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We just won Missouri v. Biden. As Missouri’s Attorney General, I sued the Biden regime for brazenly colluding with Big Tech to silence Missouri families — censoring the truth about COVID, the Hunter Biden laptop, the open border, and the 2020 election. They tried to turn Facebook, X, YouTube, and the rest into their private speech police, labeling dissent “misinformation” while they pushed their narrative on the American people. Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech. Missouri struck first—and Missouri won big. This is the first real, operational restraint on the federal censorship machine. It locks in the First Amendment principle we fought for: modern technology doesn’t erase your rights, and government labels don’t strip speech of protection. The deep state just got checked. For every working Missouri family tired of being silenced by their own government: this victory is yours. The heartland fought back, and the heartland delivered.

🚨Starmer announces Labour will pursue draconian measures to clamp down on internet usage - including a VPN ban - via his Substack: "We will be going to Parliament for new government powers, enabling us to act on the findings of the social media consultation where the evidence suggests we need to. This could include: -Setting a minimum age limit for social media: unlike the Tories, who took years to pass the Online Safety Act, we will take powers that would allow us to implement a minimum age for social media in a matter of months to prevent kids from accessing harmful social media. -Restricting specific functionalities: that are detrimental to kids’ wellbeing and keep them hooked to their screens like endless scroll or autoplay -Limiting VPN access for kids: to make it harder for kids to get around age limits of services or certain functionalities."

World leader’s disapproval rating: 🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron: 77% 🇬🇧 Keir Starmer: 68% 🇩🇪 Friedrich Merz: 64% 🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez: 61% 🇿🇦 Cyril Ramaphosa: 57% 🇦🇹 Christian Stocker: 53% 🇸🇪 Ulf Kristersson: 53% 🇮🇹 Giorgia Meloni: 53% 🇳🇴 Jonas Gahr Støre: 52% 🇧🇷 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: 51% 🇺🇸 Donald Trump: 51% 🇵🇱 Donald Tusk: 50% 🇹🇷 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: 49% 🇲🇽 Claudia Sheinbaum: 49% 🇧🇪 Bart de Wever: 48% 🇳🇱 Dick Schoof: 47% 🇦🇺 Anthony Albanese: 47% 🇨🇦 Mark Carney: 38% 🇦🇷 Javier Milei: 37% 🇰🇷 Lee Jae-myung: 33% 🇨🇭 Karin Keller-Sutter: 29% 🇨🇿 Andrej Babiš: 29% 🇯🇵 Sanae Takaichi: 24% 🇮🇳 Narendra Modi: 23% Source: Morning Consult

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: Starting next week, my government will implement the following actions: First, we will change the law in Spain to hold platform executives legally accountable for many infringements taking place on their sites. Second, we will turn algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal content into a new criminal offense. Third, we will implement a hate and polarization footprint system to track, quantify, and expose how digital platforms fuel division and amplify hate. Fourth, Spain will ban access to social media for minors under the age of 16. Platforms will be required to implement effective age verification systems — not just checkboxes, but real barriers that work. Fifth and last, my government will work with our public prosecutor to investigate and pursue the infringement committed by Grok, TikTok, and Instagram.