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2023-07-24 Government Corruption

'Project Mockingbird' - Ex-Spies Run Censorship Operations for Tech Giants

[Defender] Former security state operatives occupy the highest positions at Big Tech internet platforms, and are responsible for censoring political content and limiting public debate, Glenn Greenwald reported on Tuesday.

Americans have been aware of security state efforts to control media narratives since the 1970s, when the Senate’s Church Committee exposed the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, Greenwald told listeners of his podcast, "System Update."

Under that program, CIA agents covertly infiltrated and influenced the nation’s largest news organizations.

Project Mockingbird’s exposure greatly embarrassed the media and the government, as the CIA is forbidden from targeting the American public, Greenwald said.

Over the past decade, a series of whistleblowers revealed the U.S. security state has again amped up its covert targeting of American citizens, particularly since the start of the post-9/11 War on Terror.

News that intelligence agencies spied on Americans or infiltrated the news media was considered scandalous just over a decade ago.

But today, things have changed, Greenwald said. In fact, it has become common for top news outlets to openly hire former U.S. security state agents to report and comment on the news.

And in the last few months, the Twitter files and the latest Missouri v. Biden decision made clear how aggressive the censorship regime has become.

The U.S. government, in part, dictates what content social media platforms ought to allow on their sites, Greenwald said. But, he added:

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-24 08:51|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 The super cuts of all the news outlets using the same script are pretty damning.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-24 12:32|| 2023-07-24 12:32|| Front Page Top

#2 The naive Americans now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, government destroys freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and's banks destroy the economy"
This is true American exceptionalism…no other country ever did that before …..

Posted by Aca Joe 2023-07-24 16:42|| 2023-07-24 16:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Joe, genocide is pretty common in human history. Perhaps you should read some of it. My family emigrated from something called the potato famine. Maybe, you could look it up.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-24 16:48|| 2023-07-24 16:48|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^^ The things you claim to think, Mr. Joe. Have you never read a newspaper?

Posted by trailing wife 2023-07-24 16:49|| 2023-07-24 16:49|| Front Page Top

#5 If I got really depressed, I could see where Joe was coming from. But I'm pretty cynical.

Posted by Bobby 2023-07-24 17:25|| 2023-07-24 17:25|| Front Page Top

#6 I misread naive as native. I now understand what Joe is saying. Only a portion of Americans are naive about evil. A portion of us fight evil and a portion support evil.
An objective metric for the level of naïveté in the middle is how the Barbie movie does going forward. If American interest in that movie drops like Indy 5, then you can know that the proportion of naive Americans is less than the studio planned. If the movie continues to be popular, then it is safe to assume that Americans are suckers.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-24 18:18|| 2023-07-24 18:18|| Front Page Top

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