Media and public opinion

Social media giant Twitter has begun exploring new products including a “Super Follow” feature that will allow users to charge followers a fee to access premium tweets. CNET reports that Twitter has begun exploring a number of new products including a “Super Follow” feature that allows creators to offer access to premium posts for a fee, as well as groups making it easier to chat about interests. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said during the company’s first virtual analyst day on Thursday: “We’re focused on public conversation as a use case and that use case is going to have multiple formats associated with it.” Super Follows and tipping are a new key product Twitter is focusing on. The features will allow creators and publishers on Twitter to charge a monthly subscription fee in order to view exclusive content or newsletters. Dantley Davis, the head of the company’s design and research operation, stated that products that fund creators motivate “them to continue creating great … [Read more...] about Twitter Wants You to Pay People to Read Their Social Media Posts

Friday on FNC’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson took aim at various responses throughout government agencies that resulted in worsening the COVID-19 pandemic over the past several months. He started with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) initial reaction to the pandemic threat all the way through the contradictions of Biden health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci. Transcript as follows: It was a year ago this week that Nancy Pelosi was walking the streets of San Francisco’s Chinatown without any concern whatsoever for her personal safety. Nancy Pelosi’s face was stark naked. She wasn’t wearing a mask, neither were the dozens of people who surrounded her. A local CBS affiliate was on the scene following all of it, but even the coronavirus was already spreading all over the world in places like France and South Korea and we now know here in the U.S., CBS didn’t suggest that anything was amiss. They didn’t report that Nancy Pelosi was a walking biohazard or a super … [Read more...] about Carlson: ‘Public Health Experts Are Scrambling to Avoid Humiliation’ of Pandemic-Response Failures

close Video Concha: The New York Times is 'lionizing cancel culture' Fox News contributor Joe Concha reacts to The New York Times being accused of celebrating cancel culture for spotlighting a video of a teenaged girl using a racial slur, in which, led to her being forced to withdraw from college. Even George Orwell couldn’t have imagined it: in the country where free speech first became a constitutional right, left-wing journalists and frightened media companies are desperately censoring people with views they consider unpleasant. So far this month, New York Times columnists have called for a federal "reality czar" and asked cable companies to keep viewers from seeing Fox News as easily as CNN or MSNBC. A Times reporter was forced to resign for using a racial slur – though both he and the paper’s top editor, who is African American, said he had used it without malign intent. Video The Times then refused to run a column about the … [Read more...] about Alex Berenson: Cancel culture beyond Orwellian — this is why I won’t give in to it

close Video Pandemic stimulus gives big bailout to blue states Republicans feel red states are being penalized for remaining open for business during COVID-19; GOP Rep. Greg Steube weighs in. Democrats in Washington are charging full speed ahead on a hastily crafted, nearly $2 trillion spending package. The goal is to satisfy a political agenda and bail out political allies. The guise is COVID-19 relief. Regardless, their plan means tremendous harm to America’s working-class. It is the wrong plan, at the wrong time, for all the wrong reasons. Video On Monday, the Democrat majority on the House Budget Committee continued what has been a completely partisan process by holding debate and a vote on a legislative package that represented the work of nine separate committees two weeks earlier. During the nine committee markups that preceded Monday’s House Budget Committee activities, Republicans offered 229 amendments. Only two, or less … [Read more...] about Reps. Smith & Comer: Dems’ $1.9T COVID relief bill – wrong plan, wrong time, wrong reasons. Here’s why

close Video Florida governor attempts to spearhead crackdown against Big Tech Ron DeSantis joins 'The Ingraham Angle' to discuss his attempts to counter Big Tech censorship We live in the digital information age , and there is a tug of war over who owns your data – you or the online businesses that demand it and use it. Fortunately, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Speaker of the House Chris Sprowls have stepped forward to address this – what I believe is one of our most pressing problems. This week, with their encouragement, I introduced a ground-breaking Consumer Data Privacy bill in the Florida House of Representatives that will put the ownership of personal data back into the hands of individual Floridians, while at the same time allowing big tech and businesses to access our information – as long as we give them permission. REP. BYRON DONALDS: DEMS' FOR THE PEOPLE ACT IS REALLY JUST FOR DEMOCRATS – HERE'S WHY When we interact … [Read more...] about Fla. Rep. Fiona McFarland: Protecting privacy online – Florida taking this step to safeguard consumers