The Intercept: Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation
he Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.
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“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February.
In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. Dehmlow, according to notes of the discussion attended by senior executives from Twitter and JPMorgan Chase, stressed that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.”
“We do not coordinate with other entities when making content moderation decisions, and we independently evaluate content in line with the Twitter Rules,” a spokesperson for Twitter wrote in a statement to The Intercept.
There is also a formalized process for government officials to directly flag content on Facebook or Instagram and request that it be throttled or suppressed through a special Facebook portal that requires a government or law enforcement email to use. At the time of writing, the “content request system” at facebook.com/xtakedowns/login is still live. DHS and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, did not respond to a request for comment. The FBI declined to comment.
Thread: Twitter’s Vijaya Gadde (fired by @elonmusk last week) met monthly with DHS to discuss censorship plans.
The Nazis controlled information as well. That’s why groups like White Rose started up.
For every action, there is an equally opposite reaction, fundementals of the universe.
Math is hard for Tyrants.
Social media must be accountable but the govt gets away scott free. Backward priorities.
Censoring one side of an argument is not going to make those arguments go away, they fester in the shadows creating ever more resentment until it’s to late.
It’s strange that our “intellectual betters” don’t seem to have a grasp on the dangerous situations they are creating, especially in the US. Of course considering how dangerous they have allowed their major cities to become we shouldn’t expect any further commonsense from this failed leadership at all institutional levels.
“It’s strange that our “intellectual betters” don’t seem to have a grasp on the dangerous situations they are creating…”
They’re idiots. That’s why. And when the reaction they’ve generated comes back and bites them in the ass, they’ll be surprised that it happened precisely because they never had the foresight in the first place.
Paul.
No truer statement.
“…Censoring one side of an argument is not going to make those arguments go away, they fester in the shadows creating ever more resentment until it’s to late…”
DB
In Flippin spades
“REMEMBER” Nicolae…
So Mr Musk
Got any cash left for FASCIST BOOK…?
Enquiring minds would love to know..Given their stock price these days and all…
“…Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government.”
The outright ignorance of government employees is astounding. Too stupid to realize that her own behavior, in subverting the Constitution of the United States, is the foremost activity that will “undermine support for the U.S. government.”
The Rs can put language in the appropriation bills to outlaw spending funds on this.
If the donkeys want to fight it, they will die on that hill. Let them.
Explains why the perverted Biden Regime is investigating Musk’s purchase.
“Dehmlow, according to notes of the discussion attended by senior executives from Twitter and JPMorgan Chase, stressed that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.””
How about a government who is held accountable?
“In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. ” Any bets she sees that as a “problem” only when one particular political party is in power?
The fact they have been exposed means they will triple down. If they lose they will be charged and convicted.
They’re not dumb. They are desperate.
End game.
We will fall on one side of the life or the other.