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Beware of Tik Tok; it’s run by the ChiComs. Why I’m not on there.

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Plus, the Chi-Coms run tracking data thru tik-tok.

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Could care less about these empty headed socialists running these media! I left Facebook a LONG TIME AGO, as well as Twitter when Trump got banned. It's just a waste of time and garbage.

Who gives a crap about what these trash think??!!! Period!!

They WILL BE dealt with in due time. I'm not on Tik Trash either! A LOT of this social media that is praised and thought of as SO SPECIAL is nothing but stupid garbage.

It is a WASTE OF TIME to even care about what THEY THINK!! WHO CARES?!!

Oh, and they have lots of criminals on there and those that want to destroy our country.

Sorry, not angry but just so SICK of all of this hype about them. If you don't like them, I'd GET OFF

of their stupid platform.

Don't give them the time of your day people! LEAVE! Trump had money to get his own social media. Gettr, MeWe, Telegram, and other platforms are out there now where you can share views and everything, if that matters to you, and there's no whiplash.

This whole planet has become unglued and going in the wrong direction. MOST of what people think is so great, is NOTHING at all.

What matters most in life is garbage to these socialist idiots.

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This is such a common problem with a really simple answer. It’s not something I’ve come up with myself but rather something content creators have done, specifically Styxhexenhammer and Salty Cracker.

Both run YouTube channels and post YT safe content there while promoting alt tech platforms like Rumble, Odysee and Bitchute in their videos and their descriptions.

That Twitter and Facebook censor opinions they don’t like is last centuries news. Ignoring them and only using gettr and gab isn’t really hurting them enough.

Share the Twitter safe stuff on Twitter if you still go there. And while sharing it, make people aware of the other platforms where the stuff that will get you banned will be.

This constantly pointing out that Twitter is AIDS is fine I guess but I’m pretty sure most people know this, even the people who are still on Twitter. There are some people who post good stuff there but I just can’t go into that cesspool anymore. If you’re not willing to cross post on gettr then I’m sorry.

So...stop posting stuff on Twitter you know will get you banned. Twitter hates America, yes I know that’s absolutely shocking. Bombshell. If you are going to use Twitter, post something safe and give people a reason to find your good posts on other platforms. Get the normies out of that toxic wasteland.

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Edit: Styx and Salty have built very large audiences on their alt tech platforms this way. Give it another few years and their alt tech audiences might be larger than their YT ones.

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I listen to Styx and Salts daily vids only on rumble for months now. Nice to be off YouTube.

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I know I'm old and see the world through rheumy eyes - I remember when folks wrote handwritten letters - yeah, I'm that old. But, and this is just a suggestion, what if folks just stopped using Twatter and Fakebook? I'm guessing there are other ways in place to quickly communicate and share pics of what you ate for dinner. Like, oh, I don't know - email. Remember email? It still works. Of course, pics of your new haircut only go to those you send it to and not thousands of complete strangers and your teenage niece might not even know how to open email but you can't win them all.

What I'm saying is - if the rule of modernity is FOLLOW THE MONEY and those who own the platform need your participation to make money but censor you, then stop participating and you essentially cut the head off the snake. The snake then writhes around in pain and dies.

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Not sure folks can read my handwriting anymore - you know, since they don't teach cursive anymore. Hey, wait a minute! Maybe that might just be a way to communicate secretly in the near future like the Navajo Code Talkers in WW2. :-)

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Most of your followers left Twitter and Facebook a long time ago because of their bias and extreme censorship. You don't need them. Get on Gab! Free speech is permitted there. Yes are there disagreeable and some racist people on Gab, there are a few, but they are the minority. Most people on gab are conservatives and Christians who believe in free Speech and the Constitution.

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Some? More like a whole lot of really hard core racists, and Andrew Torba promotes them.

I was on there for a while but got off in order to avoid poisoning my brand.

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Emerald is the best journalist!

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Will you be on Truth Social?

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I signed up on TruthSocial weeks ago and am still w a i t i n g for them to acknowledge my presence so I can create a profile. I'm like #235,000 or some such. Wonder if the creators failed to consider the flood they'd get and not build capacity?

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I downloaded the app long ago, but because of stories like yours, haven't bothered to sign up yet. 🤷‍♀️

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I quit Twitter when Rush Limbaugh bailed after they banned Donald Trump. Checking my Parler account (before big tech wrecked them) I realized the hundreds of people I used to follow on Twitter had set up there as twitter banned them. THAT was eye-opening! So, I was on my way out anyway.

I left FaceBooKKK in '18. That was much easier.

Obviously, setting up an alternate platform is a way to preserve speech. Treading lightly on either twitter or FaceBooKKK seems to be complying with their game. Getting banned leads to street cred.

Trying to get Twitter or FceBooKKK to change is like expecting ABCPBSNBCMSNBCNTYWaPoCBS, etc., to moderate their baked in bias. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!

