Censorship

5 entries

Aug 2026 The Federal Anti-Disinformation Pipeline: From Foreign Propaganda to Domestic Censorship How a 2016 law aimed at foreign propaganda became domestic content-moderation infrastructure — the Global Engagement Center, the Global Disinformation Index, the funding ecosystem, the revolving door, and the EU Digital Services Act that exported the model.
Jun 2026 The Gauntlet Nineteen AI models were tested on whether they could recognize trolling as a structural mechanism across seven institutional contexts. One model scored 7/7. The others broke where their makers told them to. The safety layer is the blindness.
2019-2024 Jun 2026 The Infrastructure: Who Decides What Stays Up The Election Integrity Partnership submitted 4,800 flagged URLs to platforms. The Virality Project flagged true vaccine side effects. The Twitter Files documented the machinery. Murthy v. Missouri reached the Supreme Court. This is how content moderation became institutional gatekeeping.
Jun 2026 The State Department Is Denying Visas to Fact-Checkers In December 2025, the Trump administration classified content moderation as 'censorship' and instructed consular officers to deny visas to anyone who ever worked in trust and safety. The government is now formally punishing the people who tried to make the internet less terrible.
Jun 2026 Every Moral Panic Is a Platform Migration Story Novels. Penny dreadfuls. Comic books. Rock and roll. Dungeons & Dragons. Video games. Social media. AI. The pattern is always the same: the OLD medium accuses the NEW medium of corrupting youth. The technology always wins.

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