Wesley Lowery, a media darling of the Left who made a name for himself talking about race after George Floyd, has been accused of a habitually sexually assaulting female journalists. A number of female journalists claim the Pulitzer Prize winner plied them with alcohol at bars until they left with him and then sexually assaulted them, according to a Wednesday report from the Columbia Journalism Review. Lowery, 34, is a best-selling author and has reported for the Washington Post, CNN, and “60 Minutes.” He was also a tenured professor at American University and executive editor of American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop before he resigned in March amid the sexual harassment allegations. The alleged encounters happened between 2018 and 2024. Olivia Messer, now the editor-in-chief of Texas outlet The Barbed Wire, claims that in January, 2020 Lowery kept ordering her alcohol at a bar and then pressured her into performing oral sex on him at her apartment. Years later, in 2023, she was again at a bar with Lowery when he was in a supervisory position over her, and the next morning she woke up to find him in bed with her. She said she could not remember having sex with him, but he told her they had. “Whatever you do, do not tell Cara,” Messer said Lowery told her, referring to American University adjunct professor Cara Kelly, who ended up filing multiple Title IX complaints against Lowery. Ironically, Lowery also helped Messer with a reporting project about failure to address alleged sexual harassment in the Texas Senate. Imani Moise, a Wall Street Journal reporter, said she met up with Lowery in December, 2018 at a Washington, D.C., bar where he bought her drinks until she was “sloppy drunk,” and then ordered an Uber and took her back to his apartment where he perpetrated a “full-blown assault” on her. They had talked about the #MeToo movement beforehand at the bar. Moise said that when she was assaulted by a different man as a teenager, she refused to give the police the man’s name because “I did not want to see another black man go to jail,” but she now says, “I am done with that.” Another unnamed journalist, who matched with Lowery on Bumble, said he pressured her to drink more during a spring 2022 date. She woke up in his bed and “he was inside of me.” She was half-conscious for a few moments, and then things went dark again, she said. Later, she noticed that she had bruises on her body and a cut on her foot. She hooked up with Lowery a number of times afterwards, and a therapist told her, “Oh, you didn’t have control the first time, so you went back on your terms,” she said. An unnamed writer-researcher who worked with Lowery claims that during a February, 2024 encounter at a Washington, D.C., hotel, Lowery had a drink waiting for her whenever she came back from the bathroom. They split an Uber, but when the car dropped her off the female writer said Lowery pressured her to let him up to her apartment, even accusing her of “using him” for a job and saying she “hadn’t done anything for him,” according to a Title IX complaint. She felt her job was on the line and allowed him to come up, where he allegedly tried to get her into the bedroom and pull off her clothes, even when she asked him to go home. She said she pretended to fall asleep, and then he left. At least three female students at American University said Lowery made them uncomfortable as well. One student said she went into Lowery’s office during a journalism internship to ask him for advice about how to avoid alarming subjects of a story. He told her to close the door and said, “Well, Sophia, when you go on a date, you don’t just ask ‘Do you want to f—?’ You build up to it.” Another female student had a similar complaint, claiming Lowery compared making interview subjects comfortable with asking for consent during sex, “Can I do this, can I do that, is this okay?” A third student said he lit a candle and sat next to her on the couch in his office, which made her uncomfortable. Lowery sent messages expressing regret to some of the women, but he has also pushed back on the allegations. “CJR’s portrayal of these periods in my personal life is incomplete and includes false insinuations about complicated dynamics,” Lowery said in a statement to the Columbia Journalism Review. “Still, I respect the women who have shared their experiences and take their perspectives seriously. As a young professional, I did not always recognize the power imbalances that surfaced as personal relationships evolved into professional ones, and vice versa. I should have better upheld boundaries that would have protected myself and others, particularly during interactions impaired by mutual intoxication. I have committed to sobriety, now approaching one year, and continue to work with professionals on my understanding of the power dynamics that accompany race, gender, and my professional success.” In 2014, Lowery was named the National Association of Black Journalists’ emerging journalist of the year. He wrote a book, “They Can’t Kill Us All,” which dealt with racism, police killings, and civil unrest. At one point on Twitter, Lowery said the Tea Party was “essentially a hysterical grassroots tantrum about the fact that a Black guy was president.” Over the last decade, Lowery has zeroed in on racism and the police, reporting extensively on Black Lives Matter and winning a Pulitzer for a Washington Post database of police shootings called “Fatal Force.” Lowery really rose to prominence after George Floyd’s death when he published an opinion article titled “A Reckoning over Objectivity, Led by Black Journalists” that criticized news outlets for not “telling hard truths.” After that, Lowery was in demand and began receiving invitations to serve on nonprofit boards and speak at events.

