We ran digital security workshops for journalists and human rights advocates under threat from government attack, both virtual and physical.
Even more alarming was just how much military and intelligence funding is involved, how closely aligned the groups are, how much they mix in civil society.
Blinken oversees the Global Engagement Center, one of the most important US Government anti-disinformation initiatives, and is now alleged to have initiated his own disinformation campaign related to the Hunter Biden laptop - that of the "Russian information operation" letter signed by 50 former US intelligence officials.
A cadre of North American and European anti-disinformation elites meanwhile had been slowly convincing NGOs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America that their biggest problem was not too little but too much online freedom, the solution to which was more corporate and government control in order to protect human rights and democracy.
Control of funds under a philanthropic sector operating largely in lock-step with government accounts for much of the increasing conformity in the sector.
The biggest source of disinformation are governments, corporations and increasingly anti-disinformation experts themselves, who have through COVID-19 and many other issues gotten the facts wrong.
Removing government funding for the Censorship-Industrial Complex is a critical first step toward getting free speech back on track.
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