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When most people think of the National Science Foundation (NSF), they think about the US government investing tax dollars in grand advancements in mathematics, aerospace and engineering.
- National Science Foundation (NSF) spent $38.8 million on government grants and contracts to combat ”misinformation” since the start of the Biden administration.
- 64 NSF grants totaling $31.8 million were given to 42 different colleges and universities to research the science of stopping viral populist ideas.
- Some grants explicitly target “populist politicians” and “populist communications” to scientifically determine ”how best to counter populist narratives.”
So begins a government memorandum recently circulated by the US State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC)
- The US gov't produced a cat-themed “disinformation” video game to “inoculate” young people against populist news content.
- The game aspires to create a “psychological vaccination against fake news” in those surfing social media.
- The US and UK gov'ts plan to embed the game in local schools and educational curricula around the world, especially “ahead of elections.”
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) quiet coup to establish, for the first time in US history, an explicitly inward-facing domestic censorship bureau.
- Network throttled millions of posts ahead of 2020 election, blocked “emerging narratives” from reaching “virality threshold.”
- Censors boast on video of getting tech companies to ban entire categories of election speech under threat of “huge regulatory pressure.”
- Months before the 2020 election, censors systematically targeted all speech categories that could challenge a future “red mirage, blue shift” election scenario.
This Part 2 of a multi-part “deep dive” investigation into DHS domestic censorship.
- DHS used US taxpayer dollars to create a cartoon encouraging young people to report their family members to tech platforms for posting 'disinformation' about Covid-19.
- DHS designates US citizen social media opinions about Covid-19 as a 'cyber attack on critical infrastructure' because 'disinformation' is a 'digital threat' to that 'undermines confidence' in public health.
- This means any citizen grievances against US government policies can now be censored by DHS, simply by treating disagreement as a digital threat.
This is Part 1 of a multi-part “deep dive” investigation.
- A little-known DHS agency assigned to protect cybersecurity has covertly switched its mission to cybercensorship.
- DHS pulled off a 'foreign-to-domestic switcheroo' by working with tech companies first to censor 'foreign, inauthentic, coordinated' social media activity (i.e., 'Russian interference') and then switching in summer 2020 to censoring 'domestic, authentic, organic social media activity (i.e., all American citizens accused of spreading 'misinformation').
- DHS invokes a 'whole of society' approach to censorship, meaning every institution in society is pressured to censor the same topics.
Censors targeted “trust in family and friends” as a threat to “trust in institutions”, and therefore a threat to democracy.
- Brazil’s election court announced it may nullify election winners who spread online “misinformation”.
- Hundreds of censorship professionals have been hired to read text message chats in Telegram and WhatsApp for 'misinformation' to report for apps to ban.
- Financing for censorship of Brazilian citizens' text messages is coming from USAID, the State Department, and the National Endowment for Democracy.
New documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show staffers from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) working hand-in-hand with Google, Twitter, and Facebook/Meta to shut down social media posts challenging Covid orthodoxy.
- The US government asked Google to run recruitment ads for the role of “Infodemic Manager Unicorns”, whose job is to censor the “pandemic of misinformation” on the Internet.
- 'Unicorns' would scan use artificial intelligence software to scan social media for speech patterns expressing dissent with government Covid policies and mandates .
- CDC directly asked Google to manually alter its search engines results so that CDC pages would “come up higher in [search] results”.
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