Mike Benz

where five of the major censorship industry insiders were on a Zoom call, and they complained that when Elon took over X, and then Zuckerberg followed to some extent with some of the changes he made at Facebook and IG, that they lost the relationships it took years for them to develop.

They lost the hooks into those companies to make sure that this narrative about X

mail-in ballots get censored.

This narrative about COVID gets censored.

This narrative about climate gets censored.

This narrative about the Ukraine war gets censored.

Personnel is policy.

whatever a social media company says its policy is, it doesn't matter if they don't have the personnel to enforce it.

In fact, even the policies themselves are set by the personnel.

And so this is why you see so many former CIA agents or analysts

in the ranks of these content moderation teams.

Because part of what the CIA does is counter disinformation.

Part of what the special forces, why you see so many former military people or former State Department people is controlling the information environment.

And again, that used to be primarily through propaganda, turning up the knob.

But since this Eldorado goldmine of soft power influence through censorship,

as opened up to the IC and to the State Department, to the military.

This is now where the game is because you win by default.

You don't need to worry about whether you win or lose because the other side can't even print a media story, let alone get a million people to see it.

So, this is why you have folks like, you know, Aaron Berman at Facebook, you know, huge CIA figure.

This is why you have, you know, so much of this all across.