Liberal media site ThinkProgress for sale due to $3m budget shortfall

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ThinkProgress, the stalwart liberal opinion site, may not survive the Trump era. After operating at a loss for years, the website is now up for sale.

The Center for American Progress (CAP), the think-tank set up by the Podesta brothers that owns TP, told the Daily Beast on Monday that the project was in search of a new publisher due to dire financial difficulties – $3 million worth of them, to be precise. CAP added that it would ensure the new owners maintained the same editorial line.

The website, which pushed virtually every outlandish conspiracy theory related to President Donald Trump and his alleged ties Moscow, has had its share of gaffes over the years, perhaps explaining the exodus of readers and financial backers.

Last September, ThinkProgress columnist and editor Ian Millhiser caught flak when he urged liberal activists to “confront Republicans where they eat, where they sleep and where they work,” which sounded to some like a call to commit crimes against lawmakers.

“Breaking into someone’s home while they are sleeping to confront them on their political beliefs is especially unhinged and illegal,” journalist Tim Pool pointed out on Twitter in response to the remark.

For an outlet that regularly concerns itself with atmospheres that are conducive to violence, Milhiser was all too willing to help create the same noxious cloud around his own political adversaries.

ThinkProgress editor under fire after calling for Republicans to be confronted ‘where they sleep’

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ThinkProgress has not only alienated Republicans, who were never likely to read the site in the first place, but has also drawn the ire of its more deeply progressive readership. A critical article published in April entitled “Bernie Sanders is a millionaire” prompted an angry response from the Vermont senator himself, who published an open letter in the New York Times slamming ThinkProgress and CAP for smearing him and other Democratic candidates. The divisive approach, Sanders argued, would hand another presidential term to Trump.

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Liberal journalist Aaron Mate pointed out some additional reasons left-leaning readers might have decided to ditch the publication.

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Prominent ANTIFA Critic Suspended From Twitter Following Andy Ngo Attack

Twitter has increased their censorship after ANTIFA’s terror rampage in Portland this past weekend.

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Joe Biggs, a prominent ANTIFA critic who has frequently organized with the Proud Boys, had his verification removed by Twitter today for no particular reason. Just hours later, his account was suspended entirely.

Biggs, a military veteran who was formerly a reporter with Infowars, has been an outspoken critic of ANTIFA and the terrorist far left, which was on full display in Portland this past weekend when journalist Andy Ngo of Quillette was savagely beaten by a leftist mob.

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VDARE News noted that Twitter actually has members of ANTIFA on their staff, as the corporate tech giant actively harbors the anti-American domestic terrorist sleeper cell that viciously attacks journalists in the streets.

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Biggs is also promoting an “End Domestic Terrorism” rally in Portland, as the Proud Boys will be going back into the town to show they will not be intimidated by ANTIFA’s violent gang tactics.

“We’re planning this massive rally with the calm, peaceful intention to push back against the violence from Antifa,” Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio said to Big League Politics. “The Portland Mayor and police need to understand that conservatives are peaceful people who just want to our First Amendment protected.”

“It’s good that the Portland police want to do their job,” added Tarrio. “So long as they do their job, the Proud Boys will have a peaceful rally, and there will be multiple Antifa arrests.”

The rally is planned for Aug. 17 in downtown Portland, Oregon where another showdown is expected between the patriots and the communists. Individuals like Biggs refuse to be daunted, regardless of how big tech monopolists like Twitter try to punish him for exposing left-wing terror.

ANDREW YANG SUPPORTERS FURIOUS AFTER CLAIM HIS MIC WAS DELIBERATELY CUT DURING LAST NIGHT’S DEBATE

Andrew Yang Supporters Furious After Claim His Mic Was Deliberately Cut During Last Night's Debate

Is he the Ron Paul of 2020?

JUNE 28, 2019

Andrew Yang supporters are furious after the Democratic candidate claimed his mic was cut during last night’s debate.

“I feel bad for those who tuned in to see and support me that I didn’t get more airtime. Will do better (my mic being off unless called on didn’t help),” tweeted Yang.

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This prompted the hashtag #LetYangSpeak to trend on Twitter.

A video from the debate appears to show the moment when Yang’s mic was cut to prevent him jumping into the conversation, which was allowed of other candidates.

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It appears as though Yang is shaping up to be the Ron Paul of the 2020 race.

In both 2008 and 2012, Paul was dealt an atrocious hand by the media, being treated as if he didn’t exist by the corporate press despite polling well.

