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FACTS CHECKED: USA Today Reviews Our Article On Google Suspending Christ Church App For ‘Unapproved Sermon Material’ And Rates It As ‘True’

USA Today News Reviews And Fact Checks Now The End Begins Article On Google Suspending Church App For ‘Unapproved Sermon Material’ And Rates It As ‘True’.

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As social distancing orders push more activities online, some are claiming that technology platforms are discriminating against apps because of their content.

I like it when new outlets fact check our work, because as editor-in-chief I fact check our content exhaustively before publishing it. The folks over at USA Today decided to fact check our recent article on Google deplatforming churches for ‘unapproved sermon material’, and they came to the proper conclusion rating it as ‘TRUE’. Thanks, USA Today,we appreciate that, our stories and articles are true, so is our bible teaching on the end times. You might want to fact check some of that stuff, too, it will be a blessing to you. But you’ll need a King James 1611 to check those facts.

“But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.” Acts 20:24 (KJB)

I am happy this article is getting such attention because we need to put the spotlight on all the Liberal social media platforms, and they are all Liberals, because such discrimination happens all day, every day to Christian churches like Christ Church of Moscow, Idaho, and Christian ministries like Now The End Begins. Facebook put me in jail two weeks ago for ‘posting spam’, that’s what they called some photos I put on my profile of me and my daughter taking a walk in our neighborhood. The censorship is very real, and Christians needs to open their mouths and preach the gospel of the grace of God, and not worry about the outcome. Time is short, let’s get something done for the Lord while time remains.

Fact check: Did Google suspend a church’s app from Google Play?

FROM USA TODAY: The website Now The End Begins posted a story claiming that Christ Church of Moscow, Idaho, had its app suspended from Google Play, the company’s official app store. “Now that churches are closed with weekly services moved online, Google begins censoring ‘unapproved sermons’ and deleting their accounts,” the post reads.

Rod Dreher, a senior editor at The American Conservative, also wrote about the app’s removal, defending Christ Church’s pastors and speculating as to reasons for the app’s removal. The Washington Examiner then published an article on April 16 investigating the incident.

“We presume they’re talking about Pastor @douglaswils’ short lessons on responding faithfully to the COVID-19 crisis. Or maybe Pastor @TJSumpter’s sermon calling God’s people to humble repentance,” the church said in a tweet speculating as to why the app was removed. “Regardless – What gives, @Google?”

The removal of Christ Church’s app was not due to its religious content, a spokesperson for Google told USA TODAY, and Google is not aware of any trends in the removal of church livestreams, the spokesperson also said.

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According to Christ Church, the fellowship’s app was suspended on April 10. The congregation tweeted that day criticizing the move.

Initially, the church received only a generic statement from Google as to why the app was removed, which according to the church stated: “We don’t allow apps that lack reasonable sensitivity towards or capitalize on a natural disaster, atrocity, conflict, death, or other tragic event.”

The language is from Google Play’s official policy banning inappropriate content on the platform. The company has recently sent identical messages to app developers who have used the app store to circulate supposed “coronavirus infection trackers.”

Google later reached out to the church specifying why the app was removed from Google Play. “During review, we found that your app violates the Sensitive Events policy,” the company said in an email to Christ Church. “We don’t allow apps that lack reasonable sensitivity towards or capitalize on a natural disaster, atrocity, conflict, death, or other tragic event.”

“For example, your app currently contains references to COVID-19 in the store listing screenshots and within the app experience. Please thoroughly check your app and remove all references, and any related terms to COVID-19, from the store listing and from within the app,” the email continues.

According to Google’s spokesperson, once the app is resubmitted after following the message’s instructions, it would be published for download on Google Play.

“So, essentially, merely referencing COVID-19 is putting us out of compliance with their ‘sensitive events’ policy. We are now evaluating the best way forward as we believe this is censorship, and wrong-headed,” Ben Zornes, Executive Minister of Christ Church, told USA TODAY.

YouTube, which is also owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has a similar policy in its advertising guidelines specifying that videos that cover controversial issues or sensitive events are not eligible to be monetized for advertisements. The company has used this policy to demonetize videos about COVID-19, which has drawn criticism from some creators on the platform.

