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Why Renee DiResta Leads The Censorship Industry (How a former CIA fellow came to lead US government efforts to stamp out disfavored speech on the Internet)
substack ^ | 03 April 2023 | Michael Shellenberger

Posted on 04/04/2023 11:11:38 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan

Since the 2016 elections, politicians, journalists, and many others have raised the alarm about “foreign election influence” and “disinformation,” demanding greater “content moderation” by social media platforms. It is too easy, they argued, for foreign and malign actors to quickly “go viral” at low cost, leaving the good guys unable to correct bad information. We must become more “resilient” to disinformation.

It’s now clear that all of that rhetoric was cover for a sweeping censorship effort by the federal government and government contractors.

Since December, a small but growing group of journalists, analysts, and researchers have documented the rise of a “Censorship Industrial Complex”, a network of U.S. government agencies, and government-funded think tanks. Over the last six years, these entities have coordinated their efforts to both spread disinformation and to censor journalists, politicians, and ordinary Americans. They have done so directly and indirectly, including by playing good cop/bad cop with Twitter and Facebook. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of people have been involved in these censorship and disinformation campaigns in the U.S., Canada, and the UK.

We now know, thanks to the Twitter Files, emails released by the Attorney Generals of Missouri and Louisiana, and research by others, that the Censorship Industrial Complex is violating the First Amendment by coordinating with government agencies and receiving government funding to pressure and help social media companies to both censor information, including accurate information, while spreading disinformation, including conspiracy theories.

And such efforts are continuing if not accelerating. At Biden’s “Summit for Democracy” last week, US allies in Europe demanded that Facebook censor “false narratives” and news that would “weaken our support to Ukraine.” Facebook agreed........

(Excerpt) Read more at public.substack.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: censorship; cia; diresta; disinformation; elections; reneediresta
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Deep detail reporting on this leader of the censorship movement. RTWT
1 posted on 04/04/2023 11:11:38 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

How much if their activity appears here on FR?


2 posted on 04/04/2023 11:12:37 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

She looks and dresses like a 1930s Russian immigrant to NY.


3 posted on 04/04/2023 11:18:43 PM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Incredible what the Deep State has done to America, right under the vaunted media’s nose while they turned a blind eye, and deliberately sat on their leftist asses.


4 posted on 04/05/2023 12:42:06 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Since December, a small but growing group of journalists, analysts, and researchers have documented the rise of a “Censorship Industrial Complex”, a network of U.S. government agencies, and government-funded think tanks.

Also includes such nonprofits as the ADL and SPLC.

The ADL admits its leading role in imposing censorship on Twitter and on PayPal.

However, the World Jewish Congress took the lead in opening the door to censorship on Amazon.

5 posted on 04/05/2023 12:49:22 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Suggestion:

Go to Rumble (https://rumble.com) and search “Renee DiResta”.

There are a huge number of related video posts.

And you don’t have to sign up to read it.


6 posted on 04/05/2023 1:27:47 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born but a State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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Like all successful fascists, she is clothed in the trappings of ordinariness and acceptability, when in fact she is a dire fascist enemy of the 1st amendment.

Her method:

https://jimruttshow.blubrry.net/renee-diresta/

and her smiley Goebbels face:


7 posted on 04/05/2023 2:28:10 AM PDT by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

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8 posted on 04/05/2023 3:07:18 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

It has been going on for a long time. Remember Journolist? It never died, they just changed means of communication.


9 posted on 04/05/2023 3:50:24 AM PDT by pas
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To: Candor7

100% member of a tribe.


10 posted on 04/05/2023 4:06:53 AM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Not just America...


11 posted on 04/05/2023 4:11:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Why the heck do you think Obama put that former Communist in charge of the CIA?
12 posted on 04/05/2023 4:16:29 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

RTWT - Read The Whole Thread


13 posted on 04/05/2023 5:05:05 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Read later.


14 posted on 04/05/2023 5:14:01 AM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Better Than Ezra - Normal Town

Ltrics

I still remember
You dressed in grey
Working undercover
For the CIA
You were cursing Silber
Living in Back Bay
Sailing on the Charles
When I heard you say


Renee Diresta

Was she deceived, or is she a communist. I personally believe the latter.

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Party In The CIA

15 posted on 04/05/2023 5:37:04 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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The good news is that change is happening and quickly. In the wake of broad public backlash, the Department of Homeland Security in August 2022 terminated the Disinformation Governance Board. CISA removed information about domestic-facing censorship from its website and scrapped its MDM (“Misinformation, Disinformation, and Malinformation”) subcommittee. And Congress has been holding multiple hearings on the rise of the censorship industry, including one last week that included the Attorney General of Louisiana and the former Attorney General of Missouri.

Did they really, or did they just take it underground and place it under something else? These people are very devious. There is no reason to believe that it has been eliminated at all.

16 posted on 04/05/2023 6:12:01 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 04/05/2023 7:18:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan; poconopundit; Liz
...the rise of a “Censorship Industrial Complex”, a network of U.S. government agencies, and government-funded think tanks. Over the last six years, these entities have coordinated their efforts to both spread disinformation and to censor journalists, politicians, and ordinary Americans. They have done so directly and indirectly, including by playing good cop/bad cop with Twitter and Facebook. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of people have been involved in these censorship and disinformation campaigns in the U.S., Canada, and the UK.

Ping

18 posted on 04/05/2023 7:51:52 PM PDT by GOPJ (Biden's Democrats: The party OF criminals, by criminals, and FOR CRIMINALS. THEY.SHALL PERISH)
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To: GOPJ; V K Lee; rlmorel; sushiman; SunkenCiv; qaz123

I like that term, “Censorship Industrial Complex”. It’s more specific than “Deep State”.

To be honest, censorship and “yellow journalism” have always been with us. Rupert Murdoch is a modern version of William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane).

That’s why you gotta love what Elon Musk is doing. Daily I try to read his Twitter feed. He is the champion of free speech and he’s showing the world why it’s vital to publicly expose the way the underlying algorithm is applied to keep on-line discussions civil without destroying free speech.

Ha! He’s transforming the “Al Gore-ithms” of Gestapo Censorship and Politicized Science into “Freedom of Speech algorithms”, tools to Make America Great Again.

We are blessed to have this man as the leader and beacon of American industry. Combine that with the courage and wisdom of President Trump and you’ve got a double whammy for saving our Republic and returning it to civil sanity and law-in-order.

Ironically, living in Japan now, I see a country that America thoroughly conquered in World War II, but who — out of the ashes, death, and rubble of total defeat — has nonetheless preserved and built upon the virtues of a free, moral, and civil society better than America has.


19 posted on 04/06/2023 2:20:30 PM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

I was told that when women were in charge, we’d get comity and good government.

Now that they are, all we get is comedy.

And women make horrible comedians.


20 posted on 04/06/2023 2:22:37 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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