Posted on 03/02/2023 5:42:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Journalist and author Matt Taibbi noted the U.S. government’s role in creating a “new cottage industry” of “disinformation labs” ostensibly combatting fraudulent online propaganda in the interest of national security in his latest Twitter Files report published Thursday.
The “Twitter Files #17” thread focuses on the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a subsidiary of the State Department, and its claimed objective to “recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.”
The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRL), which is funded by the federal government via the GEC, regularly sent blacklists of online profiles to Twitter executives and staffers requesting censorship, according to the Twitter Files.
Taibbi emphasized how news media were more compliant than Twitter in accepting the government’s “disinformation” claims at face value.
He described news media personalities as “an easier mark” than Twitter staffers for false and unsubstantiated claims made by the GEC and DFRL regarding online “disinformation.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Well isn’t that special …. Our government is spending our money to make certain we are lied to by those, in government, that are supposed to tell us the truth.
Everything coming out of Government is disinformation and lies so nothing new there.
The issue is the idiot’s that believe it.
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Well...
..that would explain a few freepers I detest.
The stinking communist bastards have no reason to worry about consequences, political or otherwise...
Basically, our communist masters have told the indolent and servile sheeple directly that they will wear those chains and learn to love them...
Stinking communist bastards continue to run roughshod over the servile & indolent Aamerican sheeple...
There are no limits to tyranny...
There is no end in sight!
So:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
4 l8r
This could be the biggest story since the Civil War.
Our government employees have attempted to steal power from the people.
The press was deeply involved.
And in many cases gov. does this to cover up for gov. scandals and wrongdoing. 🙄
Here is the entire thread of Twitter Files#17.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1631338751262695432
Less and less attention is being paid to these files even as the examples of government censorship and information manipulation continues to pile up. Corporate media no longer responds to them even in order to mock the reporting. They now just ignore it all.
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