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YouTube demonetizes WND for defending Trump supporter Mike Lindell David Kupelian recounts Big Tech’s latest attack on Internet’s original Christian news site Dear WND reader, Big Tech is attacking WND again. Here’s their latest attempt to put one of the Internet’s oldest and most storied news organizations out of business: Last Friday, outraged by the libeling and cancelling of prominent Trump supporter Mike Lindell and his company, My Pillow, WND’s Elizabeth Farah posted a short video in support of Mike. That video resulted in the demonetization of the entire WND YouTube account. Although Lindell has now been permanently banned by Twitter, Farah focused her video on a libelous story appearing in the Daily Mail, which stated as fact (citing unnamed "friends") that Lindell had a torrid months-long affair with actress Jane Krakowski. Only problem was, both Lindell and Krakowski utterly deny the affair – or even knowing each other – and Lindell has already filed a defamation lawsuit against the Daily Mail. What was WND’s crime? The usual: Telling the truth – and defending a staunch Trump supporter like “the My Pillow guy.” Let’s take two steps back and look at the big picture: As we have been urgently warning about for over four years, the lords of the Internet – Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and others – are finally making their big move for all-out, undisguised, totalitarian control of what you are allowed to read, watch, hear – and therefore think. For Twitter to permanently ban the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump – who just last month a Gallup survey of Americans revealed to be the “most admired man in the world” and who had been nominated for multiple Nobel Peace Prizes – makes it pretty clear that Big Tech’s mask is off. Completely off. No more congressional hearings where Big Tech oligarchs make excuses or blame “glitches” or mid-level employees for banning prominent conservatives, Christians and pro-lifers. Those days are over. Ever since the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol building – which the Left has equated with both 9-11 and Pearl Harbor – social media giants have abandoned their former pretense and are now wildly purging conservatives from the internet, as though we didn’t exist. And then – no sooner did prominent conservatives announce they were quitting Twitter in favor of free-speech social media alternative Parler, than the Tech Giants ganged up to kill their competitor in the cradle. So, with all this in mind, let me talk to you for a minute about WND. What in the world, you might well ask, can WND possibly do to counter the insanity and unprecedented wickedness rising up all around us? Well, here’s what we can do: We can honestly, accurately and fearlessly shine a very bright journalistic light into all the growing darkness that is trying to overtake our country, focusing that light on corruption and fraud and deceit and lies and disinformation everywhere they can be found. That, by the way, is precisely what Thomas Jefferson had in mind when he said, “The only security of all is in a FREE PRESS.” He knew an honest, truth-oriented press is essential for a free society to continue to exist. And yet, that’s also the very reason Big Tech (like the maniacal Leftist juggernaut of which it is a part) doesn’t want a free press in America! Get it? We at WND have always known this, which is why our motto since 1997 – long before the rest of the online media pack even existed – has been “A Free Press for a Free People.” However, right now, just when our country needs a free press more than ever, the free press happens to be in a very tough situation. As I indicated earlier, Big Tech has been attacking WND for a VERY long time: * For years, Google has set its search algorithm to push WND way, way down in its search results. We’ve been virtually “disappeared,” as they say in communist countries. * The Southern Poverty Law Center, the leftwing hate group Big Tech companies rely on to identify hate groups, characterizes WND as a hate group – one engaging in “manipulative fear-mongering and outright fabrications designed to further the paranoid, gay-hating, conspiratorial and apocalyptic visions … from the fringes of the far-right and fundamentalist worlds.” (Translation: We’re conservative and Christian, and therefore must be destroyed.) * Last September, Facebook suddenly decided to massively suppress WND’s traffic on their platform – by about 90%. No reason given. * At the same time, three major international online ad companies – TripleLift, AppNexus/Xander and Teads – canceled WND, seriously hurting our revenues. * And of course, the tech monopolies have long been perpetrating an all-out assault on our operating revenues by vacuuming up the vast majority of online ad revenue. As I said earlier, we at WND have been warning – not for months, but years – all this was coming. Friends, we are fighters here at WND, and we still intend – as long as God allows us to exist as a news organization – to shout the truth from the rooftops and publish it from sea to shining sea! WND fully intends to continue to sound the alarm and expose the totalitarian left's efforts to completely take over America. That means everything from the Democrats' election-time specialty of voter fraud (and yes, despite what they tell you, the 2020 election was RIGGED), to the leftwing indoctrination of young voters at America's progressive brainwashing centers called colleges, to the Democratic Party's passionate love affair with abortion, to exposing all the outrageous lies of the corrupt "mainstream news media." There is, thank goodness, some good news. There is one key factor in WND’s continued existence and wellbeing that neither Big Tech, nor Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, nor the lying “mainstream media” can touch. And that is you, and your willingness to partner with us to keep us shining the bright light into the darkness. Therefore, I am humbly but boldly asking you, during this troubled time for our beloved country, to please consider making a generous, tax-deductible donation to the WND News Center, the nonprofit, charitable, 501(c)3 sister organization to the for-profit WND. WND is the oldest online Christian journalism organization in America, staffed by experienced professional journalists from all the major broadcast and print organizations, but who are also committed Christians. The WND News Center, which has been approved and designated by the IRS as a public charity, makes our original investigative reporting, breaking news, analysis and commentary available free for re-publication to other qualified news organizations. The nonprofit route has emerged as one of the most viable and necessary vehicles for online news in the era of the Big Tech monopoly, especially since, in addition to banning, censoring, shadow-banning, demonetizing and otherwise suppressing news and expression reflecting Judeo-Christian moral values, Big Tech has vacuumed up some 90% of all digital advertising! As a result, we are almost totally dependent on your support. But that’s OK with us, as long as you’re willing to partner with us! Friends, WND and the WND News Center cannot survive without your support. It’s as simple as that. If you help us, we will be able to boldly report, like no one else, on the tremendous forces of anarchy, insanity and spiritual darkness that are now washing over our beloved republic. Help us push back against the tide of darkness! Whatever you can donate, just know that you are deeply appreciated by all of us, just as, in turn, our special brand of journalism is appreciated by millions of readers. Please help keep the flame of America's free press alive. This is a time for bold action – for all of us. Our adversaries are not holding back, and we need to not hold back either. I pray you will be inspired to join with us by making a tax-deductible donation to the WND News Center. Thank you so much, and God bless you.  David Kupelian Vice President and Managing Editor, WND Editor, Whistleblower magazine Author, "The Marketing of Evil," "How Evil Works" and "The Snapping of the American Mind" |
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