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California legislators are using the pretext of worker safety to create a legal weapon against independent investigators. Assembly member Mia Bonta designed this bill to insulate entities receiving millions in taxpayer funds from necessary public scrutiny. Per community note, just to be clear the bill was voted on and passed through the CA Assembly. Here …
The US government secretly controls roughly one-half of the funding for the world’s largest investigative journalism network, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a joint investigation by Mediapart, Drop Site News, Il Fatto Quotidiano, and others has revealed. The probe also found that the US exerts veto power over OCCRP’s leadership and editorial direction. …
Dude observed. h/t elhumanoid
In 2016, as California’s Attorney General, Kamala Harris sent agents to raid the home of an undercover journalist who had exposed Planned Parenthood’s alleged involvement in selling fetal tissue. This journalist was David Daleiden, and he was the only journalist prosecuted under California’s video recording law in its 60-year history. Didn’t Kamala as DA charge …
Catherine Herridge’s testimony sheds light on a concerning breach of journalistic integrity. Her dedication to exposing government corruption is commendable, and CBS News’ actions in seizing her reporting records are deeply troubling. This blatant infringement on press freedom sets a dangerous precedent that undermines the essential role of the media in holding power to account. …
REPORT: After firing investigative reporter Catherine Herridge who was investigating the Hunter Biden laptop story, CBS reportedly seized her belongings. Nothing to see here. The network reportedly seized all of her belongings including files, computers and most importantly,… pic.twitter.com/oLFIlZwsOA — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 22, 2024 CBS fired investigative journalist Catherine Herridge and seized her …
“CBS is one of the world’s premier news organizations, with a legendary history that includes figures from Murrow to Walter Cronkite to Roger Mudd. That is why the hiring of [Catherine] Herridge was so welcomed by many of us. The network was at risk of becoming part of the journalistic herd, an echo-chamber for Democratic …
So it may seem like a lot of competing stablecoins, but ultimately, they’ll be very tied up with the US government and also US intelligence because there’s a broader push to merge a lot of data sharing between Wall Street, banking regulators, and intelligence agencies that’s been promoted really heavily by groups like the Carnegie …