For years, Renée DiResta has been one of the most prominent thought leaders, ubiquitous media voices, and influential “disinfo experts” in the emergent field of professional social media censorship (i.e. the “content moderation” vocation associated with “counter-disinformation” work).
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Before we describe the “Science of Censorship” federal grant program that is the focus of this report, perhaps the most disturbing introduction is to watch how grantees of your tax dollars describe themselves.
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When most people think of the National Science Foundation (NSF), they think about the US government investing tax dollars in grand advancements in mathematics, aerospace and engineering.
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SUMMARY The US gov’t produced a cat-themed “disinformation” video game to “inoculate” young people against populist news content. The game aspires to create a “psychological vaccination against fake news” in those surfing social media. The US and UK gov’ts plan to embed the game in local schools and educational curricula around the world, especially “ahead…
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The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) quiet coup to establish, for the first time in US history, an explicitly inward-facing domestic censorship bureau.
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This is Part 2 of a multi-part “deep dive” investigation into DHS domestic censorship.
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This is Part 1 of a multi-part “deep dive” investigation.
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New documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show staffers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) working hand-in-hand with Google, Twitter, and Facebook/Meta to shut down social media posts challenging Covid orthodoxy.
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Censors targeted “trust in family and friends” as a threat to “trust in institutions”, and therefore a threat to democracy.
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