Big Tech, woke finance crack down on Flynn, Gateway Pundit, Berenson in cancel culture purge
By: Just The News Staff
This is yet another Orwellian dystopian marker from big tech social media proving itself to be the near all powerful agent of the woke progressive left cancel culture. Their targeting of conservatives and their messages and sources over differences of opinion continues. It’s time to fight back against censorship and it’s attack upon first amendment free speech.
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Big Tech, woke finance crack down on Flynn, Gateway Pundit, Berenson in cancel culture purge
In recent days, Twitter permanently banned independent journalist Alex Berenson, Google demonetized The Gateway Pundit from its ad network, and Chase Bank canceled the credit cards of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
With national attention riveted over the weekend on two major stories — the frantic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan amid its fall to the Taliban and category 4 Hurricane Ida slamming into the Louisiana coast — Big Tech and woke finance dramatically extended the reach of cancel culture with brazen moves to silence and harass three high-profile voices of political and scientific dissent: independent journalist Alex Berenson, popular conservative news and opinion website The Gateway Pundit, and Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
On Saturday, Twitter permanently banned Alex Berenson, who has built a large social media following challenging public health establishment orthodoxy on COVID issues ranging from lockdown to vaccine mandates.
"The account you referenced has been permanently suspended for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules," a Twitter spokesperson responded to an inquiry from Fox News .
"Goodbye Twitter," Berenson headlined the announcement of his banning on his Substack page.
"This was the tweet that did it," he wrote above a screen capture of the post that apparently triggered his purge from the dominant microblogging platform. "Entirely accurate. I can't wait to hear what a jury will make of this."
In his original offending tweet on the the COVID vaccine, Berenson wrote: "It doesn't stop infection. Or transmission. Don't think of it as a vaccine. Think of it — at best — as a therapeutic with a limited window of efficacy and terrible side effect profile that must be dosed IN ADVANCE OF ILLNESS. And we want to mandate it? Insanity."
Twitter has been criticized for anti-conservative viewpoint bias and censorship, including permanently banning former President Trump following the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, citing the platform's policies on incitement to violence.
Twitter has consistently denied charges of ideologically selective censorship of user content.
Meanwhile, on Thursday search and online advertising giant Google took aim at The Gateway Pundit, a conservative online news and opinion site that is ranked in the top 200 of U.S. websites according to Alexa and in the top 50 of English language news websites, according to a study prepared for media industry news site PressGazette.
"Google demonetized the Gateway Pundit from their ad network," the site's founder and editor Jim Hoft reported on Saturday.
"We're emailing you to let you know that we've repeatedly found content on one of your sites that violates our Google Publisher Policies," the search giant notified Gateway Pundit's legal department. "As a result we'll be disabling ad serving on the site ... in 4 business days, on 09/012021."
In explaining its move, Google cited two categories of violations: "Dangerous or derogatory content" and "Misreprentative — Unreliable and harmful claims."
"The Gateway Pundit has an outstanding record of accurately reporting the top news stories of the day," Hoft shot back . "Because of our continued success and our honest conservative bent we are regularly censored."
Loss of revenue from Google Ads can be a severe blow to a digital news site, given the platform's commanding position within the online advertising marketplace.
"For the record," wrote Hoft, "the Google advertising platform is one of the largest ad networks on the internet. So now Google is not only censoring and shadowbanning conservatives, they are taking away their ad money.
"Google is truly one of the most dangerous companies in the world today."
The third victim of the weekend purge was former Trump National Security Adviser and director of the Defense Intelligence Agency during the Obama administration Michael Flynn, who posted to his Telegram account a notice from Chase Bank notifying him of the cancellation his credit cards.
"After careful consideration, we decided to close your credit cards on September 18, 2021 because continuing the relationship creates possible reputational risk to our company," read the terse update from the Cardmember Services division of Chase, the banking subsidiary of financial services behemoth JPMorgan Chase.
"Chase Bank has gone full blown woke!" Flynn posted in reply.
"They need to deal with their own reputation instead of persecuting my family and I," Flynn said, alluding to JPMorgan's agreement to pay $920 million to resolve federal wire fraud charges against the company for its role in separate criminal schemes to defraud the precious metals and U.S. Treasuries markets.
"DOJ dropped my case for their own egregious government misconduct, appears you weren't that lucky with the DOJ," Flynn chided. "I guess my America First political views don't align with yours."
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The main thing is that the Taliban has a voice.
I am awake and you are not. Am proud to have a mind that actually works.
The results of our withrawl from Afghanistan has put the torch to the "woke!"
Bad timing: Biden slammed after appearing to check watch while greeting bodies of fallen soldiers at Dover Air Force Base.
The what?
As far as I know, people are glad we are no longer gong to be there.
That's a whole different discussion, isn't it?
A withdrawl is a singular matter.
The withdrawal is the only choice Imo...
So Trump sets a date for getting out of Afghanistan and you fault Biden?
donald never can accept fault. Neither can his followers accept reality.
Anyone with a functioning brain wouldn't have removed our troups before removing our civilians. That's Number 1.
Do you know our troops were fully withdrawn? Or are you making assumptions...
Yes it is Biden's fault. He removed troops before civilians, closed all our bases, left equipment and had to send 5,000 troops back in to get people out. He made targets out of them.
He owns it!
They were withdrawn and now put back.....As if you didn't know!
Stop acting like Biden can control civilians.
They control their own destiny.
Choice is a thing, whether you want to believe it or not.
He did not draw down the troops to the levels they were now.
Stop acting like it is a one off thing.
Again, do you know for a fact all troops were withdrawn?
Crickets...
Typical of hyper partisan people...
I still want proof that all troops were removed before asshole idiots decided they would stay...
Again crickets...
