Civics: Diving into the US “Censorship Industrial Complex“
11. Who’s in the Censorship-Industrial Complex? Twitter in 2020 helpfully compiled a list for a working group set up in 2020.
The National Endowment for Democracy, the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab, and Hamilton 68’s creator, the Alliance for Securing Democracy, are key: pic.twitter.com/7lLlL2tcjN
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
15. The report was co-authored by Katie Couric and Chris Krebs, the founder of the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Yoel Roth of Twitter and Nathaniel Gleicher of Facebook were technical advisors. Prince Harry joined Couric as a Commissioner. pic.twitter.com/lV8coy43Hn
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
16. Their taxpayer-backed conclusions: the state should have total access to data to make searching speech easier, speech offenders should be put in a “holding area,” and government should probably restrict disinformation, “even if it means losing some freedom.” pic.twitter.com/YTVu98FPLV
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
44. Twitter told this to reporters who asked about the story contemporaneously. Moreover, after the story broke, Twitter’s Roth wrote:
“There have been other instances in which domestic actors created fake accounts… some are fairly prominent in progressive circles.” pic.twitter.com/qMnjpKVLZl
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 9, 2023
Matt Taibbi’s opening statement on the Twitter Files and the censorship industrial complex:
“Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government, from the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global… https://t.co/WiLeCYXmvx pic.twitter.com/BbMoSYNiR2
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) March 9, 2023
Rep. Dan Bishop plays a clip of Richard Stengel, the founder of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, saying:
“I’m not against propaganda. Every country does it; they have to do it to their own population, and I don’t think it’s that awful.”https://t.co/kH613j4NGq pic.twitter.com/zvllaC8b5D
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) March 9, 2023
The Washington Post, which is the newspaper of record for our nation’s capital and charges $416/yr for daily delivery, is now featuring TikTok retread listicles as their section front lead stories. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/QbR3cbVhfi
— David Hobby (@strobist) March 9, 2023
