VOLUME 22
A JOURNAL OF PUBLIC INTERESTS SINCE 2000
THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH
OPINION
Twitter:  This man is actually a woman
Twitter: This man is actually a woman

WASHINGTON TIMES
Twitter suspends GOP congressman for calling Biden health adviser Rachel Levine a man.  Story by Valerie Richardson, unrated.

Republican Reps. Jim Banks and Marjorie Taylor Greene were dinged by Twitter this week for saying that Rachel Levine, a transgender Biden administration official, was a man.

Mr. Banks of Indiana said Saturday that his official account was suspended after he tweeted, “The title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man,” referring to Dr. Levine’s promotion to four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

Meanwhile, Twitter placed a “hateful conduct” warning on — but did not remove — a tweet by Ms. Greene, Georgia Republican, that said, “A dude who lived the first 50 years of his life as a man isn’t the first female anything.”

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Posted on Saturday, October 23, 2021
Parler CEO [to Facebook, Google, Apple & Twitter]:  We are owed an apology
Parler CEO [to Facebook, Google, Apple & Twitter]: We are owed an apology

SUBSTACK.COM
This opinion piece is rated 4 stars for factual content and informed bias.  Opinion by George Farmer, Parler CEO.

"As reported in Reuters, “The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials.” In other words, there is no evidence justifying the rush to judgment and accusations by many—including, notably, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg—that the events of January 6 were the result of deliberate coordination conducted on up-and-coming social media platforms Parler and Gab.

"Recall that Sandberg said, back in January, “I think these events were largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate, don’t have our standards and don’t have our transparency.”

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Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2021
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