Twitter claims it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. That is false. The US government's propaganda organs, especially Voice of America's VOA Persian, pay the social media corporation huge sums of money to spread constant disinformation against foreign adversaries. The Grayzone's Ben Norton discusses how Silicon's Valley close relationship with the US government is a threat to the freedom of the press and speech.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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