FIRE THEM!

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Facebook I quit almost 3 minutes after I joined. I mean I like jolly baby pictures as much as anyone but that appears to be the target audience. Anything else is too dangerous? Twitter I never even bothered with, except now someone will post a story online and I'll click on it and bingo it then it tells me to join Twitter to get the rest of the story. Sorry,, not me. But, all the stories about "high tech" manipulation of data and meddling in election results has soured me on "high tech." They need to go broke and go away.

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I'm sharing our articles on Twitter Emerald! My friend, FRINGE WITH BENEFITS, is reading your articles on her PODCAST too! <--- FRINGE WITH BENEFITS. (by the way - the podcaster is also a Naked and Afraid alumni - and she is FEARLESS! Like Emerald!!)

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Yep!

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Social media platforms coming from the right aren't as big an improvement as many might hope. Truth Social, Gettr, and Parler won't allow real free speech. If they are offered in Apple's app store, Apple gets to dictate how they must behave.

Gettr tossed Nick Fuentes off just for being Nick Fuentes. The guy can sometimes get on my nerves, but that doesn't mean a supposed free speech platform should shove a gag in his mouth and kick him out the door. Free speech means letting him have his say and letting others refute what he says if they can.

As far as free speech goes, Truth Social sounds like it will be worse than even Gettr. It doesn't allow users to “disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site.” Even Fakebook allows people to disparage and tarnish Fakebook and even Zuckerbucks himself. Truth Social will not only kick you off for that, but “In addition to terminating or suspending your account, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action, including without limitation pursuing civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.” Say the wrong thing and you might get sued! I would hope this threat is only intended for people who use technology or mass disruption campaigns to harm Truth Social's ability to operate, but the warning doesn't say that. Truth Social's terms of service make Big Brother Twitter sound like *LIttle* Brother Twitter. In fact, Truth Social even forbids the “excessive use of capital letters.” As President Trump might say, "BAD!"

Emerald, if you see this, maybe you will consider doing a story on the conservative "free speech platforms", to what degree they *are* free speech platforms, and, if they're not, why. Or maybe you've poked Conservative Inc. in the eye enough lately and you want to let them recover for a month or two. :-)

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Emerald - great idea to do story on free speech platforms! It’s so difficult to know which one to use other than FB or Twit - bc I’ve read negative things about all of them. I read that Gettr was financed by Chinese $!

Would appreciate a story on this subject so much. Thank you!

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NASED National Association of State Election Directors

NASS National Association of Secretaries of State

Belfer Center (Harvard University) Read page 2, the welcome letter to The Battle Staff Playbook: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/elections-battle-staff-playbook

Rewind to the Cyber Symposium: https://frankspeech.com/tv/video/dr-shiva-social-media-censorship

Dr. Shiva's Censorship Infrastructure Diagram: https://vashiva.com/first-amendment-twitter-galvin-lawsuit/

Global Engagement Center - United States Department of State

I called in to Brannon's radio show on Thursday the 17th. https://www.worldviewweekend.com/radio/audio/worldview-radio-brannon-howse-march-17-2022  Go the 53:17 mark in this audio, that's me calling in.

Regards, Jessica from NJ

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The following is from the welcome letter in their playbook entitled: "THE ELECTIONS BATTLE STAFF PLAYBOOK" https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/elections-battle-staff-playbook

Welcome

The 2016 elections changed our nation’s consciousness on election security and how malicious actors can influence our democracy. While the threats were not new, for most of us they were newly realized. The vulnerabilities in our democratic process—from campaigns to elections operations— combined with efforts to spread false or deliberately misleading information, have weakened the public’s faith in the integrity of elections. Yet that faith is vital to our democratic process, so we must work to restore and sustain it. Democratic governance is a right we have as Americans, but like freedom, democracy is not free. It takes people willing to stand up and defend the process. Ensuring election security is our collective responsibility as Americans, but election officials, campaigns, and others involved in advancing the democratic process carry the greatest weight as its frontline defense.

That’s why we established the Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P): to equip those on the frontlines of democracy with tools and resources to be successful against constantly evolving threats. With 2020 around the corner, we know adversaries who seek to undermine our democracy are preparing, and so must we. The American people and the world are watching. We must show them how seriously we take the threats and how committed we remain to the cause.

Despite the enormous challenges ahead, we know that democracy is in good hands because we have spent the past two-and-a-half years working together with dedicated American election officials like you. We have visited and/or trained officials from 45 states and countless counties. We have spent time in your spaces, met your teams, listened to your ideas, noted your concerns, reviewed your preparation, observed your operations, and identified ways in which we can continue to help.

