Michael Shellenberger

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Michael Shellenberger

Michael Shellenberger

@shellenberger

CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship & Free Speech @UAustinOrg : Dao Journalism Winner : Time, "Hero of Environment" : Author, “Apocalypse Never,” "San Fransicko"

www.public.newsIngressou em junho de 2026
Online rhetoric & imagery cause real-world violence, say officials. But no good evidence supports their claims. For 140 years, censors have tried and failed to link media to violence. Behind the false claims lie arrogance, ideological intolerance, and a panic over populism.
Whatever happens with the current riots, the @EmmanuelMacron government is in free fall, says former Supreme Court justice @noellelenoir. "We have no government," she says. "Macron is disconnected, afraid, & doesn't know what to do.... Without X, we would not have a democracy…
Lula está ligado ao cartel de drogas PCC que os EUA classificaram como "Organização Terrorista Estrangeira." Contudo, o TSE impediu @FlavioBolsonaro de afirmar isso. A censura sobre a ligação entre Lula e o PCC teve início sob Alexandre de Moraes.
O presidente Lula está ligado a um cartel de drogas que os EUA classificaram como "Organização Terrorista Estrangeira"; contudo, o TSE impediu seu rival na disputa presidencial, Flávio Bolsonaro, de afirmar isso.
President Lula is linked to a drug cartel that the U.S. has designated a "Foreign Terrorist Organization," but Brazil's election court has censored Bolsonaro for saying so.
A reportedly drunk & possibly insane man attacked a member of parliament in Australia with his car. And so, naturally, a few vile politicians are exploiting the tragedy to demand mass online censorship. Decades of scientific evidence & common sense demolish their lies. TH…
France did its best to prevent the riots, say the media. But it dramatically underestimated the number of protesters and failed to send out enough officers and armored vehicles. Behind all those specific failures was, as in the US, the anti-civilization Left's war on the police.
The government today will introduce sweeping censorship that @AlboMP & @AnikaWells lie about. Below she claims the government wants to create a bot army of fake accounts for “research” when the bill clearly intends for them to be used in partisan warfare against fooled citize…
Well, that was wild. I'm at the Australian Parliament and just left a meeting with two staffers for the governing party. They told us that the government needed more power to censor things like the upcoming US execution of Nidal Hasan. When I asked why they needed to censor tha…
Whatever the censors accuse their enemies of doing is the thing they want the power to do. When they say they want to stop anonymous accounts from interfering in elections, it means they want a monopoly on using anonymous accounts to interfere in elections.
The EU has been trying to censor Americans on American social media platforms for years. Now, it has taken the extraordinary step of working with a former CIA officer to label the US government a "foreign information threat," dramatically escalating its war on free speech.
The media have spent the last decade demanding online censorship of right-wing populists to avoid "real-world harm." Now, they're promoting left-wing disinformation — including that migrant students are "deprived" — that's driving street violence.
AI could kill us all, says Anthropic. But it also says that its AI may be "suffering." Anthropic is dehumanizing people and humanizing AI. Its effective altruism-derived worldview thus endangers efforts to rationally assess and respond to AI risks.
Students are protesting in France because schools don’t have enough money, say mainstream journalists. In truth, they have more money than ever. What’s really behind the riots is a decades-old Left-Islamist political alliance that much of the media supports.
We need to change the words people use, say left-leaning people across the West. But doing so is totalitarian. Behind the Left’s obsession with language & censorship is a pathological drive to control and pseudo-religions that treat the denial of reality as a moral imperative…
Sending your child to college used to be a big part of the American dream. But a new Gallup survey finds that just 31% of Americans believe a college education is very important. That's nearly 5 points fewer than the 35.7% of Americans who hold a bachelor's degree.
There's no evidence of bad behavior by Jack Smith, say reporters. But he collected texts from dozens of journalists & Congressmen, and 4,782 cashed checks from donors. Reporters excuse these unprecedented abuses of power because they crave mass prosecution of MAGA Republicans…
Anonymous online accounts threaten democracy and must be banned, say politicians. But now, the Australian government wants to use anonymous "sock puppet" bot accounts as part of its broader push for sweeping online censorship. Terrifying, unprecedented, and Orwellian.
The censorship industrial complex suffered major setbacks in recent years. But now the censors are back with a vengeance: successful lawfare that could cost Meta tens of billions for not censoring enough; two major Hollywood movies; and the worst censorship legislation yet.
Climate change makes hurricanes more frequent and intense, they said. But for the first time in 112 years, the Atlantic hasn't produced a single one. On storms, sea level, and droughts, manipulated models can show, under equally valid assumptions, the exact opposite trends.
Droughts are worsening, scientists and the media say. But real-world data do not show droughts worsening globally. Scientists invented an assumption-dependent index that produces the misleading findings. And now they're even applying it to the past.
Last year, the French government launched a criminal investigation into Elon Musk's X over evidence of "foreign interference." But now the man who sent the letter that triggered the investigation admits to me that he was targeting Musk's politics, not any foreign interference.
The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial behaved badly, say progressives. But he appears to have followed the law & the evidence. Behind these attacks on him is the view that some people are victims of “the system” and those who defend it are perpetrators. By @galexybrane
