WASHINGTON D.C. - On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram), made a huge announcement: Facebook is now going to be reversing its censorship policies.
This is enormous. Facebook has absolutely crushed conservative media on their platform over the course of the last several years.
We know this personally. Over at The Daily Wire, where I was the number one Facebook page on the platform in 2020 and the beginning of 2021, something happened. Something shifted.
In 2021, our impressions from my personal page, which was likely the most prominent page on Facebook, went from a whopping one billion impressions a month to less than 100 million impressions a month — a 90% reduction in impressions in reach.
That was a deliberate move by Facebook to crush political content on the platform in 2021. Click here to read more.
YUMA, Ariz. -- A young girl is sparking debate online after she got a permanent tattoo at age 9.
According to the tattoo artist, the girl got an American flag tattoo on her arm at Black Onyx Empire Tattoo in Yuma, Arizona when she was 9, and she recently came in for a touch up at age 10.
She was accompanied by her parents.
An Instagram video posted by the tattoo artist on Thursday shows the girl getting tattooed at the shop.
The artist explained that the girl originally wanted a tattoo of Donald Trump on her neck, but that he “convinced her to do a more patriotic tattoo.”
He also said he told the child that if she still wanted the Trump tattoo a year later that she should get it, but that she should take time to think about it.
A year later, now 10 years old, the girl came back for a touch-up of the American flag tattoo. Click here to read more.
LANSING, Mich - A green energy boondoggle on publicly owned property in the northern Lower Peninsula has been scuttled by negative feedback.
According to reports, RWE Clean Energy, the company behind a Gaylord-area 200 megawatt solar farm project, has opted to partner with private landowners instead of leasing 420 acres of publicly owned state forest land from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The reversal was announced Tuesday after a growing number of Michigan lawmakers and Otsego County residents demanded answers on RWE’s plan to destroy a major portion of state forest near Gaylord to install solar panels.
A DNR spokesman did not respond to a request from The Midwesterner for more information on the project. Click here to read more.
A majority of U.S. parents support “reducing the size and influence of the U.S. Department of Education,” according to polling released on Monday by Parents Defending Education (PDE).
PDE, which describes itself as a grassroots organization “working to reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas,” found that 52 percent of parents back scaling back the Department of Education. Forty-five percent oppose doing so, while three percent are unsure.
Republican parents (67 percent) and independent parents (53 percent) are more likely than Democrat parents (29 percent) to support reducing the size and influence of the department, the survey found.
By ethnicity, a majority of every group besides black parents (37 percent) supports scaling back the Department of Education. Click here to read more.
NEW ORLEANS, LA - Post-traumatic stress disorder from Afghanistan war trauma and resulting unresolved depression appear to have driven a 37-year-old Green Beret named Matthew Livelsberger to kill himself in a Tesla CyberTruck in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day. “In 2020, he was having paranoia and nightmares. He was exhausted and depressed,” said Livelsberger’s ex-girlfriend. “He was gaining weight, and he couldn’t think.” Said the FBI special agent in charge, “Although this incident is more public and sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to be a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who is struggling with PTSD and other issues.” Law enforcement says there is evidence he changed his psychiatric medication.
Livelsberger’s actions appear to be part of a larger pattern among US military personnel. The number of former service members who commit extremist crimes has significantly increased in recent years. Click here to read more.
