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Whether it’s the election meddling designed to push their preferred candidates or promoting wars around the world, the so-called “struggle against MDM (misinformation, disinformation, malinformation)” has become the No. 1 pretext to suppress any information deemed as such.
Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the United States effectively became a police state. Government control and direct surveillance, the legality of which remains questionable at best, has been the norm ever since. With the advent of new technologies and the expansion of the so-called Big Tech (Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta/Facebook, etc.), the government managed to acquire unprecedented access to the personal information of not just its own citizens, but hundreds of millions of others around the world as well. For decades, Big Tech denied any involvement with US agencies, despite it being common knowledge for the vast majority of users. However, the level of cooperation and integration between the US government and the aforementioned Internet giants (all of which are private companies) has been truly staggering.
Back in August, while on the Joe Rogan podcast, Meta/Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the FBI worked with the company to suppress so-called “Russian propaganda” shortly before the Hunter Biden laptop scandal was published by the New York Post. However, new reports now indicate that this Big Tech-US government collusion goes much deeper, according to the leaked documents acquired by The Intercept. Their investigation revealed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is “quietly broadening control over speech it considers dangerous.” Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.
According to the report, the work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board”, a panel designed to police misinformation (false information spread unintentionally), disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens US interests. While the board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down.
Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the US government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information, The Intercept reports.
During a March 2022 meeting, FBI official Laura Dehmlow warned that the “threat of subversive information on social media” could undermine support for the US government – stressing that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.” Interestingly, Dehmlow’s insistence on preventing the fall of support for the US government is clearly a priority over telling the truth. What’s more, the US agencies seem to have a strict bias towards certain power structures within the US establishment, primarily those dominated by the DNC neoliberals and partially the GOP neoconservatives. This was particularly noticeable during Donald Trump’s presidency, when undermining the 45th US president through disinformation and conspiracy theories such as the alleged “Russian election meddling” wasn’t seen as a “threat to our democracy”.
Expectedly, the Big Tech companies denied involvement. Twitter told The Intercept that they “do not coordinate with other entities when making content moderation decisions” and that they “independently evaluate content in line with the Twitter Rules.” However, the claim doesn’t seem very convincing given the sheer amount of coordinated efforts by the Big Tech companies (seemingly unrelated, as they are all officially separate private entities) to suppress so-called MDM (misinformation, disinformation, malinformation). Having every Big Tech corporation banning or restricting millions of users in a virtually identical manner can only be described as a cooperative effort directed by the same authority. The Intercept report indicates that this authority is none other than the US government itself.
The issue at hand is the fact that various interest groups within the US establishment are controlling what hundreds of millions of people get to see as the “undeniable truth”, or worse yet, billions when taking the global scale into account. Whether it’s the election meddling designed to push their preferred candidates or promoting wars around the world, these entities should be denied such a tremendous amount of power. The so-called “struggle against MDM (misinformation, disinformation, malinformation)” has become the No. 1 pretext to suppress any information deemed as such. This has gone so far that private companies are now fining their customers, with PayPal deducting $2500 from anyone’s account for “spreading MDM”. It’s clear that such a level of control is quite uncomfortable, to say the least. The question is, where does it stop?
This is nothing new, it’s been going on for a long time it’s just getting worse. If you watch you tube on the conflict you will come away thinking that Russia is truly screwed and Ukraine will be marching into Moscow at any minute. It’s a complete and utter fabrication, a four year old could determine that it is BS. I hate to see people suffer but it’s time to get on with the business, short term pain long term gain by by NATO, By by Joe.
By the way the USA presstitutes put it, I was expecting to see Ukrainian nazis marching in Beijing and North Korea by the end of the summer, Moscow and St. Petersburg would have fallen in a week.
Media, big tech, all state appendages? Stunned I tell you, stunned.
cant edit reality just people’s news based perception and discussion of current events which means the truth will be known one way or another, hence censorship is ultimately futile.
The big tech companies are part of the british crown corporation, in stealth through tax-haven owners. The US government for that matter is a corporation, governed from D.C. which is its own country, as are the City of London and Vatican, the other parts of this conglomerate with babylonian religion and nwo-plans. They own the FED naturally as well.
This annihilation of free speech is indicative of a silent globalist coup in America along with the genocide of the world population with vaccines and bioweapons. Who knows what is to come next from these deviant Satanic globalist monsters. Why is it only Russia who will stand up for its people ?
Considering that Big Tec is predominantly managed and run jews..with the ADL and SPLC creating and policing policy in accord with jewish interests.. lt’s hardly surprising they are policing ahem..’content’ (truths)…
These organizations are the front end of the alphabets technocratic new world order and so called deep state and keep their beadies on their ‘users’.ready for integration into the ‘New Normal”. and to be sure you all love the jews..or else…so that should worry you..
Thankfully most of it is garbage that lacks content and without an imbecile class creating it for them (you are the product) would be intellectually bankrupt as well as fiscally..
They are generally run by fake frontmen (zuckerghoul..muskrat etc etc) who when not in front of a camera or convention are drooling narcissistic idiots…that have hygiene and mummy issues and halitosis… and thus just like their ‘product’ wont be missed in the slightest..
Was blocked 🚫 and frozen when I tried to open article on Zero Hedge, regarding Cardiologist Peter McCaullaga over Covid-19 . He was one of to main guys challenging the Covid -19 narrative and the want to now strip him of his medical credentials. The bastards 😤 don’t know when to let go and I say send all these bastards to the gallows.