Facebook is using a NATO think tank, the Atlantic Council, which is also funded by the US government and foreign governments, to help it determine which posts are authentic and which are fake. The Atlantic Council is hardly an unbiased judge, however. It is extremely...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Micah Zenko catches Secretary Mattis making an obviously false claim about U.S. involvement in the war on Yemen:Stunning assertion by Sec. Matts; 40 months into America's involvement in Yemen's civil war....
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The U.S. response to the massacre of dozens of children and other civilians earlier today was predictably feeble:The U.S. State Department called on Thursday for the Saudi-led coalition to investigate reported air...
The US State Department has out of the blue decided that Russia is guilty in the case of the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in the UK, and has slapped on yet another round of sanctions. This time the sanctions call for the president to completely break...
In a long-form interview here with veteran journalist Joe Lauria at Consortium News Radio, I try and lay out exactly what happened on Twitter that led to me being banned. Peter Van Buren blew the whistle on State Department waste and mismanagement during Iraqi...
Reprinted from HaaretzLeft-wing peace activist Uri Avnery has been hospitalized in very serious condition after suffering a stroke on Saturday and is said to be unconscious. Avnery, 94, has written opinion pieces on a regular basis for Haaretz. He is a former...
More than a few people have cited the exchange below as justification for my forever trip down the Memory Hole, my ban from Twitter. I used to be there as @wemeantwell.My bad zombie joke about #MAGA, or anything else I wrote that was flippant, is not writing I’m proud...
Senator Mark Warner's (D-VA) office has drawn up a proposal for the US government to become much more involved in the Internet and particularly social media. They tell us for our own good they must protect us from "disinformation" and be able to determine the identity...
As Dan McAdams was saying yesterday on the Liberty Report, Twitter has demanded that we hit their Soviet BF Skinner button to delete our terribly offensive tweets, which at least in my case have been deleted from my feed by Twitter already, in order to begin the 12...
TO: Twitter Board of DirectorsFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)SUBJECT: Suspension of VIPs Associate Peter Van Buren’s Twitter AccountWe at Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPs) are greatly disturbed by the recent decision...
