Ten Scandals to Keep an Eye on in 2023

With the new year comes more corruption. There is also the possibility to end some long-running scandals in 2023. These are the top 10 things to watch in the coming year.

1. Government’s Puppeteering of Big Tech and Media

The continuous release of the “Twitter Files” 2022 ended with a new scandal. Internal communications by the tech giant revealed extensive coordination among the government, Twitter and Facebook, Google and other major players controlling the flow information. While conservatives have known — and complained — for years of Big Tech’s censorship and shadowbanning, by purchasing Twitter and giving independent journalists access to corporate emails, Elon Musk provided indisputable confirmation that Twitter both censored and blacklisted conservatives.

The censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story and the silencing of scientific criticism of the government’s heavy-handed Covid regime, both at the prompting of federal agents, proved the most appalling. 

Musk will continue to allow access to internal communications. A watchful eye should be kept in 2023.

2. Intelligence Agencies’ 2020 Election Interference

A related scandal to track in 2023 concerns intelligence agencies’ interference in the 2020 election. Even before Musk took over at Twitter, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed the FBI’s role in prompting the censorship of the Hunter Biden story.

As I mentioned previously reportedIn an August 2020 interview, Joe Rogan asked Zuckerberg about the FBI warning the Facebook team that they would be in danger if the Hunter Biden laptop story was revealed. “be on high alert.” Zuckerberg says that the FBI had told Facebook. “[W]e thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election” And that “we have it on notice that basically there’s about to be some kind of dump similar to that so just be vigilant.” Based on the FBI’s warning, when the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden story, Facebook treated it as potential misinformation and limited the visibility of the scandal.

While Zuckerberg hedged on whether the FBI identified the Hunter Biden story as the one that prompted the warning, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, signed a declaration attesting During their “regular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and industry peers regarding election security,” “federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October.” Roth observed that during those meetings, he learned “that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden,” Twitter also censored the story on the basis of the warning.

Although the Hunter Biden laptop wasn’t fake, it was provided by the intelligence agency to Facebook and Twitter. The tech giants were forced to censor this politically destructive story less than a week before the 2020 election. The FBI’s interference in the 2020 presidential election is a huge scandal, yet just began to percolate in the press in late