Journalist Matt Taibbi has released the 17th edition of his Twitter Files, which sheds light on America’s increasingly endangered freedom of speech.
Taibbi reveals how a vast, federally funded Disinformation Industrial Complex threatens Americans’ freedom of speech.
The federal government and its contractors are going on ever-more wild goose chases to suppress any views the Washington establishment disapproves of.
Taibbi’s report also exposes the “devastating secret” behind the “sprawling complex of disinformation studies ‘labs’ at” top universities: “Most of these ‘experts’ know nothing.”
Taibbi explains how the Global Engagement Center (GEC), established by President Barack Obama in 2016, turned America’s information warfare mechanism inward against “threats” in their population.
Disinformation became the most fashionable crusade, with the GEC partnering with the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency, and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
However, disinformation is so perfidious that the GEC tries to keep its operations secret.
The centre has a roughly $74 million budget and reportedly gave to at least 39 organizations whose names were redacted in an inspector general report.
Taibbi also highlights how the GEC relies on “guilt by intellectual association” to justify suppressing vast Twitter accounts suspected of being part of foreign “ecosystems.”
The GEC’s efforts illustrate how federal censorship serves political convenience, not the truth.
Twitter rebuffed many of GEC’s requests to cancel accounts, but many innocent Americans were likely either silenced or tainted in the process.
“Disinformation” is often simply the lag between the pronouncement and the debunking of government falsehoods.
In conclusion, Taibbi’s latest report is a fresh spur for Congress to take a scorched-earth approach to expose federal censorship regimes.
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