Behind closed doors: Feds, tech giants still trying to shape online discourse
Leaked documents reveal the Department of Homeland Security and Big Social are colluding to keep certain stories and facts from seeing the light of day.
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Leaked documents reveal the Department of Homeland Security and Big Social are colluding to keep certain stories and facts from seeing the light of day.
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Own ministry of truth. it was so ridiculous it had to be dismanneded almost immediately. the woman running it was so far out she was a parody and discredited the censorship movement. but that doesn't mean dhs has stopped trying to censor you. they are you just didn't know about it. thanks to the intercept which obtained many years of internal documents from dhs, we know that companies like facebook and twitter has been working closely with the biden administration to, quote, curb speech that the administration doesn't approve of. e-mails also show twitter's top sensor parag agarawal who was ju...
Policy and political topics. and, you know, just broadly speaking, the story just also looks at the admission creep of dhs. this was an agency that was founded in the aftermath of 9/11 to combat foreign terror threats of al qaeda and the like. but over the last five years it's kind of evolved in its mission. it's moved towards fighting disinfo and their justification is, you know, disinformation radicalizes the homeland, it can lead to disruptions in public health or in political violence. so they have a justification, we have these documents and they're pushing forward with this broad censors...
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