“Google came back to us and told us that we could resubmit our app without needing to remove any of the content in question,” Zornes told USA TODAY on Monday. The app is now again available for download on Google Play.

Our rating: True

Google suspended an app from the Google Play store that is associated with Christ Church, a Calvinist congregation in Moscow, Idaho. The company removed the app because of repeated references in the app to COVID-19, including blog posts and sermons. Christ Church had criticized the move and had said that it believes this to be censorship. The app was returned to Google Play, the church confirmed to USA TODAY on Monday. There does not appear to be any discrimination against Christ Church based on its religious beliefs. We rate this claim TRUE because it is supported by our research. READ MORE

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The Biden Administration Funding Far Left Attack Groups Like NewsGuard To Censor And Silence Christian And Conservative News Outlets Like NTEB

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A bombshell lawsuit has accused the US State Department of violating First Amendment rights by using taxpayer dollars to fund private censorship firms like NewsGuard that attack Christian sites like NTEB

I suppose we should be flattered on some level, Microsoft lists that NewsGuard reviews around 7,500 web sites for ‘accuracy in reporting’, and NTEB is one of those sites. Nice to know we have gotten the attention of the New World Order elites. But what is not so nice is having NewsGuard emailing us while doing a live Podcast on Bill Gates and the Pandemic Treaty, telling us they disapprove of what we do, and then having YouTube delete that Podcast and suspend our channel for the next 3 months for ‘medical misinformation’. But I’m sure that’s just a ‘crazy coincidence’ and I’m reading into it. Yeah, but not.

“Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.” Amos 5:13 (KJB)

One of NewsGuard’s recent emails said “During our most recent review, we came across a couple of articles I wanted to ask about, including a March 2023 article alleging that COVID-19 vaccines are causing widespread cardiac arrests, as well as a January 2023 article claiming COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent deaths or hospitalizations.” Ahh, that’s it, that’s the business. In case you were wondering, NewsGuard is talking about this article, and this article. NewsGuard, the ‘guard dog’ of Big Pharma, Bill Gates and the Biden administration, does not like us telling the truth about the COVID vaccine and its deadly consequences. Tough apples, NewsGuard, the COVID vaccine is not only not a vaccine, it does cause heart attacks and death, and the majority of people hospitalized with COVID are the vaccinated. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Over the years, Now The End Begins has been placed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of anti-government groups, we’re not, listed with the US Cyber Command as an ‘extremist organization’, we’re not, and now endlessly followed and hassled by Biden censorship groups like NewsGuard. Well, that’s life on the front lines of the end times, that’s where the bullets fly, and this is where the LORD has placed us. The war is real, the battle hot and time is short…TO THE FIGHT!!!

Biden State Department funds censorship firms like NewsGuard that favor left-wing media

FROM THE NY POST: Under the Biden administration, the federal agency has unlawfully used “censorship enterprises that target the American press” and which selectively smear news organizations — typically those that lean to the right — as “purveyors of ‘disinformation,’” according to the federal suit filed Wednesday.

“The Biden administration is illegally funding organizations with the stated goal of financially crippling media outlets whose coverage does not walk in lockstep with the government’s ideological agenda,” the Daily Wire said.

The Federalist and the Daily Wire — a pair of self-described “right of center media” groups — jointly filed the complaint with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit civil rights group, in the US Eastern District of Texas on Wednesday.

The Biden administration has used US funds to tap “fact-checking” censorship enterprises including NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), which have relationships with social media giants including Facebook, YouTube and TikTok, among others, as well as deep-pocketed advertisers like Dell Technologies, ExxonMobil and Nike, according to the complaint.

The lawsuit claims that NewsGuard and GDI are “government-promoted censorship enterprises” that have starved conservative-leaning news sites “of advertising revenue and reducing the circulation of their reporting and speech.” The filing points to GDI’s December 2022 “Disinformation Risk Assessment,” which rated the top 10 “least risky” and “riskiest” outlets.

Among the riskiest sites, according to the list: the Federalist, the Daily Wire, Newsmax, the American Conservative, Reason Magazine and even the New York Post, among other perceived right-leaning organizations.

