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The algorithmic minister: AI’s unprecedented leap into government power

September 16, 2025 - algorithmic minister, no law describing how she can be removed from office, and no clear explanation of how citizens can appeal her decisions. The risks are significant: if her training data contains historical biases or corruption, she could simply automate old graft patterns at machine speed. Furthermore, a minister made of code is inherently vulnerable to hacking, data poisoning, or subtle manipulation by insiders, potentially with no digital fingerprints left behind....

Minnesota joins legal onslaught against TikTok, alleging algorithmic exploitation of youth

August 24, 2025 -

In a significant escalation of the legal battle against Big Tech, Minnesota has launched a lawsuit against TikTok, accusing the social media behemoth of deliberately designing its platform to addict young users through psychologically manipulative algorithms, prioritizing endless consumption over the mental well-being of a generation. The action, filed on Tuesday by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, represents a growing, bipartisan consensus among ...

The algorithmic leviathan: How cheap, biased AI threatens democracy and your job

November 14, 2025 -

The artificial intelligence revolution is accelerating at a breakneck pace, but its foundation is showing dangerous cracks. As the cost to build and fine-tune powerful large language models plummets—from millions to a projected $20,000 within two years—a new era of decentralized, accessible AI is dawning. This democratization, however, carries a profound risk: the proliferation of AI systems trained on the internet’s vast, contradictory and often biased ...

Congress pushes “algorithmic accountability” bill that threatens free speech under guise of safety

November 24, 2025 -

A dangerous new bill is gaining traction in Congress, disguised as an effort to hold Big Tech accountable but ultimately designed to expand government control over online speech. Sens. John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) have introduced the Algorithm Accountability Act, which seeks to rewrite Section 230—the legal shield that has protected free expression online for decades. While framed as a measure to prevent "algorithmic harm," the bill ...

France opens criminal investigation into Elon Musk’s X over alleged algorithmic political interference

July 17, 2025 - algorithmic manipulation for purposes of foreign interference," spearheaded by the national gendarmerie's cybercrime unit.

According to Beccuau, the inquiry centers on two possible criminal offenses: the "alteration of the operation of an automated data processing system" and the "fraudulent extraction of data," both allegedly carried out "by an organized group." These charges suggest investigators suspect a coordinated effort to manipulate the algorithm of X and extract ...

AI doctors on the horizon? Pharma could replace human physicians with algorithmic prescriptions

June 27, 2025 - algorithmic ‘recommendations’ employers and schools enforce. Once it’s in your record, good luck challenging it."

For now, both urge skepticism—and self-education. "The best doctor is an informed patient," Adams concluded. "No AI can replace that."

Final Thought: As AI seeps into hospitals, the question isn’t just whether machines can replace doctors—but who profits when they do.

Watch the full episode of the "Health Ranger Report" with Mike Adams, the ...

UN project aims to combat “misinformation,” “hate speech,” recommends algorithmic censorship and demonetization

June 27, 2024 - algorithmic amplification”), labeling content, and the UN did not stop short of recommending demonetizing the “offenders.”

Presenting the plan on Monday, Guterres made the obligatory mention of doing all that while “at the same time upholding human rights such as freedom of speech.”

According to the UN secretary-general, billions of people are currently in grave danger due to exposure to lies and false narratives (but he doesn’t specify what kind). However, ...

WSJ claims Google blacklists sites and makes algorithmic changes to favor big businesses

January 11, 2021 -

According to their report, Google has been blacklisting certain sites since the early 2000s to ensure they do not appear in search results. These changes are separate from those involving sites they are legally required to block, such as those featuring copyright infringement or child abuse and those aimed at demoting spam sites.

In particular, the WSJ said it had seen documents demonstrating that Google News has blacklisted conservative publications. Among the sites ...

By month’s end, WHO seeks to pass Orwellian pandemic treaty to implement algorithmic surveillance and control systems worldwide

May 21, 2024 -

This agreement will give the beleaguered agency more power over sovereign nations, including the power to order targeted lockdowns and mitigation measures. The agreement will allow a global body of experts to use surveillance tools and implement broader mandates for PCR testing, masks, so-called vaccines and other countermeasures. Right now WHO is developing a standardized algorithm to quantify airborne transmission risk to dictate public policies on human interactions.WHO’s ...

Google doubles down on deceiving customers about its political manipulation

June 26, 2019 - algorithmic unfairness” (pdf).

“Imagine that a Google image query for ‘CEOs’ shows predominantly men. Even if it were a factually accurate representation of the world, it would be algorithmic unfairness,” the document says, explaining that in some cases “it may be desirable to consider how we might help society reach a more fair and equitable state, via … product intervention.”

“What does that mean Mr. Slater?” Lesko asked.

