{"id":1759723,"date":"2022-12-02T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759723"},"modified":"2022-12-02T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T15:50:09","slug":"miranda-devine-as-elon-musk-fights-censorship-states-take-aim-at-anthony-fauci-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miranda-devine-as-elon-musk-fights-censorship-states-take-aim-at-anthony-fauci-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: As Elon Musk Fights Censorship, States Take Aim at Anthony Fauci, Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmiranda-devine-as-elon-musk-fights-censorship-states-take-aim-at-anthony-fauci-big-tech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759723&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Miranda Devine\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/miranda-devine222.png 706w\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>While we await <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/27\/the-left-throws-a-tantrum-as-elon-musk-reverses-censorship-on-twitter\/\">Elon Musk\u2019s promised release of the \u201cTwitter Files,\u201d <\/a>detailing the 2020 censorship of the New York Post, he has been busy fending off threats to destroy his new $44 billion acquisition unless he drops his commitment to free speech.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted a video Wednesday afternoon of Apple\u2019s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters, where he was strolling around the HQ pond in conversation with Apple CEO Tim Cook, whom he has accused of threatening to drop Twitter from the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours later, Musk declared that he and Cook had \u201cresolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That will be a big disappointment to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/19\/its-been-two-years-since-51-intelligence-agents-interfered-with-an-election-they-still-wont-apologize\/\">Biden administration,<\/a> which has been relentlessly attacking Musk ever since he started dismantling Twitter\u2019s left-wing censorship regime \u2014 euphemistically termed \u201cmoderation\u201d \u2014 that, among other abuses, suppressed<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/02\/how-the-government-hid-the-truth-behind-hunter-bidens-laptop\/\"> The Post\u2019s accurate Hunter Biden laptop story<\/a> before the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<h2>Colluding with FBI<\/h2>\n<p>This was election interference. As Musk confirmed in a tweet Wednesday, Twitter \u201chas interfered in elections\u201d and it probably did so in collusion with the FBI, which had been spying on The Post\u2019s source, Rudy Giuliani, and had access to emails and messages that showed exactly when The Post\u2019s exclusive would be published and what it would contain.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/2022-11-30T233924Z_1352575151_RC2S9X90QN00_RTRMADP_3_TWITTER-ADVERTISING-APPLE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022-11-30T233924Z_1352575151_RC2S9X90QN00_RTRMADP_3_TWITTER-ADVERTISING-APPLE.jpg\" alt=\"elon musk\" class=\"wp-image-24851221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/2022-11-30T233924Z_1352575151_RC2S9X90QN00_RTRMADP_3_TWITTER-ADVERTISING-APPLE.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/2022-11-30T233924Z_1352575151_RC2S9X90QN00_RTRMADP_3_TWITTER-ADVERTISING-APPLE.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/2022-11-30T233924Z_1352575151_RC2S9X90QN00_RTRMADP_3_TWITTER-ADVERTISING-APPLE.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/2022-11-30T233924Z_1352575151_RC2S9X90QN00_RTRMADP_3_TWITTER-ADVERTISING-APPLE.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Elon Musk promised to release the \u201cTwitter Files,\u201d about the censorship of the New York Post in 2020.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Dado Ruvic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So when the FBI warned Facebook and Twitter about an imminent \u201cdump\u201d of \u201cRussian disinformation\u201d before the 2020 election, was it referring to The Post\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/26\/the-634-page-report-on-hunter-bidens-laptop\/\"> Hunter Biden<\/a> laptop story?<\/p>\n<p>We will know soon enough, if Musk sticks to his promise to reveal all, which he says is \u201cnecessary to restore public trust\u201d in Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the Biden administration is not happy, and ratcheted up its intimidation campaign against Musk Wednesday when US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen declared that efforts by Apple and Google to remove Twitter from their app stores would be a \u201ckind of control that I think is needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>The president launched into Musk the day after the midterms with a mafioso-style warning that his administration would be investigating whether the 51-year-old billionaire is a \u201cnational-security threat\u201d over his purchase of the social-media behemoth. The White House keeps saying ominously that it is \u201ckeeping a close eye\u201d on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Musk remains intransigent, suggesting at one point this week that he was \u201cgoing to war .\u2009.\u2009. This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a poll of his 120 million Twitter followers, Musk asked whether he \u201cshould publish all censorship actions [Twitter] has taken that affect its customers.\u201d The answer was a resounding \u201cyes,\u201d and so he tweeted tantalizingly: \u201cThe people have spoken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is an existential blow to the left\u2019s ability to control the narrative. A lot of secrets are set to be revealed that a lot of powerful people want to remain hidden.<\/p>\n<p>Most important is to reveal details of collusion among the FBI, Big Tech and the government.<\/p>\n<p>This collusion has been the focus of Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt\u2019s numerous lawsuits against the Biden administration, alleging that White House officials and federal agencies acted with Big Tech to censor \u201cdisfavored speakers, viewpoints and content on social-media platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, we saw some of the fruits of Schmitt\u2019s labors, when he hauled Biden chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci into a deposition in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>For seven hours, Fauci was bombarded with questions from now-Missouri Sen.-elect Schmitt, Missouri Solicitor General John Sauer, and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, who ostentatiously displayed two books on his desk to rattle the star witness: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s excoriating \u201cThe Real Anthony Fauci,\u201d and John M. Barry\u2019s pandemic classic about the 1918 Spanish flu: \u201cThe Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Plague in History.