Chico23231
03-18-2023, 02:30 PM
Absolutely fascinating:
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729166631432195
The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine
Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories”
This story is important for two reasons. One, as Orwellian proof-of-concept, the Virality Project was a smash success. Government, academia, and an oligopoly of would-be corporate competitors organized quickly behind a secret, unified effort to control political messaging.
Two, it accelerated the evolution of digital censorship, moving it from judging truth/untruth to a new, scarier model, openly focused on political narrative at the expense of fact.
https://reason.com/2023/03/17/researchers-pressured-twitter-to-treat-covid-19-facts-as-misinformation/
Researchers Pressured Twitter To Treat COVID-19 Facts as 'Misinformation'
The latest Twitter Files shows a partnership between Stanford University researchers and government-funded organizations encouraged social media companies to police true information.
Here definite proof in emails of government and corporations setting up an infrastructure for Covid and future uses to suppress speech and even facts/true stories they didn’t like.
Corporate/government working together to suppress individual freedom= that’s actual fascism folks. You are familiar with the word used 99% of the time incorrect, but here it fits the definition.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729166631432195
The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine
Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories”
This story is important for two reasons. One, as Orwellian proof-of-concept, the Virality Project was a smash success. Government, academia, and an oligopoly of would-be corporate competitors organized quickly behind a secret, unified effort to control political messaging.
Two, it accelerated the evolution of digital censorship, moving it from judging truth/untruth to a new, scarier model, openly focused on political narrative at the expense of fact.
https://reason.com/2023/03/17/researchers-pressured-twitter-to-treat-covid-19-facts-as-misinformation/
Researchers Pressured Twitter To Treat COVID-19 Facts as 'Misinformation'
The latest Twitter Files shows a partnership between Stanford University researchers and government-funded organizations encouraged social media companies to police true information.
Here definite proof in emails of government and corporations setting up an infrastructure for Covid and future uses to suppress speech and even facts/true stories they didn’t like.
Corporate/government working together to suppress individual freedom= that’s actual fascism folks. You are familiar with the word used 99% of the time incorrect, but here it fits the definition.