“Andrew Yang was on stage for 2 hours last night and the MSNBC/NBC crackpot moderators only allowed him a little over 2 minutes of talking time,” commented conservative Wayne Dupree. “I am not even a Democrat and I see that’s wrong.”

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VERITAS: O’Keefe Drops Leaked Internal Google Memo Teaching Employees to Protest Right Wing Policies

Though Trump isn’t specifically named, his policies are.

Project Veritas is back at it Thursday, this time publishing a leaked document from inside Google which reportedly teaches employees how to protest.

The document flaunts the title “Beginners Guide to Protesting,” and encourages users to contact Resist@Google.com become a part of the company’s social activism program. Though the document does not specifically mention President Donald J. Trump, #Resist has become a buzzword used by those who oppose him.

“This document leak is the fourth in a series of leaks from inside Google and their subsidiary, YouTube,” O’Keefe said. “This new document appears to show internal coordination of political protests which contradicts Google’s public statements that they are politically neutral.  More tech insiders are coming forward and we will continue to work with them to expose the secrets of Silicon Valley.”

The document has a “Do’s and Don’ts” section (Do: “Talk to the press and express your views. Don’t: “Escalate”) and a section of recommended chants. The chant are typical of what one hears at anti-Trump and far-left rallies across the nation.

One the chants specifically references the “Muslim ban,” (actually a ban on all immigration from seven majority Muslim nations) which is specifically a Trump policy.

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Earlier this week, Project Veritas released undercover video in which it caught a Google employee admitting that the group plans to make sure that no one like Trump – presumably meaning a political outsider – can get elected again.

Big League Politics reported:

Investigative journalist James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has released hidden camera videos showing a Google executive explaining how preventing Trump and similar leaders is at the top of the monolithic corporation’s list of priorities.

Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that,” said Jen Gennai, who works as Google’s Head of Responsible Innovation.

Project Veritas notes that Gennai is in charge of the division of Google that is responsible for implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. This includes making sure that political outcomes unfavorable for liberals cannot be reached.

“We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we’re rapidly been like, what happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again,” Gennai added.

“We’re also training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?” she asked.

Gennai denied any political bias in the wake of the Veritas report, despite removingthe Veritas video from YouTube, its subsidiary.

“Google has repeatedly been clear that it works to be a trustworthy source of information, without regard to political viewpoint,” she said. “In fact, Google has no notion of political ideology in its rankings.”

Vimeo bans media watchdog Project Veritas after it accused Google of anti-Trump bias

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Vimeo had deleted the account of right-wing media transparency group Project Veritas just days after they published reports accusing Google of bias against conservatives and President Donald Trump.

A screenshot shared by Project Veritas on Wednesday appears to show that Vimeo removed the group’s account from its platform, citing a violation of community guidelines.

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The group denied breaking any rules, saying that they have done “nothing” that fits the description.

Google is ‘trying to rig the election’ in 2020 – Trump

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The group’s founder, James O’Keefe, pointed out that the incident with Vimeo happened several days after YouTube took down a video of their latest investigation, in which YouTube’s owner, Google, was accused of harboring bias against conservatives and President Trump.

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Project Veritas is known for releasing internal documents and undercover videos they say expose liberal, left-wing bias in the media and tech companies.

Earlier this week, the group shared a video in which a senior Google executive talked about the company’s prospects of “preventing the next Trump situation.” The group also leaked an email which allegedly shows that a member of Google’s transparency and ethics team referred to well-known conservative pundits as “Nazis.”

ELECTION MEDDLING: REDDIT QUARANTINES ‘THE DONALD’ FORUM ON FIRST NIGHT OF PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES

Election Meddling: Reddit Quarantines 'The Donald' Forum On First Night of Presidential Debates

Hugely influential forum locked down after a single complaint from a left-wing journalist

JUNE 26, 2019

Reddit has quarantined the hugely popular ‘The Donald’ forum on the night of the first Democratic presidential debates in yet another flagrant example of Big Tech election meddling.

Users attempting to access the forum are met with a warning message asking them “are you sure you want to visit this community?”

“The_Donald has officially been quarantined by Reddit. They waited until the election to totally suppress us,” tweeted the forum’s owner.

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The forum now has much reduced functionality and its owners can only have it lifted out of quarantine by means of a successful appeal to Reddit. A quarantine is sometimes used as a pre-cursor to a total ban.

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Reddit claims it shut down the forum due to “threats of violence against police and public officials.”

The quarantine was put in place after a single complaint from Vox’s Carlos Maza, the same activist/journalist who attempted to get Steven Crowder’s YouTube channel shut down earlier this month.

