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If you care about civil liberties, you’ll need to sit down for this one. The popular news and opinion show host claimed that the National Security Agency (NSA), the premier signals intelligence agency of the U.S. government, has been spying on him. How does he know? Carlson said he’d been approached by two whistleblowers who confirmed the agency had been reading his text messages concerning a story about the January 6 Capitol riot. Becker News transcribed Carlson’s comments from his Monda...

President Biden will never call the press the "enemy of the people." He wont whine about "nasty" media "witch hunts" or taunt reporters as "fake news." He wont praise political allies if they physically assault journalists on the campaign trail. That does not mean he is the champion of press freedom he makes himself out to be. Biden came to office following an administration with uniquely antagonistic rhetoric toward the media. Former President Donald Trump deeply needed press attention, but he...

The previous two administrations’ dogged pursuit of reporters’ records demands immediate reform. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images President Donald Trump infamously labeled the press the “enemy of the people” and routinely suggested that negative stories about him were invented out of whole cloth by “nasty” reporters who were out to get him. But the extent of his administration’s assault on the press is only just coming into view. Earlier this week, The New York Times repor...

Exposé of how trust is being eroded with the militarisation of the internet and the rise of surveillance capitalism

Review of Snowdens Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance by John Hawkins / May 24th, 2021 Though his story has been widely disseminated by now, before Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong he sent a box of classified documents by snail mail from Hawaii (marked mysteriously “from B. Manning”) to a writer in New York, which made its way, unopened, from person to person until it reached journalists Laura Poitras and Glen Greenwald, who went on to meet with Snowden and tell his story of global panop...

Review of Snowdens ToolBox: Trust in the Age of Surveillance by John Hawkins / May 24th, 2021 Though his story has been widely disseminated by now, before Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong he sent a box of classified documents by snail mail from Hawaii (marked mysteriously “from B. Manning”) to a writer in New York, which made its way, unopened, from person to person until it reached journalists Laura Poitras and Glen Greenwald, who went on to meet with Snowden and tell his story of global p...

Biden called on to free Reality Winner as new documentary reveals she was James Comeys scapegoat U.S government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Reality Winner At 29, former National Security Agency contractor Reality Leigh Winner is almost three years into a federal prison sentence for mailing a classified government document to a news organization. Winner has served much of her five-year sentence, but Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan argues, in a May 12 c...

A new documentary shows how a young woman who tried to get alarming information to the public was caught up in forces beyond her control.

Yes, Trump Officials Spied On Reporters. But Every President Abuses The Press President Richard Nixon held his first news conference as the countrys chief executive on Jan. 27, 1969 in Washington. ASSOCIATED PRESS / AP The revelation last week that the Trump Justice Department had spied on three Washington Post reporters’ phone records barely caused a stir. But as much as I’d like to think that such behavior would shock the conscience, I can understand why the story failed to resonat...

The Trump administration spied on journalists. The Biden administration defended it. On Friday, Devlin Barrett, a reporter at the New Yorker). The records in question covered a period between April and July 2017, during which time Nakashima, Miller, and Entous collaborated on storiesabout Russian interference in the 2016 election. The Justice Department only notified the reporters of its actions last week; it said that it also obtained a court order to get their email records, but did not foll...