How will Democrats react to the thumping that most observers believe they will get in the 2022 midterm elections? Or to the possibility that in three years a Republican could be sworn in as the 47th president? They relish the Jan. 6 opportunity to endlessly relive the supposed danger that a disgraceful but still pathetically ineffectual riot posed to the…
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Podcaster Joe Rogan recently interviewed the distinguished virologist and inventor of the mRNA vaccine Dr. Robert Malone. In a more than 3-hour conversation, the two discussed nearly every major issue related to the world’s response to Covid-19. After the interview, Malone coined the phrase “mass formation psychosis,” or when a segment of the population are brainwashed about a certain issue…
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The Federalist staff joined Ben Domenech on Fox News’s “The Ben Domenech Podcast” to share their predictions for the year 2022. Mollie Hemingway “Republicans will have an extremely good November, they will have a massive takeover of the House of Representatives, and they’re on pretty good footing in the Senate as well,” Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway said. “The failure of…
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A jury found Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of blood-testing startup Theranos Inc, guilty on four of 11 charges, including conspiring to defraud investors and patients in her company. She could face up to 20 years in prison for each guilty charge. Holmes’s conviction marks a dramatic ending for what was supposed to be a perfect Silicon Valley success…
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After years of staring down threats within the government, conservatives are waking up to another potent and far less accountable threat: that of corporate conglomerates, and private concentrations of power. Conversations about Big Tech censorship and cancel culture, while legitimate in their own right, often mask a deeper vulnerability that the rise of woke capital, acting at scale, presents —…
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On this episode of “The Federalist Radio Hour,” Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss Big Tech censorship and how the Silicon Valley giants have assisted bureaucratic “COVID gods” in dictating the pandemic agenda since the beginning. “The power that the Big Tech companies have amassed is dangerous, right? And our antitrust laws aren’t…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration attempted to pressure a Google lobbyist into suppressing a YouTube video about a monoclonal antibody drug and its potential use against COVID-19, according to an email reported by Alex Berenson. An email from April 30 reportedly shows FDA social media director Brad Kimberly writing to Jan Fowler Antonaros, a lobbyist for YouTube’s parent company…
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If you had any hope Jack Dorsey leaving Twitter might help the platform navigate back toward enabling an open exchange of ideas, the big update his successor announced on his first day at the helm should nip that optimism in the bud. “Beginning today,” Twitter warned, “we will not allow the sharing of private media, such as images or videos…
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The defining political question of our time is this: “Do you know what time it is?” The line, popularized by the Claremont Institute’s David Reaboi, succinctly captures the most essential of points: If you don’t understand the stakes, and how fraught the situation is — that the ruling class seeks total power, is closing in on it, and will stop…
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Liberalism has a democracy problem. At least, that’s what liberals, including self-described conservative liberals, are saying. For example, New York Times columnist David Brooks is fretting about the possibility of conservatives “using state power to break up and humble the big corporations and to push back against coastal cultural values. The culture war merges with the economic-class war — and…
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The Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech joined Jason Chaffetz to talk about The Federalist’s inception, and the current campaign by Big Tech companies to shadow-ban outlets like it, on Fox News’s “Jason In The House” podcast Wednesday. Noting how the “old guard” of conservative media was “not engaged in the culture war in a way that I felt they needed to…
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The headlines this week from Democrats’ bumbling, stumbling budget negotiations have focused on their inability to get agreement on Joe Biden’s massive cradle-to-grave reformation of the relationship between the individual and the state. Democrats claim these trillion-dollar proposals are free – they’re “taxing the rich” to pay for them. But are they? It’s worth taking a look at who Democrats…
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Vimeo, a major video-sharing services platform, censored the first episode of a cartoonist’s fictional series titled “UNJABBED” for what they claim is “dangerous” health-related content, even though the video includes no overt reference to COVID-19. Ken Avidor, an artist based in Indianapolis, Indiana, makes films with sketches. He is also the author of “Bicyclopolis,” a comic book released in 2018.…
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn tore into TikTok’s Head of Public Policy Michael Beckerman in a recent hearing, grilling him on the company’s invasion of user data and its connections with the Chinese Communist Party. Blackburn began by pointing out that although the social media giant had previously promised that it would never share user data with the Chinese government, their privacy…
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For years, small product and technology companies that do business, or attempt to compete, with massive platforms like Google, Amazon, and Apple, have been making painstaking pilgrimages to Congress with harrowing stories. In January 2020, four business execs went into exacting detail describing what the so-called “fierce competition” lauded as a defining feature of the tech industry was actually like.…
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Upon taking office in January, Joe Biden’s administration promised to “bring transparency and truth back to the government.” No one seems to have told Attorney General Merrick Garland. Two weeks ago, the attorney general decided to weaponize the FBI against parents speaking out at school board meetings when he issued a memorandum directing an investigation of a “disturbing spike” in…
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Gov. Ron DeSantis reaffirmed Florida’s commitment to election integrity and keeping Big Tech from meddling in state and local voting affairs on Tuesday. “Part of the reason we had a successful election is because we were very much tuned into this from the very beginning of my administration and made sure we didn’t have repeats of what we’ve seen throughout…
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The U.S. government is covertly recruiting Google, which maintains access to swaths of Americans’ personal data and information, to surveil their web searches, a new report from Forbes suggests. For years, the federal government has quietly demanded that the Big Tech search engine company hand over user data on anyone who conducts online searches using key terms. In 2017, a…
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What would happen if your last politically charged conversation with your family or your friends was broadcasted on primetime television? Ponder the potential risks for a moment. Would you still be employed in the morning? How would the media respond? For students, would you be concerned that your teachers would grade you differently or that your fellow students would try…
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If you thought the misinformation, indoctrination, and viewpoint suppression perpetrated by Big Tech, schools, and the corporate media were limited to politics, think again. One of the many fronts of the war for the right to dictate what you believe is the scientific, religious, and metaphysical debate over where you came from. A recent University of Michigan survey claims “Evolution…
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