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Lefèbvre in Suit, Censorship & AI Damage
Censorship Revealed
A document signed by Daniel Donavan, a counselor of Alphabet which is the company behind Google, to the US House Judiciary Committee led by Jim Jordan (Rep OH) came to light recently responding to a subpoena demand of the Committee.
In the letter the Google director specified a great amount of pressure exerted by the Biden administration on Google to censor critiques of the government among many others topics. Those who questioned the validity of the 2020 election, the efficiency of the Covid vaccine and other issues were banned from the internet under the pretext of spreading misinformation.
The document also includes actions of the FBI to persecute those who did not support the official narrative.
I thought TIA would like to know it, since these declarations vindicate your work and show that you were right.
My sincere compliments.
G.L.
Mark Tapscott - Excerpts
Donovan’s letter comes as Jordan’s Judiciary panel investigators have documented multiple examples of Biden administration censorship pressures, which succeeded in silencing the expression of views the White House found objectionable, including allegations of election fraud in the 2020 presidential vote, the January 6, 2021 protests by supporters of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol, and medical science-based worries about the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Google description of Biden administration censorship efforts was provided in response to a March 6, 2025 subpoena issued by Jordan’s committee seeking multiple documents illustrating how the pressure was applied by the federal government. ...
“The committee’s oversight has revealed that YouTube, a subsidiary of Alphabet, was a direct participant in the federal government’s censorship regime. In particular, the committee obtained documents showing that the federal government successfully pressured YouTube to censor certain lawful content, including content that did not violate YouTube’s content moderation policies. Throughout the previous Congress, the committee expressed concern over YouTube’s censorship of conservatives and political speech, including censorship of FBI whistleblowers who testified before the Committee,” Jordan told Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai in the March 6 subpoena cover letter.
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AI Is Damaging Your Brain
A new study by an expert from MIT shows that the constant use of AI is having a disastrous effect on the intelligence, memory and critical judgment of those who use it often.
Take a look in the attached article.
Kind regards,
B.M.
Andrew R. Chow
Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results.
The study divided 54 subjects – 18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area—into three groups, and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s search engine, and nothing at all, respectively. Researchers used an EEG to record the writers’ brain activity across 32 regions, and found that of the three groups, ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.
The paper suggests that the usage of LLMs [Large Language Models] could actually harm learning, especially for younger users. The paper has not yet been peer reviewed, and its sample size is relatively small. But its paper’s main author Nataliya Kosmyna felt it was important to release the findings to elevate concerns that as society increasingly relies upon LLMs for immediate convenience, long-term brain development may be sacrificed in the process.
“What really motivated me to put it out now before waiting for a full peer review is that I am afraid in 6-8 months, there will be some policymaker who decides, ‘let’s do GPT kindergarten.’ I think that would be absolutely bad and detrimental,” she says. “Developing brains are at the highest risk.”
Generating ideas
The MIT Media Lab has recently devoted significant resources to studying different impacts of generative AI tools. Studies from earlier this year, for example, found that generally, the more time users spend talking to ChatGPT, the lonelier they feel.
Kosmyna, who has been a full-time research scientist at the MIT Media Lab since 2021, wanted to specifically explore the impacts of using AI for schoolwork, because more and more students are using AI. So she and her colleagues instructed subjects to write 20-minute essays based on SAT prompts, including about the ethics of philanthropy and the pitfalls of having too many choices.
The group that wrote essays using ChatGPT all delivered extremely similar essays that lacked original thought, relying on the same expressions and ideas. Two English teachers who assessed the essays called them largely “soulless.” The EEGs revealed low executive control and attentional engagement. And by their third essay, many of the writers simply gave the prompt to ChatGPT and had it do almost all of the work. “It was more like, ‘just give me the essay, refine this sentence, edit it, and I’m done,’” Kosmyna says.
The brain-only group, conversely, showed the highest neural connectivity, especially in alpha, theta and delta bands, which are associated with creativity ideation, memory load, and semantic processing. Researchers found this group was more engaged and curious, and claimed ownership and expressed higher satisfaction with their essays.
The third group, which used Google Search, also expressed high satisfaction and active brain function. The difference here is notable because many people now search for information within AI chatbots as opposed to Google Search.
After writing the three essays, the subjects were then asked to re-write one of their previous efforts – but the ChatGPT group had to do so without the tool, while the brain-only group could now use ChatGPT. The first group remembered little of their own essays, and showed weaker alpha and theta brain waves, which likely reflected a bypassing of deep memory processes.”
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Posted September 25, 2025
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A friend recently sent me these two photos of Archbishop Lefebvre in progressivist garb. I was shocked because his followers present him as a consistent traditionalist since the beginning of his career, and these photos show he was not.
They look like from the mid ‘60s. Probably they were taken either during the time frame of the Council or shortly afterwards. At that time only progressivist Bishops and priests would adhere to the clergyman suit vs. cassock.
Not sure how his followers can explain it...
Salve Maria!
P.H.M., Brazil