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Two spooky think tanks with their eye on controlling the fediverse (hexbear.net)
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The American “intelligence community” wants to control the narratives on federated social media, as they already do on corporate social media.

The whole “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” discourse was/is a psyop for top-down propaganda control. The Dem-aligned media did a bang-up job of discrediting Matt Taibbi such that his continued investigatory work into this intentionally opaque system is being ignored.

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[-] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 33 points 5 months ago

wasn't taibbi's investigation about hunter biden dick pics and not like. mass consensus manufacturing of the state dept line through botting

[-] davel@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago

That is what the Dem-aligned corporate media wanted Democrats to believe, and they seem have been very successful at it.

Jacobin, Dec. 2022: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal

Taibbi and others have discovered & revealed much more about the corporate social media propaganda system in the year since then, but Democrats have been trained to ignore all of it.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 29 points 5 months ago

Yeah, he basically ignored how voices on the left are way more likely to get banned for bullshit reasons, presumably because Musk didn't provide him with those files. He let himself and his reputation be used, despite knowing better.

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