Meanwhile, the New York Times, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed and other reputedly left-leaning news groups topped the GDI’s “least risky” chart.

“NewsGuard also compiles a list of American press outlets it characterizes as ‘unreliable,’” the lawsuit noted. “These entities generate blacklists of ostensibly risky or unreliable American news outlets for the purpose of discrediting and demonetizing the disfavored press and redirecting money and audiences to news organizations that publish favored viewpoints,” according to the suit. READ MORE

Will is joined by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and PragerU CEO Marissa Streit to expose NewsGuard, an organization that purportedly ranks the trustworthiness of online media outlets who baselessly gave PragerU a low “Trust Rating,” leading to censorship and blacklisting by Big Tech.

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When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

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Leaked Documents Show That Major Social Media Conspired With Biden Administration To Suppress Free Exchange Of Information During Pandemic

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Leaked confidential documents allegedly indicate Facebook developed an end-to-end process for government agencies to report misinformation called the Facebook Content Request System

It’s called the ‘Government Reporting System’, and it is just as draconian as it sounds, a backdoor portal in Facebook where member of the Biden administration could report any and all content that went against their official narrative on things like the COVID virus, the COVID vaccine, and the COVID passport. That article you posted, and countless thousands of others like you, showing people dying after getting vaccinated was intentionally deleted by this system, to cover up the truth about what they were doing to us. This system was vital to ensuring the success of their operation against us.

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 (KJB)

We live in a day and time where we find ourselves living in a virtual world, a web, and this leads directly to the Mark of the Beast under Antichrist after the Rapture of the Church. A world where people are controlled and dominated by a Mark which controls all buying and selling anywhere in the world. What we experienced during the man-made, gain of function pandemic was simply a test run for the real thing. Social media, the mainstream media, and the entire Biden Administration are complicit in intentionally censoring the truth while disseminating lies and misinformation to lock us down and destroy the economy. The only question is when are they going to do it again?

Leaked docs show Facebook made portal for feds to report misinformation, report says

FROM ABC 15 NEWS: Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed a lawsuit earlier this year seeking to uncover collusion between major social media companies and the federal government to censor free speech around topics such as COVID-19. The courts subsequently compelled the Biden administration to turn over communications between federal officials and social media platforms which, according to Schmitt, revealed an extensive “Censorship Enterprise” between multiple government agencies and social media platforms.

Now, a parallel investigation by The Intercept has allegedly uncovered “confidential” documents from Facebook illuminating the presence of a “Facebook Content Request System” for government agencies.

According to the documents, the “Government Reporting System” could be accessed via a specific web address with an approved government or law enforcement email address. As of October 31, 2022, the URL “facebook.com/xtakedowns/login,” which was listed on the leaked documents obtained by The Intercept, still appeared to be functioning normally. The National Desk (TND) reached out to both Facebook and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to learn whether they could confirm or deny the existence of the reporting system, but never received a response.

“This censorship is not done at the sole or even primary initiative of Big Tech. It is so often done in conjunction with the US Govt and US Security State, which demands it,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted, following The Intercept’s report. “The head of Big Tech’s censorship scheme is the Biden WH and the US Security State. I can’t stress this vital truth enough.”

Lee Fang, one of The Intercept report’s co-authors, indicated in a tweet that Twitter created a similar government reporting system as well. Additionally, some tech companies met monthly with the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other government representatives prior to the 2020 presidential election, The Intercept reports. READ MORE

Biden Administration Colluded With Facebook and Social Media Companies To Censor The Truth

Now The End Begins is your front line defense against the rising tide of darkness in the last Days before the Rapture of the Church

When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. We have a Gospel Billboard program. We are now broadcasting Bible studies, Podcasts and a Sunday Service 5 times a week, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. The Lord has given us an open door with a tremendous ‘course’ for us to fulfill that will create an excellent experience at the Judgement Seat of Christ. Please pray for our efforts, and if the Lord leads you to donate, be as generous as possible. The war is REAL, the battle HOT and the time is SHORTTO THE FIGHT!!!

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:13 (KJB)

“Thank you very much!” – Geoffrey, editor-in-chief, NTEB

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After Years Of Censoring Christians And Conservatives, Is Anyone Surprised That People Are Leaving Facebook In Droves For Sites Like Tik Tok?