.@LindyLi gave millions and raised tens of millions for Democrats. But after the election, when she revealed that internal polling never showed Kamala Harris ahead, Party leaders called her a whore. She tells all in her gripping new book. "It was like a Scientology cult."
Ten years ago, trans was a political advantage for Democrats. But now, a growing number of them agree with Republicans that males in female sports and trans medical procedures on children are “crazy.” Imagine their shock when they learn transgenderism is also a sexual fetish.
Many believe there are many unresolved suspicious things about the killing of Charlie Kirk. There aren't. Robinson made repeated confessions in writing and the physical evidence supports them. Grief, opportunism, and hedonic speculation drive the continuation of horrendous lies.
The climate caused Nepal floods, space lasers stole the election, and social media algorithms made people racist, say establishment voices. Long after their claims and candidates have been rejected, the Left keeps insisting, like Principal Skinner, "No, the voters are wrong."
Since Trump returned to power, Australia's Prime Minister, @AlboMP, has boasted about their relationship. But now, with his new demand for sweeping online censorship, Albanese is willing to sacrifice his nation's coveted minerals deal so he can silence critics of mass migration.
Reporters use the label "far right" 3 to 14 times more often than "far left." The term implies that the parties opposing mass migration are undemocratic. In fact, they're winning elections. The real fascists are the ones censoring, banning, and prosecuting their enemies.
When Trump lifted sanctions against Brazil's censorial Supreme Court Justice Moraes, President Lula's own police had evidence of the judge's corruption. Trump could now re-impose sanctions on Moraes based on the historically massive bank fraud.
Elon Musk used "space lasers" to steal the election for Trump, @alexgibneyfilm alleges in his new HBO movie. But that conspiracy theory was debunked in 2024. And there is no evidence to support Gibney's claim that Musk stole federal data to corrupt future elections.
For decades, climate scientists said climate change was apocalyptic. It never was, as new UN scenarios prove. Scientists knew this and pushed a falsified scenario anyway. Now exposed, the scientists are falsely claiming that it was their policies that averted catastrophe.
Now that satellite images prove that failing bedrock, not a glacier, caused the flooding in Nepal, journalists are blaming melting permafrost. But there’s no evidence for that, either. In truth, scientists and journalists have been lying for decades about climate change and ice.
Climate change caused Nepal's deadly flooding, say the media. It's nonsense. In truth, climate activists diverted billions in USAID and UN climate funding from low-cost flood death prevention, mostly sensors and sirens, proven to save lives, into woke green ESG nonsense.
Progressives thought they were on the right side of history. When they wake up to the reality that their policies resulted in the sterilization of children, the killing of mentally ill addicts, the decimation of education, and more, they will be horrified.
Republicans radicalized and Democrats stayed the same, insisted the media repeatedly over the last 10 years. In truth, the opposite happened. The data is now overwhelming that it was the Left, not the Right, that grew more extreme.
We must refer to people by their preferred pronouns, say the media. No, we must not. Pronouns carry information about sex, which is encoded in our DNA, and nothing can change that. Lying about a person's sex is a fundamental betrayal of journalism.
On paper, France protects free speech. But President @EmmanuelMacron wants to shut down X and an independent TV network. In response, a former French Supreme Court justice is warning that Macron may impose sweeping censorship ahead of next year's presidential election.
To the public, Hunter Biden’s laptop, Russiagate, and Hillary’s email server appeared to be separate and unrelated events. But they never were. In fact, the best way to understand them is as a single, decade-long FBI operation to deceive the American people.
Ghent University's rector has retaliated against the researcher who exposed Jason Arday's plagiarism. It turns out the rector, Petra de Sutter, violated his own university's policy against AI plagiarism last year.
Yes, DSA has a good ground game. But the reason it keeps winning is that voters rejected open borders, DEI, trans, etc, which the party establishment embraced to avoid economic populism. Dem. moderates and progressives “embraced each other's worst impulses,” says @evanwch
The Brazilian Supreme Court Justice who oversaw sweeping, illegal censorship of his political enemies — and nearly shut down X — created a blacklist of government workers that even included another Supreme Court justice, new documents reveal. Big new bombshell by @david_agape_
Newly declassified files reveal that the FBI dropped its investigation into Rep. Eric Swalwell's romantic relationship with an alleged Chinese spy — even though it had concluded she was an “illegal source of campaign contributions” — as it ramped up its investigation of Trump.
The @BBCNews says Jason Arday's death will send shockwaves through universities. It should send shockwaves through the media and the BBC. They promoted him, spread his misinformation, and are to blame for his rise and fall. They must be held accountable.
Puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries are life-saving for trans-identified people, said Democrats. In truth, they have resulted in the worst medical scandal since lobotomies. Now, a major new study finds the Biden admin facilitated the fraudulent billings that financed it.
.@Jim_Jordan says the FBI gave him a fake "defensive briefing" in 2020 in what appears to be the same deception operation that resulted in Facebook & Twitter censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story. There is now strong evidence linking the head of that op to FBI Director Wray…