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President Donald Trump hinted of revoking other universities’ certification to host international students in response to a question about his move against Harvard. Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday in response to the Department of Homeland Security revoking the school’s certification to host international students. The Trump administration had stripped Harvard of its ability to enroll foreign students earlier Friday, accusing the school of failing to heed the law with respect to his anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion executive orders. The Daily Signal asked the president whether he was considering similar action against other schools that fail to comply with his executive orders. I asked @POTUS if he is considering revoking universities besides Harvard's abilities to accept foreign students."Harvard is going to have to change its ways, and a couple of others," he told @DailySignal . pic.twitter.com/Fp2irhwl2i— Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell (@TheElizMitchell) May 23, 2025 “Harvard is going to have to change its ways, and a couple of others,” he said. “Billions of dollars has been paid to Harvard,” he told The Daily Signal. “How ridiculous is that? Billions, and they have $52 billion as an endowment. They have $52 billion, and this country is paying billions and billions of dollars, and then gives student loans, and they have to pay back the loans.” A federal judge on Friday issued an injunction temporarily blocking the Trump administration’s latest action against Harvard, meaning that for now, foreign students can continue attending the university.   Currently, there are more than 6,700 international students studying at Harvard, making up about 27% of the Ivy League school’s student body, according to the university.  Harvard is losing its “Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law,” according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”  The Department of Homeland Security operates the Student and Exchange Visitor Program to ensure foreign students are in the country legally. Harvard President Alan Garber called the administration’s latest move part of a “series of government actions to retaliate against Harvard for our refusal to surrender our academic independence and to submit to the federal government’s illegal assertion of control over our curriculum, our faculty, and our student body.”  The post Harvard ‘And Others’ Need to Get in Line or Lose Foreign Students, Trump Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Steven Guilbeault, once Canada’s Environment Minister is now poised to spearhead a different kind of oversight, this time, over what Canadians can see and share online. In his new post as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Guilbeault has been entrusted with executing Bill C-11, a contentious piece of legislation passed in 2023 that gives the federal government unprecedented power over online streaming platforms. More: Guilbeault uses statements from Trudeau government-funded campaign groups to justify censorship bill Celebrating the appointment, Guilbeault publicly thanked newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney, expressing his intent to “build a stronger country, based on the values of Canadians.” This shift in leadership places Guilbeault at the center of an ongoing battle over internet regulation. Bill C-11, which was rushed into law during Justin Trudeau’s final term as Prime Minister, obligates major tech companies to fund and prioritize Canadian content, particularly that of the mainstream media, regardless of whether users are seeking it. While the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) was initially expected to enforce the new requirements, it recently admitted that the regulatory framework won’t be ready until late 2025. That leaves platforms, creators, and consumers in limbo, uncertain about how deeply the government’s hand will extend into digital media. Carney, seen as a political continuation of Trudeau’s legacy, appears ready to go even further. Before the most recent election, the Liberal Party was already moving to introduce Bill C-63, a so-called Online Harms Act. While framed as a tool to protect minors from exploitation, the bill also includes expansive measures to monitor and penalize what it terms “hate speech.” This vague language has prompted concern from legal scholars and civil liberties organizations about the law’s potential to suppress legitimate expression. With Guilbeault now steering Canada’s cultural and digital policies, free speech advocates worry the government is tightening its grip not only on environmental and economic life but on the very flow of information and dialogue in the digital sphere. What began as a push for national content promotion may ultimately serve as a model for broader censorship under the guise of cultural stewardship. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Canada’s PM Mark Carney Revives Online Censorship Agenda appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Ireland’s refusal to fully adopt the European Union’s “hate speech” directives has ignited tensions in Brussels, with Independent MEP Michael McNamara voicing staunch opposition to what he calls a misguided and authoritarian push to punish noncompliance. He dismissed the EU’s legal threats as deeply flawed, asserting that there is no evidence” that these laws accomplish their stated goals of reducing discord or promoting unity. According to McNamara, attempts to legislate acceptable speech do little more than sow fear and resentment. “People resent the fact that they’re threatened with prosecution for expressing their views,” he said, highlighting a growing unease across Europe as more individuals feel unable to voice opinions, whether popular or not. He warned that such policies do not alter underlying beliefs, they simply force them underground. Instead of fostering a more harmonious society, McNamara argued that these measures build resentment. “It doesn’t affect how people think in any way, it just affects what they are afraid to say and what they resent,” he said. He drew a parallel to the United Kingdom, where, he noted, citizens are witnessing elderly individuals facing prosecution for speech offenses, while police resources are increasingly diverted from public safety to policing online expression. “Hate speech laws are counter-productive. They are also profoundly illiberal. They’ve damaged the UK and we don’t want the same,” he wrote in a message on X, calling on the European Commission to abandon any proceedings against Ireland related to speech legislation. https://video.reclaimthenet.org//articles/1925470507899461736.mp4 The EU’s position, outlined in a recent notice from the Commission, faults Ireland and Finland for not yet implementing legal measures to criminalize specific categories of speech, including statements denying historical atrocities or inciting hatred against protected groups. While Ireland has made partial moves, Brussels remains unsatisfied and has issued formal opinions giving the two nations two months to comply before potential escalation to the European Court of Justice. Despite an earlier attempt to introduce hate speech legislation, one that passed easily through the Dáil, the lower house of the Irish parliament, the Irish government eventually shelved the bill. Resistance from the Seanad and significant public discontent led to its demise, with many viewing the proposal as a direct threat to civil liberties. That backlash is widely believed to have influenced the outcome of the March 2024 referendums, where voters rejected two constitutional amendments by wide margins. McNamara reiterated his stance before the European Parliament, stating plainly that pressing charges against Ireland over its refusal to implement these rules would be “misguided.” He urged the Commission to reconsider, framing the issue as one of national integrity and democratic principles rather than regulatory compliance. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Ireland Clashes with EU Over Hate Speech Laws as MEP Michael McNamara Denounces Brussels’ Legal Threats appeared first on Reclaim The Net.