“Within 2 days of Carlos Maza calling for The_Donald Subreddit to be censored Reddit has taken action and quarantined one of the largest Pro-Trump forums,” commented Tim Pool.

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“Reddit claims that The_Donald was quarantined because they have to spend too much time removing content on the subreddit,” tweeted the moderator of the forum. “This is a report of everything they’ve “had” to do in the last month. (Including stripping me of my ability to do the job they’re complaining about).”

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The Donald is a hugely influential Internet forum with around 754,000 subscribers

A 2018 study by researchers at University College London found that the most “effectively spread memes” originated on r/the_donald.

Quarantining the forum on the night of the first Democratic presidential debates clearly represents yet another example of Big Tech meddling in the election process.

TUCKER CARLSON SLAMS REPUBLICANS FOR “DOING NOTHING” TO FIGHT BIG TECH CENSORSHIP

Tucker Carlson Slams Republicans For "Doing Nothing" to Fight Big Tech Censorship

“One day they’ll look up and find they have no supporters at all”

JUNE 26, 2019

Tucker Carlson has slammed Republicans and the Trump administration for doing nothing to fight back against Big Tech censorship “while their ideas are suppressed and their supporters are silenced.”

Carlson explained how as soon as Trump took the White House in 2016, Big Tech began plotting to “control the election outcome in 2020” by “using the excuse of “fake news” to control the public discourse.

The Fox News host chastised the previous Republican Congress for failing to act, as well as the White House which refused to use its control of the “vast regulatory apparatus” to intervene.

“They’ve sat motionless and doing nothing,” Carlson said of the Trump administration.

Tucker praised Senator Josh Hawley, who recently introduced a bill that would strip Big Tech companies of their legal immunity as platforms under Section 230 of the Communications Act, as “the only Republican who seems interested at all in keeping Big Tech in check.”

“Passing Hawley’s bill doesn’t seem to be a priority though, no one in Congress is talking about it,” said Carlson, adding this was a “big mistake”.

“Successful political parties look out for their supporters….and protect them from harm,” said Carlson, slamming Republicans for “sitting in a stupefied fog of libertarianism doing nothing while their ideas are suppressed and their supporters are silenced.”

“One day they’ll look up and find they have no supporters at all – who will be to blame for that? Only themselves,” he concluded.

As we reported earlier, the latest example of Big Tech election meddling is Reddit quarantining of ‘The Donald’ – a hugely popular forum with over 700,000 members that was credited with being the “most effective” at spreading memes during the last presidential election.

FOX NEWS STILL NOT COVERING PROJECT VERITAS GOOGLE BOMBSHELL REPORT

 

Fox News Still Not Covering Project Veritas Google Bombshell Report

Conservative network ignores biggest story of year — affects all Trump supporters, 2020 election

By Jamie White

It’s been over 24 hours since Project Veritas released its devastating Google exposé, and conservative network Fox News still hasn’t reported on what’s amounting to be the biggest story of the year.

Of course, they’re not the only ones to ignore PV’s bombshell report: virtually the entire mainstream corporate media has blacklisted the story, even when it was red-linked on Drudge Report and addressed by members of Congress.

The story wasn’t even picked up by conservative champions like Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity, who typically cover the stories nobody else will in the mainstream media universe.

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Though it’s unsurprising the media has refused to cover the story to protect Google, one would think Fox News would at least acknowledge its existence given the shockwaves it’s delivered to the conservative world.

However, even President Trump has recognized that Fox News is beginning to behave like a liberal network as 2020 nears, calling the change “very strange.”

See the censored Project Veritas investigation that Google censored below:

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“FoxNews Polls are always bad for me,” Trump tweeted earlier this month. “They were against Crooked Hillary also. Something weird going on at Fox. Our polls show us leading in all 17 Swing States. For the record, I didn’t spend 30 hours with @abcnews, but rather a tiny fraction of that. More Fake News.”

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Trump also criticized the right-leaning network for hosting a town hall for 2020 Democrat socialist candidate Bernie Sanders in April.

“What’s going on with FOX? What’s going on there?” he asked the crowd of a Pennsylvania MAGA rally. “They’re putting more Democrats on than you have Republicans. Something strange is going on at FOX! Something very strange. Did you see this guy last night? I did want to watch, you’ve always got to watch the competition if you call it that. And he was knocking the hell out of FOX and FOX is putting him on. Somebody is going to have to have to explain the whole FOX deal to me.”

Given the importance of PV’s Google exposé and their willingness to ignore it, it’s probably safe to say the liberal transformation of Fox News is complete.

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