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Whistleblower Docs Expose Key Tactics of the Censorship Industrial Complex: Matt Taibbi<\/a><\/h3>\n
The structures built to counter online activity of groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS were turned inward against the domestic population.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Documents recently provided by a whistleblower reveal offensive tactics used by government and outside organizations to counter and preempt the spreading of undesirable information, said independent journalist Matt Taibbi.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mr. Taibbi and journalists Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag recently exposed a new set of documents from the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL), an \u201canti-disinformation\u201d group that waged an aggressive information operation on the public.<\/p>\n

The new documents, dubbed the \u201cCTI files,\u201d analyzed tactics used against foreign terrorist groups, such as Al-Qaeda and ISIS, that can now be applied domestically to prevent unwanted information from being published, Mr. Taibbi said in an interview for EpochTV\u2019s \u201cAmerican Thought Leaders<\/a>\u201d program.<\/div>\n

The CTI files referred to these tactics with the military term \u201cleft of boom action\u201d and justified their usage by the danger posed by somebody like former President Donald Trump, the journalist said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Taibbi previously investigated and disclosed some of the \u201cTwitter Files<\/a>\u201d after tech billionaire Elon Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022 and allowed Mr. Taibbi and other designated journalists to query the company\u2019s internal files.<\/div>\n
The Twitter Files show how Twitter, a major social media platform for political speech, had been intertwined with the censorship industrial complex<\/a> to suppress or remove under government pressure content on various subjects, including irregularities in the 2020 elections, mail-in voting issues, and various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/div>\n
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The government censorship apparatus partnering with academia, nongovernmental organizations, and private research institutions is often called the \u201ccensorship industrial complex.\u201dPreemptive Tactics<\/strong><\/p>\n

CTIL was supposed to be a volunteer organization with a goal to identify misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr. Taibbi said, but \u201cin reality, you got under the hood\u2014they were interested in basically any topic.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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