated Media’

April 5th, 2023 10:38 AM

Elon Musk’s Twitter finally confirmed what the Media Research Center has been saying for years: National Public Radio is nothing but state propaganda.

Elon Musk Assessment’s of NYT’s Feed: ‘Twitter Equivalent of Diarrhea’

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April 3rd, 2023 9:02 AM

Twitter owner Elon Musk identified what many Americans know to be true about the leftist New York Times: Its incessant propaganda isn’t even good enough to line a birdcage.

Insiders Say Musk Making Twitter Algorithm Open Won’t Stop Censorship

March 31st, 2023 3:54 PM

Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced late last night that Twitter’s “Algorithm goes open source at noon Pacific Time” (today). But the tweet begged a couple of questions: What does that mean and why is he doing this? MRC Free Speech America asked industry insiders. 

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Purge!’ Athletes Slam Twitter Hypocrisy on Trans Posts

March 31st, 2023 2:22 PM

Former U.S. athletes are slamming Twitter’s hypocrisy for censoring tweets reporting on the “Trans Day Of Vengeance” and not protecting them against the onslaught of Twitter harassment and death threats they faced when they spoke out against biological males in women’s sports.

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STUDY: Twitter Censorship Shockingly on Rise After Elon Musk Takeover

March 30th, 2023 5:04 PM

Despite public statements in support of free speech, censorship on Twitter has surprisingly increased since billionaire Elon Musk purchased the platform according to data from MRC Free Speech America's CensorTrack.org database. MRC Free Speech America found that Twitter censorship has been on the rise under Musk's leadership in comparison to the old regime. Musk once tweeted that he saw…

WATCH: Trump Touts Truth Social, Drags Feet on Twitter

March 30th, 2023 4:59 PM

As the 2024 elections heat up, former President Donald Trump didn’t shy away from endorsing  the prowess of his own social media platform over Elon Musk’s contentious Twitter.