Racket News, a media outlet run by journalist Matt Taibbi, published a comprehensive report on the top 50 organizations involved in censoring “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
The report, which was written by Taibbi and eight other contributors, is dubbed “the citizen’s starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel.”
Taibbi coined the term “Censorship-Industrial Complex,” which refers to the various groups working to enforce conformity with official narratives on major issues like COVID-19, war, and climate change.
Many of the 50 organizations profiled in the report use vague language to justify their anti-free-speech activities.
They refer to combating “hate speech,” for example, and use unusual terminology like “toxicity monitoring” and “pre-bunking.”
The censorship capabilities being established by this network of organizations have the potential to be used in myriad ways in the future, such as censoring posts by citizens and activists who claim a connection between offshore wind development and the death and endangerment of marine wildlife.
The top 50 organizations are funded by corporations such as Google and Facebook, private tax-exempt “philanthropies” set up by powerful billionaires like the Ford Foundation and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and initiatives and programs at elite U.S. universities.
The goal of these organizations is to enforce a “homogenous politics” in which no substantial disagreement on important issues is permissible.
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