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Mike Benz

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

And, you know, even all the way down to Reddit, you have the content moderation teams being run by Atlantic Council people, which, again, seven CIA directors on its board.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

DHS is disinformation flagger for both.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

the 2020 election and COVID-19 was the Atlantic Council, one of these core four.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

The Atlantic Council, again, with seven CIA directors and annual funding from the State Department and Pentagon.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

Grafica is a huge player in this space, was also partnered with DHS, $7 million in Pentagon funding.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

It's actually incubated in the Minerva Initiative, which is the Psychological Operations Research Center of the Pentagon.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

So you have this whole back channel

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

that took years between 2016, 2014, 2016, and 2022 for the Pentagon, for the CIA, for the State Department to all get in place so that the right people could be trusted to censor the right narratives or to adjust the algorithm in the right way.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

And bit by bit, in the past 18 months, they have been losing all that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

But the EU is their savior here.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

And this is why, again, my foundation published this several months ago,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

They said they'd be in full-blown panic for what's happening right now between Congress and the legal pressure and Elon Musk, but they can panic responsibly because they have a trick up their sleeve, which is that the EU Digital Services Act will force the restaffing of those fired representatives.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

It will make sure that the back channel stays in place unless the whole company gets bankrupted and shut down.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

And this is what they're doing in Brazil.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

The State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon, they don't want to kill X. This is not like WikiLeaks.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

They don't want to just shut down the operation.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

Twitter, X, is an essential instrument of U.S.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

statecraft for U.S.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

government, USAID, U.S.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

State Department-funded proxy groups or political groups to mobilize across the world.