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Norman Ornstein

@normornstein
15 posts
2026-02-25
This is beyond chilling. Pete Hegseth is trying to march us directly into a police state with a military, providing domestic surveillance, and into a place where there will be serious war crimes.
2026-02-25 View on X
Axios

Sources: DOD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access …

This is beyond chilling. Pete Hegseth is trying to march us directly into a police state with a military, providing domestic surveillance, and into a place where there will be serious war crimes.
2026-02-25 View on X
Reuters

Source: Anthropic has no intention of easing Claude usage restrictions for military purposes, following Dario Amodei's meeting with Pete Hegseth

Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic has no intention of easing its usage restrictions for military purposes, a person familiar with the matter …

2025-11-26
To be fair , if Trump had known this, he would not have pardoned the CEO. Unless he bought another half billion in Trump coin.
2025-11-26 View on X
Financial Times

Families of October 7 victims sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao in US federal court, alleging Binance facilitated millions in payments to Hamas after October 7

Now Binance Faces $1 Billion Terror Allegations Israpundit : October 7 Victims Sue Crypto Exchange Binance for Allegedly Facilitating Payments to Terror Groups Mike Heuer / UPI : H...

2025-09-27
It is not now nor has it been for a very long time the party of small government. It is fundamentally an authoritarian cult.
2025-09-27 View on X
Axios

Trump says Microsoft should fire its global affairs head Lisa Monaco over her work in the Biden administration, calling her a “menace to US National Security”

President Trump late Friday demanded Microsoft fire its head of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, over her work in the Biden administration.

2025-03-05
Mike Johnson applauds as Trump trashes the CHIPS Act. Mike Johnson voted for it. Toady.
2025-03-05 View on X
Bloomberg

While addressing Congress, President Trump calls to “get rid” of the $52B CHIPS and Science Act and use the leftover amount to “reduce debt or any other reason”

President Donald Trump called for an end to a landmark $52 billion semiconductor subsidy program that's spurred …

2023-07-17
If even the 5th Circuit does this, it shows how reckless and radical the decision was
2023-07-17 View on X
Reuters

A US appeals court temporarily blocks a lower July 6 court order sharply limiting US government officials' and agencies' contacts with social media companies

2023-07-15
If even the 5th Circuit does this, it shows how reckless and radical the decision was
2023-07-15 View on X
Reuters

A US appeals court temporarily blocks a lower court order that sharply limited US government officials' and agencies' contacts with social media companies

A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court order that had sharply limited certain Biden administration officials …

2023-07-05
Putin and assorted terrorists, along with misinformation and disinformation hacks, must be thrilled with this. Along with you. https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-05 View on X
Washington Post

A judge issues an injunction blocking key Biden admin officials from contacting social media companies, in a case brought by MO and LA AGs over vaccine posts

The Trump-appointed judge's move could upend years of efforts to enhance coordination between the government and social media companies.

2022-12-11
Cc: @jwpetersNYT some adjustment in the assessment of Musk might be in order https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-11 View on X
New York Magazine

With the “Twitter Files”, Elon Musk has become an egregious example of what he wanted to expose: managers leveraging their social platforms for partisan ends

But it is actually a tool of progressive power.  While you were hypnotized by viral memes, a cabal …

2022-05-21
Tragically, no surprise https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-21 View on X
Washington Post

Court docs and a source: Larry Ellison participated in a November 14, 2020 call that focused on strategies for contesting the legitimacy of the 2020 US election

The billionaire GOP donor participated along with Fox's Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant

2021-11-22
Obviously, heads should roll. Starting at the top. https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-22 View on X
Washington Post

Sources and internal docs show Facebook's race-blind policies around hate speech left minorities more likely to see derogatory and racist language on the site

Last year, researchers at Facebook showed executives an example of the kind of hate speech circulating on the social network …

2021-04-16
A brilliant and disturbing report from @davidfolkenflik on the apparent criminal investigation into Michael Pack and his cronies, only one part of the disaster Pack wrought. https://www.npr.org/...
2021-04-16 View on X
NPR

Officials say USAGM CEO Michael Pack and others pushed to subsidize software built by Falun Gong adherents, diverting OTF money from other tech for dissidents

David Folkenflik / NPR : Tweets: @opentechfund , @skestenbaum , @normornstein , and @davidfolkenflik Tweets: @opentechfund : “Of all the disruptions unleashed by the Trump White H...

2020-11-03
This is very, very disturbing. Our Task Force conversations with Facebook were very positive and encouraging. But the mounting evidence that Facebook ignores its guidelines to avoid right-wing backlash. The fact is that the preponderance of misinformation is coming from the right
2020-11-03 View on X
New York Times

How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information

So, it's going to be a big week — or weeks. Alexander Hall / Newsbusters : Mark Levin: Facebook Censored My Page on Eve Before Election; ‘I Will Not Be Intimidated’ David Gilbert /...

This is very, very disturbing. Our Task Force conversations with Facebook were very positive and encouraging. But the mounting evidence that Facebook ignores its guidelines to avoid right-wing backlash. The fact is that the preponderance of misinformation is coming from the right
2020-11-03 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Facebook skirted its own rules to give conservatives, including a pro-Trump super PAC and Donald Trump Jr., preferential treatment on rules enforcement

2020-11-02
This is very, very disturbing. Our Task Force conversations with Facebook were very positive and encouraging. But the mounting evidence that Facebook ignores its guidelines to avoid right-wing backlash. The fact is that the preponderance of misinformation is coming from the right
2020-11-02 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Facebook skirted its own rules to give conservatives, including a pro-Trump super PAC and Donald Trump Jr., preferential treatment on rules enforcement

From a pro-Trump super PAC to the president's eldest son, conservatives have blown past Facebook's fact-checking guardrails, with few consequences.