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Federal censorship machine started years before COVID, involved military contractors: whistleblower
Just the News ^

Posted on 11/30/2023 5:20:29 AM PST by Tench_Coxe

The public-private efforts to restrict and suppress purported "mis-, dis- and malinformation" across tech platforms started almost immediately after the surprise election of Donald Trump in 2016, ramped up a year before the COVID-19 pandemic, and included U.S. and U.K. military contractors and plans to cut off financial services to dissenters and sue them.

That's according to a "highly credible whistleblower" who says they were recruited to participate in the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL) "through monthly cybersecurity meetings hosted by" the Department of Homeland Security, independent journalists who reviewed the Twitter Files at new owner Elon Musk's invitation said Tuesday.

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Terp shared her plans to create "Misinfosec communities" that included government in presentations to "information security and cybersecurity groups in 2019," according to the Tuesday report on the whistleblower's documents.

She "openly referenced her work 'in the background' on social media issues related to the Arab Spring," suggesting that tactics developed for foreign nationals were migrating to Americans.

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I suspect censorship re: 'Arab Spring' wasn't the only thing adapted domestically in the US (try: color revolution).
1 posted on 11/30/2023 5:20:29 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

I beg to differ, it all started during Bush senior’s administration.


2 posted on 11/30/2023 5:33:13 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

“I beg to differ, it all started during Bush senior’s administration.”

Presidents have controlled information and manipulated information since George Washington. The Lincoln and FDR administrations censored the media with a heavy hand. Wilson used the sinking of the Lusitania, which was carrying weapons, as a propaganda weapon to push US public opinion in favor of entering WWII.


3 posted on 11/30/2023 6:03:23 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on )
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To: Tench_Coxe

It started 40 years ago in California.
You could see it in the MSM that they were trying to control the message.
Illegals were now “migrants”
The list is huge of all the words we can’t use anymore.
It all started in CA.


4 posted on 11/30/2023 6:58:36 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Soul of the South

You have a valid point.
Much of this DID begin under Wilson.


5 posted on 11/30/2023 7:18:27 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Tench_Coxe

Read later.


6 posted on 11/30/2023 7:48:18 AM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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