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(RepublicanWire.org) – Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared to poke fun at CBS Sunday afternoon for saying it was coming back to Twitter after temporarily suspending its usage on the platform over security concerns. 

“After pausing for much of the weekend to assess the security concerns, CBS News and Stations is resuming its activity on Twitter as we continue to monitor the situation,” the CBS News Public Relations team wrote.

In his characteristically brief manner, Musk replied to the post with a blushing “face with hand over mouth” emoji, which usually suggests coy laughter or embarrassment. 

The network confirmed the move during Friday’s episode of “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.” During a segment titled “Twitter Turmoil,” featured CBS News national correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti reporting on the mass resignations of employees offended by Musk’s “ultimatum” to employees last week, asking them to commit to an “extremely hardcore” workload or leave the company. 

CBS News’ story featured a quote from a disgruntled former engineer who was laid off, who claimed that the culture of Twitter under Musk was “definitely a culture of fear and uncertainty, of anxiety.” In the middle of the segment, Vigliotti reported the outlet’s decision to pause its usage of Twitter. 

That announcement came after CBS News national correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti announced Friday evening during a report on the social media giant, “In light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform.”

Musk later followed up with a meme, writing, “Our love will never die.”

CBS’s decided to resume its Twitter use on Sunday, less than 48 hours after announcing it would pause its activity on the platform. 

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Judge Rules In Favor Of Republicans…

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(RepublicanWire.org) – A federal judge, Terry Doughty, handed a pair of Republican AGs a big win over the Biden Administration. Doughty rejected Joe’s arguments and told the Biden administration it has 21 days to turn over emails sent by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Anthony Fauci to social media platforms regarding misinformation.

Missouri AG Eric Schmitt and Louisiana AG Jeff Landry brought the case. “This Court believes Plaintiffs are entitled to external communications by Jean-Pierre and Dr. Fauci in their capacities as White House Press Secretary and Chief Medical Advisor to the President to third-party social media platforms,” Doughty said in the ruling.

In their initial filing, the AGs argued that “having threatened and cajoled social-media platforms for years to censor viewpoints and speakers disfavored by the Left, senior government officials in the Executive Branch have moved into a phase of open collusion with social-media platforms under the Orwellian guise of halting so-called ‘disinformation,’ ‘misinformation,’ and ‘malinformation’.”

“As a result of these actions, there has been an unprecedented rise of censorship and suppression of free speech – including core political speech – on social media platforms,” the lawsuit said. 

“Not just fringe views, but perfectly legitimate, responsible viewpoints and speakers have been unlawfully and unconstitutionally threatened in the modern public square.”

Schmitt said:

“In our lawsuit against the Biden Admin for colluding with social media companies to censor speech, the Court just ordered DOJ to produce records from key WH & HHS officials like Dr. Fauci, the WH Press Secretary, and others.”

A Biden admin official told Fox News:

“As we have said over and over again since the beginning of the administration in our battle against COVID-19, it has been critical for the American people to have access to factual, accurate, science-based information.

“For example, we worked hard to debunk inaccurate or misleading information about the COVID vaccines that have saved millions of lives and encourage Americans to get vaccinated and boosted to stay safe.

“Democrats and Republicans came together to urge the public to get vaccinated, stressing the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines.”

“We believe in and we support freedom of speech, and we also believe it is important for all media platforms, including social media, to represent factual scientific information and combat misinformation and disinformation that can cost lives,” the official said.

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Psaki: Joe Biden Wants To Censor Conservatives Even More On Social Media

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According to White House Propaganda Minister Jen Psaki, Joe Biden isn’t happy with the level of censorship conservatives are facing and he thinks something needs to change. No, he doesn’t want to do anything to protect us or force social media giants to value free speech and thought. That’d make too much sense. In fact, he doesn’t think there’s enough censorship.

Following Facebook’s decision not to reinstate President Trump’s account, which was banned following the January 6 incident when the President tried to calm everyone down and was removed from almost all social media, Psaki stepped out in front of the American people and did what she does best.

Psaki says Biden thinks “major platforms have a responsibility related to the health and safety of all Americans to stop amplifying untrustworthy content, disinformation and misinformation, especially related to COVID-19, vaccinations and elections.” Calling conservative ideas “life threatening” speech, Psaki says Biden’s mission is to urge Big Tech to do more to silence it.

“I think we are, of course, a believer in First Amendment rights, I think what the decisions are that the social media platforms need to make is how they address disinformation, misinformation, especially related to life threatening issues, like COVID-19 and vaccinations,” Psaki says. But many if not most of those who have been banned are innocent of all those things. Social media companies have been targeting conservatives for quite some time.

Though the Biden administration dresses it up, make no mistake: they are coming for you. They are coming for your freedom, your ideas, your welfare. They are coming for your ability to freely discuss issues and be fully informed. Fight back.

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HUGE NEWS: Parler Is Back On Apple’s App Store

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After the incident at the Capitol on January 6, the media — and social media companies — rushed to throw blame at every conservative they could. President Trump, despite his attempts to calm the crowd. Conservatives in general, despite the peaceful nature of the protest. In the rush to demonize anyone to the Right of Nancy Pelosi, conservative social media network Parler was removed from Apple and Android app stores. Then, Amazon killed its web hosting. Eventually, Parler found a new hosting service that doesn’t hate free speech. But now, he company has won a major victory: it’s back on iPhone app stores.

Noting the company’s commitment to constantly improve its methods of detecting and moderating hate speech — which has always been against Parler’s rules — Apple sent a letter to Congress on Monday announcing that the social media service would be allowed to return. CNN reports:

The letter — addressed to Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Ken Buck and obtained by CNN — explained that since the app was removed from Apple’s platform in January for violations of its policies, Parler “has proposed updates to its app and the app’s content moderation practices.”On April 14, Apple’s app review team told Parler that its proposed changes were sufficient, the letter continued. Now, all Parler needs to do is to flip the switch.

“Apple anticipates that the updated Parler app will become available immediately upon Parler releasing it,” Apple’s letter said.Apple declined to comment. Parler didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.

When Apple removed Parler from the app store, it was for things that exist on other social media platforms — “hate speech,” glorification of violence, and more. Parler has always made an effort to moderate these things, but the newness of the platform allowed the Left to take advantage of growing pains to cut off access.

We can expect the Left to throw tantrums — but now that the media-stoked furor has died down, we are regaining some sense of sensibility.

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