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the transcript of the deposition is a day or two from being published, various participants have described Fauci\u2019s demeanor as cocky, deceitful and quick-witted, despite his 81 years.<\/p>\n<p>There was no humility or admission of fallibility, no reflection that the lockdowns may have done more harm than good, especially to children\u2019s schooling, or that vaccine mandates were pointlessly divisive.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci exhibited stress when he was asked why he dismissed the \u201cWuhan lab leak\u201d theory of the origins of COVID in favor of the less plausible \u201cnatural\u201d hypothesis, and denied knowing about the proxy funding of dangerous gain-of-function research on viruses by the National Institutes of Health, where he is director of infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>He also was prickly when asked why he dismissed the advice of eminent medicos from the most prestigious universities in the US and the UK, who penned the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020, urging a less extreme, more scientifically orthodox way of dealing with the virus, by focusing on protecting the old and infirm while letting young and healthy people live normally.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Biden_85413jpg-9153e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Biden_85413jpg-9153e.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Anthony Fauci\" class=\"wp-image-24851209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Biden_85413jpg-9153e.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Biden_85413jpg-9153e.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Biden_85413jpg-9153e.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Biden_85413jpg-9153e.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Fauci endured questions from Missouri Sen.-elect Eric Schmitt, Missouri Solicitor General John Sauer, and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Patrick Semansky<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018China lockdown\u2019 model<\/h2>\n<p>Instead, Fauci insisted on following the \u201cChina lockdown\u201d model, not that he allowed himself to say \u201clockdown\u201d during his deposition, since news reports out of China have rather tarnished the word, with protests erupting after COVID-infected citizens were burned alive in their apartments after being welded in.<\/p>\n<p>No, Fauci preferred the vague term \u201csocial distancing,\u201d says Jenin Younes, litigation lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance, who was representing plaintiffs at the deposition, including two authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University professor of medicine and a health economist, and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a Harvard University professor of medicine and infectious-disease epidemiologist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__inline-module inline-module inline-module--newsletter alignright\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h3 class=\"inline-module__title headline headline--combo-sm-md\">\n\t\t\tGet Miranda&#8217;s latest take\t\t<\/h3>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\tSign up for Devine Online, the newsletter from Miranda Devine\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Their claim is that the Biden administration and Big Tech colluded to suppress, censor and smear them and to silence legitimate scientific views that opposed Fauci\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci denied being part of a propaganda campaign with his boss at the time, Francis Collins, to discredit the Great Barrington authors, despite emails between the pair planning a \u201cswift and devastating takedown\u201d of what Collins called \u201cfringe epidemiologists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci was similarly forgetful about any role he played in social-media censorship of dissenting views.<\/p>\n<p>But Schmitt is confident the facts will emerge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s become clear in this lawsuit and in Dr. Fauci\u2019s deposition,\u201d he said Wednesday, \u201cis that when Fauci speaks, Big Tech \u00adcensors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk should hurry up and release all the files on Twitter\u2019s massive censorship operation \u00adbefore it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Musk_Twitter_73521jpg-a42fa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Musk_Twitter_73521jpg-a42fa.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter building\" class=\"wp-image-24851248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Musk_Twitter_73521jpg-a42fa.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Musk_Twitter_73521jpg-a42fa.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Musk_Twitter_73521jpg-a42fa.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Musk_Twitter_73521jpg-a42fa.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Musk confirmed that he and Apple CEO Tim Cook \u201cresolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Noah Berger<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Just tell us, FBI Director Wray!<\/h2>\n<p>Hero FBI special agent Steve Friend, suspended without pay after he complained about improper case management practices, abuse of authority and threats to public safety, has combined with other whistleblower agents who call themselves \u201cThe Suspendables\u201d to formulate questions for FBI Director Chris Wray when he hosts an all-hands meeting of employees next month.<\/p>\n<p>So far, they have 42 questions, among them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you promise to immediately resign if any of the whistleblower allegations outlined in the House Judiciary Committee Nov. 4 report on \u201cFBI &#038; DOJ Politicization\u201d are proven to be true?<\/li>\n<li>Why are you leaking medical records of whistleblowers to The New York Times?<\/li>\n<li>Why are unvaccinated conservative\/Christian men being targeted with sudden adverse personnel actions while \u201cKneel Team 6\u201d participants are being promoted?<\/li>\n<li>Will you commit to educating executive management personnel that J6 protesters did not kill police officers?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Friend also has some advice for Deputy Director Paul Abbate, who recently told a meeting of former agents that the FBI \u201cstrongly supports\u201d whistleblowers and respects their protected disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI should demonstrate its \u2018support\u2019 .\u2009.\u2009. by immediately reinstating me to full-paid work status and restoring my annual leave,\u201d says Friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we await Elon Musk\u2019s promised release of the \u201cTwitter Files,\u201d detailing the 2020 censorship of the New York Post, he has 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