Gab, one of the earliest free speech friendly alternatives to the established social media platforms, may be forced out of Germany due to the government’s insistence that it censors its users, according to CEO and founder Andrew Torba.

Facebook Deletes German Anti-Lockdown Groups As New Censorship Rules Go Into Effect This week, Facebook announced a new enforcement policy that seeks to deplatform groups who coordinate online and spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence.   The new “coordinated social harm” policy was immediately used against 150 pages and groups connected to Germany’s Querdenken (Lateral Thinking) movement, which has routinely fueled resistance to government health restrictions and vaccines through anti-lockdown protests. Facebook’s head of security policy Nathaniel Gleicher wrote in a blog update Thursday that his team has been “expanding our network disruption efforts so we can address threats that come from groups of authentic accounts coordinating on our platform to cause social harm.”  Gleicher said: “Today, we’re sharing our enforcement against a network of accounts, Pages and Groups operated by individuals associated with the Querdenken movement in Germany.”  “We removed a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts, Pages and Groups for engaging in coordinated efforts to repeatedly violate our Community Standards, including posting harmful health misinformation, hate speech and incitement to violence. We also blocked their domains from being shared on our platform. This network was operated by individuals associated with the Querdenken movement in Germany, which is linked to off-platform violence and other social harms,” he said.  Gleicher said the new policy allows Facebook to act against the “core network” of a group that commits widespread violations. He said individuals associated with the Querdenken movement regularly violated the platform’s terms of service by spreading health misinformation, inciting violence, bullying, and harassment.  Thursday’s action moves Facebook into a more aggressive role as the judge of the “new normal” in a post-COVID world. They’re the deciders of right and wrong and won’t let people with opposing views use their platform.  Welcome to #NewNormal Germany, where Facebook has just deplatformed 150 accounts of

Almost A Quarter Of COVID Patients In England Are Being Treated For Something Else Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Almost a quarter of people in hospitals in England who are being counted as ‘COVID patients’ are actually being treated for other illnesses, according to a new report. “Health service statistics show there were 6,146 NHS beds taken up by people who were Covid positive on September 14th, the latest date data is available for,” reports the Daily Mail. “But just 4,721 patients (77%) were primarily being treated for the virus, with the remaining 1,425 receiving care for other illnesses or injuries. They could include patients who’ve had a fall or even new mothers who tested positive after giving birth.” In the Midlands area meanwhile, a full third of patients supposedly being treated for COVID were actually in hospital for different reasons. The report also acknowledges that as many of half of patients who enter hospital only test positive for COVID after being admitted for an unrelated illness. The difference between the ‘official’ figure and the real one is important because the UK government has said it won’t hesitate to re-enforce mask mandates, vaccine passports and a new lockdown this winter if hospitalizations continue to rise. As we previously highlighted, despite the fact that the vaccine was supposed to prevent hospitalizations, many of the same experts who lobbied for the previous lockdowns are claiming that numbers are on a trajectory that will mandate new lockdown restrictions. Just 24 hours after health secretary Sajid Javid asserted that they had been completely scrapped, the government reversed its position, saying that vaccine passports will in fact form a “first-line defence” against a winter wave of coronavirus. Back in December, the same government told the public that there was no plan whatsoever to introduce