Facebook Meta stock lost $200 billion in value in one of the biggest stock drops in history, as users flee for freer sites like Tik Tok.

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Bad news, Mark Zuckerberg. People aren’t really interested in Facebook censorship anymore — let alone your metaverse fever dream. Facebook stock lost $200 billion in value in one of the biggest stock drops in history, as users flee for Tik Tok.

Today, hundreds of millions of ex-Facebook users are wildly cheering one of the biggest stock market collapses of a single company in modern times, a $200 billion devaluation of Meta formerly known as Facebook. Why did Facebook Meta stock crash so hard? Because so many users have fled fascist Facebook for places that don’t censor, ban and suspend you for having a differing opinion like Tik Tok and others. If Facebook disappeared from the planet tomorrow, that’d be fine with me. But don’t go getting your hopes up just yet.

“Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” Ecclesiastes 8:11 (KJB)

Companies like Facebook Meta, Google, Amazon and even Elon Musk are part of the prophesied coming kingdom of Antichrist, and as such, I fully expect to see Facebook showing record profits in a relatively short period of time. But after having our NTEB Facebook page unpublished last month with its hundreds of thousands of followers, I am going to sit back, pour myself of steaming hot cup o’ joe, and enjoy this little victory against the tyrant Zuckerberg.

Facebook crashes after user base started shrinking

FROM FUTURISM: Stock prices for Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, took a swan dive on Wednesday after the company revealed both a profit decline and, for the first time in its history, a shrinking userbase— leading to a sell off that resulted in a $195 billion stock plunge, Bloomberg reports.

If it holds, the 22 percent dip could be the biggest collapse in market value for a US company in stock market history. A look under the hood shows that the company is dealing with several problems that have culminated into a perfect storm of dwindling profits.

For one, Facebook has yet again failed to grow its daily or monthly active user bases as it faces stiff competition from TikTok and many other upstarts. The company’s advertising growth also slowed as changes to Apple’s iOS made targeted advertising more difficult. There’s also the case of the company’s moonshot goal of creating a workable metaverse. Meta’s AR and VR unit Reality Labs posted a more than $10 billion loss in its first ever financial report, according to CNN. The numbers don’t bode well for its future viability.

“Investors will look at these numbers closely as a first indicator of how far off the Metaverse is from being a profitable reality,” Tom Johnson, global chief digital officer at media agency Mindshare Worldwide, told the broadcaster.

Zuckerberg’s metaverse was always going to be a bit of a long shot. If the recent stock crash is any indication, convincing large swaths of the population to remain on Facebook and purchase a cumbersome VR headset to do depressing metaverse activities is going to be a near impossible task. READ MORE

Meta shares sink more than 20% as Facebook loses daily users

Shares of Facebook’s parent company Meta plunged more than 20% late on Wednesday after the social media company posted a weaker-than-expected forecast. Facebook’s global daily active users declined from the previous quarter for the first time.

Now The End Begins is your front line defense against the rising tide of darkness in the last Days before the Rapture of the Church

When you contribute to this fundraising effort, you are helping us to do what the Lord called us to do. The money you send in goes primarily to the overall daily operations of this site. When people ask for Bibles, we send them out at no charge. When people write in and say how much they would like gospel tracts but cannot afford them, we send them a box at no cost to them for either the tracts or the shipping, no matter where they are in the world. Even all the way to South Africa. We even restarted our weekly radio Bible study on Sunday nights again, thanks to your generous donations. All this is possible because YOU pray for us, YOU support us, and YOU give so we can continue growing.

But whatever you do, don’t do nothing. Time is short and we need your help right now. If every one of the 15,860+ people on our daily mailing list gave $4.50, we would reach our goal immediately. If every one of our 150,000+ followers on Facebook gave $1.00 each, we would reach 300% of our goal. The same goes for our 16,400 followers on Twitter. But sadly, many will not give, so we need the ones who can and who will give to be generous. As generous as possible.

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;” Titus 2:13 (KJV)

“Thank you very much!” – Geoffrey, editor-in-chief, NTEB

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