Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know
Schmidt, Susan; Lowenthal, Andrew; Wyatt, Tom; Orfaela, Matt http://www.racket.news/p/report-on-the-censorship-industrial-74b?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1042&post_id=120300766&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Publisher: Racket News
Date Written: 10/05/2023
Year Published: 2023
Resource Type: Article
A citizen's starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel
Abstract: While the civilian population only in recent years began haggling over “de-platforming” incidents involving figures like Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos, government agencies had already long been advancing a new theory of international conflict, in which the informational landscape is more importantly understood as a battlefield than a forum for exchanging ideas. In this view, “spammy” ads, “junk” news, and the sharing of work from “disinformation agents” like Jones aren’t inevitable features of a free Internet, but sorties in a new form of conflict called “hybrid warfare.”
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