I bet though we keep hearing the same shit, over and over.
Yep! leaving our civilians unprotected is such a good idea.
Right now they are at the mercy of the Taliban.
We leave at 3:29 tomorrow with or without them.
It's not just your opinion. It's long overdue.
Many US citizens decided to remain behind for whatever idiotic reason.
That I tend to agree with. There are those who think that being American entitles them to miracles.
Spent many years as a martial artist, bouncer, bodyguard, paramedic, full contact fighter EPA investigator, and stunt-man.
It's a miracle I am still alive
Gateway Pundit is a banned source on Newstalkers, and yet we have a seed with the purpose of defending it.
Gateway Pundit has been one of the most disreputable sites on the internet for at least 10 years. They have a long long history of fake news and are just a teeny weeny step above Info Wars.
How long is this insanity going to continue on Newstalkers?
Media Bias Fact Check Downgrades the Gateway Pundit - News Facts Network
On 6/6/2021, Media Bias Fact Check officially downgraded the far-right conservative Gateway Pundit to its lowest rating level. Before today, the Gateway Pundit was rated low for factual reporting, which indicates the site has a history of publishing misinformation and needs to be fact-checked on a per article basis.
MBFC has been monitoring the Gateway Pundit since the 2020 Presidential Election and has found that the site has increased its disinformation campaign. They indicate in their review that they are failing fact checks on a near-daily basis since the election. For example, over the last 24 hours, they have failed fact checks here and here . The disinformation generally centers around Covid-19 and election fraud conspiracy theories in support of former President Trump. Based on the consistent publication of false and misleading information, they have been lowered to a rating of Very Low in factual reporting, which results in even less credibility as an information source.
Questionable Reasoning: Propaganda, Conspiracy, Nationalism, Some Fake News, Numerous Failed Fact Checks
Bias Rating: EXTREME RIGHT
Factual Reporting: VERY LOW
Country: USA (44/180 Press Freedom)
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY
MBFC is the proclaimed guide for NT. As far as I'm concerned MBFC tilts LEFT.
We don't need anyone telling us what to read. If a story is false it will easily be taken apart. They should all stand or fall on merit.
Of course people can't tell you to not read shit and false things.
That is on you.
Gateway Pundit was a completely disreputable source long before MBFC even existed.
Right wing cranks create their own reality, unfortunately they insist on trying to drag everyone else into their insanity. It is killing America.
No kidding. That people believe half the shit is unbelievable to me.
Yet we must persist. It is for our lord and savior.
We all know he would want out partisan shit...
Michael Flynn called for a military coup to keep Trump in office. He is also associated with Q Anon due to his making statements that align with that conspiracy group (Where we go one, we go all) on his twitter page.
He is a crackpot threat to our nation.
Yes, you could say that, but are you saying:
1) they never posted a truthful story?
2) they are so persuasive that censorship is required?
And would that be like the Hunter Biden laptop story that got censored during the election?
He also wanted to restructure the intelligence services from top to bottom. I think that was the reason he became a target.
I have no idea if they have ever posted a truthful story. That is not remotely the point.
Nah, if he was "targeted" it is because he is nuts.
Censored?
What world are you living in...
It is the point, especially when a legacy newspaper like the New York Times chose advocacy over journalism.
Why isn't the New York Times banned?
The Hunter Biden story wasn't censored?
Right back at ya:
What world are you living in..??????
Last week Donald Trump praised Mike Lindell. This was AFTER Lindells symposium was revealed to be a hoax by his own supporters.
You still think Trump should be president. [Deleted]
The real world...
You would have to be living under a rock to not heard of it...
You worry about Lindell and a "hoax" and I worry about the incompetent chaos in Afghanistan, the open border, ever rising inflation and unsafe streets.
Ya, John, as you once said "I'd vote for him 5 times over!"
Here is where we are John:
That's your Washington Post telling us thar the United States willfully ceded control of Kabul to the Taliban the weekend of August 15
Social media locked the New York Post account. They censored a factual news story.
All to help Biden win.
What a load of crap.
Yet you believe donald was persecuted...
Hilarious.
No, it's not a load a crap. It happened and despite your denials EVERYONE knows it happened.
If Afghanistan wasnt happening you would be complaining about Biden for something else.
You want your moron back in office, or a clone of him.
You are ruining America Vic.
What happened exactly that would impact the president...
Nothing except you view of something...
They don't care. It is damn the torpedoes...
John, Iv'e complained about everything he did. He did everything the radical left wanted. It's the withdrawl that will finally take him down.
You are ruining America Vic.
You and that evil ideology have done tremendous damage to this country. Believe it or not it all starts to go for the democrats next year. They are all on the way out. Not even a pandemic, nor election rule changes will help you this time.
You'll find out.
You support conspiracy nuts, morons, pathological liars, nitwits and traitors as long as they oppose the same "ideology" you do. Thats pitiful.
Will John Durham tell us ? lol.
You mean like Trump being a Russian agent?
That was a big one. Who swallowed that bait?
Tell us what?
And they all know it too!
That has been proven false to you using the graphs used by advertisers to identify their target markets.
There were just as many loony left wing sites identified on those charts
and MBFC lines up almost exactly identifying all of them as "off the bar" and questionable
or tin foil hat - Conspiracy & Pseudoscience sites.
It's a crying shame that you cannot see that.
I stopped listening to far right wing fascists many years ago.
maybe you should check the link again and try again.
Beside You and I and Freewill went over this already.
Butt it is your inalienable right to be stubbornly wrong.
All far right wingers lie like a rug.
Those races are very important and the left knows it. Bernie Sanders just emphasized it yesterday.
Just think of what a Governor Elder could do? He may have to replace Senator Feinstein. How is her current health? When was she last seen?