The American “intelligence community” wants to control the narratives on federated social media, as they already do on corporate social media.
- Atlantic Council: Collective Security in a Federated World
- Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund: Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps
The whole “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” discourse was/is a psyop for top-down propaganda control. The Dem-aligned media did a bang-up job of discrediting Matt Taibbi such that his continued investigatory work into this intentionally opaque system is being ignored.
That is what the Dem-aligned corporate media wanted Democrats to believe, and they seem have been very successful at it.
Jacobin, Dec. 2022: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal
Taibbi and others have discovered & revealed much more about the corporate social media propaganda system in the year since then, but Democrats have been trained to ignore all of it.