{"id":1793303,"date":"2023-01-03T07:49:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1793303"},"modified":"2023-01-03T07:49:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:49:34","slug":"10-scandals-to-keep-your-eye-on-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-scandals-to-keep-your-eye-on-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Scandals to Keep an Eye on in 2023"},"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\">18<\/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%2F10-scandals-to-keep-your-eye-on-in-2023%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=1793303&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-->\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> 1. Government\u2019s Puppeteering of Big Tech and Media <\/p>\n<p>The continuous release of the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d 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 \u2014 and complained \u2014 for years of Big Tech\u2019s censorship and shadowbanning, by purchasing Twitter and giving independent journalists access to corporate emails, Elon Musk provided indisputable confirmation that Twitter both censored and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/09\/twitter-files-part-two-confirms-the-tech-giant-has-been-shadowbanning-conservatives-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blacklisted<\/a> conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story and the silencing of scientific criticism of the government\u2019s heavy-handed Covid regime, both at the prompting of federal agents, proved the most appalling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk will continue to allow access to internal communications. A watchful eye should be kept in 2023.<\/p>\n<p> 2. Intelligence Agencies\u2019 2020 Election Interference <\/p>\n<p>A related scandal to track in 2023 concerns intelligence agencies\u2019 interference in the 2020 election. Even before Musk took over at Twitter, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed the FBI\u2019s role in prompting the censorship of the Hunter Biden story.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/13\/twitter-files-overshadow-the-bigger-scandal-fbi-lied-to-tech-giants-to-interfere-in-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>In 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. \u201cbe on high alert.\u201d Zuckerberg says that the FBI had told Facebook. \u201c[W]e thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election\u201d And that \u201cwe have it on notice that basically there\u2019s about to be some kind of dump similar to that so just be vigilant.\u201d Based on the FBI\u2019s warning, when the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden story, Facebook treated it as potential misinformation and limited the visibility of the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>While Zuckerberg hedged on whether the FBI identified the Hunter Biden story as the one that prompted the warning, Twitter\u2019s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, signed a declaration <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/13\/twitter-files-overshadow-the-bigger-scandal-fbi-lied-to-tech-giants-to-interfere-in-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attesting<\/a> During their \u201cregular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and industry peers regarding election security,\u201d \u201cfederal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected \u2018hack-and-leak operations\u2019 by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October.\u201d Roth observed that during those meetings, he learned \u201cthat there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden,\u201d Twitter also censored the story on the basis of the warning.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Hunter Biden laptop wasn&#8217;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\u2019s interference in the 2020 presidential election is a huge scandal, yet just began to percolate in the press in late<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From deep-state election meddling to silent journalists, here are 10 scandals to track in the upcoming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1793306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8016,9253,6919,7169],"class_list":["post-1793303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-8016","tag-eye","tag-federalist","tag-scandals"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}