France

While OpenAI’s ChatGPT claimed to provide objective and politically balanced news sources on a controversial raid of X’s French office, the reality of the AI’s answers was anything but balanced.

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.