By Tim BrownÂ
We all know that censorship has been gaining ground for years now. Weâve witnessed it on our websites since at least 2014, and now, we are discovering that both the US and UK military was involved in the creation of a global censorship operation since 2018. This comes by way of a whistleblower who came forward with a plethora of damning documents to confirm the matter.
Public & Racket reports:
A whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivaling or exceeding the Twitter Files and Facebook Files in scale and importance. They describe the activities of an âanti-disinformationâ group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, or CTIL, that officially began as the volunteer project of data scientists and defense and intelligence veterans but whose tactics over time appear to have been absorbed into multiple official projects, including those of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The CTI League documents offer the missing link answers to key questions not addressed in the Twitter Files and Facebook Files. Combined, they offer a comprehensive picture of the birth of the âanti-disinformationâ sector, or what we have called the Censorship Industrial Complex.
The whistleblowerâs documents describe everything from the genesis of modern digital censorship programs to the role of the military and intelligence agencies, partnerships with civil society organizations and commercial media, and the use of sock puppet accounts and other offensive techniques.
âLock your shit down,â explains one document about creating âyour spy disguise.â
Another explains that while such activities overseas are âtypicallyâ done by âthe CIA and NSA and the Department of Defense,â censorship efforts âagainst Americansâ have to be done using private partners because the government doesnât have the âlegal authority.â
The whistleblower alleges that a leader of CTI League, a âformerâ British intelligence analyst, was âin the roomâ at the Obama White House in 2017 when she received the instructions to create a counter-disinformation project to stop a ârepeat of 2016.â
Over the last year, Public, Racket, congressional investigators, and others have documented the rise of the Censorship Industrial Complex, a network of over 100 government agencies and nongovernmental organizations that work together to urge censorship by social media platforms and spread propaganda about disfavored individuals, topics, and whole narratives…
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