France

French President Emmanuel Macron is attacking free speech and calling for increased European government censorship policies on U.S. Big Tech companies.

Independent journalist Michael Shellenberger has a new round of Twitter Files, this time exposing the censorship regime in a powerful European nation.

Big Tech companies inclined to buckle to foreign censorship demands must consider a new grave warning from Andrew N. Ferguson, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission

The creator of a social media platform with a billion monthly active users warned that the same country prosecuting him for speech on his platform pressured him to interfere in a European election.

Big Tech platforms X and Telegram are the latest targets of anti-free speech campaigns by governments consumed with making George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 a reality.

The pro-free speech CEO of Rumble and X owner Elon Musk messaged their support for protecting speech, as France arrested a fellow tech leader for refusing to increase censorship on his platform.

People interested in the struggle for free speech, fair play, and the free market likely have seen a profusion of new reports revealing the “sides” certain social media and video platforms are choosing.

Does biased NewsGuard automatically favor state-affiliated media? The liberal online “credibility” arbiter gave seven traditionally non-autocratic state-affiliated media outlets around the world an average score of 98.6/100.

France has put its money where its mouth is by demanding hundreds of millions of dollars from Google as punishment for allegedly refusing to work within the country’s competition guidelines.