As the 2024 election fast approaches, a former State Department official turned free speech advocate told Just the News that the entrenched censorship regime created to police disinformation and misinformation along ideological lines will take considerable work to reverse.
“The fact is, is the infrastructure will mature to a point where it’s it’s already going to take 10 years of solid, concerted effort to unwind the past eight years of infrastructure, of money, networks of influence, networks of partnerships that have all been established,” Executive Director of the Foundation For Freedom Online Mike Benz said on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show last Monday.
Benz warning comes as the censorship industry has found itself of the defensive recently after scrutiny ramped up on efforts to police nebulously-defined mis- and disinformation online. But, he says, recent victories such as Elon Musk’s efforts to end government-induced censorship on his social media platform are only the beginning of the work that needs to be done.
Recent Biden Administration actions show that the apparatus constructed to control disinformation has not been deterred by recent setbacks and continues to contact U.S. social media companies to police information as the election approaches, Just the News recently reported. […]
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