• Telegram founder tells Tucker Carlson that US intel agents tried to spy on user messages

    Federal law enforcement tried to convince a Telegram engineer to change the software so law enforcement could read the messages of its users, Pavel Durov told Tucker Carlson during a recent interview.

  • Apple was the real target of China's App Store crackdown, Telegram founder argues

    Last week, Apple was forced by the Chinese government to pull four apps from the App Store in China: Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Threads. Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has now responded to the situation, arguing that Apple was the real target of China’s request. There are more than a few problems with this spin, though more

  • Tucker Carlson believes UFOs are 'spiritual beings,' politicians blackmailed by 'weird sex lives,' tells Joe Rogan about having too many mushrooms

    Tucker Carlson gave a wide-ranging interview with Joe Rogan, where the pair discussed UFOs being "spiritual beings," politicians being blackmailed by intelligence agencies over their "weird sex lives," blasting Joe Scarborough, and partaking in too many magic mushrooms.During the most recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," Tucker and Rogan touched on a myriad of topics. Tucker said of unidentified anomalous phenomena, "If they are spiritual beings – which I believe they are – it's binary,...

  • USA TODAY: Kyle Rittenhouse Campus Speeches Raise 'Free Speech' Questions

    This will grab your attention. At the bottom of the front page of Thursday’s USA Today was this headline: Shooter Rittenhouse’s tour draws outrage College gun-rights events raise questions about free speech and its impact USA Today thinks pro-gun-rights speech “raises questions”? The online headline was even stronger: Kyle Rittenhouse, deadly shooter, college speaker? A campus gun-rights tour sparks outrage As in: Who’s approving this speech on campus? A video in the online story shows...

  • USA TODAY: Kyle Rittenhouse Campus Speeches Raise 'Free Speech' Questions

    This will grab your attention. At the bottom of the front page of Thursday’s USA Today was this headline: Shooter Rittenhouse’s tour draws outrage College gun-rights events raise questions about free speech and its impact USA Today thinks pro-gun-rights speech “raises questions”? The online headline was even stronger: Kyle Rittenhouse, deadly shooter, college speaker? A campus gun-rights tour sparks outrage As in: Who’s approving this speech on campus? A video in the online story shows...

  • Freeing TikTok: Ending Chinese control of the social media platform would enhance free speech

    It didn’t take Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book The Anxious Generation to alert us to social media’s pernicious effects on children and teenagers. And it turns out that TikTok, a digital application owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, goes viral in the minds of young people significantly more than Instagram, Facebook, X, and Snapchat — and Chinese divestment from TikTok would enhance free speech.

  • Who Will Decide How Much Free Speech We're Allowed?

    In case you didn't know, May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. To that end, the Pew Research Center has released the

  • Palmer cries poor and digs into his free Tucker

    Times are seemingly tough for mining billionaire Clive Palmer who revealed on Monday that he is looking forward to reaping a profit from his national Freedom Conference tour starring right-wing journalist Tucker Carlson. In a 40-minute press conference on Monday that could be described as bordering on bizarre, the former federal politician said Carlson, a […]

  • Apple spots spyware threats in 92 countries

    Apple detected new mercenary spyware attacks against its iPhones in new countries. The tech company had detected attacks in 58 countries since 2021 until this week, when it delivered notifications to an additional 92 countries. Apple suggested to the users who received these alerts to their iMessage and email accounts that they update their phones […]

  • Mitch McConnell: Tucker Carlson 'ended up where he should have been all along'

    U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday took aim at former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in response to a question about the recent passing of the $95.3 billion bipartisan foreign aid bill. About $60 billion of the bill will be used to assist Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Carlson interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year. Axios notes, "It's not the first time McConnell has publicly criticized Carlson, also blasting the anchor for his...

  • Use These Google Tools to Tell If a Photo Is Fake

    It's getting more and more difficult to spot a fake photo online. Fortunately, these Google tools can help you tell the difference between a fake and a real image.

  • The Pro-Palestinian Free Speech Double Standard

    USC cancelled its pro-Palestinian valedictorian’s commencement speech, raising questions about the university’s limits on free speech. So, where’s the outrage from the cancel culture crowd? MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin calls out the double standard.