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USAID Internal Documents Reveal Government Plot To Promote Censorship Initiatives
SUMMARY
The US Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Center on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) created an internal “Disinformation Primer” that revealed the agency’s explicit praise for private sector censorship strategies and proposed additional censorship practices and techniques.
USAID’s censorship proposals were aimed at influencing private sector technology companies, media organizations, education ministries, national governments and funding bodies.
USAID endorsed “Advertiser Outreach” for the purpose of getting corporate advertisers to financially throttle disfavored media sources and social media accounts.
USAID recommended Google’s Redirect Method and “prebunking” (i.e., psychological inoculation) as potential solutions to stop the erosion of traditional media influence over citizen hearts and minds.
USAID proposed targeting gamers and gaming sites, pushing the need to censor their formation of “interpretations of the world that differ from ‘mainstream’ sources” and interrupting the process by which “individuals contribute their own ‘research'” to collectively form their own “populist expertise.”
USAID’s “Disinformation Primer” outlining its censorship promotion strategies is dated February 2021, the first month after the Biden administration took office after the 2020 election. It proposes censorship action items for virtually every governmental, non-governmental and private sector commercial actor across society to both individually and collectively take action against disfavored speech online
originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: ARM19688
I wish we could go back to the days when lies were called "lies" and everything else was called the truth.
originally posted by: budzprime69
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: xuenchen
I just want to post that I appreciate our tyrannical overlords and will obey all their mandates.
Your government has awarded you with social credit points. Please keep up the good behavior, and remember that the government is here for you.
originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: ARM19688
I wish we could go back to the days when lies were called "lies" and everything else was called the truth.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: ARM19688
I wish we could go back to the days when lies were called "lies" and everything else was called the truth.
OK, disinformation is the same thing as lies. There, off you go...
originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: ARM19688
I wish we could go back to the days when lies were called "lies" and everything else was called the truth.
originally posted by: Moon68
a reply to: underpass61
How refreshing would it be to have a media company, let's call it The Objective Truth, that simply gave the facts of the day sans any exposition.
Probably wouldn't fly, lack of entertainment value. That's the mass media today, entertainment for public consumption.
originally posted by: underpass61
a reply to: chr0naut
"I wish we could go back"
Yeah, comprehension - it's a thing.