Our previous Playbooks have focused on the threats posed by cyber attacks and information operations. This latest Playbook has a broader scope, and equips you with strategies to operationalize the guidance from past Playbooks through effective preparation, communication, incident tracking, and team organization. By compiling best practices from private and public sector actors, we hope to enhance the capacity of your election team, regardless of your staff or jurisdiction size. It will better prepare you to identify issues and respond to incidents of all types during election operations. We hope this Elections Battle Staff Playbook empowers you to take defending election operations to the next level.

Good luck,

D3P

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Circling back to 2016...

President Signs Portman-Murphy Counter-Propaganda Bill into Law | Senator Rob Portman (senate.gov) (this is a press release from December of 2016)

https://www.portman.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/president-signs-portman-murphy-counter-propaganda-bill-law

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) today announced that their Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act – legislation designed to help American allies counter foreign government propaganda from Russia, China, and other nations – has been signed into law as part of the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report. The bipartisan bill, which was introduced by Senators Portman and Murphy in March, will improve the ability of the United States to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation from our enemies by establishing an interagency center housed at the State Department to coordinate and synchronize counter-propaganda efforts throughout the U.S. government. To support these efforts, the bill also creates a grant program for NGOs, think tanks, civil society and other experts outside government who are engaged in counter-propaganda related work. This will better leverage existing expertise and empower our allies overseas to defend themselves from foreign manipulation. It will also help foster a free and vibrant press and civil society overseas, which is critical to ensuring our allies have access to truthful information and inoculating people against foreign propaganda campaigns.

“Our enemies are using foreign propaganda and disinformation against us and our allies, and so far the U.S. government has been asleep at the wheel,” Portman said. “But today, the United States has taken a critical step towards confronting the extensive, and destabilizing, foreign propaganda and disinformation operations being waged against us by our enemies overseas. With this bill now law, we are finally signaling that enough is enough; the United States will no longer sit on the sidelines. We are going to confront this threat head-on. I am confident that, with the help of this bipartisan bill, the disinformation and propaganda used against us, our allies, and our interests will fail.”

“The use of propaganda to undermine democracy has hit a new low. But now we are finally in a position to confront this threat head on and get out the truth. By building up independent, objective journalism in places like eastern Europe, we can start to fight back by exposing these fake narratives and empowering local communities to protect themselves,” said Murphy. “I’m proud that our bill was signed into law, and I look forward to working with Senator Portman to make sure these tools and new resources are effectively used to get out the truth.”

NOTE: The bipartisan Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act is organized around two main priorities to help achieve the goal of combatting the constantly evolving threat of foreign disinformation from our enemies:

The first priority is developing a whole-of-government strategy for countering THE foreign propaganda and disinformation being wages against us and our allies by our enemies. The bill would increase the authority, resources, and mandate of the Global Engagement Center to include state actors like Russia and China as well as non-state actors. The Center will be led by the State Department, but with the active senior level participation of the Department of Defense, USAID, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the Intelligence Community, and other relevant agencies. The Center will develop, integrate, and synchronize whole-of-government initiatives to expose and counter foreign disinformation operations by our enemies and proactively advance fact-based narratives that support U.S. allies and interests.

Second, the legislation seeks to leverage expertise from outside government to create more adaptive and responsive U.S. strategy options. The legislation establishes a fund to help train local journalists and provide grants and contracts to NGOs, civil society organizations, think tanks, private sector companies, media organizations, and other experts outside the U.S. government with experience in identifying and analyzing the latest trends in foreign government disinformation techniques. This fund will complement and support the Center’s role by integrating capabilities and expertise available outside the U.S. government into the strategy-making process. It will also empower a decentralized network of private sector experts and integrate their expertise into the strategy-making process.

Do you remember October 14th 2020, when Rudy dropped info about the laptop?

The day before, October 13th 2020, the George W Bush center released an interview with Senator Rob Portman (R-OH)

Pay attention to what he says...

https://youtu.be/lmD0lYB6h60

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Mar 25, 2022·edited Mar 25, 2022

The incoming President of NASED NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE ELECTION DIRECTORS IS...Wisconsin's WEC admin Meagan Wolf. In case you don't know about her: https://youtu.be/mbInBW9_zps (START VIDEO AT 8:22 TO HEAR FROM MEGHAN WOLFE)In Wisconsin, a political battle over the 2020 vote still rages (60 Minutes segment)

Gableman Report Mentions of Ms. Wolfe pages 15, 16, 121.

I kid you not. https://youtu.be/dT52A28iHZU NASED Winter 2022 Virtual Conference CISA UPDATE

Video Highlights:

10:58 MDM = Misinformation, Disinformation, and Malinformation

26:25 Meagan Wolfe asks her questions to the CISA government employee.Misinformation and Disinformation as part of a power point presentation starting at 10:58. (if you hear MDM it is an acronym for Misinformation, Disinformation, and Malinformation.)

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This generation's MySpace.

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We have your back! May I suggest that your readers purchase a subscription to The Babylon Bee. If you do so and set it to notifications on your cell phone, you will live every day with a smile on your face.

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