“I’m not familiar ...

Public trust in ChatGPT legal advice outweighs lawyers’ in study, raising calls for AI literacy

April 30, 2025 - algorithmic confidence over human expertise.”

Crucially, the study found a key difference in how advice was framed. Lawyers’ responses were often longer and used simpler language, prioritizing clarity. ChatGPT’s examples, however, were shorter but more lexically complex, “striking the right balance between brevity and technicality,” Schneiders said. Participants perceived complexity as a sign of validity, even when answers contained inaccuracies.The role of ...

The AI Prescription: A chilling expose on the corporate takeover of medicine

January 06, 2026 -

Imagine walking into a doctor's office—only to be greeted not by a human physician, but by a cold, algorithmic artificial intelligence (AI) system that spits out diagnoses and prescriptions without ever truly understanding you. This dystopian vision isn't science fiction—it's the future Big Pharma and Silicon Valley are racing toward, and it's already infiltrating modern medicine.

"The AI Prescription: How Big Pharma and Silicon Valley ...

Senate hearing exposes FLAWS of Google’s election content moderation

November 07, 2025 - algorithmic bias and echo chambers.

Critics argue that suppressing politically charged content—regardless of partisan origin—risks distorting public discourse. As Erickson's testimony revealed, tech companies face an impossible balancing act: enforcing policies against misinformation while avoiding accusations of partisan censorship.

Jerome R. Corsi wrote in his book "Killing the Deep State" that Google attempted to distinguish itself from Facebook and Twitter ...

WHO proposes permanent tech alliance to shape health narratives, sparking debates over censorship and behavioral control

April 24, 2025 - algorithmic promotion, influencer networks and restricted content moderation. While WHO officials frame it as a tool to combat misinformation and improve public health outcomes, critics warn it risks entrenching censorship, narrowing scientific debate and sidelining alternative health approaches like natural medicine.The WHO’s vision: Permanent institutionalized control

At the core of Pattison’s proposal is the idea of making pandemic-level digital health coordination ...

Big Tech leads million-dollar campaign to kill bills that are meant to keep children safe online

May 24, 2024 - algorithmic sorting. Additionally, the bill allows parents to set time limits on social media usage for their children. Meanwhile, the Child Data Protection Act prevents apps from collecting data and personal information from users under 18 without explicit consent. For children under 13, parental permission would be required for data collection.

However, tech companies argue that these bills will harm freedom of speech, online privacy for teens, internet access for ...

SPY vs SPY: Networks built using government funds are using citizen informants to flag “misinformation” in private messages

February 19, 2024 -

Executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online and former State Department official Mike Benz warned on X: “The US gov’t is paying millions of dollars to censorship mercenary firms to build up a snitch network of citizen informants to report private text messages on WhatsApp for ‘misinformation’ – then create a vast database of banned memes & ideas.”

Using government funds, companies are being enlisted to monitor platforms of interest with the aim of getting ...

CoinDesk outs Terra stablecoin founder as the same person behind failed “Basis Cash” experiment that crashed and burned

May 13, 2022 - algorithmic stablecoins with high ambitions, but it was shut down due to SEC-related risks. Today we're bringing Basis back from the grave."

"In the long term, we look forward to seeing Basis Cash be used widely as a base layer primitive such that there is organic demand for the asset in many DeFi and commercial settings," he added.

The apparent purpose of this resurrection was to once again fleece the sheep, so to speak. And with what has happened once again ...

Toyota planning to put biometric sensors into seat belts to detect when drivers are having heart attacks

June 21, 2017 - algorithmic solutions to see what it will take to generate a system that could look at the physiology of a person, provided by high-density electrocardiogram (ECG) measurements, as well as other medical measurements,” Dr. Najarian further added.

They then decided to use monitoring patches that would be worn on the chest. These patches would be small enough to be inserted inside seat belts. They would need to gather physiological data from the driver before testing ...

AI-priced groceries: Instacart’s secret experiments inflate your food bill

December 10, 2025 - algorithmic pricing at Target, a retailer that told investigators it has "no business relationship with Instacart." This contradiction raises serious questions about transparency and control.

Instacart markets this technology as a boon for retailers. In corporate materials, it calls the tool "smart rounding," a machine-learning system designed to "improve price perception and drive incremental sales." The company claims it can boost grocery store sales by 1 to ...

Senator Schmitt introduces legislation to take on Government-Corporate-Big Tech censorship machine

December 16, 2024 - algorithmic decisions. By requiring IGs to inform Congress about these interactions, Schmitt aims to bring much-needed transparency to the murky relationship between the government and tech giants.

The amendment requires Inspectors General to report to Congress on government communications, including those on social media. This includes detailed descriptions of communications between government agencies and internet services, content providers, and software providers....