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Whistleblower makes trove of new documents available to Public and Racket, showing the birth of the Censorship Industrial Complex in reaction to Brexit and Trump election in 2016. The sum total of the documents is a clear picture of a highly coordinated and sophisticated effort by the US and UK governments to build a domestic censorship effort and influence operations similar to the ones they have used in foreign countries.

Major media outlets continue to promote an unholy alliance between social media companies and federal government agencies, in the name of protecting elections from foreign interference. But the vague rubric of “disinformation” is often an excuse for shutting down conservative voices online around election time.

In August, Meta announced a takedown of the “largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world.” Information security officers removed

The FBI put a pause on briefings with tech companies due to an ongoing lawsuit, adding to a broader breakdown in a system meant to guard against influence operations and to ensure

US coalition against foreign propaganda and disinformation fails after GOP legal challenges, weakening election and public opinion safeguards